Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with another Democratic governor standing up to Trump, while Democratic leadership

in the House and Senate are AWOL, and that is Illinois Governor Pritzker, who bluntly told Trump

to keep the military out of Chicago, adding, quote, this is about Donald Trump searching for any justification

to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try to intimidate his political

rivals. Joining us, David Farris, a professor of political science at Roosevelt University in Chicago,

and a regular contributor to Slate the Week and Newsweek. He is the author of Time to Fight

Dirty, How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics, and most recently,

The Kids Are All Left, How Young Voters Will Unite America. And we will discuss his latest article

at the nation, American Democracy, RIP.

Then with Trump firing the first and only black woman to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve and a defiant Fed governor Lisa Cook saying she's staying put, calling Trump's bluff

after he failed to find a way to fire the chairman of the Fed, Jerome Powell,

we will assess this standoff with Robert Hockett,

the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Finance, and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University.

He has firsthand experience working at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank

of New York and continues to consult for a number of U.S. federal, state, and local

legislators. He drafted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal

resolution for the House of Representatives and officially advises her on economic policy.

His latest books are money from nothing or why we should stop worrying about debt and learn

to love the

Federal Reserve, financing the Green New Deal, a plan of action and renewal, the citizens

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