WATCH LIVE: Gabbard, Patel and Ratcliffe testify at a House hearing on national security threats

Top U.S. intelligence officials will testify Thursday before the House Intelligence Committee in an open hearing on global threats, the second day of hearings on Capitol Hill focused on the intelligence community’s release of its annual assessment of threats to national security.

The House hearing on global threats is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. EST on Thursday, March 19. Watch the live stream in the player above.

On Wednesday, Democratic senators pressed Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, about the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and whether she provided any guidance to President Donald Trump, among other topics.

She told lawmakers on Wednesday that the Iranian regime “appears healthy but largely deteriorated” but repeatedly dodged questions about whether President Donald Trump had been warned about the fallout from the weeks-long war, including Iran’s attacks on Gulf states and its effective closure of the vital Strait of Hormuz.

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Gabbard also stated in prepared remarks to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the US attacks on Iran last year had “wiped out” Iran’s nuclear program, and that no effort has been made since then to rebuild that capability.

The statement was notable given Trump’s repeated assertions that war with Iran was necessary to ward off what he said was an imminent threat from the Islamic Republic. Gabbard said clearly that this conclusion should have been reached by the president alone, because she declined to directly answer whether the intelligence community similarly assessed that the Iranian nuclear system represented an imminent danger to the United States.

The session came a day after the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned due to the war. Kent, a former Green Beret and CIA official known for his past ties to right-wing extremists, posted his resignation letter Tuesday on X, writing directly to Trump that Iran “poses no imminent threat” to the United States and that he cannot “in good conscience” support the war. Kent Tucker told Carlson in a radio interview on Wednesday that he and other key decision makers were “not allowed” to share their opinions with the president.

Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, makes an opening statement Wednesday at a Senate hearing on global threats.

Gabbard has repeatedly declined to discuss conversations with Trump, or other senior intelligence officials who have testified.

This week’s hearings offer the public a glimpse into the largely secret operations of government intelligence agencies and the threats they face. These events come at a time of scrutiny over the war with Iran and growing concerns about terrorism at home after the recent attacks on a synagogue in Michigan and the University of Virginia.

This is a developing story and will be updated.