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

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with Trump shuffling the deck today by sending his national security advisor

Mike Wals to the UN where he will be the U.S. ambassador and replacing him on an interim basis

with Marco Rubio, who will be both National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.

Joining us to discuss how Rubio's proximity to Trump inside the Oval Office might allow him to be

more assertive since Rubio has taken a back seat as the pro-Pooten clique of Vance,

Hegset, Gabbard and Lutnik dominate foreign policy

with Trump's real estate buddy Whitkoff leading the charge to sell out Ukraine.

Joining us is Jacob Halbrun, the editor of the, the editor at the National Interest,

a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia

Center, and a columnist for The Spectator. His books include they knew they were right,

The Rise of the Neocons, and America Last, the Wright's Century Long Romance with Foreign

Dictators. Then we get an assessment of yesterday's arguments before the Supreme Court

on a case that could smash a giant hole in the

wall between church and state, forcing taxpayers to subsidize religious indoctrination

in the name of education and resegregating schools along religious lines.

Joining us as an expert who offered an amicus brief in the case, James Liebman,

the Simon H. Rifkin Professor of Law at Columbia University,

and an expert on institutional design and change in public education and criminal justice.

He's the founder of the Columbia Center for Public Research and Leadership,

and we'll discuss his article at Bloomberg Law,

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