Give the listeners some backstory and reaction to this ad.

Yeah, and it is being talked about all over the country.

I've been talking to radio stations today in Ohio, where a host just told me that she was horrified by it.

They're talking about it all the way on the West Coast, too.

This is an ad in the Ohio governor's race.

The candidates, of course, are Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.

You remember him from a couple of years ago running in the Republican primary against Donald Trump.

But they're doubling down, putting four million dollars behind this ad now to get it on TV.

Stephen, is there any indication at this point from authorities as to how close this group was to pulling it off?

Well, look, what we heard yesterday from Matt Quinn, who's the deputy director of the Secret Service, is that the event itself was never at risk.

And I can tell you that there was a tremendous security cordon put over the event, but that was the plan anyway.

Remember they talked about Super Bowl-style security? You had 4,000 guests inside, under the claw, attending the event itself.

120-odd thousand people were given tickets to attend at the Ellipse, just south of the White House.

They all had to undergo screening as well.

While this plot certainly was aspirational, according to authorities, that you had several people in a group chat on the Signal app communicating all across the country.

I just don't know how likely it is or possible with maybe a consumer grade drone to be in some way armed with an explosive.

Before we get to who Clayton is, why is Trump pivoting away from

Pulte? Well, in part because, I mean, the main reason is all the pushback that he's gotten from mostly Democrats, but also privately some Republicans who have expressed concern about the idea of a man who is known to be a loyalist to the president with no national security experience, certainly no experience specifically related to intelligence gathering, who has been tasked by the president with downsizing the department and the agency, the office.

And that's led to concerns.

So yesterday, the president announced that Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a lawyer in private practice before that, who mainly worked in corporate law, is going to be the nominee for the pick permanently.

An extraordinary thing happened yesterday.

The Senate leadership said that they would schedule a hearing on Wednesday of next week to see about confirming Jay Clayton to the post more permanently.

That is an extraordinarily hasty arrangement that Senate Republicans are taking up, perhaps because they, too, don't want to see Bill Pulte in the acting role for very long.

Or am I reading that wrong? And also, what is the sort of general feeling around those you work with and come in contact with about hosting this kind of event on White House property?

Before we get to who Clayton is, why is Trump pivoting away from Pulte?

Well, in part because, I mean, the main reason is all the pushback that he's gotten from mostly Democrats, but also privately some Republicans who have expressed concern about the idea of a man who is known to be a loyalist to the president with no national security experience, certainly no experience specifically related to intelligence gathering, who has been tasked by the president with downsizing the department and the agency, the office.

And that's led to concerns.

So yesterday, the president announced that Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a lawyer in private practice before that, who mainly worked in corporate law, is going to be the nominee for the pick permanently.

An extraordinary thing happened yesterday.

The Senate leadership said that they would schedule a hearing on Wednesday of next week to see about confirming Jay Clayton to the Post more permanently.

That is an extraordinarily hasty arrangement that Senate Republicans are taking up, perhaps because they, too, don't want to see Bill Pulte in the acting role for very long.

Or am I reading that wrong? And also, what is the sort of general feeling around those you work with and come in contact with about hosting this kind of event on White House property?