Joe Kent Reveals All in First Interview Since Resigning as Trump’s Counterterrorism Director

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

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Joe Kent on why we actually went to war with Iran. Joe Kent is a former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and the President’s principal counterterrorism advisor, who served 20 years in the U.S. Army with 11 combat deployments fighting terrorist networks with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Army Special Forces, and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, earning six Bronze Stars. Joe also a Gold Star husband whose first wife, Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, also served and was killed while fighting ISIS in Syria in 2019. Paid partnerships with: Ethos: Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at https://ethos.com/TUCKER Audien Hearing: Learn more about how Audien can help you or someone you love hear better. Call 1-800-453-2916 or visit https://HearTucker.com Dutch: Get $50 a year for vet care with Tucker50 at https://dutch.com/tucker Joi + Blokes: Use code TUCKER for 50% off your labs and 20% off all supplements at https://joiandblokes.com/tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention.
0:02.0	Oh, hang on.
0:04.0	Attention.
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0:28.3	Teas and season exclusions apply.
0:29.7	We want to start tonight with a clip from January of 2024.
0:35.4	This is from this show, and this is Joe Kent, who later went on to become
0:39.9	until yesterday, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Here it is. What do you think
0:44.9	the immediate and then longer term effects of a war with Iran would be on the United States?
0:52.1	Immediately it would be very bloody. I have no doubt that we could probably defeat some of their
0:56.3	air defense and go in there and have another shock and awe campaign. But again, like we saw how the
1:01.3	shock and awe campaign in Iraq really didn't actually work in the long run. So I have no doubt
1:06.2	that we'd have some immediate results that people would cheer about here in the United States.
1:10.0	But Iran, Persia,
1:11.7	has always been an empire. It's been around longer than any of the other players in the modern
1:15.8	Middle East right now, and they are not going anywhere. If we get deeply involved and deeply entangled
1:20.9	with Iran, we are playing right into China's hands because China would like nothing more than
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