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 with a 165 page filing by Jack Smith in the January 6th case

that could be the only time we see the case against Donald Trump for inciting the

insurrection and putting a target on his own vice-presence back by denouncing Mike Pence to

the mob who call for his

hanging and when told that Pence was in danger, Trump replied, so what?

Joining us to assess Jack Smith's case against Trump and how it complies with the Supreme Court's

broad immunity given to Trump in terms of whether the former president was engaged in

official acts is Dennis Aftergat, a former federal prosecutor and chief assistant city attorney in San Francisco,

who has won cases of significance in the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court.

He currently serves as counsel to lawyers defending

American democracy. Then we'll investigate the role of the secretive far-right Catholic sect

Opus Day in infiltrating American politics at the highest level, having stacked the Supreme

Court and the federal judiciary with far-right justices

while placing cult members in the Trump White House, as well as influencing J.D. Vance,

who wrote the forward to a new book by Opus Days, Kevin Roberts, the head of Project

2025.

Joining us from the UK is Gareth Gore, a financial journalist and editor with close to two decades

of experience who has reported from over 25 countries and covered some of the biggest

financial stories.

His writing has been published by Bloomberg, Thompson Reuters and International Financing

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