House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded to the resignation of National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent on Tuesday, challenging the departing Trump official’s assertion that Iran “posed no imminent threat” to the United States.
“I don’t know where Joe Kent is getting his information, but he wasn’t in those briefings clearly,” Johnson told reporters at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
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