Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 247 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 real reason Trump is suing Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal,

which is to force them to reveal the source of the leak of Epstein's 50th birthday greeting book

in which Trump drew a pornographic picture with a short imagined dialogue between Epstein and Trump.

Quote, we have certain things in common, Jeffrey, and enigmas never picture with a short imagined dialogue between Epstein and Trump.

Quote, we have certain things in common, Jeffrey, and enigmas never age.

Have you noticed that?

Then Trump ends with the wish that, quote, every day be another wonderful secret.

Joining us is James Siren, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, and the host of the critically acclaimed television talk show conversations with Jim Zarin,

which airs on PBS.

He's the author of Supremely Partisan, How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States

Supreme Court, and played if in chief a portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 lawsuits.

He's a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly,

and his latest article at The Hill we will discuss is another wonderful secret,

What's Going on with Trump and the Epstein Files?

Then with Trump triumphed at CBS's firing of Stephen Colbert,

which he surely played a role in,

we'll look into how he is now going after Jimmy Kimmel in the hope of ending America's

tradition of political satire, taunting the ghosts of H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain.

Joining us is Jacques Berliner Blau, a professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University.

He has authored numerous books about the subject of secularism, including the recent

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