Hi there, everyone. Happy Friday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. We come on the air with the

breaking news that Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is resigning. In her

resignation letter, Gabbard writes that she is stepping down in the wake of her

husband being diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. She writes that her last day will be June 30th.

We wish her husband every good health outcome and her family all the best during a supremely

challenging time. However, as a public servant who chose to serve in Donald Trump's cabinet,

her tenure in his administration will be defined by two things. One, being sidelined as the administration

plunged the nation into a war with Iran, and two, the deep politicization of the intelligence

community in the pursuit of Donald Trump's political aims.

As a veteran, Gabbard cut her teeth, her political teeth, opposing the wars in the Middle East.

As recently as 2019, here's what she had to say about the prospect of war with Iran.

When we talk about a potential war with Iran, which is looking like we are walking very

dangerously down that path, what I think is important for the American people to know is

that a war with Iran would make the war in Iraq look like a cakewalk. The devastation and

the cost would be far greater than anything we've ever experienced

before. Fast forward seven years and Tulsi Gabbard finds herself awkwardly defending a war

she spent years very publicly opposing. Her written testimony to Congress back in March

essentially knocks down one of Donald Trump's stated reasons for the war

that Iran was not rebuilding its nuclear enrichment program since the strikes of 2025.

Donald Trump had at points said that Iran was, quote, two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

So the gap at what the administration said and the views of the war

skeptical, very large and significant chunks of the MAGA coalition that Gabbard had claimed

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