50,000 troops, zero reporters: the Iran press blackout
Fifty thousand American troops are deployed in the Iran theater. The number of reporters embedded with them? Zero. That's not an accident — it's a strategy. Paul sits down with ABC's Martha Raddatz to break down what the Pentagon press blackout means for accountability, for the troops, and for whether Americans will ever get the truth about this war.
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