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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Joe Kent resigned this week from his posts in the Trump administration as director of the

National Counterterrorism Center. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,

Kent wrote in a letter that he posted on social media. That letter is now radiating across Washington

and becoming a larger story about internal divisions inside the administration.

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Mark Wayne Mullen is testifying in front of the

Senate Homeland Security Committee for his confirmation hearing to run the Department of Homeland

Security. The partial government shut down

at DHS is now past 30 days. When will it end? Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Kate O'Dell. I'm filling

in this week as your host. And today I'm happy to have my talented colleague and friend,

Matt Contenetti, joining us from Washington to help us sort through these issues.

Matt, thanks for being here. We'll dive right in and talk about Joe Kent. Kent ran the National

Counterterrorism Center, as I said, and that resides in the office of the Director of National

Intelligence. And as I was quoting from his letter, he decided he couldn't support the president's

decision to strike in Iran.

He said that Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war

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