Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org, I am E.N. Masters,

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

We'll begin with the gathering storm of calls from Democratic lawmakers and donors for Biden to step down

and get some insight into Biden's inner circle who are resisting these calls

and speak with the author of a book on the Biden White House who spent time with

and interviewed all of Biden's top

aides, his old friends and close family members. Joining us is Chris Whipple, a multiple Peabody

and Emmy Award winning producer at CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC's Prime Time. He's the author of the New York

Times bestselling book, The Gatekeepers, How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, and The Spymasters,

How the CIA Director Shaped History and the Future.

His latest book is The Fight of His Life, Inside Joe Biden's White House.

Then, with most of the attention on Biden's troubles and not on how troubling a

return of Trump would be, we'll speak with Bhaskar Sankara, who is the president of the nation

magazine, the founding editor of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto, The Case

for Radical Politics in an era of extreme inequalities. We'll discuss his article at The Guardian.

The Republican's new party platform is scary because it can win. Then finally we will speak with a brave

journalist who has taken on the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville and was at great risk inside the angry mob that stormed

the capital.

Ellie Reeve, a CNN correspondent, whose work has won numerous awards including the Emmy,

the Peabody and more.

She's the author of the new book Black Pill, How I Witness the Darkest Corners of the Internet

come to life, poison society, and capture

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