911, where is the emergency?

It's the middle of the night in a small town on the Jersey shore.

Someone reports an abandoned car on a bridge.

A search gets underway for the missing driver, 19-year-old Sarah Stern.

Is it a missing person? Is it a suicide?

At this point, nobody knows.

Old friendships, buried cash, and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie, plays out in real life.

I'm Jiu Chang. From 2020 and ABC Audio, listen to Bridge of Lies, coming March 10th, wherever you listen to podcasts.

It's Tuesday, March 3rd.

You've heard of the fog of war?

This is the fog of words.

We start here.

We will easily prevail.

The Trump administration offers conflicting justification for striking Iran.

Israel was going to strike.

Iran would strike back in response to that, and that was an imminent threat.

Was Iran truly on the brink of hitting us first, or is the very premise of this conflict already in doubt?

The stakes are rising as more U.S. troops are killed.

Do they have enough interceptors to prevent all of these incoming Iranian missiles or drones?

We'll break down the biggest threats on this new battlefield.

And how will all this impact an election near you?

Not only are they going to have to turn out the base,

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