I've yet to talk to a Republican that doesn't think this is an outrageous choice.

Is anybody going to tell the emperor in the White House that he has no clothes on this one?

So would you deny the votes on FISA over and hold?

Let's see how things, let's see how things.

I'm keeping all the options on'm taking it with this point.

So, Tim, do you expect Democrats to move forward with that move?

What you hear that reporter asking about there is the fight over FISA, set to expire in about nine days.

A lot of lawmakers, although it's controversial, eager to make sure that it holds, doesn't go dark.

It seems like it's kind of the only chip Democrats have to play here since he's just in acting

ODNI, and he's not actually going to go in front of the Senate.

Yeah. Well, I'm encouraged that they're considering playing this chip.

This has been something over the first year and a half that a lot of those who are opposed to the administration have been frustrated at times with the way that Democrats in the Senate have not used their limited power being in the minority. There have been some exceptions to this. I think it was the DHS shutdown following the murder of Alex Pruddy and Renee Good

demonstrated very real results and positive results, I think, for the Democrats and make it

much harder for the government to fund those agencies that are acting inappropriately. I think

this is another case of that. If there are going to be a couple Republicans that for ideological libertarian reasons won't vote for the FISA reauthorization, then they need Democratic votes.

And I think that it would be preposterous for any Democrats to provide a vote for this administration due to expand their spying powers when they put somebody like Bill Pulte in charge of DNI.

And look, as you mentioned, Pulte is going to continue his job as head of the housing organization.

I don't think anybody really believes he's even going there to do the job of Director of National Intelligence.

When he was at the housing agency, he used the one tool at his disposal, access to mortgage documents to look at the mortgage documents of everybody that had ever opposed Donald Trump to see if they dotted all their eyes when they signed those documents.

And at DNI, obviously, they have access to a lot more oversight spying powers on Americans.

And I think that is essentially the core reason why he's going there.

He has no national security experience.

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