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 last Thursday's CNN interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walsh,

during which Dan Abash only asked four questions that were not Trump Vance attack lines in a pathetic attempt by the mainstream press not to appear to be the liberal media,

a bogus charge the Republicans

have hoisted to move the goalposts of political discourse to the right.

Joining us to discuss how the political press has doubled down on the horse race coverage

of the election, overlooking the threat Trump poses to democracy, is James Reisen, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

and author whose investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms.

Among his best-selling books are State of War, the secret history of the CIA and the Bush administration,

and pay any price, greed, power, and endless war.

The senior national security correspondent at the

Intercept and a former investigative journalist with The New York Times, his new book is The Last

Honest Man, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and the Kennedys, and one senator's fight to save

democracy. We'll discuss his latest article at The Intercept why the media won't report the truth about Trump.

Then we'll assess the chances of a two-state solution emerging from the end of the war in Gaza,

which both Biden and Harris have promised, but Netanyahu seems determined to thwart.

Joining us is a long-time champion of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Rabbi Stephen

Jacobs, who was spent over five decades as an advocate on behalf of social change, spirituality,

and civil rights. The founder of the Rabbi Stephen B. Jacobs Progressive Faith Foundation,

until his recent retirement, he's also served as a spiritual leader of temple called

Tikva, a reform congregation he founded in 1984.

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