Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm me and Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with an executive order from Trump on March the 6th that signals the beginning

of the revenge tour that he is leading with Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe and Gabbard as the

executioners. Joining us to investigate the targeting of the law firms Perkins Coy and Covington

and Burland is Scott Horton, a former lecturer at Columbia Law School and a contributing editor at Harper's

Legal Affairs and National Security. He serves on the American branch of the International Law

Association and has represented a variety of journalists and whistleblowers.

And Trump's order means that from now on, whistleblowers and any critics within or fired from the intelligence community will have no counsel or law firm to represent them against the full might of the United States government.

Then we'll get an update on how Ukraine is surviving after Trump's cut off of

intelligence and arms at the same time he is pretending to be upset that Russia is, quote,

bombing the hell out of Ukraine, thanks to Trump's treasonous gift to Putin.

Joining us is Anders Aslan, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, a professor

at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University,

and a former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

A member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, he worked as a Swedish diplomat in Moscow

and served as an economic advisor to the governments of Russia and Ukraine. His books include

Ukraine, What Went Wrong and How to Fix It, and Russia's crony capitalism, the path from market

economy to kleptocracy. Then finally, we'll look into the land grabs underway as Trump eyes Canada, Greenland and Gaza,

and how climate change is fueling the race for other people's land and resources.

Joining us is Michael Albertus, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

His research examines democracy and

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