Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 247 at background briefing.

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

We'll begin with the Danish government, a NATO ally, summoning the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen

to complain about American intelligence operatives in Greenland, developing lists of Greenlanders

who might oppose a U.S. takeover from Denmark, and more worrying, lists of Greenlanders

who would oppose Trump's often stated gold of taking over Greenland.

Joining us from Denmark is Bikkel Ronei Olison,

a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies,

where he specialises in Arctic

security and transatlantic relations. Then we'll look into Trump's anti-Semitic

conspiratorial rant against George Soros on truth's social, threatening, quote, George Soros and his

wonderful radical left son should be charged with Rico because of their support

of violent protest and much more, all throughout the United States of America.

Soros and his group of psychopaths have caused great damage to our country.

That includes his crazy West Coast friends. Be careful. We're watching you.

Joining us is Rick Wilson, a renowned political strategist, infamous ad maker, writer, speaker and political commentator, a 30-year veteran of

national Republican politics. He got his start in the 1988 presidential campaign of George

Herbert Walker Bush. In December of 2019, he co-founded the Lincoln

Project, and his books include Everything Trump Touches, Dyes, and Running Against the Devil,

a plot to Save America from Trump and Democrats from themselves. Then finally, we'll speak with

Lawrence Douglas, the James Grosfeld Chair in Law,

jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, and a contributing opinion writer for The Guardian.

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