Gabbard: Trump Concluded Iran Posed An Imminent Threat
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the first big crack inside the Trump administration over Iran as a controversial |
| 0:06.1 | intelligence official breaks ranks with the White House's official story. |
| 0:11.4 | Plus, no deal. |
| 0:13.1 | NATO rejects Trump's call for help in the straight-of-the-moos. |
| 0:16.6 | Do you have any other options to reopen it? |
| 0:19.3 | And the Epstein investigation turns to the Attorney General Ham Bondi, |
| 0:23.6 | with a major development that could force her to finally answer the questions. |
| 0:28.6 | Tonight, on Laura Coates Live. |
| 0:34.6 | While the war with Iran has been exposing some serious divisions in the MAGA coalition. |
| 0:41.8 | And until now, it's been focused on right-wing media voices. |
| 0:46.0 | But tonight, the cracks are showing within the administration itself. |
| 0:50.8 | That's because this guy, Joe Kent, is quitting his Trump-appointed role as the director |
| 0:56.2 | of the National Counterterrorism Center. |
| 0:59.4 | And he's not going quietly. |
| 1:01.7 | He is saying Iran did not pose the threat that Trump claims it did. |
| 1:07.3 | Here's just part of his resignation letter. |
| 1:10.2 | I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. |
| 1:13.6 | Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel in its powerful American lobby. |
| 1:23.6 | Now, Joe Kent has some real baggage. He's had ties to white nationalists. He's pushed |
| 1:31.7 | conspiracy theories about January 6th. And even his own resignation letter is drawing accusations |
| 1:38.3 | of anti-Semitism. But Trump is trashing him for a different reason. The president says he wasn't relevant. |
| 1:47.6 | I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. |
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