Jon Favreau

And, you know, we just talked about why it's challenging to prevent the president from putting someone in a temporary position.

Yeah.

For, you know, for as long as he wants.

Section 702 warrantless wiretapping authority is up for renewal.

And both parties have negotiated...

surprisingly uh a an agreeable solution uh to that so they were gonna put that up for a vote but now democrats are saying we're not gonna reauthorize that if the person in charge of it is this fucking doofus um and they're wondering if enough anti-polty republicans um would join along try to use that as leverage i think i saw

maybe Collins, Murkowski, and Tillis voted for an amendment that would prevent Pulte from being DNI chair that they added, but I don't think any of the other Republicans voted for it.

I don't think it passed.

I wonder what John Ratcliffe thinks, who is the CIA director and like, not my cup of tea, but like a professional.

And you know, I know that the org chart there is a little loosey goosey, but he still has to like, this is the director of national intelligence.

Maybe they just cut him.

I bet they cut him out of all the important stuff.

And then when Trump wants really bad shit done, then Pulte gets access to everything, which is what he's already digging up.

You know, there's a lot that if Democrats take Congress that they can't achieve in two years with Donald Trump as president because he's still got veto power.

But this these are the kinds of things, especially Pulte, where if Democrats have control of Congress, you haul this guy in for questioning.

You send subpoenas not just for him, but for Doc.

Like you can you can make stuff happen if you control Congress with appointments this horrendous for sure.

I guess in a.

in the best possible way.

One more congressional development of note before we leave Capitol Hill.