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 the blueprint for a Trump dictatorship,

the MN Kampf of the Maga Republican Party Project 2025,

a plan that will enable the wannabe mafia boss and despot

to realize his dream to be like his idol Putin

and turn America into Putin's Russia, which is what

is in store for us if Trump is re-elected. Joining us is Nina Burley, a senior editor at the New

Republic, bestselling author, documentary producer and publisher of the Substack American Freak Show,

a professor at New York University's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute,

she's written seven books, the latest of which include virus vaccinations, the CDC and the

hijacking of America's response to the pandemic, and Golden Handcuffs, the Secret History of

Trump's Women, and her latest, a novel on disinformation, zero visibility possible.

She is the producer of a recent documentary series on Apple TV, Epstein Shadow, and we'll

discuss her article at the New Republic. Project 2025 should haunt Donald Trump every day

until the election. Then we'll look into the House Republicans released today of a report on the U.S. withdrawal

from Afghanistan, which is a political hijab against Vice President Harris,

whose name was mentioned 251 times, even though in the transcripts of the Foreign Affairs

Committee's 2,388 pages of interviews,

her name only came up three times, and she was in Singapore and Vietnam,

when the chaotic withdrawal and deaths of 13 servicemen happened.

Joining us is a leading expert on Afghanistan, Thomas Barfield,

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