Paul Rieckhoff vs Senator Blumenthal and a Broken Congress: “What Are You Going To Do About It?” - Iran, Trump and War Powers.
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But I think your question to the senator is a central one. What is plan B? He didn't answer you, |
| 0:05.4 | respectfully, Senator. You did not answer because they're about to have a War Powers Act vote on a war |
| 0:10.5 | that's already happening. Last night, he hit a whole new country in Ecuador. They haven't addressed |
| 0:15.1 | that. And he's talking about hitting Cuba. So at what point are they going to get ahead of this |
| 0:19.0 | runaway train? They're always chasing it. Everybody's angry. Everybody's upset. Everybody's fearful. But what is the strategy |
| 0:26.0 | to stop it? And I think that is the question that remains for Senator Blumenthal and for every |
| 0:30.2 | member of the Senate right now. Here's the question that I ask Senator Blumenthal and everyone else who was angry and fearful and upset. |
| 0:52.7 | What are you going to do about it? |
| 0:55.7 | What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it? |
| 1:02.4 | What's your strategy? Being angry, being sad is not a course of action. You've now finally gotten the War Powers Act to be voted on maybe on Wednesday or Thursday, almost five days after he started |
| 1:07.7 | the war. And five days after six Americans have been killed. You haven't |
| 1:12.4 | even addressed Ecuador yet. You could get ahead of that or maybe have a war powers act now on Cuba. |
| 1:17.4 | Or if you think all of this is illegal, impeach him. Focus on removing him. Make that your |
| 1:23.7 | number one focus. But what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Per usual. He's blowing |
| 1:29.6 | past Blumenthal and the rest of the week and failed Senate. And all of them, Democrats and |
| 1:35.3 | Republicans, because I didn't see any Democrats, couldn't even be interrupted to, he bothered to |
| 1:40.5 | interrupt their weekend to convene an emergency session on Iran. They're not even a speed bump. |
| 1:51.6 | I'm with me at the table, Paul Reikoff. |
| 1:53.9 | He's the host of the Independent Americans podcast and the founder and CEO of Independent Veterans of America. |
| 2:00.0 | How are you doing? |
| 2:02.4 | I am bracing and processing like the rest of the world, |
| 2:07.6 | but I'm going to come back to what I've been saying to you for months since he got elected. |
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