Rohit Chopra

Let's roll the clip.

So there's George W. Bush pumping up Susan Collins back in 2002, and you hear Graham Platner audibly, his voice in the background, saying, don't attack Iraq.

So the point Ryan was making about going back and checking how the D-trip putting its thumb on the scales works out, just a reminder.

of establishment Democrats here in Washington's record of that recently.

There was no way they wanted Plattner to be the candidate in Maine to take on Susan Collins.

But here you have unearthed video, I think, showing exactly why they should have been excited about Grant Plattner being the guy to take on Susan Collins rather than Janet Mills, one of the most uninspiring candidates conceivable in that race in Maine.

And we knew about this protest because it was reported publicly, and he was interviewed by someone after he'd gotten taken out of this event.

And then one of the first things I asked him when we had him on the air was, okay, you did that, but then you enlisted to go fight in those wars.

Like, why?

And what he has...

what he said then and what he said, he's actually addressed this like in Reddit posts.

Basically says he can't explain it really, but he had wanted to be a soldier since as long as he could remember.

But that doesn't mean that he agreed with the policy decisions that were being made.

He also made a point in one of his Reddit posts that

that I think people don't quite understand is that basically in every unit, there's like, not every unit, but a lot of them, there's the lefty.

And as somebody from rural America, I can tell you, yeah, there's like,

We exist out in rural America, too.

There's lefties out there.

Not as many, but they're out there.

And then there's always like a nationalist right-winger in the unit.