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KBLA: Tavis Smiley – Paul Rieckhoff sounds off on Hegseth’s rhetoric

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode
01

Rubio's Capitol Hill claim that "epic fury is over". and why Iran hitting the Kuwaiti airport says otherwise

02

Why the White House insists this isn't a war. skip the war, skip the congressional authorization

03

The most dangerous summer ahead. Iran, Ukraine, Ebola, the World Cup, and America 250 as a homeland threat surface

04

Trump's DNI pick with no intelligence experience. and what that signals about the secret purge of the IC

Paul Rieckhoff, host of the “Independent Americans” podcast and founder of Independent Veterans of America and Righteous Media, Inc., gives his assessment about the implications of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s dangerous rhetoric for the historic military leadership only meeting.