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

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Pinkston on living in a communist country. "I don't want to see a one-party state"

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60-70% of her incoming voters are Republicans looking for an. 60-70% of her incoming voters are Republicans looking for an off-ramp from Trump

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.