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 with Trump imposing global tariffs of 15% in response to a Supreme Court ruling

striking down his Liberation Day tariffs in a 63 ruling that prompted a meltdown from

our megal manchild, who accused the court's three conservatives who rebuked him of being

rhinos and its three liberals who joined them of being radical left lunatics. Joining us to discuss

what the ruling does and does not do is Justin Wolfers, a professor of public policy and economics

at the University of Michigan, and a visiting professor of economics at the University of Sydney.

He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,

a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, as well as a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor in

Bonn, a research affiliate with the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, an international

research fellow with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a fellow at CSFO in Munich.

Then we'll assess whether the arrest of former Prince Andrew might involve a plea

bargain which could lead him to naming names, including Trump's, to avoid a jail sentence.

Joining us at David K. Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and best-selling

author of The Making of Donald Trump. A 13-year veteran of the New York Times,

his latest book is The Big Cheat, How Donald Trump Fleeced America and enriched himself

in his family. He's also a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the co-founder

of DCReport.org, where his latest article we will discuss is the ex-prince and the president.

Then finally we'll speak with Alexander Cooley, the former director of Columbia University's

Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe, and the Clare Toe

Professor of Political Science at Barnard College of Columbia University.

His books include Great Games, Local Rules, The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia,

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