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The company said its own workers are testing a "wearable access badge" and a desktop device. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Top Senate Republicans Dodge On Bill Pulte’s Lack of Qualifications To Be DNI:...
Screenshot Top Senate Republicans dodged on Tuesday when asked about President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said when asked about Pulte, “If they nominate him to take the position permanently, he’ll have to go through a confirmation process and hearings and everything else, so we’ll see.” When asked more specifically about Pulte potentially weaponizing his position, Thune said, “We don’t need a weaponized DNI; we need professionals there.” Pulte is the controversial head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Pulte, who has no military or intelligence history, has been condemned by voices on both sides of the aisle, many of whom have noted accusations he’s already weaponized his current role to target political enemies of the president over mortgage fraud. .@LeaderJohnThune & @SenTomCotton on Bill Pulte as Acting DNI: Sen. Thune: "If the administration decides to pursue a permanent appointment to that position, it'll have to come to the Congress." Sen. Cotton: "I have no observations on the matter." pic.twitter.com/Ufhx1LUXRJ — CSPAN (@cspan) June 2, 2026 He added, “Again, I just heard about it. I’ll try and get more information about the current state of their thinking about that position. If he’s somebody they want in that position permanently, he’s got a — as you all know — a lengthy road ahead of him.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) took a more obvious dodge after Thune deferred to him, as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to comment on the matter. “We have four more weeks with Director Gabbard as the DNI and I look forward to implementing last year’s intelligence authorization act with her to implement wide-ranging reforms that will shrink the DNI and take it back to its original intent to provide a mere coordinator process role for the intelligence community,” Cotton said. Asked then about Pulte and his “experience,” Cotton noted, “I have no observations on the matter.” Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.The post Top Senate Republicans Dodge On Bill Pulte’s Lack of Qualifications To Be DNI: ‘No Observations on the Matter’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘You Look Shocked’: Jill Biden Taken Aback After View Host Reads Biting Kama...
Jill Biden was visibly shocked after View host Sunny Hostin read a biting excerpt from former Vice President Kamala Harris’s book about the 2024 presidential race. Jill Biden joined the table at The View on Tuesday to promote her new memoir View From the East Wing, though at one point she was asked about someone else’s memoir. Sunny Hostin read a bit from Harris’s 100 Days memoir and focused on a quote from Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff. Hostin noted that Jill Biden wrote “warmly” about her and former President Joe Biden’s relationship to Harris and Emhoff, but the quote Hostin referred to suggested a “far more fractured” connection. “Yeah,” Harris said after reading the quote, letting Biden know it was real. “I never saw that. I never felt that way with Kamala and Doug. I thought we were a great team,” Biden said. “You look shocked,” Hostin said. Biden spoke glowingly about Harris and Emhoff and said the quote from Emhoff really “surprised” her. Check out the full exchange below: SUNNY HOSTIN: I agree with Alyssa [Farah Griffin], this is a quick read, it is a wonderful read, you’re very vulnerable in it and I think it will help a lot of people. And you write very warmly about your relationship with former Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff. Now she also wrote a book, 107 Days, that I read and I understand you have not read it. JILL BIDEN: No. HOSTIN: But in her book she alludes to a much more fractured relationship between the Bidens and the Emhoffs. She writes that your family asked if she and Doug were loyal to your family and she wrote that her husband Doug said, they hide you away for four years, give you impossible “bleep” jobs, don’t correct the record when those tasks are mischaracterized, never fight back when you’re attacked, never praise your accomplishments and then he added and still they have to ask if we’re loyal…yeah. How do you respond to that? BIDEN: I never saw that. I never felt that way with Kamala and Doug. I thought we were a great team. HOSTIN: You look shocked. BIDEN: Yeah, I mean, it’s, I don’t know. We were a team. And that July 4th that we were together, it was like we were saying to America, hey, we are the team. It is Joe and… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘A**hole’: John Fetterman Unleashes on Graham Platner, Suggests He May Be a ...
LEFT: John Fetterman (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) RIGHT: Graham Platner (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File) Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) unleashed on Graham Platner, the embattled presumptive Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, on Tuesday. Platner’s infidelity to his wife, whom he married in 2023, was reported on by The Wall Street Journal and New York Times over the weekend. He has previously muddled through scandals pertaining to the Nazi-linked Totenkopf tattoo that was emblazoned across his chest for almost two decades, as well as online comments in which disparaged rural Mainers, suggested that victims of sexual assault bear responsibility for what happened to them, and mocked an American soldier who was awarded a Purple Heart for his bravery was shot during a firefight with the Taliban. Fetterman minced no words while speaking to reporters about in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. “Where’s P-Hustle?!” asked Platner according to NBC’s Sahil Kapur in an apparent reference to Platner’s notorious Reddit account. “We didn’t match up on Kik, so I haven’t seen him yet,” remarked Fetterman. “When I was growing up, if someone had a Nazi tattoo, you pretty much assume he’s a Nazi sympathizer.” “He’s expressed frustration with how I dress, you know. And this a**hole is on Kik and sexting to a dozen women,” he added. Sen. John Fetterman goes off on Graham Platner: “Where’s phustle?!” “We didn't match up on Kik, so I haven't seen him yet,” Fetterman says, adding that he’d “love to” meet him. “I mean, he's a tough guy.” “When I was growing up, if someone had a Nazi tattoo, you pretty much… — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 2, 2026 “I think you shouldn’t send sexually explicit texts or dick pics, or whatever he sends to all these women on Kik. That was like less than a year ago. I mean, what’s next?” asked Fetterman according to NOTUS’s Igor Bobic. “This is a guy that put a picture of him in a towel on Kik, you know, a platform that’s been used for pedophiles.” Fetterman unloads on Graham Platner: “Have you seen phustle? Yeah, we didn't match up on Kik, so I don't know if I was gonna see him.” “I think you shouldn't send sexually explicit texts or dick pics, or whatever he sends to all these women on Kik. That was like less than a… — Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) June 2, 2026 “What’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Screaming Protestor Berates Marco Rubio for ‘Serving Israel’ During Wild Hea... A shrieking protester interrupted Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s testimony before Congress on Tuesday, with the hysterical man screaming at Rubio to “stop supporting Israel” and its “genocide” in Gaza and Lebanon. The wild scene briefly derailed the hearing. Rubio paused for a few seconds while the man shouted. “Stop supporting Israel! Stop supporting Israel! Israel committed a genocide in Palestine, it’s still ongoing, and now they’re committing another genocide in Lebanon. And what are you doing?! You’re serving Israel!” The man could be heard screeching “stop serving Israel!” as he was being removed from the chamber. Rubio said “alright,” shrugged off the testimony crasher, and picked up where he left off. Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin posted a brief video of protesters shouting at Rubio that he was a “war criminal” as he walked through the hallway. “The blood of Palestinians and Iranians and Lebanese people are on your hands,” one of the protesters could be heard yelling. “Shame on you!” CODEPINK and other activist confronted Marco Rubio today over U.S. support for war and destruction in Palestine, Lebanon, Cuba, Iran and more. No peace for war criminals. pic.twitter.com/ayYvfrwJUm — Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) June 2, 2026 The male protester who interrupted Rubio’s testimony appeared to be tied to Code Pink; the organization dubs itself a “women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism.” Its website says it demands “justice and liberation” for Palestinians. And NewsNation reporter Joe Khalil posted a video of a male protester being handcuffed by officers in the hallway. Again, it’s unclear if that was the same guy who shouted at Rubio, because the protester was not seen on video. It appeared based on pictures from the AP they are two different men. The bespectacled and disheveled protester in Khalil’s video yelped the Trump administration was “literally killing people.” Other protesters in the background could be heard clapping and chanting “Rubio lies, people with AIDS die.” Very vocal group of protestors arrested outside Marco Rubio’s Senate hearing, chanting “Rubio lies, people with AIDS die.” pic.twitter.com/s95AeBBsmt — Joe Khalil (@JoeKhalilTV) June 2, 2026 In related news, Rubio got into a feisty exchange with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) after the liberal lawmaker claimed President Donald Trump was “begging” Iran for a peace deal. Watch above via YouTube.The post Screaming Protestor Berates Marco Rubio for ‘Serving Israel’ During Wild Hearing first… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Roger Stone Pushed For MAGA Favorite Bill Pulte to Become DNI to Release Classif...
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig) President Donald Trump’s surprise pick for acting Director of National Intelligence was reportedly pushed by multiple MAGA allies, including notorious GOP operative Roger Stone. On Tuesday morning, Trump announced that he had chosen Bill Pulte to serve as acting DNI in the wake of Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation. Pulte also serves as Trump’s head of Federal Housing Finance Agency, and was notably a top proponent of the controversial 50-year mortgage. The pick was almost universally panned across the political spectrum, with many pointing to the fact that Pulte has never worked in intelligence or national security before. According to a Tuesday report from Semafor, Stone and others pushed for Pulte in the hopes that he’d use his power to declassify documents. The report added: While Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is far from a natural choice for the role, bringing no experience in the intelligence field, he is close with departing DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Perhaps more importantly, Stone and other Trump allies see Pulte’s attack-dog mentality as critical in waging an internal war to ramp up the declassification of sensitive information. “He’s like a bulldozer,” one source familiar with the situation told Semafor of Pulte. “Bulldoze the bureaucracy and accelerate document releases and declassifications.” At the time of writing, it was not known what kinds of documents they wanted Pulte to go after. Semafor did report, however, that they were interested in anything related to Trump’s continued claims that the 2020 election was stolen.The post Roger Stone Pushed For MAGA Favorite Bill Pulte to Become DNI to Release Classified Docs, Report first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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