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What to know about the Senate worldwide threats hearing:
The Trump administration’s spy chiefs will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday at 10 a.m. on national security threats facing the U.S.
The officials testifying include the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, National Security Agency chief Lt. Gen. William Hartman and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. James Adams.
The hearing will give senators a chance to question intelligence officials for the first time in public about the Trump administration’s Iran war strategy and the “imminent” threats that President Trump has said Iran posed to the U.S. before the war broke out.
The officials’ testimony comes a day after Joe Kent, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned in protest of the Iran war. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,” Kent wrote in his resignation letter.
Wednesday’s hearing will be live-streamed in the video player at the top of this page.