NEW EPISODE · MAY 28, 2026 · EP 534
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KNX: Military veterans react to growing controversy around Donald Trump’s visit–and videoing–to Arlington National Cemetery

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode
01

What it felt like to receive the Lifetime Achievement Emmy w. What it felt like to receive the Lifetime Achievement Emmy with journalism under attack

02

Martha's advice to her younger self. and to the local reporter she shouted out from the stage

03

Why the 2012 VP debate she moderated put foreign policy back. Why the 2012 VP debate she moderated put foreign policy back on the map

04

The propaganda Pentagon press corps. no embeds, no access, 50,000 troops in the dark

Monday’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery by former president Donald Trump was already causing some grumbling … over concerns that the hallowed grounds of a military cemetery were being used for political purposes.

But then came reports that Trump staffers got into a verbal and physical altercation with an official at Arlington … who was attempting to stop those Trump staffers from taking pictures in a restricted area of the cemetery.

Now it’s a full blown controversy.

Paul Rieckhoff is a former Army infantry officer and combat veteran of Iraq … 20 years ago he founded the Iraq-Afghanistan Veterans of America … and went on to found the Independent Veterans of America.

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