June 2, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navazas on assignment. On the news hour tonight, |
| 0:08.6 | President Trump taps one of his current housing officials Bill Pulte as acting director of national |
| 0:13.6 | intelligence, despite having no background in national intelligence. Ukraine works to gain battlefield |
| 0:19.4 | momentum after years of stalemate against Russia's |
| 0:22.6 | invasion. The Trump administration's hardline immigration crackdown begins to affect college |
| 0:27.7 | enrollment and student performance. It's exhausting to have to be on guard all the time, |
| 0:32.8 | to have to worry about whether or not you're going to be taken from the only home that you know. |
| 0:39.8 | And a sit down with Sting, why one of music Federal Housing Finance Agency, is acting director of national intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte, a loyal Trump ally who |
| 1:12.2 | has frequently targeted the president's political opponents, has no background in national intelligence. |
| 1:17.6 | As acting DNI, he will oversee the nation's 18 intelligence agencies while also keeping his |
| 1:23.4 | current role as a housing official. That's according to Mr. Trump's announcement on social media. |
| 1:28.8 | The appointment drew swift criticism from Democrats, while the Senate's top Republican also raised |
| 1:33.8 | concerns about the selection. We're joined now by White House correspondent Liz Landers. So Liz, |
| 1:39.2 | Mr. Pulte currently heads the agencies that deal with housing and mortgages. What more should we know |
| 1:43.5 | about his background? He comes from this home building empire, the Pulte Group. He's a Floridian by birth. |
| 1:49.1 | He's relatively young at 38 years old. And as you mentioned, he's currently the head of the |
| 1:53.3 | Federal Housing Finance Agency and the chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It's not clear what |
| 1:59.0 | his intelligence background is. And today, Dr. Mehmet |
| 2:02.4 | Oz, the CMS administrator, briefed reporters in the White House briefing room today. And myself |
| 2:07.1 | and three other reporters asked about his qualifications. Here was our exchange. |
| 2:12.3 | Congressional statute says any appointee for the position of the director of national intelligence |
| 2:16.9 | shall have extensive |
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