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Washington – In an important day for nominations of President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel landed on Capital Hill To hear Thursday’s confirmation,
Kennedy, nominated for Health and Human Services Secretary; Gabard, selected for the director of National Intelligence; And Patel, elected to the director of the FBI, all have created controversy for a similar reason: each has launched the criticisms of institutions that they have been selected to lead. Trump Republican-controlled Testing The Senate where it will attract the line between disruption and institutionalism.
They all demanded to clarify or reduce the previous stance or comments that have been launched in warm water with senators that will decide if they confirm.
There are five takeaments from the hearing of the day’s Senate committee here.
A Republican President’s warning for Kennedy
Seni Bill Cassidi, R-La., Chairman of Health, Education, and Pension Committee,, released some pointed comments at the end of the hearing about the long history of Anti-Waxin rhetoric of Kennedy. A doctor, Cassidi, stated that he agrees on issues such as food processed food and obesity from Kennedy, but Kennedy has used “evidence selected to doubt” on proven treatments.
“My concern is that if there is a wrong note, to reduce the uncle’s trust in vaccines, another person will die from the vaccine-pre-disease,” Cassidi said.
“And that’s why I am struggling with your nomination,” Cassidi said, clarifying that he has not made up his mind about his vote and has more questions for Kennedy – with Trump’s candidate with a candidate Rare to the chairman of a Republican Committee.
“You must be listening to me in the weekend,” Cassidi told him.
Senator gets personal with Kennedy about autism
A frightening hearing that had provoked weapons, a sharp Gayle and shouting matches suddenly stopped when Sen Maggi Hasan, DNH, spoke about his son, who has a cerebral palsy, which led to a decline in the room.
Hasan became emotional because she said not to go one day when she thinks “What I did when I got pregnant with her, maybe there may be a cause of hydrocephalus that has affected her life?” She then became vigorous: “So please do not suggest that no one in this body of the political party wants to know what is the cause of autism.”
It was one of many intense exchange with Kennedy which was played on Thursday. While he was given several opportunities to reject the principles that cause vaccine autism, they will not do so.
Patel wants a distance from the Maga personality
Patel shocked some senators with a degree in which his cookie-cutter performance performed for years in social media and right-wing shows before the judiciary committee departed from the Maga Flamthrover personality.
He said that “Coward in uniformOn January 6, 2021, “violation of the command series” was done in discussing the reaction of the capital riots – he now says that the comment had failed to deploy the national guard of senior officials. They have. Call to go after people “in the media,” Either “criminal or citizen” – he told the senators that it was a “partial quotation”. Patel also stated that the senators “did not take any retaliation” on the FBI, despite being expressed by their pre -expressions Desire to punish Trump’s alleged enemies.
It left some members of the committee scratching their heads.
Sen Sheldon Whitehouse, Dr. I .. “said in the conduct,” Today there is a immense difference between a mask that appears to be around this candidate and has actually left on his equipment in real life. “Character. And if you look at history, you look at the danger of security heads to become a tool of political power. The characteristics that often show are that they are tamasic, that they are gorgeous, that they are grand, that they are gorgeous Intimate that they are biased and loyal to close, that they are serving and will not say. “
Patel breaks with Trump on 6 January
Patel under indicated inquiry Made a break with Trump 1,500 January 6 On his decision to issue forgiveness or commutation for criminal defenders, in which police officers were confessed to attack. Patel argued that some violent criminals did not deserve generosity.
He said, “I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement, and I have that group, especially on 6 January, addressed any violence against law enforcement.” “And I do not agree with any punishment of any person who committed violence against law enforcement.”
Sen Thom Tilis, RNC, who introduced Patel and defended him during the hearing, stated that he also disagreed with Trump’s move to forgive violent rioters. He said, “I am thanking these capital police officers, and I told them that I really thought that people who harmed police officers sucked,” he said.
Gabard Grilled About Edward Snowden
DNI named, Gabard, for a former Democratic Congress of Hawaii, which is now a Republican, Grilled about his ability Defective of an American intelligence system, which he has outstanding and has been broken with main issues over the years.
She was associated with questions from several Republican Senators about her previous praise of Edward Snowden – former intelligence contractor, who leaked a troop of information classified before fleeing in Russia – as “brave whistleblower”.
Gabbard prevented him from rejecting his previous comments or calling him “traitors” as several members of the committee, just saying that he “broke the law” and revealed important information in doing so.
“Even when he broke the law, he released information that exposed the arrogant, illegal and unconstitutional programs within our government, which led to serious improvements,” he said.
Gabard also faced questions about his shifting positions on warrantless surveillance of foreign goals under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Monitoring Act, recently to cancel it to call it to call it. Supports He said that during the revaluation of the Congress, his previous protest program was “about exposing violations of Civil Civil Liberty violations at that time”.
Separately, when Sen Jerry Moran, R-Cur., Asked if Russia “finds a close in your mind or in your heart,” Gabbard replied, “Senator, I am angry with this question, because I have the only meditation, commitment and responsibility.
