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'll begin with the 2,600 No King's rallies held on Saturday across the country from

Maine to the Marianas, which peacefully displayed the growing resistance to Trump,

reflecting a patriotic love of a country the demonstrators are trying to save,

the opposite of the pathetic lie coming from

Trump's pedophile protector, Mike Johnson, who tried to brand it as being about hating America.

Joining us is John Nichols, the Nation magazine's Washington correspondent, whose books include

the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party, the enduring legacy of Henry Wallace's anti-fascist, anti-racist politics,

and most recently coronavirus criminals and pandemic profiteers

accountability for those who caused the crisis.

His latest article, that the nation is,

from Maine to the Marianas, Americans will cry, no kings.

Then we'll examine Trump's appeal to young racists, misogynists, and even in-cells displayed

by the national young Republicans, whose private chats praising Hitler, expressing hatred

for Jews, blacks and Asians, along with exulting rape and gas chambers,

were exposed by Politico,

but defended by J.D. Vance,

who tried to dismiss the hate speech

as a group chat among immature kids

when eight out of the 11 Republicans involved.

Ages ranged from 24 to 35.

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