Hey, everybody. Welcome to Redacted. Thank you for joining us. It's a busy news week. Busy news Monday.

If you read the newsletter, you know. Let's see, war in Syria, war in Iran, war everywhere, war in the

United States over free speech. We got a lot to talk about and we're going to do that. So hold on to

your butts. You only have Natalie today. It's just me, but I have David with me also online. And Philip Clayton is traveling today. So it's three-fourths of your redacted team. Well, I guess it's four-fifths because Grimm is here, but he never speaks. But he's with us, always. His thoughts are with us. So thank you so much for joining us. It's busy. Let us know where you're

joining us from. Let us know what you're here to discuss, what you'd like to see. I really want your opinions on these things. We're going to talk about Syria's war. The United States and the European Union are like, oh my God, there are terrorists in charge of Syria. How did that happen? What's going on here?

Also, the sky is blue.

So we're going to talk to Kvork. in charge of Syria. How did that happen? What's going on here? Also, the sky is blue.

So we're going to talk to Kvork-Almasian about this because he's been warning about this,

how the United States, yes, they used your tax dollars to fight al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and fund them in Syria.

Who would have thought that that might backfire? Also, we're going to talk about the free speech trap that is anti-Semitism because the Trump

administration is deporting people for anti-Semitism.

Is that real?

Is that a real thing to, I mean, of course, anti-Semitism is real?

I am not demureing on that subject at all.

But is this something that could lead to a free speech trap

for all of us? Also, there are mixed signals about whether or not we want a war with Iran.

What the hell is going on there? There are some that are messaging that we want diplomacy with

Iran. There are some who are saying, let's just go bomb the crap out of them. What is going on?

Well, you know what our role is when we have this? Well, we can rewind the clocks, rather, for about two decades when we had WMDs. What do we need to do, guys? What did we learn from WMDs? We need proof. That's what we're going to ask for. So we're going to look at the different mixed messages and then say, where's the proof?

Raise your hand if you want a war with Iran. Also, the Biden

administration's sanctions on Russian media are still in place, harming Americans. We're going to

talk to someone who has asked the Trump administration, please lift these. And the Biden

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