Joe Kent

And unfortunately, in this echo chamber where you had highly influential members of the Israeli government that would come to President Trump in an official, unofficial capacity, or members of his very inner circle, and they did a very effective job of moving a key red line.

President Trump has always said that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

And as a matter of fact, the former Supreme Leader since 2004 had said the same thing, that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

So the Israelis knew that actually this was very dangerous for the Israeli agenda, because the Israelis wanted regime change, and they saw that President Trump and the Ayatollah basically had a place where they could start negotiations.

So the Israelis very, very effectively

took the policy of no enrichment and they break life into that.

And they basically made that into the US policy by having their unofficial folks come in and say, hey, it's really the enrichment, that's the issue.

And then they would have that echoed in their pro-Israel media apparatus here in the United States.

And so that was kind of all the president was hearing.

And so I wanted to be able to express that to the president.

And I felt like I was kind of out of options to do that from the inside.

And so having to go this route was

Right.

So I guess just to make it very clear, you're not going to be specific, but you were obviously kept out of the room by your telling.

If that's the case for other people in the administration, do you anticipate any other resignations of your caliber?

I'm not sure, honestly.

I know there's a lot of folks who feel the same way I do that have the same concerns as me, and they may or may not approve of the method that I'm using right now because it does incur a lot of risk.

So, honestly, I don't know.

I could see it going either way.

Well, let's talk about that then.