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

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

We'll begin with a video released by Vice President Vance, who apparently thought it was exculpatory,

taken by the ICE murderer who filmed his victim, René Good, a 37-year-old mother of three,

whose last words to him were, quote,

I'm not mad at you, before she was shot three times in the face,

after which the ice shooter is heard cursing, effing bitch.

Joining us to discuss the wider war on so-called woke women

by Trump, Vance, Hegset and Maga is Karen Greenberg,

a noted expert and author on National Security. She is a

future security fellow at New America, a senior research fellow at New York University's law

schools, Reese Center on Law and Security, and the co-host of the Spy Talk podcast. Her books

include subtle tools, the dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror

to Donald Trump, and she has an article at The Nation, Trump's war on women somehow got worse.

Then with Israel on alert expecting a US strike on Iran, we'll examine whether the latest

eruption of protest against Iran's corrupt and cruel clerical government

will result in regime change and speak with Mosen Malani, the executive director of the World

Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies and Professor Politics at the University of South Florida.

Professor Malani has served as a fellow at Harvard, Oxford and Foscari University

in Italy and is the author of The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution. And his latest book is Iran's

rise and rivalry with the United States in the Middle East. Then finally we'll assess why

Trump is effortlessly destroying America as a new Cold War emerges,

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