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

I'm Ian Masters.

And today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with Hunter Biden's appearance on the steps of the Capitol,

offering to testify in person to the Republican Kangaroo Court,

who have been smearing him for years ahead of today's vote by House Republicans

to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Biden,

based on no evidence but Speaker Johnson's craven obedience to Trump, who wants payback for his two impeachments.

Joining us is Alan Lickman, a political historian who teaches at American University and has

studied both the American right and the presidency.

The author of The Keys to the White House,

a sure-fire way to predicting the next president. His prediction system has correctly predicted

the outcomes of all U.S. presidential elections since 1984, including the 2016 election,

when against all odds, he predicted a Trump victory. His most recent books are The Embattled Vote in America,

the case for impeachment, and 13 cracks repairing American democracy after Trump.

And he has a new weekly show at 9 p.m. on Thursdays at Alan Lickman YouTube.

Then we'll assess the need for a new word to replace hypocrisy, which hardly describes what is going on in Florida,

where the Sarasota School Board voted to oust the co-founder of the anti-gay bookburners Mums for Liberty,

who engaged in a threesome with her husband and another woman who is charging her husband,

the head of Florida's Republican Party,

with rape. Joining us is Grant Stern, a Miami-based columnist and radio broadcaster who writes

two national news columns, one at the Washington Press by Occupy Democrats, and another on

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