Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 247 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

as this year ends with selected programs from our archives following yesterday's coverage of events

from the middle of the year today we'll cover stories from later in the year before special

programming on new year's eve and new year Day. We'll begin with a broadcast of

background briefing from July the 23rd of 2023, How to Save American Democracy from the Trump

2.0 revenge machine. We began with the unavoidable observation that Donald Trump appears to

have the Republican presidential nomination wrapped up and that a growing number of indictments

in criminal trials he will be facing only seems to strengthen the MAGA movement and boost his

chances to be elected the next president of the United States. Joining us to discuss the best chance

of beating Trump by forming a coalition of Democrats and traditional Republicans was

Miles Taylor, a national security expert who works in Washington, D.C. He served as Chief of Staff

to Kirsten Nielsen, the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump

administration, where he published an anonymous essay in the New York Times, blowing

the whistle on presidential misconduct.

He later published the number one bestseller, A Warning, revealed himself to be the author

and launched a campaign of ex-officials, the Renew America Movement, to oppose Donald Trump's

reelection, and his new book is Blowback, A Warning to Save Democracy

from the Next Trump.

Then we'll go to a broadcast of background briefing from September the 19th of 2023,

how the U.S. Constitution's protection against tyranny of the majority has enabled the opposite.

We began with how the United States Constitution, which was designed in part to protect against the tyranny of the majority has enabled the opposite. We began with how the United States Constitution,

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