Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

That is a national resource that must be jealously guarded.

That is not something to be squandered.

so some politician can protect their political future or so some Raytheon executive can buy another yacht.

That is not what that is for.

And yet for a very long time, primarily because Congress has abdicated its constitutional responsibility around war making, we have seen the US military used for exactly those purposes.

And as someone who had to see all of that close up and up close and personal, for someone who

frankly, still has to deal with the fact that I know what it looks like when American-made high explosives interact with children.

It's an awful thing.

It's not a thing that you just leave behind.

It stays with you the rest of your life.

Knowing that I went through those experiences because people in political power simply see war as a game or a tool, Pete Hegzeth is literally using the U.S.

military to make up for the fact that he's insecure about his own military service.

That's insane.

But he has power.

And that's what he's doing right now.

Absolutely.

Of course that's what he's doing.

Yeah.

I mean, he was a National Guard major.

I mean, no shade to the National Guard at all.

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