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

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news. We will begin

with the question of whether half of the American people know what they have done by electing

Trump and whether the other half know what to do when, quote, America comes to resemble Argentina

in the 1970s and 1980s with the enemy within rounded up and held without charges. Will women be

stopped at state borders and hormone tested for pregnancies? Will Americans watch behind closed

curtains as men in military garb, maybe without identification, hustle their neighbors away? Will we

hear of but never see the

concentration camps deep in the barren western deserts surrounded by razor wire?

Joining us is Nina Burley, a senior editor at the New Republic, best-selling author,

documentary producer and publisher of the Substack American Freak Show.

A professor at New York University's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, she has written seven books, the latest of which is virus, vaccinations, the CDC, and the hijacking for America's response

to the pandemic, and golden handcuffs, the secret history of Trump's women. And she has a new

novel, Zero Visibility Possible.

She is the producer of a recent documentary series on Apple TV, Epstein's Shadow.

And we will discuss her article at the New Republic, Trump 2.0.

Here comes the night.

Then we'll examine the threat to American intelligence posed by the choice of a Hari-Krishna-like cult member,

who is accused of being a Russian asset, overseeing our intelligence agencies and feeding curated intel to her commander-in-chief, Donald Trump.

Joining us is Thomas Nichols, a Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs at the

U.S. Naval War College, who previously taught international relations in Soviet and Russia

Affairs at Dartmouth College and Georgetown University.

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