The Truth of the Matter with Hena Doba

Host Hena Doba speaks with former CIA counterterrorism officer and FBI Special Agent Tracy Walder about the vulnerabilities in America’s aging power grid — from physical attacks and cyberthreats to foreign adversaries, domestic extremists and the growing role of AI. They also examine whether the U.S. is moving fast enough to protect critical substations, transformers and other infrastructure befor...

Host Hena Doba talks with data scientist Rumman Chowdhury about the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence: what makes these systems so powerful, where they can be most useful and why their growing capabilities are also raising serious concerns. The conversation examines the risks of increasingly advanced AI, the challenge of keeping safeguards and regulation ahead of the technology and whethe...

Host Hena Doba marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with journalist Ashleigh Banfield, who was reporting just blocks from the World Trade Center when the North Tower collapsed. Banfield recounts running for her life through the massive cloud of smoke and debris, continuing to report from Ground Zero and traveling to Afghanistan weeks later to cover the war that followed. The two...

Host Hena Doba speaks with therapist Jenna Overbaugh about the Lindsay Clancy murder trial and the difficult questions surrounding postpartum mental health. They dive into the critical differences between postpartum OCD and postpartum psychosis, the warning signs Clancy reportedly showed before killing her three children and whether the mental health system failed to recognize the severity of her...

Host Hena Doba investigates whether DNA samples and forensic genetic genealogy could reshape two of the biggest criminal cases in America: the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie and the murder retrial of Alex Murdaugh. #AlexMurdaugh #NancyGuthrie #truecrime This podcast is put together by: Ryan Kerr Allie Purser Mia Balbin-Cuesta Kate Linderman Luis Barrett John Owens Hena Doba Edited by: Maria Morale...

Host Hena Doba investigates IF you can take back a confession to four murders after you swore, under oath, that you…Can convicted Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger flip the script on his guilty plea? Host Hena Doba investigates whether you can take back a confession to four murders after you swore, under oath, that you were guilty — as this is exactly what Bryan Kohberger is now trying to do. You may...

In this episode of “Truth of the Matter,” host Hena Doba investigates a growing cluster of cancer cases in Keyport, New Jersey, now numbering nearly 400 diagnoses. The cases are all near a toxic landfill that residents have been warning the state about for decades. An independent examiner visited the area in June and found high levels of carcinogens in the soil. Still, New Jersey officials are ada...

In this episode of “The Truth of the Matter,” host Hena Doba examines an innovative, new weapon that could change the way wars are fought. It doesn't fire a bullet, doesn't launch a missile, and doesn't need an explosive projectile to hit its target. Instead, it fires concentrated energy that travels at the speed of light. #directedenergyweapons #military #warfare This podcast is put t...

Can you control a human being? MKUltra, a top-secret CIA program born in the Cold War, is back in the spotlight — and this time, it’s Congress leading the conversation. The House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets recently held a hearing titled “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project” to get answers about the era...

In this episode of “The Truth of the Matter,” host Hena Doba examines the strange mystery unfolding beneath New York City, where surveillance videos show groups of people opening manholes, climbing into the sewer system and disappearing below the streets. With incidents reported in Queens and Brooklyn, officials say there is no known threat to public safety. But many questions remain: Who are thes...

Toxic PFAS chemicals are expanding across the country, actively affecting our water and food supply nationwide. A shocking study reveals nearly 40 percent of California produce contains these harmful “forever chemicals,” proving this is a coast-to-coast dietary threat hitting home at your local grocery store. In this episode of "The Truth of the Matter," Hena Doba sits down with Pulitzer...

Where is Lynette Hooker? The 55-year-old was last seen April 4, 2026, while in the Bahamas with her husband, Brian. He told authorities she fell overboard and was swept away by bad weather while the couple was traveling in a dinghy to their yacht, “Soulmate.” Holes in his story have the Coast Guard Investigative Service looking into the disappearance as a possible murder. In this episode of "...

There is a 97% chance that forever chemicals are already in your bloodstream. They are in waterproof clothing, makeup, furniture, food packaging, nonstick cookware, stain-resistant fabrics and firefighting gear. The chemicals are linked to cancer and other serious health issues. Most people have no idea how widespread the exposure has become. In this episode of “The Truth of the Matter,” Natasha Z...

In this episode of “The Truth of the Matter,” host Natasha Zouves sits down with prosecutor Matt Murphy, a legal powerhouse with a staggering record: 52 homicide trials, zero losses. Murphy has come face-to-face with some of the most dangerous people alive, including serial killers like Rodney Alcala, the so-called “Dating Game Killer.” Over nearly two decades in the Orange County DA’s elite Homic...

Professor Avi Loeb is back. A year after the acclaimed Harvard physicist sat down with Natasha Zouves for an interview that sparked more than half a million views, the UAP conversation has only gotten louder and more political. In this deep dive, Loeb breaks down President Trump’s UAP push, what “disclosure” could realistically look like, what the public should watch for next and why the evidence...

Investigators in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie are asking the public to focus closely on three specific windows of time: Jan. 11, Jan. 24 and the early morning hours of Feb. 1. In this episode of “The Truth of the Matter” podcast with Natasha Zouves, genetic genealogist CeCe Moore explains why identifying a second location could be critical in the Nancy Guthrie case — and what investigators m...

An 84-year-old woman disappears from her home, blood found on the doorstep. Foreign DNA is discovered inside the house, but it’s a mixed sample. And more than a month later, investigators still don’t have a suspect. In this episode of “The Truth of the Matter Podcast,” Natasha Zouves sits down with one of the most prominent genetic genealogists in the world, CeCe Moore, the forensic expert who has...

For Paul Cotter, being a firefighter wasn’t a job, it was a calling. Nearly three decades of running toward danger, including a three-alarm fire where he broke through two doors and crawled into an inferno to save a man trapped on the third floor. Then came a phone call from his doctor. Cancer. His wife, Diane Cotter, says she screamed when she found out. And she says, as Paul began to slip furthe...

WATCH THE FOREVER CHEMICAL EXPOS?, GROWING BROKE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIdCgjDoB1U Forever chemicals are now becoming so omnipresent, there’s a 97% chance these chemicals are already inside your body — and most Americans have no idea how they got there. In this follow-up episode of The Truth of the Matter Podcast, Natasha Zouves revisits the "Forever Chemical Scandal" with Sco...

What was supposed to be a short hospital stay turned into a nightmare that would follow one family for generations. 41-year-old Janet Stadt entered a hospital in Rochester, New York, seeking treatment for an ulcer. She never consented to becoming a human test subject. Yet in 1946, doctors secretly injected her with plutonium — a radioactive element used to build atomic bombs — to study how it beha...

MKUltra: A top-secret CIA program born in the Cold War, built around terrifying questions: can you control a human being? Can you delete and insert memories, break a mind, or make a person bend to your will? In this episode of The Truth of the Matter, Natasha Zouves sits down with Michael Evans of the National Security Archive — a man so committed to transparency he has spent his career hunting do...

They served in silence at one of the most secretive military ranges in America. Now they say they’re dying in the shadows — because the government still won’t acknowledge they were there. Congress quietly killed the one fix that could have helped America’s “Area 51 veterans” prove where they served — and get the care they say they’ve earned. WATCH the original NewsNation Area 51 Investigation: htt...

Pregnant women were handed a “vitamin drink” at a prestigious university clinic. No one told them it was radioactive. In this episode of “The Truth of the Matter,” Natasha Zouves sits down with attorney Donald Arbitblit, who helped expose how Vanderbilt University doctors secretly fed radioactive iron “cocktails” to hundreds of pregnant women in the 1940s — including Emma Craft and Helen Hutchinso...

What if the U.S. government secretly experimented on unsuspecting Americans – pregnant women, children, and hospital patients – using radioactive materials? In this episode of The Truth of the Matter, Natasha Zouves continues her conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Eileen Welsome, author of The Plutonium Files. Her groundbreaking reporting helped crack open a series of Cold War–era...

Eighteen Americans were secretly injected with plutonium without their knowledge or consent. The first was Ebb Cade, a healthy 55-year-old African American man in Tennessee. After a car accident in March 1945, he expected to have his broken bones set. Instead, he became a test subject. Scientists injected plutonium into his veins, then pulled his teeth and cut pieces of bone from his body to track...