Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news. We'll begin with a defiant

one who was the first to be targeted by Trump for vengeful prosecution before Comey and the others,

who, in response to being continually asked, what can we do to stop Trump, has launched a movement

today to help Americans push back against Trump's revenge.

Joining us is Miles Taylor, a national security expert who works in Washington, D.C.

He serves as the Chief of Staff for Kirsten Nielsen's,

the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,

under the first 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, and 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 and as a CNN

contributor and is a co-founder of multiple democracy reform groups.

His latest book is Blowback, A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, and he is

the co-founder of Defiance.org, a coalition of

national security veterans, whistleblowers, and pro-democracy leaders pledging to protect

those targeted unlawfully by presidential abuses of power. And also joining us is Maria McFarlane

Sanchez-Marino, the CEO of Represent Us. She's an advocate, author and lawyer with two decades of experience globally and within the US on issues of corruption, authoritarianism, organized crime and human rights.

And Maria has held multiple senior positions at Human Rights Watch and served as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance at the helm of a team

running groundbreaking state and national campaigns. And she's also the founder of the Congressional

Courage campaign. Then with Trump's Russia today behaving like Nazis as they target

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