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

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

We'll begin with a new report, White House for Sale, produced by Democrats on the House Oversight

Committee that revealed Trump made $7.8 million from foreign governments while in the White

House, $5.5 million from an adversary, China. Joining us is Dylan Headler-Gadet, who is a senior government affairs manager at Pogo,

the Project on Government Oversight, where he advocates for good government policy solutions

in a range of issue areas, including foreign influence, judicial ethics and transparency,

greater accountability and openness at the Department of Justice,

enhancing the capacity and integrity of Congress and the protection of core constitutional principles,

among others. Then, with the release of 40 documents out of 200 unsealed from the case against

Jeffrey Epstein's procurer Galane Maxwell, we'll look into the names

named and speak with Nina Burley, a senior editor at the New Republic, bestselling author,

documentary producer and publisher of the Substack American Freak Show, an adjunct professor at

New York University's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute.

She has written seven books, the latest of which include virus vaccinations, the CDC, and

the hijacking of America's response to the pandemic, and Golden Handcuffs, the Secret History

of Trump's Women, and is the producer of a recent documentary series available on Apple TV, Epstein's Shadow.

Then finally we will speak with an Israeli-born and educated scholar who argues against Israel's philosophical apologists about the conduct of the war in Gaza.

Joining us is Nia Ayal, the inaugural Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics at Rutgers

University, where he's also founded and directs the Center for Population-led Bioethics

within the Institute of Health, Healthcare Policy and Aging Research.

He's also an associate faculty member of Rutgers

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