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Welcome back to POTSave the World.

I'm Tommy Vitor.

I'm Ben Rhodes.

And we are recording a bonus episode of POTS of the World. I'm Tommy Vitor. I'm Ben Rhodes. And we are recording a bonus episode of POTS day of the world at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Friday

to talk about this ongoing military assault by the Israelis against Iran, against its facilities,

its personnel linked to the Iranian nuclear program, and the decapitation of Iran's military leadership.

We're going to cover what we know about this Israeli operation so far, the risks we foresee going

forward, the background about how it all came together, and how effective this operation

has been or could be, and how Democrats should respond.

So we'll do as much as we can, given what we know. So just a

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