Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel hearing five takeaways

Several candidates of President Donald Trump’s cabinet faced the same question from Republican and Democrats during the hearing of hours long confirmation on Thursday.

For former Democrats and military veteran Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, his previous comments were grown, which along with the official VIILLERED SHDEN, as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Syrian dictator Bashar al- His previous comments supporting his relationship with Assad was about.

Nominated for the FBI director, Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor and a colleague of the Trump Administration, on January 6, people involved in the capital riots were pressed on his pre -comments, praising his relationship with the law movement.

Here are some of the most memorable moments of hot hearing.

Fast questions about their previous comments about Russia’s war in Ukraine before digging the party for nomination of the party for nomination of their party’s presidential nomination in 2020, a former Hawaii former Hawaii Democratic Congressmen. Was facing He has been accused of repeating Russian propaganda to justify Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

At one point during the hearing, Democratic Senator Michael Bennett read many of Gabbard’s previous comments loudly, stating that Putin had “legitimate security concerns” over NATO expansion in Eastern Europe.

The Colorado MP accused Gabbard of agreeing to agree that a “totalitarian state” “was appropriate to roll at the peaceful border of Ukraine”.

He said that the Russian state TV broadcast his comments and called him “our friend Tulsi”.

The National Guard, a lieutenant Colonel Gabbard, who was posted in the Middle East twice, has no formal intelligence experience.

Both Republican and Democrats told Gabbard about their support for Edward Snowden, which was leaked by the National Security Agency Whistlebloor, which he alleged that the US was operating the illegal monitoring of its citizens. .

Critics said the leak threatened US national security.

The MPs asked Gabbard several times if she considers Snowden – someone she has earlier called “brave” and argued that she should be forgiven for her crimes – a traitor to America.

Gabbard refused to dug, yes or give an answer on the matter, and uncomfortable the moment for many Republicans.

“Snowden broke the law,” he told the MPs. “He released information about the United States … I have more immediate steps that I take another Snowden to stop.”

Gabbard also faced an inquiry for the 2017 visit to Syria to meet the then President Bashar al-Assad.

The visit came after the US government demanded Assad due to attacks including chemical weapons against our citizens of its government. His visit at that time criticized MPs on both sides of the corridor.

In the hearing on Thursday, Gabbard told the MPs that he “ask difficult questions about his rule’s works” to Assad.

He said in his initial comments, “I have no love for Assad or Gaddafi or a dictator.”

Gabbard said that in December it “shed no tears for the collapse of Assad rule”, when armed rebels captured the city of Syrian city of Damascus.

“But today we have an Islamist extremist who is now in charge of Syria,” she said.

During Patel’s five -hour hearing after Gabbard on Thursday, former prosecutors came into fire for their previous support for capital rioters.

He once helped promote the sale of a charity song recorded by rioters in jail on 6 January, including some who were convicted of violence against police officers.

Many Democratic Senators tried to pursue Patel about their relationship with rioters.

“Was President Donald Trump wrong to give blankets to the defendants of January 6?” Illinois’ senator Dick Darbin asked.

Patel replied, “I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement, including any violence against law enforcement on 6 January.”

Still at several points, Patel refused to criticize Trump’s forgiveness of the rioters who attacked the authorities.

Patel, a vocal critic of the agency, which he has been taped to lead and a Trump’s loyalty hit a more generous tone on Thursday than some of his previous comments.

Explaining his criticisms of the FBI, Patel pointed to public opinion surveys, reflecting the decline in confidence in the agency and highlighted two priorities, including dealing with violent crime, which he said “The country was exploding in this country.” “.

If confirmed, he said, “I will be focused on the main mission of the FBI, which is a constitutional factual basis to do so, wherever it is to be fully examined”.

But the Democrats continued to suppress them on their previous statements and activities.

Patel wrote a book called Government Gangsters, fulfilling his principles about a so -called “deep state” targeting Trump.

He has also expressed sympathy with the Qanon movement – a conspiracy principle that claims to be roughly spoken that a ring of satanic pedophile operates within the highest level of the government, media and business.

With Reporting from Phil McCaulland