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

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

We'll begin with the failure of the Harris campaign to warn the American public that just as we should have taken Hitler seriously about what he planned to do, which he did.

We should take our homegrown fascist Trump seriously about what he plans to do with his intention to build concentration camps

and round up political rivals and critics. Joining us is James Carville, an American political

consultant, author and occasional actor who are strategized for candidates for public office in the

United States and in at

least 23 nations abroad. A prominent Democrat, he is a pundit in US elections who

appears frequently on cable news programs, podcasts and public speeches, and he is the subject of

the new feature documentary Carville. Winning is everything stupid.

Now out in theatrical release on Friday, October the 25th, at the Lemley Royal in Los Angeles.

Then we'll examine how much Kamala Harris's stand on Gaza is satisfying no one as she gets hit

from both sides with Israelis complaining she agreed

with a pro-Palestinian protester that genocide is happening in Gaza, which she did not,

while acknowledging that the humanitarian catastrophe is real, which did little to placate

pro-Palestinian protesters.

Joining us is Mitchell Plitnik, the president of rethinking foreign policy and former vice president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, a political analyst and frequent

writer on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.

He served as director of the U.S. Bitsilem, and co-director of

Jewish Voice for Peace, and he's the co-author with Mark Lamont Hill of, except for Palestine,

The Limits of Progressive Politics. Then finally we'll assess whether the leaks from

US intelligence of Israel's war plans to attack Iran were authorized or unauthorized

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