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 will begin with the clamor from Republicans and the press that Kamala Harris should provide more details about her policy plans and sit down with the press,

which she and Tim Walts have agreed to do with CNN.

Joining us to discuss how FDR and Obama did not run on policy but change and whether policy wins over charisma is Richard Parker, who teaches economics and public policy at Harvard's

Kennedy School of Government and is a senior fellow at the Schorenstein Center. He is a former

managing editor of Ramparts, was the co-founder of Mother Jones magazine,

and serves on the editorial board of the nation, and his books include The Myth of the Middle

Class and John Kenneth Galbraith, his life, his politics, his economics.

Then we go to Georgia, an important swing state, where Harris and Walsh are on a bus store today

and speak with Alan Abramowitz, Professor of Political Science at Emory University,

who studies American politics, political parties, elections, and voting behavior.

His books include the polarized public, why American government is so dysfunctional,

and the Great Alignment, Race, Party dysfunctional, and the great alignment,

race, party transformation, and the rise of Donald Trump.

Then finally would examine what appears to be an olive branch being offered to the United

States from Iran's supreme leader as the world waits for the Ayatollah's promised retaliation

against Israel. Joining us is Natahashimi, the director of the Alatollah's promised retaliation against Israel.

Joining us is Natah Shami, the director of the Aloid Center for Muslim Christian Understanding,

and a professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at the Edmadae Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

A non-resident fellow at Democracy for the Arab World now.

He's the author of The People Reloaded, the Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future,

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