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 latest zigzagging on tariffs by President Taco, Trump always chickens out,

and look into what will happen with Trump's big, beautiful bill in the United States Senate this

week where deficit hawks want more cuts and more moderate Republicans less cuts.

Joining us is Robert Cutner, the co-founder and co-editor of the American Prospect

and the Ida and Meyer Kirsteen Chair at Brandeis University.

He was formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, a chief investigator for the

Senate Banking Committee, and for 20 years wrote a column for Business Week.

His books include Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism and Going Big FDR's Legacy,

Biden's New Deal, and the struggle to save democracy,

and we will discuss his article at the American Prospect,

10 sneaky sleeper provisions in Trump's big, beautiful bill.

Then following Trump's Thursday rant on true social after the U.S. Court of International

Trade had blocked his tariffs when he went after the Prince of Dark Money, who has

stacked the Federal Judiciary and the Supreme Court, calling Leonard Leo a sleazebag and regretting he ever listened to

the Federal Society. We will speak with Lisa Graves, the founder of the corporate watchdog group

True North Research, and the managing director of court accountability. She has served as a senior

advisor in all three branches of the federal government, as deputy assistant

attorney general in the Justice Department, as chief counsel for nominations on the Senate

Judiciary Committee, and as a deputy chief of the Article III judges' divisions for the U.S.

courts. Then finally, with the growing possibility that our next president will be J.D. Vance,

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