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The Rich Zeoli Show

Tulsi Gabbard Targets Politicization of Intel

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

6:05pm- According to a report from Fox News Digital, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is taking additional steps to prevent the politicization of intelligence—in the process, she has fired National Intelligence Council acting Chair Mike Collins. 6:20pm- While promoting his new book, “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” CNN’s Jake Tapper revealed that a White House physician informed then-President Joe Biden’s aides that he might require the assistance of a wheelchair in his second term if he were to continue falling. While Tapper is reporting on these stories now, why wasn’t he doing so prior to Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election? 6:40pm- On Friday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka alongside Congressmembers Bonnie Watson-Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez visited the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in New Jersey—at one point trespassing which led to a confrontation with ICE officials and the eventual arrest of Mayor Baraka. ICE has released bodycam footage of the altercation which shows Rep. McIver attempting to physically shove past ICE agents. Rich notes that because of the enormous sum of “earned media” surrounding the confrontation, Baraka—a candidate for New Jersey governor—might have a real chance to win the Democratic Party’s primary next month.

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:16.2

It's just an all-out, all-out attack. That was the topic this morning for America's Newsroom.

0:22.0

I think I mentioned that I was on there with you.

0:24.5

I think I mentioned that earlier.

0:25.4

But anyway, that was, I mean, and in doing the prep for that, I mean, sent all these articles, The Daily Beast.

0:34.0

Democrats hold secret meetings of big concerns for John Federman's health, Democrats' concerns over Federman's behavior, the Hill, Daily Mail, Federman's mom, Mama Federman coming out and saying her son is fine.

0:50.3

But I think the reality is here that what we're talking about is we're talking about that they're trying to take down Federman because he's not playing their game, their woke, progressive kook game anymore because he's smart enough to figure out if the political winds have shifted and he's now going in that direction.

1:07.3

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top officials leading the National Intelligence Council,

1:15.2

whom whistleblowers describe as radically opposed to Trump and has moved the agency to the office of the Director of National Intelligence to ensure she can block any politicization of intelligence.

1:29.7

Gabbard fired Mike Collins, who was serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council,

1:36.1

along with his deputy, Maria Langen-Rykoff.

1:40.8

This all happened a short time ago.

1:44.7

Collins also has whistleblower complaints against him for political bias and deliberately undermining the incoming Trump administration, officials said.

1:53.9

He was closely associated with Mike Morel.

1:57.2

You remember Mike Morrell, the former deputy director of the CIA.

2:00.3

He was the guy who was behind the Hunter Biden laptop letter.

2:05.8

That's right.

2:06.6

That Mike Morel.

2:08.4

That Mike Morrell came out, of course, and helped write that letter that claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation

2:19.5

and then worked to get the signatures of the 51 former X intelligence deep state hacks.

2:28.0

As for Langen Rykoff, officials said she has been a key advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives,

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