August 12, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Rick Hasen | Mohsen Milani
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
4.7 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters, |
| 0:17.9 | and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news. |
| 0:27.5 | We'll begin with a former Republican opposition researcher who worked for Trump in 2016 against Hillary Clinton and assess what kind of damaging information there is about J.D. Vance in the 271-page vetting document on Vance |
| 0:36.3 | prepared by the Trump campaign that has now been leaked to Politico, the Washington Post and the New York Times by Iranian hackers, according to Microsoft. |
| 0:47.6 | Joining us is Justin Higgins, who has worked as a lobbyist for a Fortune 400 agribusiness and as a policy advisor to a Tea Party, |
| 0:56.0 | now Freedom Caucus member of Congress. He worked on Trump's 2016 campaign at the RNC and now hosts |
| 1:03.6 | the Politics Plus Media 101 podcast. Then we're looking to Trump's plan to deny a Harris victory, |
| 1:12.3 | even in the landslide, |
| 1:16.3 | by rather than sending a mob to the Capitol to stop the certification, |
| 1:24.1 | having the certification of the vote stalled at the local level cascade into stalling the state's certifications, |
| 1:27.6 | thus delaying results and causing chaos. |
| 1:32.5 | Joining us is Richard Hassan, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
| 1:34.2 | He's a nationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation |
| 1:38.8 | and is co-author of a leading casebook on election law. |
| 1:42.9 | He served as founding co-editor of the quarterly |
| 1:46.2 | peer-reviewed publication Election Law Journal and is the author of a number of books including |
| 1:51.2 | the voting wars, plutocrats united, the justice of contradictions, and election meltdown. |
| 1:57.6 | His latest book is a real right to vote how a constitutional amendment can safeguard |
| 2:02.8 | American democracy. Then finally we'll assess how much Iran's leader and the revolutionary guards, |
| 2:09.9 | the IOCC, are driven by humiliation in the pending and promised response to Netanyahu's |
| 2:17.0 | provocative assassination of a Hamas leader |
| 2:19.7 | who was blown up in an IRGC guesthouse in Tehran, where Hanya was attending the inauguration of Iran's new president. |
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