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The Lead with Jake Tapper

WSJ: Trump Urges Pulte to Start Firing Intel Employees

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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A shakeup is coming to some of the nation’s biggest spy agencies and the man doing the firing will be Bill Pulte, a controversial Trump loyalist that the president wants to be acting director of national intelligence despite having no intel or national security experience.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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officials. The lead starts right now. A shakeup coming to some of the nation's biggest spy

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agencies and the man doing the firing with the scythe will be Bill Pulte, the controversial Trump loyalist

1:13.2

that the president wants to be acting director of national intelligence despite having no

1:16.8

intel or national security experience. I'm going to talk to the reporter who got Trump

1:22.4

on the record about this. Plus, CNN inside Iran going one-on-one with a top military advisor to the Supreme

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Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news and the politics lead.

1:57.0

President Trump is in rural Wisconsin right now, Chippewa Falls, about 95 miles east of

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