Part One: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an Olympics

Part One: How Avery Brundage Gave Hitler an O...

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 216

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - The Campaign to Free Albeiro From ICE - The Alleged Far-Left Bombing Plot - Why the Federal Reserve Crisis Matters - Executive Disorder: ICE in Minneapolis, Greenland, DAVOS, Iran & Syria You ca ...  Show more

Part Two: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Robert continues the early history of Mohammed Bin Salman and the House of Saud.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

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