Source: Acting DNI Bill Pulte Has Begun Mass Firings
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:32.3 | Good evening from the newsroom. A lot of breaking news tonight starting the intelligence agency |
| 0:36.3 | set up to help prevent another 9-11, the Office of National Intelligence. |
| 0:40.3 | CNN has learned that this man, Bill Pulte, the acting director of the ONI, has started doing what he was picked by President Trump to do, which is namely fire people. |
| 0:49.3 | The president named him to the position despite his having no experience in intelligence or national security. |
| 0:55.0 | He's a housing official with a sideline in making mortgage fraud allegations against the president's |
| 1:00.0 | political enemies. |
| 1:01.0 | And now, according to a source familiar with the matter, he's wielding the acts against public servants |
| 1:06.0 | charged with keeping us all safe against real adversaries. |
| 1:09.0 | CNN's Elena Treene joins us now from the White House with more. |
| 1:11.6 | So what else do you know about these firings? |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, look, Anderson, we don't know much more about the specifics of who is actually facing |
| 1:18.6 | this first round of major cuts and also how many he's looking for in this kind of first tranche of this. |
| 1:24.6 | But what we do know is that Bill Pulte, as you mentioned, now the acting Director of National Intelligence, he has been planning for potentially hundreds |
| 1:32.5 | of cuts to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Now, a source of Miller at the matter |
| 1:38.7 | did tell CNN that the National Counterterrorism Center and the National Counterintelligence |
| 1:43.4 | and Security Center |
| 1:44.5 | are expected to be the most hard hit. |
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