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 loaded gun the Supreme Court handed to a convicted criminal who was ahead in the polls

and might be elected the next president, having vowed to be a dictator and to exact retribution.

This means that Trump will be authorized to order the assassination of White House insiders who have testified against him, like Cassidy Hutchinson, Colonel Vindman and Miles Taylor, etc., as well as journalists and media critics.

Joining us to speculate how Biden might use the same loaded gun now that has been handed to him is Robert Hockett, who has had first-hand experience

working at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and continues

to consult to a number of U.S. federal, state, and local legislators and regulators.

He drafted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal resolution for the House

of Representatives

and officially advises her on economic policy.

He is the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University,

and we will discuss AOC's intention to file articles of impeachment against Supreme Court justices.

Then we'll assess how the shift to the right in European politics will impact the war on Ukraine

as Putin is able to strike deep into Ukrainian territory and devastate the front lines with glide bombs,

while Zelensky begs for permission from the US and NATO to strike back at the source of these attacks.

Joining us is Charles Cupschen, who was director for European Affairs on the National Security

Council during the Clinton administration. He is now a professor of international affairs

at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and spent the last three years of the

Obama administration as special assistant to President

Obama for national security. He's the author of Power and Transition, the Peaceful Change of

International Order, and How Enemies Become Friends, the Sources of Stable Peace, and his latest

isolationism, a history of America's efforts to shield itself from the world. Then finally, we'll examine Friday's Supreme Court Chevron decision decimating the regulatory state,

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