It's Wednesday, December 11th.

I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show where we are not giving Kid Rock or Tucker Carlson awards, because we are not Donald Trump.

And also, we have not completely lost our minds.

On today's show, former Florida Congressman Matt Gates gets a new job.

Yay!

And New York Attorney General, Leticia James, refuses to drop Trump's civil suit.

Let's get into it.

It's a tense time in international politics right now,

and it's coming at a pretty tough time for the U.S. as President Joe Biden gets ready to hand over U.S. foreign policy to President-elect Donald

Trump. In Syria, after 13 years of civil war, the regime headed by President Bashar al-Assad

seemed to collapse in just days. Syrians are still celebrating Assad's ouster, for a good reason. His government is

believed to have killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of its own people to stay in power.

But the new guys, there's reason for worry. The U.S. considers both Hayat, Terir Asham,

the Islamist rebel group that top at Assad, and its leader, Abu Muhammad al-Jalani, terrorists.

Jalani has long-time ties to al-Qaeda, though he since renounced his association with the organization.

Speaking Sunday after Assad and his family fled to Moscow,

President Biden struck a cautious tone as he celebrated Assad's collapse.

We will remain vigilant, make no mistake. some of the rebel groups that took down Assad

have their own grim record of terrorism and human rights abuses.

We've taken note of statements by the leaders of these rebel groups in recent days,

and they're saying the right things now. But as they take on greater responsibility,

we will assess not just their words, but their actions. With Assad's ouster, Israeli troops moved

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