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 Russian fake news that Elon Musk is promoting in the form of a fake video from a fake San Francisco news outlet that claims Kamala Harris permanently injured a young black woman in a hit and run in 2011 that did not happen.

Joining us to discuss how the original Trump-Pooten colludas from 2016 are back like

Groundhog Day with George Papadopoulos, now spreading Russian propaganda, is Olga Loutman,

a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis.

She is the creator and co-host of the Kremlin File podcast series, which features expert

discussions on the Kremlin's internal affairs, global operations and tactics used from

the hybrid warfare toolkit to destabilize Western democracy.

Olga has a substack newsletter covering Russia, Ukraine, Eastern and Central Europe,

with a focus on Russia's intelligence operations available at olga-lautman.substack.com.

Then we'll look into the cruel and unnecessary deaths of two mothers in Georgia,

who are victims of Trump's abortion ban, enacted by Republican men who claim to be Christians,

which has untreated patients dying because doctors are unable to practice medicine

for fear of losing their medical licenses and going to jail for 10 years.

Joining us is Michelle Goodwin, an O'Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and co-faculty director of the O'Neill Institute at Column at Georgetown University.

She's the host of the popular podcast on The Issues with Michelle Goodwin at Ms. Magazine and is the author of a number of books, most recently, Policing the Womb,

Invisible Women in the Criminalization of Motherhood.

In 2018, she was bestowed the Sandra Day O'Connor Legacy Award by the Women's Journey Foundation.

Then finally, we'll speak with Rob Larson, a professor of Economics at Tacoma Community College,

and author of Bit

Tyrants, the political economy of Silicon Valley, and Capitalism versus Freedom, the

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