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This week, the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee issued a subpoena to the independent online news outlet Breakthrough News, demanding all of the organization’s internal communications, financial records, and more.
This comes on the heels of Marco Rubio’s State Department issuing a near-100 page report on communism in Cuba and its left-wing international supporters, describing Breakthrough News as being “intimately linked to the Cuban regime.”
To discuss this, we spoke with journalist and host at Breakthrough News, friend-of-show Rania Khalek.
00:00 Intro
02:37 Why's the Washington Post this excited about killing Iranians?
08:48 A blatant and definitional call for US war crimes
10:38 Rania Khalek interview
27:05 Is Israel blackmailing Lebanon's president?
36:51 Rania DESTROYS Israeli Emily Schrader
44:02 Hezbollah is blocking an army of rapists from invading