Joe Kent

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2,001 appearances 10 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 6 Aug

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 3/20/26: Saagar X Joe Kent: RESIGNATION, Israeli NUKES, Epstein, Charlie Kirk, Mike Huckabee · 20 Mar 2026 podcast

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.

And I promised myself long ago, if I was ever in a position of responsibility or had a way to make my voice heard, that I would be against something like this.

But also what was critical for me

was to really explain to the American people, but really to the president, because I couldn't get through to the president anymore from the inside.

I needed to do it from the outside.

And I truly believe, and really Marco Rubio, President Trump, Speaker of the House, and many other government officials, public statements confirm this.

I truly believe that the Israelis forced our hand in this.

The only thing that was imminent about the operations in Iran was the fact that the Israelis were,

were going to attack the Iranians, setting off a series of events that would get us deeply involved in this war.

So there was no imminent threat posed by Iran itself.

If anything, the Iranians, since President Trump came back into office, they had showed that they were willing to, number one, get to the negotiating table,

Number two, that at times of conflict, they would use a very deliberate escalatory ladder because they took President Trump very, very seriously.

And because, in my personal opinion, I think the data supports this, they did want to reach a deal.

And we can get into all the details there, but that's basically why I felt like at this juncture I needed to resign.

Sure.

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