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

Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We will begin with the former head of the FBI, James Comey, turning himself in today to face disgracefully bogus charges manufactured by a craven crawling creep who is auditioning to become

the next head of the Department of Pedophile Protection for the mob boss with an obsessive hatred of Comey

and an insatiable lust for revenge who wants a consigliary, not an attorney general.

Joining us is Harry Littman, a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General

in the Justice Department, a professor

of constitutional law and national security law at the University of California, San Diego,

and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the host of the Talking San Diego

Speaker Series and the executive producer and host of the Talking Fed's podcast, as well as author of the Talking Feds Substack.

He's also a senior legal columnist at the New Republic, and his latest article Talking Feds is,

Seashell Gate is going exactly nowhere.

Then we'll look into the Supreme Court's fulfillment of Chief Justice Roberts' long crusade to undo voting rights for minorities in order to give Republicans an undeserved advantage on a rigged electoral playing field.

Joining us is Dr. Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Florida. He is a principal

investigator on the public mapping project, a project to encourage public participation in redistricting,

and also as the director of the United States Election Project. His latest book is, from pandemic to

insurrection, voting in the 2020 U.S. presidential election,

and he does regular voting analysis of the 26 election for the U.S. election project at

Michael MacDonald.substack.com.

Then finally, we'll assess the success of Defense Secretary Hague says testimony today before the House Armed Services Committee,

where he asked for a trillion and a half dollars more for his warfighting budget,

at the same time insulting members saying that the biggest adversity now is the defeatist words of congressional Democrats

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