The Tom Sullivan Show

Trump told the Wall Street Journal exactly why he hired Bill Pulte to run American intelligence — fire a lot of people and dig into 2020 election files. No ambiguity. No reading between the lines. We take the President at his word today and examine what that means for the agencies keeping America safe. Maine's primary is Tuesday and the opposition research on Graham Platner is hitting hard. Between Platner and Paxton of Texas we ask whether the Senate is becoming a club where a checkered past is basically a membership requirement. And the Iran expert community is now saying clearly and collectively — there is no deal to be made with this regime. So what exactly is the plan? All of it today.

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California used to have election results by the eleven o'clock news just like every other state. Now it takes days and possibly months and they think they are doing a great job. We explain what broke and why it matters for democratic trust. Four House Republicans voted for the War Powers Act to end the Iran war — a rare and notable break from Trump that now heads to the Senate for a showdown. And John Bolton walked into court today and pleaded guilty to one of the eighteen classified document counts against him. Is the former National Security Advisor actually going to prison? Big stories today and we are not sugarcoating any of them.

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Scott Pelley spent months fighting his CBS bosses on his own broadcast and learned the oldest lesson in professional life the hardest possible way — do not bite the hand that feeds you. CBS fired him. Meanwhile a Republican is in first place in the California governor's race and yes we checked the calendar and yes this is real. The years of homelessness, crime, wildfires, and sky high gas prices under Democratic rule have apparently finally moved the needle in the nation's biggest blue state. And Bill Pulte — the President's pick to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence — is drawing skepticism from virtually every direction. Republicans are quiet. Democrats are loud. The intelligence community is concerned. Is this really the person to lead seventeen spy agencies in the most dangerous intelligence environment in a generation?

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Iran's condition for coming back to the negotiating table is that Israel stops defending itself from Hezbollah. Not that Hezbollah stops attacking. Israel stops defending. Seriously. We break down what that demand actually tells us about Iran's real intentions. The $1.776 billion weaponization compensation fund has been paused after Congress from both parties pushed back hard. Six states vote today and the California story is the one to watch — Republicans are running real candidates for Governor and for Mayor of Los Angeles and the political environment created by years of Democratic failure on homelessness, crime, and wildfires has made both races genuinely competitive. California may not be turning red but it is turning something. All of it today.

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Iran says negotiations are over. Trump says they are moving at a rapid pace. Both cannot be true and today we call it out directly. Meanwhile Iran is coordinating with the Houthis to block the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and choke off the Red Sea — a move that combined with Hormuz pressure could trigger a global shipping and energy crisis. Six primaries tomorrow and next week Maine votes on Graham Platner. And The View ladies — of all people — used every bad word in the book asking why American voters cannot find better candidates. When The View and conservative America agree on something it is worth paying attention to. All of it today.

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The Iran offer is on the table and Trump has to decide — take the deal that solves very little or walk away and face what comes next. We make both cases honestly today. Jill Biden's denial about seeing anything wrong with Joe has sparked a bigger reaction than almost anyone expected and the reason why matters. Blue Origin had a rocket blow up on the launching pad this week and Elon Musk just got a little more breathing room in the space race. And the National Spelling Bee words this year are absolutely humbling — we guarantee you cannot spell them and we are not sure we can define them either. Big show today.

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The Iran fighting may pause but do not call it a solution. The nuclear program is still running, the regime is still standing, and we just handed the most dangerous foreign policy problem in the world to the next president and the next generation. Classic Washington. DHS wants to eliminate Customs and Border Protection at major airports in blue states — a proposal so unworkable that even Sean Duffy is against it. No customs means no international flights means more airline carnage. Jill Biden is doing press for her new book and suddenly cannot recall seeing what the entire country watched during that debate. Convenient timing. And PCE inflation just hit 3.8 percent — up from 2.3 percent a year ago. The inflation fight is going the wrong direction. All of it today, no spin.

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The President wants negotiations. Iran wants its nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz. Those two things cannot both be true at a negotiating table and yet here we are — stuck in a stalemate that neither side seems willing to break. Someone has to blink eventually. Our money is on — well, tune in and find out. In Texas Ken Paxton delivered a clear primary victory powered by Trump's endorsement and now faces Democrat Talarico in a general election that has already descended into the name calling and mudslinging that makes American political campaigns so exhausting and so entertaining at the same time. Nothing new there. All of it today straight and honest.

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CBS Radio — Edward R. Murrow's network, the Tiffany standard of American broadcast journalism — died Friday night at 99 years old without the farewell it earned. We give it that farewell today. Saturday a gunman was killed trying to shoot his way into the White House and the cameras caught something fascinating — one reporter dove for cover and another kept asking what the loud noise was. Two journalists, two very different instincts. Worth talking about. And today in Texas Trump is backing Ken Paxton against John Cornyn in a Republican primary that is really about one thing — punishing senators who refused to fund the ballroom and pushed back on the weaponization bill. Texas votes today and the results will echo across every Republican Senate office in America.

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Tulsi Gabbard stepped down as Director of National Intelligence today for the most human of reasons — her husband has been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and family comes first. Full stop. We wish them both strength. But Washington does not pause and the question of who leads American intelligence next is urgent. Kevin Warsh was officially sworn in as Federal Reserve Chairman today inheriting an inflation fight and a rate decision that will affect every American wallet. And despite gas prices that keep climbing millions of Americans are hitting the road anyway for the holiday weekend. How high do prices actually need to go before people stay home?

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