November 19, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | David Halperin | Christopher Miller
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news. |
| 0:34.6 | We'll begin with the weakened Trump whose power to intimidate House and Senate Republicans appears to be waning as a split in Maga emerges between competing factions of far-right neo-Nazis and billionaire donors. Joining us to discuss the jockeying to succeed Trump between Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance |
| 0:41.3 | is Jacob Harbrun, the editor at the National Interest, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. |
| 0:48.3 | She raises center and a columnist for The Spectator. |
| 0:51.3 | His books include They Knew They Were Right, The Rise of the Neocons, |
| 0:55.1 | and America Lost, the Wright's Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. He's also editor-at-large of the |
| 1:01.1 | Jerusalem Strategic Tribune and is featured in an article in the New York Times, |
| 1:06.6 | Who's Afraid of Tucker Carlson? I can think of two people. |
| 1:15.3 | Then we'll assess how much Trump can gut the Department of Education after yesterday's announcement of dismantling it, which only the Congress has the legal right to do. |
| 1:20.7 | Joining us is David Halpin, a senior fellow at Republic Report. |
| 1:24.8 | He was previously the founding executive director of the American Constitution |
| 1:28.5 | Society and also served as a White House speechwriter and special assistant for national security |
| 1:33.9 | affairs to President Clinton and counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee. |
| 1:38.9 | We'll discuss Trump's assault on education and David's recent article at Republic Report, |
| 1:45.0 | billionaire behind Trump pressure campaign on colleges owns predatory university of Phoenix. |
| 1:51.6 | Then finally, we'll speak with Christopher Miller, the Financial Times as chief Ukraine correspondent. |
| 1:57.5 | He has lived and reported from Ukraine since 2010, and is the author of The War Came to Us, |
| 2:03.8 | Life and Death in Ukraine, winner of the 2004 Wirtel Pellekeh International Book Award. |
| 2:10.4 | His reporting is focused on Ukrainian politics, President Vladimir Zelensky's relationship with |
| 2:15.7 | Donald Trump, and various aspects of Russia's war against Ukraine. |
| 2:19.9 | His work has exposed Russian war crimes and revealed the plight of people forced to live under brutal |
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