Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm me and

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

We'll begin with the latest release of the Epstein files containing 1,056 documents

naming Putin and 9,629 references to Moscow.

And we'll look into how much Epstein's Compromat factory supplied Putin and speak with Craig Unger, the author of several books,

including the New York Times bestsellers House of Bush, House of Sound, and House of Trump,

House of Putin.

He is written about the Trump-Russia scandal for the New Republic, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post,

and his latest books are American Compromot, How the KGB Cultivated

Donald Trump and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power and Tretary, and Den of Spies, The Untold

Story of Reagan Carter, and the treason that stole the White House.

Then we'll speak with Ari Berman, the National Voting Rights Correspondent for Mother Jones,

and a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center.

He's the author of Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America,

and his latest book is Minority Rule, the Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It.

We'll discuss his article at Mother Jones,

from Minnesota to Georgia,

Trump's plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous.

Then finally, with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio,

already demonized by Vice President Vance

and about to lose their temporary protected status,

having been targeted for what Trump calls a large deportation. We'll speak with Robert Alexander,

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