Background Briefing: February 1, 2026

How Trump’s Working With MS-13 To Help Elect the New President of Honduras Reveals the Real Agenda Behind Trump and Miller’s Immigration Cruelty 

We begin with the real agenda behind Trump and Miller’s immigration cruelty which is to drive a wedge between the white working class and the brown working class and create Trump-friendly gangster states in Latin America since Trump just helped elect Asfura in Honduras along with the drug gang MS-13 he has railed against. The freeing of the drug kingpin Hernandez, the former president of Honduras was a gift to Silicon Valley billionaires to give them free reign and sovereignty over so-called “Freedom Cities” like Prospera in Honduras that Peter Thiel and Marc Andreesson are creating. Joining us Jean Guerrero, an opinion writer at The New York Times and previously an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and an investigative border reporter for NPR, the PBS NewsHour and other public media. The recipient of an Emmy, she began her career at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires as a correspondent in Mexico City and is the author of Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir and most recently, Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda. We discuss her latest article at The New York Times “Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.”

Tulsi Gabbard’s Seizure of the 2020 Ballots in Georgia is About Rigging the 2026 Election

Then, with Deputy AG Blanche admitting he does not know why Tulsi Gabbard led the FBI raid to get the 2020 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, we speak with Jeet Heer, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms” and we discuss his latest article at The Nation, “Tulsi Gabbard’s Georgia Raid is a Pretext for Future Election Intimidation.”

Bondi’s Arrest of Don Lemon as a Wakeup Call to All Journalists and Media Owners

Then finally we investigate Pam Bondi’s arrest of the former CNN anchor Don Lemon which should be a wakeup call to all journalists and media owners and speak with Anne Nelson, an author and lecturer in the fields of international affairs, media and human rights who was the former head of the Committee to Protect Journalism and director of the international program at the Columbia School of Journalists where she created the first curriculum in human rights reporting. Her books include Red Orchestra: The Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler and Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, now out in an updated paperback version. The new film BAD FAITH: Christian Nationalism’s War on Democracy based on her book Shadow Network is streaming on Amazon and a new version out in two weeks will be available at badfaithdocumentary.com