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

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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.