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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Greetings, conversationalists.

Welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the United States.

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Should you wish to be on the program, one quick programming note, the bottom of the hour today.

The former vice president, Mike Pence, is going to join me.

He had that great line on Sunday to meet the press, I believe it was, that the Republican Party may have lost its way, but the Democrats have lost their minds.

I'll be talking to him about that in his book that's coming out. But first, we have got to get into the news about Bill Pulte, who is one of the

president's dumbest members of his team, a bully Nepo baby without a large skill set,

who he is now placed in charge as Director of National Intelligence.

Now, I want to be real clear here with you.

The Director of National Intelligence turns out to be a worthless position.

And a lot of people who don't know better assume that it's a very important position.

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