David Rutherford Show: Green Beret On Joe Kent Fallout, Iran War, and The MAGA Reaction
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Joe Kent just resigned as America's top counterterrorism director — and two Special Forces veterans are saying what Washington won't. Former Green Beret and author Clay Martin joins David Rutherford (Navy SEAL, CIA officer) for an unfiltered operator-to-operator breakdown of the resignation that's shaking the national security world.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Preview
00:56 - First Reaction To Joe Kent Resignation
02:46 - What Makes a Green Beret's Intelligence Different
07:44 - Joe Kent's Insane Career & What It Took
14:46 - Clay On What Actually Happened In Iraq
18:11 - Did Iran Actually Target Americans?
20:43 - The SMU Tier and What Kent's Clearance Level Actually Means
26:11 - Why Trump Wanted Kent in That Role (and What It Says About Tulsi)
27:32 - Does Joe Kent Understand Iran?
30:45 - What Advice Would You Give To Joe Now?
35:45 - When Wars Are Justified & The Logic of Who We Fight
38:59 - Clay's Advice To The Trump Admin Now
40:55 - Final Word: Joe Kent Did Not "Quit On The Starting Line"
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | I think if you go after Joe Kent, especially Joe Ken, who has arguably the most gold-plated |
| 0:10.1 | reputation of any man since McArthur in 1945, thank you. |
| 0:16.0 | If you come after him, all right, he's going to bury you. |
| 0:21.7 | This guy has lived his entire life fighting our nation's battles |
| 0:26.7 | and had his wife killed in action fighting these same enemies? |
| 0:30.6 | Like, of all the people in the world that you don't want to screw with is this guy. |
| 0:33.7 | Joe Kent resigns as director from the National Counterterrorism Center and the fallout ensues. |
| 0:42.3 | That's why I'm bringing on former Special Forces Sergeant Clay Martin to the show. |
| 0:48.4 | Today on the David Rutherford Show. show. |
| 1:02.5 | All right, Clay, you heard this news. |
| 1:04.6 | What was your immediate reaction? |
| 1:07.1 | Honestly, shock. |
| 1:09.3 | I was absolutely blown away. |
| 1:10.8 | By the way, thanks for having me on a day. Yeah, it was early this morning. I was absolutely blown away. By the way, thanks for having me on a day. |
| 1:18.5 | Yeah, it was early this morning. I was actually kind of stunned. Not that I didn't think Joe had it anyone because he's one of the most audible men that's ever worn the colors of this country. |
| 1:23.1 | I just didn't, I didn't see this coming today. So it was absolute shock. |
| 1:28.9 | I felt the same way. |
| 1:30.6 | I, you know, I had always imagined that it would come from maybe Tulsi Gabbard or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right? |
| 1:40.9 | Somebody that had a long tradition of being being a democrat or you know a different |
| 1:47.5 | type of belief but to have in my mind kind of the the epitome of what of what a true |
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