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Background Briefing (Monday, 5am)

Background Briefing (Monday, 5am)

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This hour broadcasts the show produced by Background Briefing with Ian Masters on Sunday.

Background Briefing (Monday, 5am)

Angela Stent / Stephen Crowley / Natalie Melnyczuk

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03.03.25 - 5:00am

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Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamrolled By Trump, Who Wants to Make a Deal
Will Trump’s Capitulation to Putin Improve Ties or Give Putin a Second Wind to Cause More Mayhem?
Can Ukraine’s NATO Allies Fill the Gap, as Trump Abandons Ukraine to Putin?


Background Briefing (Monday, 5am)

Nathan Tankus / Bandy Lee / Peter Montgomery

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02.24.25 - 5:00am

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As Assessment of the Damage Already Done by Musk and His Teenage Techies
The Need For Our Politicians, Business Leaders, and Citizens to Recognize Trump’s Sickness and Intervene Before He Does Any More Damage to the Country and the World
Trump’s Lies-Laden Keynote Speech to CPAC


Background Briefing (Monday, 5am)

Charles Kupchan / Kim Lane Scheppele / James D. Zirin

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02.17.25 - 5:00am

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Vance Tells Allies Russia is Not the Enemy, Europe’s Enemy is Within, and It’s …  Wokeness!
A Global Alliance of Autocrats and Kleptocrats Emerges, as Trump Follows Orban’s Playbook
Our Top Law Enforcer Pam Bondi Embraces Lawlessness and Corruption


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Kathleen Clark / Katherine Stewart / Vanda Felbab-Brown

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02.10.25 - 5:00am

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Technocrats Are Purging Bureaucrats to Grab Data, Control Funds, Weaken Government, Cut Services and Install Loyalists to the Dear Leader
The One-Two Punch of Plutocracy and Theocracy Taking Over the Country
The Tinderbox in Eastern Congo Threatening a Regional War


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Bill Yeomans / Karen Dolan / Michael Brenes

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02.03.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Lawless, Petty, and Vindictive Purge of the Justice Department and FBI
Musk and Trump’s Shock and Awe Campaign to Wreck and Loot the U.S. Government
Trump Slaps Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, in a Dangerous and Misguided Frenzy of America First Nationalism


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Michael Weinstein / Russell Muirhead / Michael Albertus

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01.27.25 - 5:00am

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In Their Jihad Against DEI, Trump and Hegseth Are Creating Affirmative Action for White Losers, Drunks, and Incompetents
Trump’s Wrecking Crew and the Politics of Destruction
Trump Eyes Panama, Greenland, and Canada For Land Grabs


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Sean Wilentz / Fred Turner / Cayce Myers

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01.20.25 - 5:00am

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The Incoming Horror of Trump and the Outgoing Sadness of Biden
Biden’s Warning of a Tech-Industrial Complex and That We Are Losing Our Democracy to Plutocracy
The Future of TikTok Which the Supreme Court Shut Down Today


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LeRoy Westerling / David Smilde / James Zirin

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01.13.25 - 5:00am

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Instead of Helping Angelenos Who Lost Their Homes, Trump Offers Insults
The Third Inauguration of Venezuela’s Maduro, Who Lost the Last Election in a Landslide
The Scofflaw-in-Chief is Now the Felon-in-Chief


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Karen Greenberg / Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Craig Aaron

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01.06.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Ominous Response to the Recent Terrorist Attacks
An American Despot is About to Take Charge With So Much More Power Than Hitler Had in 1933
A Republican Court Kills Net Neutrality to Reward Unpopular and Antiquated Cable and Telecom Giants


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Miles Taylor / Oona Hathaway / Nick Bryant (encore show)

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12.30.24 - 5:00am

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As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia
Strengthening the Laws of War, as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine
The Inevitability of Trump, 250 Years in the Making, With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past


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