Hey there from CNN. I'm David Rind with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, June 2nd.

Six states are holding primaries today with several high-profile races that could shape the political landscape heading into November.

California's got a lot of big primaries today. First, the top two vote getters and the gubernatorial race will advance to the general election in November.

And it's been a roller coaster of a race ever since the frontrunner Democrat Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race following sexual assault allegations.

Two Democrats, former HHS Secretary Javier Bresera and businessman Tom Steyer and Republican Steve Hilton are polling the highest.

Then in the Los Angeles mayor's race, former reality TV star Spencer Pratt is hoping

dissatisfaction with city leadership over the handling of the wildfires and the homelessness

crisis can propel him into the general election.

CNN will have you covered all day and well into the night over at CNN.com.

All right, more news coming up, including how Newark's mayor is responding to ongoing clashes outside an ICE detention facility.

President Donald Trump has named the new acting director of national intelligence.

He announced that federal housing finance

agency official Bill Pulte will replace Tulsi Gabbard on an interim basis. CNN's Kevin Liptack

has more.

You know, to call this appointment an unorthodox one, I think would be an understatement here.

He's been in this mortgage role for the last year or so. What he is

is a real true Trump loyalist. And what you've seen him doing is leveraging this role that he's

in at the mortgage agency to try and go after some of Trump's perceived enemies using allegations of mortgage fraud to go after the New York Attorney General Letitia James,

the Fed Governor Lisa Cook, and now the president putting him in charge of the expansive American intelligence community.

This, I think, suggests that the president will put in this position

someone who has gone after this retribution campaign, who has advanced some ideas of vindication

against some of his enemies. What we are most concerned about is that the public conversation

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