I don't believe he's ever had a security clearance.

He clearly has no experience in intelligence.

He has no geopolitical experience, no international connections,

the sorts of things you would look for.

Whoever told the president to go ahead and commit to this publicly before vetting it,

should lose their jobs, because they should know that the math just works against Pulte being confirmed.

Someone could have told the president that. What's that? Someone could have told the president that, and it still happened. That may be true. But then it saw the president. Senator, forgive me because I did demote you to the lower chamber before I teed up that sound. But in addition to hearing from... He did.

He didn't even Flint, Alicia.

He took it with grace.

I'm a proud former House member as well, so I take it all.

Past and present.

I thought that was interesting.

I thought what we heard in a statement from Senator McConnell was notable.

The senator saying, very few Senate confirmable positions come with statutory

eligibility requirements. Anyone performing this role of such immense public trust must have the

extensive national security experience required by statute, and no nominee who falls short of this

requirement will earn my vote. The sense we've been getting, Senator, talking with your colleagues, is that the expectation

is that this president knows that he doesn't have the votes in the Senate and is just going to,

from now on, have acting heads of a variety of agencies.

I wonder both if you agree with that analysis and if that is the case, to your point about

checks and balances, where that leaves

the U.S. Senate in acting as a check on this president?

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