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

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

We'll begin with Musk, lauding over the federal workforce, issuing insulting directives,

demanding their justify their existence, and hand in their homework like obedient schoolchildren.

Joining us for an assessment of the damage already done by Musk and his teenage techies is Nathan Tankus,

research director of the Modern Money Network. His writing has appeared in the review of Keynesian

Economics, Naked Capitalism, the Financial Times, and the American Prospect, among others.

He's the publisher of the popular substack Notes on the Crisis,

which features day-to-day coverage of the Musk-Trump government wrecking crew.

Then with Trump attacking allies while selling out to our enemies,

as he craves king-like adoration and has childlike tantrums over the mildest criticism.

We'll look into the need for our politicians, business leaders and citizens

to recognize the dangerous sickness of America's president

and intervene before he does any more damage to the country and the world.

Joining us is Dr. Bandin Lee, a medical doctor, forensic psychiatrist and world expert on violence,

who taught at Yale School of Medicine and at Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring to Columbia and Harvard.

She became known to the public by leading a group of mental health professionals in breaking the silence about Donald Trump's dangerous psychology

and publishing the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case about Donald Trump's dangerous psychology and publishing

the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.

37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president.

She's currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition.

And her latest books are Profile of a Nation, Trump's Mind, America's Soul, Psychology of Trump

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