April 6, 2025 - Denver Riggleman | Stephen Wertheim | Karthik Sankaran
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
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🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news. |
| 0:21.3 | We'll begin with the asking of the head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, |
| 0:26.0 | along with six members of the National Security Council, |
| 0:28.8 | on the recommendation of a delusional conspiracy theorist who believes 9-11 was an inside job |
| 0:34.8 | and that school shootings have been staged. Trump took the advice of Laura |
| 0:39.7 | Luma, who has special access to the Oval Office and appears to be closer to Trump than his own |
| 0:45.6 | wife who keeps her distance, only showing up for ceremonial occasions. Joining us to discuss the |
| 0:51.7 | pattern of Trump firing people who know about his ties to Putin is |
| 0:56.2 | Denver Riggleman who supported advanced intelligence analysis and technical development programs |
| 1:01.4 | during his over two decades as an intelligence officer, NSA advisor, federal contractor, |
| 1:07.8 | research and development technology lead and CEO of support companies for the Department of Defense. |
| 1:14.1 | A veteran of the global war on terror and multiple worldwide operations, he served in the United States Air Force for nine active duty years. |
| 1:21.2 | He also serves as a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Virginia's 5th Congressional District and was the former |
| 1:28.9 | senior technical advisor for the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United |
| 1:35.1 | States Capitol and is the co-author of the breach, the untold story of the investigation into January |
| 1:41.8 | the 6th. Then as Trump and his real estate buddy Whitkoff bend over |
| 1:46.5 | backwards to get the Kremlin to agree to a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, as Putin |
| 1:52.3 | strings them along for a better deal, we'll look into the future of NATO and a Europe without the |
| 1:57.9 | United States and speak with Stephen Wirtheim, a senior fellow in the American |
| 2:03.0 | Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of Tomorrow |
| 2:07.8 | of the World, the birth of U.S. global supremacy in World War II, and we will discuss his article |
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