Program Date:  02/19/2019 https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/2019/02/19/867/ mp3audio:  Full Program

February 19 - Trump Conflates Chaos in Venezuela with Socialism in America; Bernie Sanders Enters the 2020 Presidential Race; Mounting Scandals Ahead of the Pope's Sex Abuse Prevention Summit

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Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next Economy
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April 21, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Nataliya Gumenyuk | Steven Simon

A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the South
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April 18, 2024 - Illia Ponomarenko | Scott Horton | Steven Greenhouse

The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionaires
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April 17, 2024 - Rebecca Roiphe | Anders Åslund | Chuck Marr

A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists 
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February 19 - Trump Conflates Chaos in Venezuela with Socialism in America; Bernie Sanders Enters the 2020 Presidential Race; Mounting Scandals Ahead of the Pope's Sex Abuse Prevention Summit

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