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There's a lot going on, a bunch of things to talk about

today, of course. I'm seeing this thing, this story just kind of breaking now. I don't know if

you saw this or not. Last week, I saw it, and I thought, wow, this is a pretty compelling

video. There was Clarissa Ward of CNN. Now, she's got, she's got Cajonis, as they say. She is reported

from war zones all over the world. She's over in Syria. And this story just seems to be a

testament to the fact that even though somebody is good or has been good in the past,

the temptation for tension, the temptation for viral moments, whatever, can be too much.

And it can even get the best of them.

And maybe she wasn't in on it, I don't know.

But last week,

Clarissa Ward and a film crew was going through a prison in Syria.

Now, I find it a little weird why you're going through a prison in Syria two weeks after

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