Hegseth Fires Navy Sec. Phalen. Strait Of Hormuz Still Not Open. Iran Hearings: Finally.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Trump has signaled he may halt the U.S. resettlement program for the Afghans who risked everything to fight alongside American troops — and is reportedly negotiating to offload as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Among them: interpreters, former Afghan Special Operations Forces, and roughly 400 children of U.S. service members, all stranded in Qatar for over a year after we evacuated them and then walked away. Paul Rieckhoff calls it what it is — a disgusting, shameful betrayal, and the latest compounding failure in a collapse that Biden owns, Trump owns, and Washington refuses to fix.

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0:00.0	We want people to step up and help them, or we want people in a place like, I don't know,
0:04.2	Iran to stand up with us and help us and trust us and we're going to betray them later.
0:09.3	No one believes our president.
0:11.2	No one trusts his word and no one therefore trust our word.
0:15.8	And the moral injury for our veterans is very, very deep.
0:19.1	Veterans in all backgrounds are speaking out,
0:20.9	the hardest right, the hardest left, everybody in between.
0:23.8	Again, Trump has done something very unique.
0:25.7	He's uniting the world and America against him. Welcome to Independent Americans. Welcome to Episode 501. We broke 500 yesterday. Thank you again for all your support.
0:55.1	I'm your host, Paul Reichoff, and it is Thursday, April 23rd, which is NFL Draft Day.
1:02.4	Draft Day!
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1:09.0	And I'm coming to you today from New York
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1:43.3	that we lost this iconic voice, one of the most unique
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