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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Trump’s Vision Board: Venezuela, Cuba, ICE, Independents and a Fiery NewsNation Showdown with Rieckhoff vs Trump Propagandist

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Righteous Media | Bleav

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

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Independent Americans host Paul Rieckhoff joins NewsNation Now with Connell McShane and Republican leader Tiffany Smiley for a fiery, no-notes live TV showdown—and this all-new episode brings you the full, unfiltered audio. They clash over Trump’s dramatic move in Venezuela, regime change talk in Cuba, and what Paul calls a “vision board” foreign policy that now stretches from Venezuela to Cuba to even Greenland. At stake are core American values, the role of Congress, the risks of regime change wars, and whether our military and allies are being overextended in ways most Americans—and especially independents and veterans—do not want.​

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in a vision for a longer term national security.

0:03.0

You think this has been good for American national security.

0:05.0

Well, certainly, uh, this Greenland escapade has been good for our national.

0:08.0

You are very much in the minority.

0:10.0

You look at Putin taking over.

0:11.0

Can I finish my thought?

0:13.0

You've been finishing your thought for the entire segment.

0:15.0

You, you, coming to you from a still

0:38.7

very frigid, very, very, very frigid and kind of exhausted New York City. A lot of America's exhausted.

0:45.7

Well, we're going to continue to try to add light to contrast the exhaustion and the heat.

0:50.1

And part of what I want to do on this show is take you a little bit behind the scenes of the media and cable news media and political media.

0:58.1

And if you listen to this show or you watch us on YouTube, you know that I have some regular media appearances.

1:03.8

And one of them is every Wednesday, I am on News Nation with Connell McShane.

1:08.2

News Nation bills itself as an independent-minded news network. I think it's

1:13.0

definitely right of center. It's not Fox News. It's not all the way on the right like Owen and

1:18.3

Newsmax, but it's to the right of CNN, which is kind of to the right of MSNBC or MS now.

1:24.7

And I am a guy who goes across the entire spectrum.

1:28.3

And it is often very interesting.

1:31.2

For the most part, the conversations are really thoughtful, but every once in a while,

1:34.8

I get into it with somebody.

1:36.7

Every once in a while, I'm across from someone who is, in my view, a propagandist.

1:41.9

I've talked on this show before about Scott Jennings, who I have

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