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Background Briefing – November 25, 2025

Will There Be Further Vindictiveness After the Dismissals of the Revenge Cases Against James Comey and Letitia James? We begin with the dismissals of the revenge cases against James Comey and Letitia James and assess what further vindictiveness Trump and AG Bondi will pursue and speak with Harry Litman, a former United States attorney and deputy … Continued


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America’s Morally Bankrupt, Corrupt and Anti-Democratic Power Elite as Revealed in the Epstein Emails–Trump’s Treasonous Sellout of Ukraine–Sasha Linden Cohen on How the “Socialist” Handled the “Fascist”

America’s Morally Bankrupt, Corrupt and Anti-Democratic Power Elite as Revealed in the Epstein Emails We begin on a day of justice with Trump’s lawsuits against James Comey and Letitia James thrown out and Defense Secretary Hegseth waging absurd threats at Senator Mark Kelly with an investigation into his “seditious” video and go from the good to … Continued


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A Dangerous and Demented Trump Calls For the Execution of Democratic Senators and Congressmen and Women Who Are Military and Intelligence Veterans–In the Service of His Billionaire Tech Bro Buddies, Trump Doubles Down on Stopping States From Regulating AI–How Ordinary Citizens Witness and Record ICE and CBP’s Brutality and Cruelty

A Dangerous and Demented Trump Calls For the Execution of Democratic Senators and Congressmen and Women Who Are Military and Intelligence Veterans We begin with an American president lashing out with the most irresponsible, insane and murderous intent, calling for the execution of Democratic Senators and Congressmen and women who are military and intelligence veterans … Continued


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As a Split in MAGA Emerges With Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance Jockeying to Succeed America’s Most Corrupt and Disastrous President–Trump’s Plan to Gut the Department of Education That Only Congress Has the Legal Right to Do–Trump is Pressuring a Weakened Zelensky to Accept a Sellout Peace Plan

A Weakened Trump As a Split in MAGA Emerges With Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance Jockeying to Succeed America’s Most Corrupt and Disastrous President We begin with a weakened Trump whose power to intimidate House and Senate Republicans appears to be waning as a split in MAGA emerges between competing factions of far right neo-Nazis … Continued


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The show digs into the fallout from the newly released Epstein emails, with journalist Matthew Petti detailing Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence, and Dr. Louise Shelley unpacking the $100 million corruption scandal surrounding Zelensky’s former media partner. Christopher Preble then breaks down whether the U.S. should back Trump’s proposed security pact with Saudi Arabia as the White House moves to finalize it.

One of the First Journalists to Reveal the Email Trove Linking Epstein With Israeli Intelligence We begin with the cascading fallout from the release of Epstein’s emails and follow up on Epstein’s connections to Israeli intelligence with a reporter who first revealed these clandestine ties in an article in August in Reason magazine, “Inside Jeffrey … Continued


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More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real “Smoking Gun” Remains Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence | Silicon Valley’s Migration to Texas with Musk’s Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalist of Petrobaptists | A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents Say He’s Destructive, Erratic or Reckless

More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real “Smoking Gun” Remains Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence We begin with House Democrats releasing incriminating emails from Epstein expressing surprise that Trump had not been tied to his and Maxwell’s sex trafficking victims, one of whom Epstein said Trump spent hours with at his house, going on … Continued


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Senate Democrats Defect to Open the Government on Republican Terms With Empty Promises | Can Trump Overcome Supporters of Israel in Congress to End US Sanctions and Stabilize Syria? | Hegseth Wants Defense Contractors on a “Wartime Footing” as He Plans to Attack Venezuela

Senate Democrats Defect to Open the Government on Republican Terms With Empty Promises We begin with eight Senate Democrats and one Independent caving to end the government shutdown with little apparent gain in their strategy to hold out on funding the government for continued subsidies for the ACA to avert skyrocketing healthcare premiums which the … Continued