Background Briefing With Ian Masters

Amid Fears Over Ukraine's Nuclear Plant, Putin Appears Poised to Steal 20% of the Country's Electricity | Fears of Revenge For the Assassination Attempt on the Russian Nationalist Called "Putin's Brain" | The Arrest of Mexico's Former Attorney General In Charge of the Investigation Into the Disappearance of 43 Students backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Florida Judge Rules on Unsealing the Affidavit Subject to DOJ Redaction | The Ramifications of the Trump Organization CFO's Guilty Plea | Senators Cruz and Grassley Make Outrageous Threats Against IRS Personnel backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Unanswered Questions Swirling Around the Mar-a-Lago Document Seizure | Has the Law Finally Caught Up to Donald Trump? | Liz Cheney's Wyoming Is Now Trumpland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Climate Bill Biden Signed Into Law Today is a Major Victory | Did Trump Lose His Get-Out-Of-Jail Bargaining Chip With the Seizure of the Documents? | Did Trump's Lawyers Get Hold of Sensitive Software to Undermine Elections in the Name of Protecting Them? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump Attacks the FBI Inflaming His Base While Warning the AG "Our Country is on Fire. What Can I do to Reduce the Heat" | The Threat to Journalists in Mexico From Drug Cartels and in Nicaragua From the Ortegas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Why Did Trump Take the Top Secret Documents and For What Purpose? | An Investigation Into Reports That Trump Took Nuclear Secrets | Trump Tries to Blame the "Deep State" For His Treasonous Behavior backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Merrick Garland Speaks After Trump Makes Wild Claims About the FBI Whose Office in Cincinnati Was Attacked | A Local Perspective from Miami, Florida on the Mar-a-Lago Raid backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump Pleads the 5th as he Doubles Down on Lawlessness to Scam Donations | Other Cases Involving the Theft or Mishandling of Classified Material | Iran's Plot to Kill John Bolton and Another Unnamed Senior Official backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

What Did Trump Take to Mar-a-Lago He Wanted Kept Secret and What Did the FBI Find? | The Party of Law and Order in Complete Submission to Trump's Lawlessness | The Fallout From the Alex Jones Trial backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Biden's Big Wins Defy Pundits Who Were Writing His Political Obituary | Russia's Reckless Endangerment of Europe's Biggest Civilian Nuclear Reactors | Putin's Disastrous War in Ukraine is Making Major Wars Less Likely backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Trump GOP Sweep in Arizona | The Sellout Senator Sinema Auditions for a Job With Hedge Fund Billionaires | Putin’s Weaponization of History backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Alex Jones on Trial and His Lawyer's Blunder That Will Prove a Gift to the January 6 Investigation | How the UK Has Become a Haven For Laundering Dirty Money | Many Countries Are Poised to Default as Rising Interest Rates Make Debt Servicing Harder backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Results From Kansas Signal a Robust National Majority Against the Supreme Court and Republican Legislators | Americans Are in Favor of Settled Law Which the Right Wing Radicals on the Supreme Court Upended | "We Are the Majority: Nothing's the matter with Kansas" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Drone Strike on Al Qaeda's Leader the Taliban Were Hosting in Spite of Reassurances to the Contrary | Why is Xi Jinping Making Such a Big Deal About Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan? | Why Have Efforts to Bring Trump to Justice Been So Timid and Faltering? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Ron DeSantis's Nazification of American Education | When Russia Annexes Captured Territory, Will They Consider an Attack On It a NATO Attack on Russia? | The State of the US Economy and Relations With China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The DOJ Prepares to Force Top Trump Officials to Testify About the Insurrection and Trump's Role in It | Are We In A Recession Or Entering One? | Brazil's Bolsonaro Poised to the Violently Contest an Election He's About to Lose backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Manchin's Surprise Agreement to a $369 Billion Climate and Tax Increase Deal | While the Fed Frets Over Inflation, Everyone Else Worries About Recession Which the Fed's Actions Make More Likely | Orban Quotes "Pure Nazi Text Worthy of Goebbels" But CPAC Still Wants Him in Dallas Next Week backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

What is Pence's Strategy in Challenging Trump Without Condemning Him? | Pelosi's Trip to Taiwan Has Created an Unnecessary Crisis in an Already Deteriorating Relationship | The Coming Global Debt Crisis That Won't Stop at Sri Lanka backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Pence and Trump's Dueling Speeches and Some Legislative Victories For Biden | How the Oligarchy Bought the Supreme Court to End American Democracy by Decree backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Should Crime Reporters Replace Political Reporters in Covering Trump? | The Growing Influence of White Christian Nationalism in the GOP | The Pope Apologizes to Canada's Indigenous Peoples backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia