Hey folks, Preet here. Joyce Vance and I are out with a new episode of The Insider podcast.

President Trump just nominated Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to be the next director

of national intelligence. That happened after bipartisan backlash over his pick of Bill

Pulte for the acting position. We break it down on this week's episode.

Plus, the latest in the legal challenges to Trump's anti-weaponization fund.

And a Supreme Court case about where federal prosecutors can bring their cases.

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So the sitting U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York is a gentleman by the name of Jay Clayton,

who was previously the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission,

and then a partner at Sullivan and Cromwell before and after that gig.

And he has now been named by Donald Trump to be the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence upon the departure of Tulsi Gabbard, while Bill Pulte, you'll remember that guy, who's a housing

official, and before that a housing entrepreneur,

has been, or was supposed to be in the acting spot, uproar about Bill Pulte, who didn't have any

intelligence experience, even though Joyce, as you and I, not only pointed out, but quoted

from the statute last week that you need such experience

to be the Director of National Intelligence, stands to reason, and it's also in the law itself.

So now it's going to be Jay Clayton, who's considered to be a smart guy, a smart lawyer,

didn't have prosecutorial experience, but, you know, has been the steward at the

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