Background Briefing: September 21, 2025
The Trump Coup Underway and His Assault on the First Amendment
We begin with the assault on the First Amendment by Trump and his MAGA cabinet of yes-men and women with the wannabe mob boss and dictator claiming 97% of the mainstream media’s coverage of him is negative and therefore ABC, CBS and NBC should lose their broadcast licenses. Joining us is Jacob Heilbrunn, the Editor at the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and a columnist for The Spectator. His books include They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons and America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. He is also editor-at-large of The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune and has an article at The National Interest, “The Franklin Fellowship’s Newest Acolyte” as well as an article at The Spectator, “What the Tyler Robinson indictment reveals about the Charlie Kirk murder.”
The Real Epstein Files Story in the 7,000 + SARS Files at Treasury and the Central Role of Robert Maxwell and His Depraved Daughter
Then we look into the real Epstein Files story which are the 7,000 plus SARS files (Suspicious Activity Reports) at the Treasury Department which Secretary Bessent is refusing to turn over to Senator Wyden along with the other aspect of the story which is the central role of Robert Maxwell and his depraved daughter Ghislaine who was much more than Epstein’s pimp and procurer of underage girls having inherited her father’s contacts with the KGB and Mossad with which she introduced Epstein to powerful figures and the shadow world of finance. Joining us is James Henry, an economist, lawyer and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global banking, debt crises, tax havens and economic development. A Global Justice Fellow at Yale, he is the former chief economist at McKinsey & Co. and the co-founder with David Cay Johnston of the investigative reporting news service DCReport.org and is the author of Blood Bankers and the co-founder of the NGO United Against Money Laundering.