Background Briefing (5am)
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Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 13, 2023
We begin with the latest threat to public safety coming from ghost guns, one of which was used in the recent mass shooting in the streets of Baltimore. Teenagers are buying these ghost gun kits without serial numbers and any restrictions on mail order sales, with more than 50 shootings involving teens using ghost guns … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 12, 2023
We begin with the heatwave in the south across Florida, Texas, Arizona and California with record temperatures impacting 54 million Americans about to see triple-digit highs this week. Arizona, and Phoenix in particular, will experience intense heat and could swelter for its longest period on record in 110-degree high temperatures with California and the Desert … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 11, 2023
We begin with tomorrow’s NATO summit ahead of which we have just learned that Turkey’s Erdogan has dropped his objections to Sweden entering the alliance. Joining us to discuss alternatives to joining NATO such as Ukraine modeling its future security on Israel, which is something Zelensky has suggested, is Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 10, 2023
We begin with the upcoming NATO summit with President Zelensky having gotten support to join NATO from Turkey’s President Erdogan who is holding up Sweden’s entry. We discuss nuclear threats from Russia which appear to be receding, but will certainly be inflamed if NATO were to go along with calls from the Baltic states and … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 7, 2023
We begin with Secretary of State Blinken’s trip to the Caricom summit of the 15 Caribbean nations in Trinidad Tobago and the UN Secretary General’s visit today to Haiti as both Caricom and the UN deliberate on how to address the lawlessness in Haiti by sending an international force of police, likely from Rwanda since … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 6, 2023
We begin with growing alarm at the possibility Europe’s largest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhya in Ukraine, which is now at the frontline in the current counteroffensive, could be blown up by the Russian occupiers in a false flag to be blamed on Ukraine or at the very least rendered inoperable by the Russians in … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 3, 2023
We begin with a series of unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court that ended affirmative action in college admissions, stopped President Biden from cancelling student debt and sanctified bigotry by a lying web designer who was not even in business when she said a gay couple wanted her to work for them, claiming it was … Continued