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Thank you. I'm your host, Anna Kasparian. And today's show is going to be a little bit different, a little bit different. So Jank Uger usually takes Wednesdays off to handle CEO business type stuff. But this week, he took Thursday off to do that. And I don't have a co-host for the second hour. So I'll be doing the entire main show solo, but we've got a lot of really great stories to get to. So definitely stick around for that in the bonus episode for our members. Super producer Kate Bettino will be joining us. Honestly, I don't know what we're going to talk about yet, but it's going to be a lot of fun. And if you have any questions as a member, please write in during our bonus episode today and we'll do our best to answer them. I'm really looking forward to any of you who don't know Kate yet, meeting her, getting to know her.

She's part of the incredible team behind the scenes that makes the show possible every single day.

And I know I talk about the team a lot, but they're incredible. They're really, really hard workers, super bright people.

And so I'm really looking forward to that bonus episode today.

In the show, though, we're going to talk a little bit about what's currently transpiring in Gaza.

There's a pretty big story that's gotten a little bit of coverage in regard to a journalist who had been working for an American publication who has now been killed.

We'll give you an update on how many hundreds of journalists have been killed in Gaza.

We'll also talk a little bit about, well, this investigation by an intelligence organization

into public sentiment surrounding Luigi Mangione.

I think the findings of their investigation is very interesting.

And if we actually had some smart politicians in the country, they would maybe heed warning and understand that some of the issues that Americans are grappling with without any real representation in Congress is going to lead to some serious problems. In fact, this group even referred to it as a national security issue. Later in the second hour of the show,

we're going to, I guess, lighten things up a little bit by talking about the House hearing yesterday.

It was the Doge hearing into NPR and PBS. Of course, House Republicans want to strip these

two organizations of any federal funding they receive. We'll talk about how that hearing was handled and more.

So as always, if you like the show, you can share it.

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