Paul Rieckhoff’s Media Appearances
Trump, Iran, and a Bombed School: Investigating the Truth and the Human Cost of War

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Trump, Iran, and a Bombed School: Investigating the Truth and the Human Cost of War
Investigative reporter Neela Tabrizi and veterans advocate Paul Rieckhoff join Independent Americans to unpack the deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school, challenging President Trump’s claims that Iran is responsible ...and examining satellite imagery that points instead to a precision-guided missile attack. They discuss the communications blackout on the ground, the trauma of trying to confirm loved ones’ safety, and the moral injury faced by U.S. service members when their own side may have bombed a school amid vague war objectives and zero transparency from the White House. The conversation explores deep divisions inside the Iranian diaspora over the killing of the supreme leader, the heavy human cost for Iranian schoolgirls, and why rigorous investigative journalism and boots-on-the-ground reporting are essential when neither the Iranian regime nor the American president can be trusted to tell the truth about war. #IranShow More

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‘All Gas, No Brakes’: Trump’s Escalating War With Iran, NATO on Edge, and Congress Paralyzed
In this urgent segment of The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, veterans and national security voices warn that President Trump’s rapid military escalation into Iran has unleashed a regional war ...that now threatens multiple NATO allies, raises the prospect of Turkey entering the conflict, and risks a long, protracted campaign with no clear endgame as American munitions and planning are already strained. They detail how repeated strikes across Iran and other countries like Ecuador and potential targets such as Cuba are creating a dangerous new normal in which Trump bypasses Congress, shifts justifications to avoid accountability, and leaves critical questions unanswered about who will secure Iran, what happens in a looming power vacuum if the Ayatollah’s hardline son rises, and whether uranium stockpiles are protected—all while a war-weary American public and a hesitant Congress debate if and how to use tools like the War Powers Act or even impeachment to stop further regime-change wars. #The11thHourShow More

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Trump’s Wars Expand: Iran, Ecuador... Is Cuba Next? Can Congress Stop Boots on the Ground?
n this urgent segment, Independent Americans host and Independent Veterans of America founder Paul Rieckhoff joins the table to warn that President Donald Trump now wields the most powerful military ...on Earth with virtually no checks, as war escalates from Iran to new strikes in Ecuador and growing fears of Cuba being next. He argues Congress is broken, failing to even interrupt its weekend for an emergency session after a declaration of war, and still unable to hold a War Powers vote even as six U.S. servicemembers are killed and a strike is intercepted over Turkey. Senator Richard Blumenthal responds to mounting alarm over contradictory public justifications for the conflict, comparisons to the Iraq WMD “yellowcake” era, and the real risk of U.S. boots on the ground in Iran as NATO and regional actors are pulled toward a wider war. The conversation presses Blumenthal and every member of the Senate on what concrete strategy they have to slow Trump’s “all gas, no brakes” campaign, whether anyone can get ahead of this runaway train, and how Republicans will be held accountable at the ballot box for enabling an undeclared, potentially illegal war. #IranWarShow More
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