Trump Picks New DNI After Pulte Backlash, Dem Party Platner Panic, UFC WH Preview: AM Update 6/12
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, June 12th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
Why they're willing to jeopardize the lives of millions of Americans to make a political point. Because they have a disagreement about someone that the president has appointed for a short-term position. It is absurd.
President Trump nominates a new director of national intelligence after his temporary pick throws the Congress into chaos.
People will make everything seem very concerning because that's what people do in politics.
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Who has President Trump nominated as the new Director of National Intelligence?
Adding lean to your healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit TakeLean.com and enter MK to get your discount. That's promo code MK at TakeLean.com. President Trump moving to diffuse a growing backlash over his temporary pick to lead the intelligence community, announcing yesterday a different name, Jay Clayton. the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, to serve as the next director of National Intelligence, or DNI. Regarding his new choice, the president posting to Truth Social yesterday that Clayton is, quote, very highly respected, pointing to his work as former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, former head of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, and now U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
the nomination which requires Senate confirmation, coming after more than a week of bipartisan blowback over Mr. Trump's plan to install loyalist Bill Pulte as acting DNI. Unlike Clayton's nomination for the permanent job, Pulte's acting role does not require Senate confirmation. Pulte currently serving as the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Mr. Trump tapping Pulte to temporarily replace outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard, with Pulte expected to assume the acting role on June 19th. 38-year-old Pulte has no intelligence background, and he's used his position to help the president find alleged legal violations by certain political enemies like Letitia James. According to the New York Times, President Trump wants him to use the temporary role to keep cutting down the DNI office after Gabbard already made deep reductions.
Democrats fear he'll use it to target them. The DNI position sits at the top of the U.S. intelligence structure, coordinating work across 18 agencies. Pulte's appointment quickly triggering alarm from Democrats and some Republicans who questioned why a housing official with no national security experience would be put in charge of the nation's intelligence community, temporarily or otherwise. The fight now threatening Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, the surveillance authority allowing U.S. agencies to collect communications from foreign targets overseas without a warrant, which is about to expire,
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