Joe Kent

I think most of it, they don't have to necessarily spy in a traditional sense.

I think they've done a very good job of moving a lot of money around Washington, D.C.

via influence campaigns.

And again, look, man, the Israelis are good.

I mean, they have so many that are dual citizens.

I think there's people that work on their behalf who don't even think they're really working on the Israelis' behalf.

They just think they're doing the right thing.

So I think the subtle influence and some of the, I think, folks who are just sympathetic and they've been told for years that we kind of have the same objectives over and over again, carry a lot of water for them.

But of course, Israel is very, very aggressive and very competent intelligence service.

And the Israelis pursue their national interests with a rigor that's actually pretty admirable.

And I wish we could pursue our national interests for the same rigor they do theirs.

As much as I criticize them, if we just had that same spirit around our own interest, it would be amazing.

As a veteran, as a member of the U.S.

intelligence community, what did you think when the U.S.

Ambassador Mike Huckabee invited convicted spy Jonathan Pollard into the United States Embassy in Jerusalem?

It's despicable.

It's despicable.

And look, I think there also is a good chance that Tucker Carlson and I will get looked at by the FBI with more scrutiny than Mike Huckabee will for that.

Now, look, I don't know if Huckabee cleared that.

I don't know what the gain was there.