Transcript (en)

There were already challenges as it related to extending foreign surveillance authority. Given the refusal by the Trump administration to put into place the type of common sense reforms that would be designed to both promote our national security interests on the one hand and on the other, protect the privacy and civil liberties of the American people. The negotiations prior to Trump's announcement with respect to Bill Pulte were already in a very sensitive place. And then Donald Trump, as he often does, tosses a hand grenade into those sensitive negotiations by elevating Bill Pulte as a director of national intelligence. someone who's a political hack, a malignant clown, and is woefully unqualified to serve in any position in the federal government, let alone as acting director of national intelligence. So you let it expire? Would you let it expire? There are ongoing conversations being led by Jim Himes. but clearly to get to good faith negotiations the effort to elevate Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence should be reversed immediately and then let's see where we wind up at the end of the week