Hello and welcome to background briefing available 24-7 at background briefing.

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

We'll begin with a peace deal with Iran that increasingly looks like a sellout,

which will be hard for Trump to spin as a victory,

and recognize Trump as a negotiator who always gets rolled in spite of his signature claim

of being master of the quote, out of the deal, a fiction

manufactured in his book written by a ghost writer.

Joining us is David Graham, a staff writer at the Atlantic where he covers politics and national

affairs.

He won the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting for his coverage of the 2020 presidential election.

His new book is The Project, Our Project 2025 is Reshaping America,

and we will discuss the latest article at the Atlantic why Trump keeps getting rolled in negotiations.

Then we'll assess the moral decay and collapse of decency and

discourse following the results of the Texas Republican U.S. Senate primary with a flagrant

Christian crook, low-life and sleazebag, Ken Paxton, winning in a blowout to face James

Tala Rico in the general election.

Joining us is James Moore, an Emmy award-winning television news correspondent,

who has covered Texas politics and has traveled extensively with every presidential campaign since 1976.

He's the founder of Big Bend Strategies and publishes regularly at Texas to the world.

Then finally we'll speak with Jeffrey Winters, a professor of political science at Northwestern University

and the director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program at Northwestern's Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.

Renowned for his groundbreaking work on oligarchs and elites, he wrote the influential book

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