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 the dangerous state of Donald Trump's mental health, re-emerging as a political

issue, this time brought up by Nikki Haley, who will be hammering the theme for the next

month that Trump is mentally unfit for the presidency, which gets under his thin skin,

provoking crude insults, name-calling,

and threats to her donors from the chronically narcissistic sociopath, whose cult-like spell

has captured a third of the country. Joining us is Dr. Bandi Lee, a medical doctor, forensic

psychiatrist, and a world expert on violence,

who taught at Yale School of Medicine and 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

professional colleagues in breaking the silence 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 is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, and her latest book is

Profile of a Nation, Trump's Mind, America's Soul.

Then we'll examine how Iran is emboldened by constant signals

that the United States does not want to go to war again in the Middle East

with an American public weary of the waste of lives and treasure

from the Iraq and Afghanistan misadventures.

Joining us to assess what can be done to deter Iran, which is benefiting enormously from the

U.S.-backed Israeli war in Gaza, is Nader Hashemi, the director of the Al-Aweed Center

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