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 Saturday's assassination attempt on former President Trump and look into the history of political assassinations that change the world or might have changed the world.

Joining us is Robert Baer, one of the most accomplished agents in CIA history,

and the winner of the Career Intelligence Medal.

He's the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Sleeping with the Devil,

Our Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, and is considered one of the world's foremost

authorities on the Middle East and is an intelligence and national security affairs analyst

for CNN.

His latest book is The Fourth Man, The Hunt for a KJB spy at the top of the

CIA, and the rise of Putin's Russia, and he is the author of The Perfect Kill, 21 Laws for

Assassins. Then we'll assess the historical legacy of political assassination in America

with Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley,

and Kennedy assassinated, and assassination attempts on Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman,

Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Barack Obama, and now former President Trump.

Joining us is Sean Wollens,

the George Henry Davis, 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University,

where he has taught since 1979.

His books include The Age of Reagan, a History, 1974 to 2008,

Bob Dylan in America, and the politicians and the egalitarians, and his latest book is

No Property in Man, Slavery and Anti-Slavery at the Nation's founding.

Then finally we will contrast Trump's many calls for political violence having incited the

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