Now, Donald Trump's director of his National Terrorism Center has resigned.

This is Joe Kent, an excoriating attack on the administration,

claiming that Israel had the Israel lobby, had bounced the US into this war

and said that Iran posed no threat in terms of terrorism to the US.

The Israel and meanwhile is picking off top Iranian officials at the top of the regime.

What does this all mean?

No better person to speak to you than the always brilliant Trita Palsy,

who's an Iranian-American analyst.

He's the lots of caps, but for example, co-founder of the Quincy Institute

Responsible Statecraft, he did brilliant work. How you doing? Doing well, how are you? Yeah,

well, I hope you're doing as well as possible. You're doing brilliant stuff in very difficult times.

Let's just start with Joe Ken. So Joe Ken, not a Pinkgo Lefty, let's just put it mildly. He's a former US soldier.

He referred to that.

His wife also died in combat, which is relevant.

What do you make of the significance of his resignation?

This is extremely significant because it is not an isolated incident, not in the sense that you have a lot of

other people resigning right now, but that might happen. But because it's reflective of a much

larger cohort of people inside of the Trump administration that are very much against this war.

They're extremely dismayed that Trump went along. They have many of them been pushed out of the conversation.

Trump is making these decisions increasingly with a smaller circle of people in government,

and a larger circle of pro-Israeli voices and Israeli government officials, rather than actually U.S. officials.

So someone of that seniority, some of that credibility, I mean,

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