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Background Briefing with Ian Masters – October 6, 2023

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Top Biden Officials Meet With Mexico’s President AMLO Who Denies Fentanyl is Made in Mexico and Blames the US For Refugees From Cuba and Venezuela We begin with the meeting today in Mexico City between Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador, AMLO, and the US Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General … Continued


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The United States is Without a Functioning House of Representatives We begin with the United States without a functioning House of Representatives as jockeying gets underway to replace Kevin McCarthy as speaker while the temporary speaker Patrick McHenry displays partisan pettiness in his first act to kick Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer out of their … Continued


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Far-Right House Freedom Caucus Rebels Led by the Brat Matt Gaetz Who Hates McCarthy, Topple the Speaker We begin with the historic day in the House of Representatives for all the wrong reasons as for the first time a speaker was dismissed and the chair vacated in a display of bitter infighting amongst Republicans between … Continued


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Apart From Helping Putin, Why is Cutting Aid to Ukraine the Top Priority of Trump and a Handful of Republicans in Congress? We begin with Putin telling Trump to cut aid to Ukraine, then Trump telling Marjorie Taylor Greene to cut the aid, then Margorie Taylor Greene telling Speaker McCarthy to cut Ukraine aid out … Continued


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With the Deck Stacked Against American Workers, the Competition to Win Their Votes We begin with the competition for the vote of American workers with Biden on the picket line with striking UAW workers and Trump at a non-union venue appealing to UAW members past and present. Joining us is Kate Andrias, a Professor of Law at … Continued


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After Losing His Business License in New York, Trump Could Lose All His Businesses Built on Fraud We begin with a judge today dismissing Trump’s appeal against the business fraud case brought by the New York Attorney General which goes to trial on October the second and could shut down most or all of Trump’s … Continued


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Biden Sides With Workers on the Picket Line We begin with the first American president to join striking workers on the picket line in Detroit today where Biden made an impassioned speech in favor of workers getting a fair deal and a decent wage in an economy in which CEOs are paid hundreds of times … Continued


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Trump’s Latest Full-on Fascist Rant to Shut Down Any Media That’s Critical of Him We begin with Trump’s latest full-on fascist rant on Truth Social on Sunday against the media, in particular NBC and MSNBC, vowing, “I say up front, openly, proudly, that when I win the presidency of the United States, they and others … Continued


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Tuesday Will See the First American President to Join a Picket Line in the UAW Strike in Detroit We begin with the first time an American president joined a picket line in support of a strike which will happen on Tuesday in Detroit when Biden joins the UAW strike against GM and Stellantis, sparing Ford … Continued


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