Trump insider just quit in protest over this war, but there's a lot more.

The lead starts right now.

Trump's controversial counterterrorism center director resigned from his post today.

He says Iran posed no imminent threat to the U.S., and he said a lot of other stuff that makes him a lot less credible.

Meanwhile, lots of news today in Trump's war in Iran and we're going to get into all of it.

And up for a key Senate vote today, the so-called Save America Act, which requires a higher

level of voter ID than millions of Americans have. I'm going to talk to a Senate Democrat who says the bill is really disguised to save not America,

but Donald Trump.

Plus, the power grid collapse that has Cuba in the dark.

CNN is on the ground to show you what life is like there right now.

Welcome. what life is like there right now. Welcome to the lean. I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with breaking news on our world lead

President Trump's call for help to secure the Hormuz Strait was not answered by U.S. allies.

And it chose. Today on Truth Social, the president let it be known that

actually, quote, we do not need the help of anyone. He followed that up minutes later at the

White House. Well, we don't need too much help, and we don't need any help, actually. All of the

NATO allies agreed with us, but they don't want to, you know, despite the fact that we help

them so much,

we have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world, and they don't want to

help us, which is amazing. President Trump, clearly not happy the U.S. allies, including the U.K.

and France, declined to join a joint task force

to help secure that critical waterway. Iran is essentially holding about 20% of the world's oil

hostage by attacking and threatening to attack any commercial vessels that go through. It has sent

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