Hey, are we actually getting congressional oversight today?

Did that happen?

Elite starts right now.

Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken and a damaged lung.

Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it.

On Capitol Hill today, Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen

facing some tough questions from Senator Rand Paul

while trying to separate himself from Christy Knoam,

the DHS chief just fired by President Trump.

Was the former MMA fighter able to fight back? Plus,

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on the ropes, pressed on the underlying evidence

or lack of up behind the war with Iran, and also questions of what is an imminent threat, and also why she was at that FBI raid of the

Fulton County Georgia election office and next up this hour attorney general Pam Bondi is going to

face lawmakers over her handling the Epstein Files.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start in our politics lead, as today the Department of Homeland Security has been under scrutiny in multiple ways. One, a tense Senate confirmation

hearing for Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullin of Oklahoma, Trump's new pick to lead the Department

of Homeland Security after Trump kicked Christy Knoem to the curb following her troubling tenure.

And two, those long, long, long lines you're seeing at U.S. airports, all because of the

Senate dysfunction and partial government shutdown. It's all over funding for Homeland Security.

And millions of air travelers are feeling the impact

as TSA workers just missed their first full paycheck

since funding lapsed in mid-February

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