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

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode
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Why Platner's exit was inevitable. and why he ducked every tough veteran interviewer

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The Nazi tattoo, the online history, and two on-the-record r. The Nazi tattoo, the online history, and two on-the-record rape allegations

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Paul's warning from day one. progressives chasing a candidate who looked the part

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Why Maine. with 300,000 independents — deserved an actual independent on the ballot

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.