Now it's time for the Anchorman podcast. I'm Matt Gates, host of the Matt Gates

show on One American News. And one of the things we love to do on this platform is highlight

the exceptional journalism that happens at One American News. I spent most of my time in

public life as a legislator, a lawmaker, so it's been great to be a journalist. And one of the

investigative reporters we have here at OAN, who goes closest to the story, deepest into the fight

is my man, Pearson Sharp. Pearson, thanks for being with me. You have had a trip to Russia

that we are going to spend the bulk of this discussion on, the people, the culture,

where the front lines are, what the sentiment is. But just to give a backdrop, you have a way

about you where you go and do these types of things. You've been to Syria. Just maybe give the audience here a little refresher on some of the journalism you've done that's been on the ground in places of great conflict and consternation.

Well, the biggest one outside of Russia would be, of course, Syria. And I went there in 2018 in April,

and I went to Duma, which was,

it's a little suburb outside of Damascus.

And that was right exactly when the chemical attacks had happened.

And I got to go into this area that was cordoned off.

It was a restricted area.

No one else could go in except for the residents and stuff.

So we were there before some international teams even got to go in.

And we went down to these places that were making headlines everywhere for the wrong reasons.

And the narrative at the time was, of course, that President Bashar al-Assad was

gassing his own people. He was killing his own civilians, killing his own citizens for his,

you know, mustache twirling nefarious purposes. And that never made sense to me. That kind of

description of what's happening just doesn't make sense.

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