Hello and welcome to Background Briefing available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today will examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We begin with the arraignment today of Cole Allen, who was charged with an attempt to assassinate President Trump.

Before his shootout with the Secret Service on Saturday night, he wrote a 1,000-word manifesto,

which the White House is trying to spin as being anti-Christian when

it is clear Cole Allen is a devout Christian who explained why he did it saying

quote I am a citizen of the United States of America what my representatives do reflect

on me and I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor

to coat my hands with his crimes. Joining us is Ken Klippistine, an American journalist reporting

on the U.S. National Security State and politics. He previously was an investigative reporter

at The Intercept and prior to that was the DC correspondent at the nation and a senior reporter for the young Turks.

He now runs a popular substack at Ken Clippenstein.com, where his latest article we will discuss is

Assassin wasn't on FBI's radar sources say.

Then we're looking to Trump's destruction of America's alliances and the extent to which

a separation or a divorce is underway and speak with Charles Cupschen, who was director

for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration.

He is now a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University School of Foreign

Service and spent the last three years of the Obama administration as special assistant

to President Obama for national security.

He's the author of Power in Transition, The Peaceful Change of International Order, and How Enemies Become Friends, The Sources of St order, and how enemies become friends, the

sources of stable peace.

And his latest book is Isolationism, A History of America's Efforts to Shield

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