President Donald Trump confirmed on March 29 that he would allow a Russian tanker to supply Cuba despite the blockade against the island.

“I told them if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with that, whether it’s Russia or no,” Trump told reporters March 29 aboard Air Force One. “Whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter. I’d prefer letting it in, whether it’s Russia or anybody else, because the people need heat and cooling and everything else.”

The United States has blocked shipments from Venezuela, which supported Cuba before the U.S. removed its former leader, Nicolas Maduro. Ship-tracking data showed the sanctioned Russian-flagged tanker, Anatoly ⁠Kolodkin, was just off the eastern tip of Cuba and due to reach the port of Matanzas on March 30, Reuters reported, citing Cuban news site Cuba debate.

However, Trump repeated his vow that Cuba would be next, which critics have worried could mean military action against the island nation after the military removal of Venezuela’s leader and the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. By “next,” Trump has said that could mean helping free it or “taking it.”

Trump’s latest comments marked a stark change from January.  After removing Maduro, Trump had said on social media Jan. 11: “THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO!” He also signed an executive order Jan. 29 threatening new duties on countries that provided oil to Cuba.

The oil would provide relief to Cuba, which, according to President Miguel Diaz-Canel, has not received any oil imports for three months. The lack of oil led to strict rationing of gasoline and worsened an energy crisis that resulted in power outages across Cuba.

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President Donald Trump on Monday even suggests “great progress” has been made on negotiations.

In a post to Truth Social on Monday morning, Trump said ,

“Great progress has been made” Trump said on Truth Social, adding that if a deal is not reached shortly and the Strait of Hormuz remains effective closed, the U.S. will “conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ‘touched.’”

Deliberate attacks on desalinization plants, which convert salt water into potable water and are crucial to sustaining life in the region, would be a major escalation that could constitute a war crime under international law.

President Donald Trump said in a post to social media on Monday morning that the U.S. is currently engaged in “serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran,” but threatened to expand U.S. strikes if the negotiations fail.

“This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year ‘Reign of Terror,'” Trump added.

The new threats come as Iran stepped up its strikes on Israel and its neighbors across the Middle East, and after thousands of additional U.S. troops arrived in the region over the weekend.

Trump’s latest threats are not the first he has made about civilian infrastructure. Last week, he set a 48-hour deadline to reopen the strait — which nearly 20 percent of the world’s oil is normally transported through — or the U.S. would destroy “various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” He later kicked back that deadline.

Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway in the region, effectively closed earlier in the month and has attacked ships that attempted to go through the strait. Trump has repeatedly called on Iranians to reopen the strait as oil prices have surged, sometimes to more than $100 per barrel, leading to skyrocketing gas prices.

Iran has also threatened to target civilian infrastructure, and some in other Arab nations have already been hit. After Trump’s initial threats last week, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned that if Iran’s power plants and infrastructure are targeted, Iran would retaliate by targeting vital infrastructure across the region — including energy and desalination facilities in Gulf nations.

In recent days, President Trump  has weighed seizing or destroying Kharg Island, a small piece of land that almost all of Iran’s oil exports pass through, which could involve American boots on the ground.

“This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year ‘Reign of Terror,’” Trump said Monday.

No American troops have as of yet invaded Iran, though thousands have been deployed in the region amid a continued buildup.

The Arab League on Monday condemned “the reprehensible Iranian attacks on electricity and water desalination facilities in the State of Kuwait.”

Attacks on energy structures could constitute a war crime. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres previously told ‘POLITICO’ that “If there are attacks either on Iran or from Iran on energy infrastructure, I think that there are reasonable grounds to think that they might constitute a war crime.”

Trump previously extended a deadline for Iran to open the strait, citing “productive” negotiations. Washington and Tehran continue to send conflicting messages about the talks, with Trump saying he expects a deal soon and Iranian officials saying they’ve not had any direct negotiations with the U.S. so far.

More than a month into the war, Iran has maintained its grip on the critical trade route, raising energy prices globally. Thousands have been killed across Iran and Lebanon, where Israel recently vowed to expand its ongoing ground invasion. Dozens have been killed in other Middle Eastern countries, including Israel. Among the dead are 13 U.S. service members.

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The 2nd detainee dies a week after Dallas ICE facility shooting as Authorities said a sniper opened fire “indiscriminately” at the ICE building and an ICE van, striking three detainees.

Last week, Presner Nelson went to a shopping mall with one goal in mind: to find a suit his brother, who died in immigration federal custody in March, would wear in his casket.

Nelson’s brother, Emmanuel Damas, died after allegedly complaining for roughly two weeks of a toothache that Nelson believes could have been treated.

“This was the first time I had to do this in my life — it was not easy,” Nelson told ABC News.

The death of Damas, a Haitian immigrant who Nelson says arrived in the U.S. legally and had a pending Temporary Protected Status application, comes amid growing concerns from lawmakers and immigrant advocates about the conditions in migrant detention facilities, and a sharp increase in immigrant deaths in detention under the second Trump administration as it pursues its immigration crackdown.

Most deadly period

As of March 25, 44 people have died in government custody during the current Trump administration, according to figures shared by lawmakers, with two of those fatalities being victims of a shooting last September at a Dallas detention facility. The rise in fatalities comes as the detention population reaches record highs, with over 70,000 people currently detained in federal immigration custody.

The data analysis by the ABC news reveals a stark and rapid acceleration in the mortality rate within federal facilities. While the figure was as low as one death per 100,000 admissions in 2022, that number surged to about seven deaths per 100,000 admissions in 2025, even when excluding the two people shot while in custody. And in just the first ten weeks of 2026, the rate is currently at 12 deaths per 100,000 admissions.

Using a methodology established by researchers and detention statistics provided by ICE, ABC News calculated estimated mortality rates per 100,000 detention admissions for the calendar years 2019-2025, plus Jan. 1 through March 16, 2026. Using a rate shows whether mortality is increasing beyond what would be expected from higher detention admissions alone.

“There is really no contest — fiscal year 2026 is on track to be the deadliest year ever in the history of ICE,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration policy expert with the American Immigration Council who did his own data analysis of ICE deaths, ABC news reports.

“Things are dramatically worse this year. We are seeing more deaths than ever,” Reichlin-Melnick said.

Scrutiny over the deaths of detainees has grown as the Trump administration has pressured ICE to increase arrests and has dramatically expanded detention space by converting warehouses and other spaces into detention facilities. A document shared by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency with New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte shows the government expects to spend $38 billion converting these spaces and increasing detention capacity by 92,600 beds.

Under previous administrations, the government has found ways to mitigate the number of people in detention by enrolling detainees in “Alternatives for Detention” efforts, which can involve scheduling regular check-ins with ICE, and mandating the use of ankle monitors.

The Trump administration has doubled down on invoking mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants, and in some cases even for those who are in the process of obtaining legal status. The government has also restarted detaining families with children at facilities like the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

“They’re making a decision to take a U.S. citizen child and detain them with their parents. They’re making a decision to detain someone who’s lived here peacefully for 20 years. That is their choice, and they need to be pushed further on that,” said Andrea Flores, an attorney and immigration policy expert who is a former DHS and White House official. “Nobody should lose their life because they went through our immigration system — but that, in and of itself, has been a problem across administrations. And so there’s been work that’s needed to be done on this.”

The case of Emmanuel Damas

In a statement, ICE described Damas as a “criminal illegal alien” arrested in Boston for assault and battery. His brother Nelson disputes this, saying Damas was in the country legally under a humanitarian parole program and had a pending petition for Temporary Protected Status.

Nelson also said Damas was never convicted following his arrest and that the arrest stemmed from a misunderstanding when someone called police to report that Damas’ 12-year-old son appeared to be walking by himself on a sidewalk. Damas mistakenly believed his son had called the police on him, became angry, and gestured as if to hit him but never made physical contact, Nelson said.

Damas was taken to jail where he was transferred into ICE custody before Nelson could bail him out, Nelson said.

Nelson said when he last spoke on the phone with his brother on Feb. 16, Damas complained about a toothache he’d had for the last two weeks. According to Nelson, his brother had claimed he was denied multiple requests to see a dentist.

Two days later Damas called their mother but he had difficulty speaking, Nelson said. Nelson believes his brother could not speak clearly because the toothache had developed into an abscess and his jaw had swollen. He did not complain of shortness of breath, Nelson said.

The next day, according to ICE, Damas was “immediately” taken to a hospital on Feb. 19 after allegedly reporting shortness of breath and was subsequently transferred to an Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Phoenix for a “higher level of care.”

It’s unclear when he was placed on a ventilator, but ICE said that by Feb. 20, Damas “remained intubated” and underwent a series of tests.

On Feb. 22, the hospital in Phoenix “reported the likely diagnosis to be septic shock due to pneumonia,” ICE said.

Before he was transferred to Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center on Feb. 25, Damas “had two chest tubes placed on his right side and a thoracentesis was completed to help remove excess fluid from the pleural spaces around the lungs,” ICE said.

On Feb. 28, Nelson said his family was told they’d be allowed to visit him in the hospital and four of his relatives, including his mother, were able to see him the next day.

“But at that point on, it was too late, there was not much I could be done to save his life,” Nelson said. “So when my mom got there, he was in a coma.”

‘I don’t believe he took his life’: Family of Nicaraguan man seeks answers after his death in ICE detention facility

At 1:12 p.m. on March 2, Damas was pronounced deceased.

In a statement provided to ABC News about Damas and the number of recent detainee deaths, a DHS spokesperson said Damas “refused” dental extraction and had claimed in January that his toothache had gone away. The spokesperson said that in February, Damas was again seen “for bleeding gums and loose front teeth” and again refused to have two teeth extracted.

“It is a longstanding practice to provide comprehensive medical care from the moment an individual enters ICE custody. This includes medical, dental, and mental health services, access to medical appointments, and 24-hour emergency care,” the spokesperson said. “Many individuals receive healthcare in ICE custody that exceeds what they have previously experienced.”

Damas believes his brother would be alive if he had received adequate medical care for his toothache.

“They waited for too long to take him to the hospital to be seen by a dentist. So on the nineteenth, when they finally realized, it was too late because he had that infection going on for two weeks,” Nelson said. “He asked for help for two weeks — they said that he was faking it.”

‘Presumed suicides’

The recent surge in detainee deaths includes a number of “presumed suicides,” including 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez, who died on March 16 in Florida, and Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in a Texas facility in January.

In a press release, DHS said that Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, after staff found him “unconscious and unresponsive in his room.” A DHS spokesperson confirmed this month that Perez-Jimenez was found “unconscious and unresponsive” by a Glades County detention officer.

While the department noted that “the official cause of death remains under investigation,” they labeled the incident a “presumed suicide.” However, Diaz’s family told ABC News they do not believe he took his own life and are calling for a full investigation.

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The FSB charged that the diplomat had sought to gather “sensitive information” about the Russian economy in “unofficial meetings” with Russian experts, without providing further details. It said he was ordered to leave Russia within two weeks.

A spokesperson for the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said in a statement that “the accusations made today by Russia against our diplomats are complete nonsense.”

“Russia has pursued an increasingly aggressive and coordinated campaign of harassment against British diplomats, pumping out malicious and completely baseless accusations about their work,” the spokesperson said. “The UK does not stand for intimidation of British embassy staff and their families.”

The move marks the second expulsion of a British diplomat by Russia this year, following another such move in January that the U.K. also dismissed as “baseless.” The British government responded in February by revoking the accreditation of a Russian diplomat.

In March 2025, Moscow expelled two British diplomats based in Moscow over spying allegations that the U.K. also dismissed as false.

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At least 10.27% of all scheduled TSA workers called out sick on Saturday, according to DHS. Trump signed order to pay TSA workers. But, House Republicans rejected the Senate’s plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and passed their stopgap bill. The new version must go back to the Senate, but senators have left town.

Some of the nation’s major airports are still seeing long wait lines as Transportation Security Administration officers continued to call out sick over the weekend’

The TSA workers have been required to work without pay for the past 44 days due to an ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over the way immigration enforcement has been handled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.

The airport with the highest number of TSA officers calling out sick on Saturday was Bush International Airport in Houston, where 38.3% of the officers scheduled to work didn’t show up, according to the DHS. The second-highest number of TSA officers calling out sick on Saturday was at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, where 36.8% of TSA officers were no-shows, according to DHS.

Baltimore’s Thurgood Marshall Airport, New York’s John F. Kennedy International and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport all reported that at least 30% of TSA officers called out sick on Saturday, according to DHS.

More than 500 TSA officers have quit since the funding crisis began on Feb. 14, according to DHS.

Trump signed a directive on Friday, instructing his newly sworn-in DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin to work with the Office of Management and Budget to use funds “that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations” to pay the agency’s workforce.

“TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30,” the TSA said in a statement on Sunday. “TSA is grateful to the President and Secretary for their leadership to put money back into the pockets of TSA employees who worked without pay during the longest government shutdown in history.”

Earlier in the funding crisis, Trump deployed ICE agents, who remained funded through appropriations from Trump’s tax and spending bill passed last summer, to airports to assist TSA officers dealing with long security lines.

Democratic Congress members questioned the president’s authority to direct the DHS to pay TSA officers, while also demanding to know why he didn’t implement such orders earlier if he had this authority all along.

Democrats blocked funding for DHS more than a month ago, demanding reforms to federal immigration agents after federal agents shot and killed U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise defended the House’s position on Sunday, saying on “This Week” that some senators regret their vote without sharing their names.

“We actually read their bill, and frankly, a number of senators have expressed buyer’s remorse with what they did at 3 in the morning,” Scalise said. “One of the things that we had real concerns with is it actually defunds over 25% of the baseline operations of the Department of Homeland Security, 25% at a time when we’re at a heightened threat level.”

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In New York City, the rally began in Columbus Circle near Trump International Luxury Hotel on Saturday and marched through midtown Manhattan.  Starting from Columbus Circle, rally walk through Seventh Avenue and Broadway, through Times Square and to 34th Street. It included a who’s who of celebrities, including actor Robert de Niro.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in New York City for the “No Kings” protest. Demonstrators protested federal immigration policies and the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents amid an ongoing battle in Congress over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.  They chanted “No ICE, No war And No King.”

High-profile figures rallied support earlier in the day at a press conference, including civil rights leader Al Sharpton, New York Attorney General Letitia James and actor Robert de Niro, who all called for action and urged people to show up.

“We still believe in the core American values of justice, equality, decency, and kindness,” de Niro said. “Because we’re going from the streets to the ballot box and because we all deserve a country with no king.”

Protesters at the march held signs and flags reading slogans against Trump’s immigration policy, From the use of federal troops for immigration enforcement, to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, to Trump’s war with Iran.

Protesters’ signs opposed the war in Iran, decried the cost of housing and health care, supported Ukraine in its war with Russia and raised the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Some of them called for Trump’s impeachment. At some rallies, there were signs to “Abolish ICE.”

Organized by “No Kings,” a network of progressive groups opposed to the administration’s agenda, the protests are the third wave of demonstrations since the President took office for a second term. Last year, millions attended protests in June and again in October. Members of the National No Kings Coalition said Americans raised their voices in protest.

The organizers, from groups that include the ACLU, National Action Network and the United Federation of Teachers, said that they were some 3,200 events planned for the day.

Protesters said they hope events like this will bring about change in the country. 

“We’re just here to show up for our communities and our neighbors and say that we don’t accept this treatment, everyone is welcome here in New York, and that this is unacceptable,” a protester said.

“The people coming out will be asked to show up on an ongoing basis for ICE watch, for mutual aid, for support of immigrant communities, for advocacy against this illegal and catastrophic war, for voter registration and all the work of building power locally,” Leah Greenberg, co-director of Indivisible, one of the coalition’s groups, said in a statement Thursday.

Streets from coast to coast were filled with marchers who carried homemade signs, sang songs and chanted against Trump’s policies, actions and rhetoric.

The turnout was historic and It was among the largest protests in American history. This time, there were more events scheduled − 3,300 larger crowds were reported and also boosted in part by opposition to the war in Iran.

Parts of Seventh Avenue and 34th Street were closed during the march

Around 6 p.m., the NYPD announced the protests had dispersed and all traffic closures were lifted.

“We had tens of thousands of people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights, and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests,” the NYPD said.

Rallies across the country

More “No Kings” rallies were held Saturday in cities across the country, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and St. Paul, Minnesota. Streets filled across the country for ‘No Kings’ peaceful rallies protesting Trump.

In Los Angeles, 74 people, eight of whom were juveniles, were arrested for failure to disperse after the dispersal order for the march was issued at 5:30 p.m., according to police. One additional adult was arrested for possession of a dirk or dagger, police said. The event was scheduled to end at 5 p.m.

In Minneapolis, which saw tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets in January and February following the Good and Pretti killings, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Bruce Springsteen spoke at the event there, according to “No Kings” organizers. The “No Kings” organizers said over 200,000 people attended the Minneapolis rally.

The demonstration outside the Minnesota State Capitol for the marquee No Kings rally, with Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda on the bill, wasn’t the most notable development during the day of protests on March 28.

The left-leaning protests with the Revolutionary-era call against President Donald Trump as a would-be monarch and authoritarian had the broadest geographic reach of any single-day protest in the United States in more than a half-century. They included not only familiar precincts in New York and Los Angeles and Austin but also communities in all 50 states and every congressional district, including rural and Republican areas.

By the way, a twilight rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, included a march down President Donald Trump Boulevard toward Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, where the president was spending the weekend. Police turned back the demonstrators before they got close enough to be seen or heard there.

The White House already had dismissed the protests as meaningless.

The demonstrations weren’t only limited to cities in the U.S. as protesters in other countries held “No Kings” protests as well.

In Rome and London, the streets were filled with demonstrators. There were also demonstrations in other countries from Europe to Latin America to Australia, some of them with the title “No Tyrants” instead of “No Kings,” with a recurring demand for “a world free from wars.”

The “No Kings” protests are the latest since October and organizers said they are looking to send a message addressing what they call “the constant chaos of the Trump administration” since then.

Saturday marked the third “No Kings” demonstration since Trump returned office.

The No Kings protests on March 28, 2026, became a nationwide demonstration against President Donald Trump, drawing an estimated 8  million participants in over 3,300 locations and reflecting a mix of anti‑Trump, pro‑democracy, and other policy concerns ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Organizers said two-thirds of participants who signed up live in suburban, small town or rural areas. That’s a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities.

The first No Kings rallies were held less than a year ago, on June 14, the day Trump presided over a military parade in Washington marking the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, which also happened to be his 79th birthday. Those protests drew about 5 million people, a number affirmed by the Crowd Counting Consortium sponsored by Harvard and the University of Connecticut.

Four months later, the second No Kings marches drew an estimated 2 million more.

The protesters were united by opposition to Trump and support for democratic institutions they accuse him of endangering.

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Investigators said the crash happened before 2 p.m. in the 280 block of South Beach Road when a truck pulling a small pressure-cleaning trailer was traveling north and slowing to turn into a driveway. That’s when a Land Rover, driven by Woods, approached from behind at a high rate speed, the sheriff’s office said.

The Land Rover attempted to pass the truck but clipped the back of the trailer, according to authorities. The impact caused the SUV to tip onto the driver’s side and slide along the road before coming to a stop. Woods was able to exit the vehicle through the passenger side, authorities said.

No one was injured during the crash, including Woods and the truck driver, the sheriff’s office said.

During a press conference Friday, the sheriff’s office said that Woods exhibited signs of impairment at the scene of the crash and was arrested.

The sheriff’s office said Woods agreed to take a breathalyzer test which showed no alcohol in his system, but refused to take a urine test, which is used to detect drugs or medication.

Investigators said they believe impairment may have been caused by medication, though no substances were found in the vehicle.

Authorities added that the road where the crash took place is a narrow, two-lane roadway with a 30 mph speed limit and little room for drivers to move aside. Investigators noted the crash could have been far more serious if oncoming traffic had been present.

In addition to driving under the influence with property damage, Woods was charged with refusal to submit to a lawful test. Both are misdemeanors.

Woods was being held at the jail for a minimum of eight hours, as required by Florida law, and was released Friday night.

No court date has been set for Woods as of Saturday afternoon.

President Donald Trump, who said he is a “close friend” to Woods, reacted to news, telling reporters during a gaggle in Miami on Friday, “I feel so badly. He’s got some difficulty. There was an accident and that’s all I know. Very close friend of mine.”

“He’s an amazing person, amazing man. But some difficulty,” he added.

Tiger Woods shares health update following car crash: ‘I am back home and continuing my recovery’

In 2021, the golfer was seriously hurt in a crash that occurred in Southern California.

The SUV he was driving, a 2021 Genesis GV80, was found several feet away from the center divider, in an area that had a “high-frequency” of accidents, officials said at the time.

Authorities said there was no “evidence of impairment” in that crash, adding that the wreck was “purely an accident.”

Following the accident, Woods told Golf Digest in an interview that he began a rehabilitation process that included three months in a hospital-type bed in his home.

In 2017, Woods was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida. An incident report at the time said that he was asleep and “had to be woken up.” Woods was later released on his own recognizance.

Woods shared a statement after the incident apologizing to his family, friends and fans.

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The move makes Trump the first sitting president to have his signature on American paper currency.

“The President’s mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival is undeniable. Printing his signature on the American currency is not only appropriate, but also well deserved,” Treasurer Brandon Beach said in a statement.

 “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.

This is not the first time the Trump’s signature and name will be closely attached to money in Americans’ pockets. Last year, the administration initiated “Trump checks,” or seeded, tax-free investment accounts for American children born between 2025 and 2028. And during the early days of the Covid lockdown, stimulus checks to all American’s bore the president’s signature.

The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment on the duration of the change or where on bills the signature will appear, though the official announcement did note that the signature would appear on “future” U.S. paper currency “along with” the Treasury secretary’s signature, which is on the bottom right of the face of bills.

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Joe Kent, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, also said that he thinks President Donald Trump knows the war “is not going well.”

“The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events, meaning the Iranians would retaliate,” Kent said in a nearly two-hour-long interview that aired Wednesday evening.

“The Israelis felt emboldened and that no matter what they did, no matter what situation they put us in, that they could go ahead and take this action and we would just have to react,” he added. 

Kent is a combat veteran who served more than 20 years in the U.S. Army and completed 11 combat deployments in the Middle East.

Kent oversaw the U.S. counterterrorism and counternarcotics enterprise and, according to his biography, he served as the principal counterterrorism adviser to the president. He was confirmed as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in a narrow 52-44 vote in the Senate last July.

During the interview with Carlson, Kent said there was no intel that Iran was planning a strike on the U.S. without the U.S. first launching an attack on them.

“There was no intelligence that said, ‘Hey, on whatever day it was, March 1, the Iranians are going to launch this big sneak attack. They’re going to do some kind of a 9/11, Pearl Harbor, etc. They’re going to attack one of our bases. There was none of that intelligence,” Kent claimed.

Trump, in the several justifications he’s given for starting the war on Iran, has repeatedly said Tehran posed an “imminent threat” to the U.S. and that the U.S. was “very nearly under threat.”

In his interview with Carlson, Kent said that before he resigned, he had “not the best conversation” with Trump to explain his reason for resigning, but that the president was “respectful” and that he thinks they remain on “good terms.”

“I think the president is someone who listens, and so I think he’s listening not necessarily just to me and to you, but I think he is listening to a lot of different people, because I think he knows at a core level, this is not going well, and he needs to find a way for us to get out of this,” Kent said.

The former top counterterrorism official said a “clear” endgame has not been presented to Americans.

“Americans want to know why we’re going to war, what the end state is, and they can get on board in general, if that’s clearly articulated. That’s not the case with Iran,” Kent said.

Kent said he made his decision to resign over the weekend because his dissenting opinions about the war weren’t “getting through,” adding that the rising American service member death toll was his “real breaking point.”

“I know this path that we’re on, it doesn’t work. I’ve seen enough data. It’s time to do something different,” he said.

In his resignation letter, Kent accused Israel of mounting a “misinformation” campaign to “deceive” Trump into launching this war. He blamed Washington’s decision to attack on “pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

In the interview with Carlson, Kent offered unfounded conspiracies about Israel’s efforts to pressure the U.S. — including a suggestion Israel may have been behind the assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, known for his opposition to war with Iran, and even the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. 

Carlson is known to trade in conspiracies and has been outspoken about his objections to the war in Iran.

Trump on Tuesday reacted to Kent’s letter while answering questions from reporters in the Oval Office, saying, “I always thought he was a nice guy.”

“Well, I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security,” Trump said. “I didn’t know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy.”

“But when I read a statement, I realized that it’s a good thing that he’s out,” Trump added. “Because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it. And many people, many of the greatest military scholars, are saying for years that [the] president should have taken out Iran because they wanted a nuclear weapon.”

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Leavitt in a post on X on Thursday said that the alert was based on one email sent to local law enforcement in California containing a single, unverified tip. “TO BE CLEAR: No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did,” Leavitt wrote.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said an FBI alert that Iran could hit California with drones was based on an unverified tip. “No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists,” she wrote.

The confidential alert, issued by the FBI through the multi-agency Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center, surfaced publicly on Wednesday as the war that began on February 28 with massive U.S. and Israeli bombardments of Iran stretched on.

The alert cited FBI information that, as of early February, Iran “allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles” launched from a sea vessel against targets ​in California “in the event that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran.”

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