Hello, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the Ron Paul Liberty Report.

I'm Chris Rossini.

Dr. Paul is out today.

He's taking the day off, and I am joined by my esteemed colleague, Daniel McAdams.

Daniel.

Good morning, Chris.

How are you this morning?

Great to be with you.

We're going to do our roundup of the news.

We pick some news items that we're going to cover that we thought were important.

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Uh, Daniel, you could start with our first story. Okay, sure. Thanks, Chris.

I just wanted to cover something that's both of mine are actually kind of breaking news in a way.

The first one deals with Syria.

Now, our viewers will recall a few months ago, the fall of the Assad government in Syria

and the escape of Assad and his family to Russia

left a group in charge, HTS, which is essentially al-Qaeda in Syria.

So although we have been promised since 2011 that getting rid of the dictator Assad

would usher in a democracy and freedom and liberty in Syria, the opposite has

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