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

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

We'll begin with alarming reports in the Washington Post and the New York Times about Trump's

vengeful plans for a second term outlining how he would invoke the Insurrection Act on day

one and round up his enemies such as the so-called adults in the room, General Kelly, William

Barr and General Millie,

who he has already threatened to execute. Joining us is the first high-level official in the Trump

White House to blow the whistle on Trump's incompetence, ignorance, and pettiness. Miles Taylor,

a national security expert who works in Washington, D.C. He served as the chief of staff of Kirsten Nielsen,

the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,

in the Trump administration,

where he published an anonymous essay in the New York Times

blowing the whistle on presidential misconduct.

He later published the number one national bestseller,

a warning, revealed himself to be the author

and launched a campaign of ex-officials to oppose Donald Trump's re-election. He has worked as an

advisor in the George W. Bush administration on Capitol Hill as a CNN contributor and is the co-founder

of multiple democracy reform groups. His latest book is Blowback, A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump.

Then we'll look further into the looming specter of American fascism, with Trump,

the dear leader of a group of bottom feeders who were loyal to the end, as with the few adults left,

along with the judges Trump pointed, held a line on democracy

and tossed out the Cracken election lawsuits. Joining us is Richard Hassan, Professor of Law and Political

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