“Tulsi Gabbard,” the California Democrat said. “She has no experience in the intelligence community. She didn’t even serve on the (House) Intelligence Committee. She has a very questionable fondness for dictators who gas their own people and poison their own people like Bashar Assad and Vladimir Putin.”

Former Representative Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence, testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington,