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

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

We begin with the disgraceful behavior of the Attorney General of the United States in her

appearance today at an oversight hearing before the House Judiciary Committee at which she

constantly referred to a binder full of opposition research, Barb's prepared to attack Democratic

members instead of answering their questions in a

performance designed to please an audience of one Donald Trump.

Joining us is Adam Klassfeld, editor-in-chief at All Rise News, a senior

journalism fellow at Just Security. He has served as a legal contributor for MSNBC's

The Last Word and as a senior legal correspondent

for the messenger, the managing editor of Law and Crime, and a reporter for Courthouse News.

He was prominently featured in the documentary, Who is Galane Maxwell, which premiered on

the Stars Network and the UK's Channel 4, discussing Jeffrey Epstein's

thwarted prosecution. Then we'll analyze the SAVE Act that Trump and the

Republicans are trying to push through to rig the next election, which addresses

the non-existent problem of voter fraud by disenfranchising 21 million

Americans who don't have copies of their birth certificate,

half of the country that doesn't have passports, and millions of married American women who have

changed their names. Joining us at David Daly, the author of Anti-Democratic, Inside the Rights

50-year Plot to Control American Elections, as well as the national bestseller rat-eft,

while your vote doesn't count, which has been credited for kick-starting the national movement to reform redistricting. He's the former editor-in-chief of Salon, and his journalism

appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, among other publications.

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