Episode

WSJ: Trump Urges Pulte to Start Firing Intel Employees

Podcast: The Lead with Jake Tapper
Published: Jun 6, 2026
Duration seconds: 5413
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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