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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)

Harold Meyerson / Aziz Rana

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03.31.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Top Aides Dig the Hole Deeper on Signalgate Speaking Lies on Behalf of Power
The Emerging Resistance and How the Only Pathway Out of Institutional Collapse is on the Left


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Fred Turner / Robert Suettinger

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03.24.25 - 5:00am

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Musk’s Ungoverning Tactic of “Wreck Then Rob”
Inside the PRC’s Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionaries


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Malcolm Nance / Aram Shabanian / Sidney Blumenthal

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03.17.25 - 5:00am

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Is the Witting Russian Asset Trump Now Working For Moscow?
An Update on Ukraine’s Withdrawal From Kursk, the Result of Another Trump Gift to Putin
Fratricide Among Democrats After Schumer Fell Into Speaker Johnson’s Trap


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Scott Horton / Anders Aslund / Michael Albertus

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03.10.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s March 6 Executive Order Signals His Revenge Tour is Underway With Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe, and Gabbard as the Executioners
An Update on How Ukraine is Surviving After Trump Cuts Off Intelligence And Arms
As Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland, and Gaza, Climate Change Will Lead to Land and Resource Grabs


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?


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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


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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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