You announced just a few days ago that you're naming Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence.

There's been a little bit of a pushback from some Senate Republicans.

Why do you think, Mr. President, he's the best person for the job?

Well, he's very smart. He's a person who's got high integrity.

He's done a phenomenal job at Fannie Mae Freddie Mac.

You know, you probably have a trillion dollars in value there. When he took over, it was much

less. And I guess I'm responsible for that too, because everybody wanted me to sell it in my

first term for 10% of what it's worth right now. If I would have sold it, we would have lost $900 billion.

We would have lost, I mean, think of it, it's probably worth a trillion dollars. And I was

offered, every people want me to sell it at $100 billion, a very small percentage of what

it's worth now. So, and he built it up a lot, did a great job, and it's an acting position. It's not a permanent. He's not going to be permanent because, you know, I don't think he'd want to be permanent. But he's a very smart guy, and you may find out some things about the rigged elections, etc., etc. I think you'd like to do it. I think he wants to do it very much. Got a lot of energy. But he'll be very good. Again, it's not a permanent position. We're looking at, we're interviewing people right now. But it's somebody just to take it over for a little while. Does he have a necessary, can you hear you, Mr. President, the necessary national security experience to take on that

position? Well, I do, and I think he does, actually, because he's smart, because a lot of national security.

Look, I was a greatly experienced in national security, and I think I've done a really great job with it.

A lot of people would say that I've ended eight wars, and soon to be a knife. I hope that works out too, you know, frankly, but probably, and there's another one also. It could be 10. No president. I don't think a president's ended one war having to do with outside of this country. So, you know, we've done a good job. I would say that Bill is a guy that we'll be able to figure it out very quickly.

Again, it's short term, but he may be very effective for a short period of time.

Thursday, 4 June, Your of Our Lord, 26.

Okay, that's got heads blowing up. Pulte, president's backing him hard, talked about maybe, I don't know, D&I looks into the re-to-elections. There'll be a meltdown tonight on various cable networks. So I'll make sure we're curated all for you. Of course, he says, Pulte's not going to be the permanent

just in acting. They're already talking to people about being permanent. So there is,

there's that. We'll deal with more of that in the morning. Also, some updates in capital markets

and the war get to that in the morning. Also, the big news, the big news is I see it, because this is the most important thing and people should know behind the scenes in Washington, D.C., everything related to artificial intelligence.

Now you have people rushing towards the IPO window to kind of lay this risk or spread this risk among the public. And of course, you read some

of these perspectives. You really can't get a feel for what they're up to. Joe Allen joins me.

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