Tulsi Gabbard denied the lack of support for her director of national intelligence in the Senate when she returned to the Hill on Wednesday.
Reuters notify Eight Republican senators on Tuesday said they were unsure of their support for the paper, which they said had not been prepared in recent meetings.
The report, citing a Trump transition source and a second source with knowledge of the matter, said senators were concerned about Gabbard’s 2017 visit to Syria and meeting with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and “her lack of significant intelligence experience.”
Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US intelligence chief, is escorted to a meeting with Senator John Cornyn on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 18, 2024.
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the hill notify last week about President-elect Donald Trump’s ID and senators’ “half-dozen sources, including senators and individuals close to the situation.”
ABC News’ Mary Bruce told Gabbard’s third straight day of meetings with Hill leaders that the reports were “nonsense.”
“I don’t report with anonymous sources,” he said.
Gabbard added that she was having “big meetings” with senators, but dodged questions about her confidence to be confirmed.
“There is a process and I look forward to continuing to meet with senators. There is still a way to go,” he said.
Despite numerous meetings with Republican and Democratic senators in recent weeks, none of the senators has publicly said they will accept Gabbard’s position.
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, leaves a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn in the Hart Senate Office Building, December 18, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Gabbard get to know with Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff and Republican Senators Susan Collins, Dan Sullivan, Chuck Grassley, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul on Tuesday.
Collins described his meeting with Gabbard as “very extensive and extensive,” but has not said he would vote for her confirmation. Collins told reporters after the meeting that he wanted to read the FBI background report and hold a confirmation hearing.
“As a co-author of the 2004 law that created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, I have a very strong interest in this position,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
