Joe Kent

And so just at the very beginning, did you ever leak classified information of any kind?

Nope.

So do you believe that this is political retribution against you?

I do, if it's even true.

I mean, they're saying I'm being investigated, which would be a leak onto itself.

So I think this is more of a media campaign than anything else.

So I don't even think it's necessarily retribution.

They released all this at the same time my interview of Tucker was coming out.

So I think they're just trying to kind of capture the narrative.

Got it.

So capturing the narrative, obviously, to try to discredit some of the allegations that you've made here in public.

Obviously, we believe that these are very serious.

And to my knowledge, you are the highest president, highest profile presidential appointee

In modern history to resign over a war and specifically at the beginning of a war.

So I do want to give you the opportunity, even though many others may have heard your explanation that you laid out in your resignation letter.

Why did you decide to do this?

So I decided to resign at this juncture because I thought that I had kind of expended all options for helping us get out of the current state that we're in.

So basically from the time that the lead up to the 12 day war happened, Operation Midnight Hammer, and then everything since, I did the best job that I could to paint an accurate picture of the intelligence and why we had more options with regards to Iran and that situation.

Then the war kicked off, and I saw the trajectory that we were on, and I could no longer be part of that in good conscience, knowing that this was a war of choice.

This was the type of war that I fought in, my late wife and so many of my good friends lost their lives in.