WSJ: Trump Hopes “Less Shackled” Pulte Shrinks Intel Agencies

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Reaction from Maine Democratic voters after their party’s Senate hopeful Graham Platner faces a string of negative headlines. Plus, according to a new report, President Trump said he'd like his pick for acting Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte, who has zero experience in national security, to start the process of firing people at agencies charged with keeping America safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.4	Good evening from the newsroom. Two big stories. Top of the broadcast tonight for the first time since acting Attorney General Todd
1:01.1	Blanche refused to say in writing that the president's so-called weaponization fund, with many on Capitol
1:06.1	Hill, we're calling a slush fund, was truly dead. The Justice Department, and a new court
1:10.7	filing, has done just that.
1:12.2	They put it on paper.
1:13.8	We begin, though, with Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner, who's speaking tonight
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