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

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

We'll begin with the Congress officially certifying Donald Trump's Electoral College victory

today on this fourth anniversary of the January 6th insurrection and coup attempt by Donald

Trump to stay in the White House after having lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Joining us to discuss the Orwellian nature of Republican revisionist history. after having lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Joining us to discuss the Orwellian nature of Republican revisionist history,

which has turned a group of murderous thugs and vandals into martyrs and heroes,

who will soon be pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office, is Jacob Halperin.

He is the editor of the national interest in a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, a columnist for the spectator, and his books

include They knew they were right, the rise of the neocons, and America last the right century-long

romance with foreign dictators. And he has an article at the Jerusalem

Strategic Tribune, Trump's foreign policy to-do list for 2025.

Then we'll look into today's resignation by Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after nine

years in office and is shutting down of the Parliament until March the 24th so that

his Liberal Party can have time to find a successor.

Joining us is Andrew Latham, a professor of international relations at Macalester College in

St. Paul, Minnesota, specializing in the politics of international conflict and security.

He was formerly the Non-Proliferation Arms Control and Disarmament Fellow at the Canadian

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and was a lecturer at the Canadian

Armed Forces School of Aerospace Studies.

Then finally, we will speak with the Nassi Kambanis, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation

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