February 1, 2026 - Jean Guerrero | Jeet Heer | Anne Nelson
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
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🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news. |
| 0:24.8 | We'll begin with the real agenda behind Trump and Miller's immigration cruelty, |
| 0:29.6 | which is to drive a wedge between the white working class and the brown working class and create Trump-friendly gangster states in Latin America |
| 0:33.6 | since Trump just helped elect Asphura in Honduras, along with the drug gang MS-13, he has railed against. |
| 0:42.3 | The freeing of the drug King Ping Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, was a gift to Silicon Valley billionaires to give them free reign and sovereignty over so-called freedom cities like Prospera in Honduras that Peter Thiel |
| 0:57.1 | and Mark and Driesen are creating. Joining us is Gene Guerrero, an opinion writer at the New York Times |
| 1:03.2 | and previously an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and an investigative border reporter |
| 1:08.8 | for NPR, the PBS NewsHour and other public media. |
| 1:12.6 | The recipient of an Emmy, she began her career at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswise as a correspondent in Mexico City, |
| 1:20.6 | and is the author of Crux, a cross-border memoir, and most recently hate monger, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and |
| 1:29.6 | the white nationalist agenda. |
| 1:31.7 | We'll discuss her latest article at the New York Times. |
| 1:34.7 | Trump is not a nationalist, he's something worse. |
| 1:38.7 | Then with Deputy Attorney General Blanche admitting he doesn't know why Tulsi Gabbard led the |
| 1:43.5 | FBI raid to get the |
| 1:45.4 | 2020 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia. We will speak with Jeet here, a national affairs correspondent |
| 1:51.5 | for the nation and host of the weekly nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the |
| 1:57.8 | monthly column morbid symptoms, and we'll discuss his latest article, |
| 2:01.9 | At the Nation, Tulsi Gabbard's Georgia Raid is a pretext for future election intimidation. |
| 2:08.7 | Then finally, we'll investigate Pam Bondi's arrest of the former CNN anchor Don Lemon, |
| 2:14.5 | which should be a wake-up call to all journalists and media owners, and speak with |
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