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... Mary. Amaze, amaze, amaze. In Cinemas now. Welcome, everybody to the Untold Story podcast.

It's great to have you with us today.

Today, I'm joined by our senior national correspondent,

Rich Edson, who is in Washington, and he has been covering a really important story, and there's

so much going on in the world, obviously, with the Iran War now in its third week. But something

happened on Capitol Hill over the past couple of days that is known as the worldwide threat assessment.

And it brings together our top intelligence officials in the government to explain to Congress

what they see as the most pressing threats that the United States faces. And of course,

a lot of that now is framed in the war in Iran and how that has escalated some of the threats here at home.

So very glad to be joined by Rich Edson, our senior national correspondent. Rich, great to have you with us. Thank you for being here. Martha, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me. So I guess my first question, Rich, as you watch this, you know, we saw John Ratcliffe, the director of the CIA,

Cash Patel, head of the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, which oversees all of the, I think,

at 16 intelligence agencies in the U.S. government give their assessment of the threats that we face,

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