Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we're looking into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with House Speaker Johnson telling reporters that he can't commit to holding a Biden impeachment vote

following the implosion of the case against Hunter Biden, which was based on fabrication by Russian intelligence,

passed on by an FBI informant Alexander Smernoff, who the Guardian revealed

today was paid $600,000 by a businessman in the Emirates with ties to Trump.

Joining us is Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist who writes about national security and

civil liberties at emptywheel.net, is a contributor to motherboard the new republic

Al Jazeera among others. She's the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak

investigation and has been blogging full time since 2007. She served on the advisory committee

for the House Fourth Amendment caucus and was declared an internet human rights hero by Access Now.

We will discuss her latest article at emptywheel.net, a third tie between Trump World and Alexander Smyrnoff.

Then we'll examine the latest problem for Boeing, which is already in trouble having lost a quarter of its value with a 40 billion

drop in market valuation, now that a Boeing 787 Dreamliner plunged suddenly injuring passengers

as the pilot temporary lost control of the aircraft. Joining us is William McGee, a senior

fellow for aviation and travel at the American

Economic Liberties Project, who spent 22 years at Consumer Reports and served as the lone

consumer advocate on Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood's Future of Aviation Advisory Committee,

an FAA licensed aircraft dispatcher who spent seven years in airline flight operations

management and was a flight release officer in the United States Air Force Exilery. He's the author of two

books. The airline industry expose attentional passengers and half the child. Then finally we'll

assess the impact of Senator Schumer's public

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