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

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

We'll begin on a day of justice with Trump's lawsuits against James Comey and Letitia James thrown out,

and absurdity with Defense Secretary Hague Seth threatening Senator Mark Kelly with an investigation

into his seditious video and go from the good to the bad to the ugly.

We will discuss the morally bankrupt, corrupt and anti-democratic elite in this country,

whose contempt for average Americans greed and entitlement knows no bounds,

as revealed in the recent emails between Epstein and his

network of the power elite. Joining us is Anand Geerdadest, the author of the international

bestseller Winners Take All, the elite charade of changing the world, a former foreign

correspondent and columnist for the New York Times for more than a decade.

He is the publisher of The Inc. newsletter.

And his latest book is The Persuaders at the front lines of the fight for hearts, minds, and democracy.

And we'll discuss his article at the New York Times,

how the elite behave when no one is watching inside the Epstein emails.

Then we're looking to Trump's criminal and treasonous sellout of Ukraine, which critics are

likening to Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich, which in this case, it is as if

Chamberlain showed up at Munich with Hitler's peace plan. Joining us is Robert Benson,

the Associate Director of National Security International Policy at the Center for American Progress.

Previously, he worked as a global relations consultant at the Organization of Economic

Cooperation and Development in Paris and as a research fellow at the Social Science Center,

Berlin. We will discuss his article, Trump's 28-point peace plan will invite the next war. Then finally,

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