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

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news. We'll begin with the Trump-Miller administration's violations of the First, Second, Fourth and Tenth

Amendments of the Constitution in Minnesota, and speak with Bruce Fine, a constitutional lawyer

who formerly served as Associate Deputy Attorney General under the Reagan administration,

General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission,

research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on COVID Arms Sales to Iran,

and member of the American Bar Association Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements.

He has authored several volumes on the United States Supreme Court,

the United States Constitution, and international law, and help write the articles of impeachment for President Nixon and President Clinton.

He is the Vice Chairman of the Committee for the Republic, and his books include Constitutional Peril,

the life and death struggle of our Constitution and democracy, American Empire before the

fall, and most recently, congressional surrender and presidential overreach. Then with Amazon's

Bezos's $75 million gift or bribe to Trump to burnish the image of his wife via documentary

feature to be released this weekend

in 2000 theaters.

We will assess what kind of interest there will be in a movie that avoids any mention

of Melania's early career posing naked as a model and her friendship with Epstein, which

journalists have been wary of investigating due to threats of lawsuits from the country's so-called First Lady. Joining us is Nina Burley, a senior editor at the New Republic, best-selling author, documentary producer and publisher of the Substack American Freak Show. A professor at New York University's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute,

she's written seven books, the latest of which include Golden Handcuffs, The Secret History of

Trump's Women, Now Out in a New Edition, The Trump Women Part of the Deal, and she has a new novel,

Zero Visibility Possible. Nina is the producer of a recent documentary series on Apple TV, Epstein's

Shadow, and she has an article at American Freak Show. We will discuss Melania the movie. Then finally,

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