From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take.

I'm your host today, senior editor Will Kayback. It is the first Wednesday of June, and in addition to bringing the impending excitement of summer,

it's a great day to be a basketball fan.

And that's because the San Antonio Spurs are hosting the New York Knicks in game one of the NBA

finals tonight.

And somehow, a New York sports team contending for a championship is not the biggest story of the series.

And that's because the biggest topic,

and I'm talking both literally and metaphorically, is the Spurs 7'5-22-year-old French phenomenon

Victor Wembeyanma, who frankly is unlike any athlete that I've ever seen. I'm a fan of his for several

reasons. He has a kind of surreal grace on the court,

but he also is unabashedly vulnerable about expressing his emotions when he plays and his passion

for his craft of basketball. So I'm super excited for this series, and I think when Benyama makes

tuning in worthwhile, even if you're not a big sports or basketball fan.

The NBA is in a really unique moment right now, and Wembenyama is a big part of that.

So I'm very excited for that, and it should be a fun week and a half or so ahead.

All right, basketball excitement for me aside.

Let's get back into the political story of the day.

We're going to be waiting into

Bill Pulte's appointment as the acting director of national intelligence, which has raised

some eyebrows and then some across the political spectrum. Then we'll round out today's edition

with an update on Gaza, as well as some history on the U.S. intelligence community and how the

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