Joe Kent and Prof. Glenn Diesen on post-midterm desperation and whether Israel could escalate to a nuclear strike on Iran. Kent is the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned in March 2026 due to the war against Iran.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Kent says voters have rejected the Iran war
00:03:02 Could Israel draw the U.S. back into the conflict?
00:09:33 Iran's retaliation risk and the limits of escalation
00:14:03 Military capacity, blockade costs, and the nuclear danger
00:20:19 How Gulf infrastructure could widen the war
00:25:26 A shifting Middle East and the future of U.S. security guarantees
00:32:32 Could Washington and Tehran cooperate against jihadists?
00:37:24 Kent's account of U.S. policy and unintended consequences
00:42:33 Why Kent calls Iran pragmatic and negotiable
00:45:10 Trump's remaining opportunity to end the war
Joe Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, with Glenn Diesen on Israel, Syria, and Saudi losing ground, and why the US must exit the region.
Kent resigned in March 2026 over the war against Iran. The talk covers the Saudi-Yemen conflict, instability in Syria, and an overextended Israel.
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Ken Silva of Headline USA joins us to discuss his new book, The Trump Assassination Plots: What the Investigations Missed and Why it Matters. From the unlikely official account of these shootings and plots to the still unexplained aspects of the events to the possibility of a false flag operation to blame a future shooting on Iran, James and Ken discuss all the details of these mysterious events.
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Lt. Col. Daniel Davis and former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent discuss overnight Iranian medium-range ballistic missile strikes, possibly with cluster munitions, on U.S. bases in Jordan.
Kent says he has not seen confirmed U.S. killed in action from that wave, but argues troops and ships still in range are being used as tripwires. Davis says official casualty language — including “everyone is accounted for” — no longer tells the public who is wounded or dead, and that U.S. personnel have been dispersed into civilian hotels that then become targets.
Trump, speaking on the tarmac, says the United States has knocked out about nine Iranian tankers and that the war will end after the midterms. Kent and Davis both reject waiting until November: Kent warns of pressure toward a tactical nuclear strike on a site such as Pickaxe Mountain; Davis calls that option unworkable and likely to push Iran to a bomb while isolating Washington. They also flag Saudi strikes on the Houthis and reports that Pakistan is weighing involvement under the Mecca Defense Pact. Kent’s close: leave militarily and use sanctions relief; staying in range only boxes the White House into a bigger war.
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Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson for an insider’s examination of how intelligence is collected, filtered and politicized before it reaches the White House.
Drawing on experience in special operations, the CIA and the NCTC, Kent explores the suppression of dissenting assessments, Washington’s dependence on foreign liaison services and why a system awash in classified data can still profoundly misread Iran, Russia and the wars it helps shape.
Judge Andrew Napolitano with Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter, and Joe Kent. They discuss the reported Air Force One threat (Israeli warning, CIA skepticism, Trump taken off the plane), Israel's influence on US intelligence, the Iran war and Hormuz blockade, and Putin's Far East order that Russian ships may seize European vessels if Europe seizes Russian ones.
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Joe Kent is an American politician, former United States Army warrant officer, and former Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer who served as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 2025 to 2026.
Timeline: 0:00:00 - Resignation Over Israel 0:10:41 - Fatherhood, Grief & Trump 0:22:22 - Trump, Iran & Tulsi Gabbard 0:31:35 - Midnight Hammer & Netanyahu's Influence 0:44:06 - Venezuela & Israel's Secret Plan 0:58:35 - Petrodollar & Intelligence Atrophy
1:04:31 - Foreign Money Buying American Policy
1:15:00 - Petrodollar, Sanctions & Trump MOU
1:25:35 - Hot War & Restraining Israel
1:34:50 - Butler Assassination & FBI Failures
1:44:30 - Ayatollah Assassination Intent & Government Rot
1:54:35 - Mossad, CIA & JD Vance
2:04:37 - Vance, Rubio & the Dead MOU
2:14:30 - Energy Crisis & King of Jordan
2:24:35 - China, Saudis & Iran Going Nuclear
2:34:30 - Nukes, ISIS, Syria & Turkey
2:44:30 - Green Berets, Rangers & 9/11 Reality
2:54:38 - Baghdad, Saddam's Nukes & Combat Truth
3:03:56 - Mortality, Fatherhood & Iraqi Sentiment
3:14:40 - Al Qaeda & How We Created Terrorists
3:28:00 - Yemen, Combat & His Late Wife
3:40:00 - Syria, Suicide Bomber & Grief
3:44:30 - CIA Paramilitary & Africa Deployment
3:54:40 - Tulsi, JFK Files & Epstein
4:03:10 - Epstein, CIA & Ukraine War
4:11:31 - Kirk Assassination & FBI Tension
4:15:19 - Joe's Work
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Joe Kent is a former United States Army warrant officer, and former Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer who served as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 2025 to 2026.
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Joe Kent is the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned in March 2026 due to the war against Iran. Kent discusses the mistake of attacking Iran, the intrusive influence of Israel over U.S. foreign policy, ignoring that Iran is a rational actor, the pro-war bias in Washington, the U.S. contribution to creating ISIS, the curse of the forever wars, and the hubris following the military intervention in Venezuela.
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So... a top Trump administration official resigns in protest over the Israel first doctrine of the Trump administration... what does it mean?
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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the dramatic resignation of Joe Kent from the Trump administration over the disastrous course of the US-Israeli war on Iran, and discuss the escalation of the war as it engulfs the region - and Trump's presidency.