Tulsi Gabbard is on Capitol Hill this week seeking to gain the backing of the Senate GOP conference for her nomination by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as director of national intelligence—as support for her remains uncertain.
The veteran and former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii has faced questions from some Senate Republicans over her 2017 visit to Syria, where she met with then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In the wake of Assad’s apparent abdication following the fall of Damascus, the Syrian capital, senators’ questions about her visit, which Gabbard has repeatedly called a “fact-finding mission,” have intensified.
