Hi, everyone. It's four o'clock in New York on a juggling knives kind of newsday. Right now,

Donald Trump's acting AG, Todd Blanche, is on Capitol Hill. He's expected to face at least some harsh questions about Donald Trump's slush fund and the weaponization of the

Department of Justice to pursue Donald Trump's perceived political opponents.

We'll keep an eye on that as soon as anything newsworthy happens.

We'll dip into it or turn it around for you right away, we promise.

But we begin today with the big news, the biggest news story on the weaponization front, and it comes from

another part of the government, the U.S. intelligence agencies. Because while it is nearly

impossible to choose for you the most dangerous among all of Donald Trump's radical and

outrageous and sycophantic personnel choices over the last 18 months,

that is no longer a kind of Soviet choice thing. It's now abundantly clear what the most

radical and dangerous personnel decision is. Today, it happened. And at a time when our country is at war with Iran and facing nearly unprecedented

geopolitical, economic, and technological threats and challenges from literally every corner of the

globe, Donald Trump this morning put a man named Bill Pulte, atop America's intelligence agencies.

He will now serve as of today as America's acting director of national intelligence.

Now, some of you out there might be thinking, big deal.

Tulsi Gabbard had that job until 15 minutes ago.

And you wouldn't be entirely wrong to have that reaction.

But while Tulsi Gabbard sullied her reputation

by participating in an FBI raid of election offices in Fulton County, Georgia,

Pulte has been taking far more audacious actions

as a taxpayer-funded federal employee.

So here's who Pulte is. Right now, he's a housing guy. He's currently got the title of

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