U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Director Resigns Over Iran War and Uber Co-Founder Leaves California

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

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The SAVE America Act, a controversial election bill backed by President Trump, is headed for a Senate showdown. It would be one of the largest revisions to voting rights in U.S. history. Meanwhile, National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent is resigning, writing on X that he "cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran," which has left over 1,400 Iranians dead. And, Southern California is bracing for what climate scientist Daniel Swain is calling a "full on summer heat wave in March," with temperatures expected to peak Tuesday through Friday, reaching the 80s on the coast, and inland, possibly over 100 degrees. In business, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick has confirmed his relocation to Texas, joining a growing list of billionaires leaving California ahead of a proposed 5% wealth tax, and Downtown Los Angeles advocates are pushing for the adoption of San Francisco’s "Vacant to Vibrant" program to fill retail vacancies. Read more at https://LATimes.com.

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0:00.0	This is an L.A. Times Studios podcast. and the opportunity at the and the first of the world's and the world. And we're going to get them to get it done.
0:49.3	But we're going to push them to get it done because I don't think you can politically exist
0:55.4	if you're not going to do voter ID in these things.
0:57.4	I don't think the people in this country will stand for it.
1:00.3	So I'm making my biggest plea tonight.
1:02.4	It'll make you, and I'm not doing it for this reason, at all.
1:07.8	It'll guarantee the midterms.
1:10.0	It'll guarantee the midterms it'll guarantee the midterms and the people are just going to get the people and the people.
1:27.9	And the one of the people who are
1:29.7	and the people who are going to be able to
1:33.8	the money for a good one of the people.
1:36.5	I think we're going to be a very,
1:39.5	and the people are going to be.
1:43.0	And we're going to have a little. And the country, and it is not about showing ID when you show up to vote.
2:00.0	It's about the voter registration rolls,
2:02.4	destroying them, purging them, not letting people know, and taking the rights in a algorithm
2:09.8	put together by ICE, put together by Doge and Musk. It's an outrage. And that's why so many people
2:17.0	don't want to pass it. So, you know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to the people who are just going to be able to and the people who are going to be able to and the people and the people who are The So, you know, it's a lot of it. And we're just a lot of the end of the world.
3:26.0	And so, you know,
3:28.0	and the people are just going to be.
3:31.0	And so you're going to be a few people who are
3:32.0	the people who are going to be a person
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