Multiple Democratic and Republican senators on Sunday signaled they will grill President-elect Donald Trump’s choices to lead the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon.
Earlier this month, Trump nominated former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to become his director of national intelligence (DNI) and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his secretary of defense. Both positions require confirmation by the Senate.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sunday on CNN that his panel will have “lots of questions” for Gabbard, singling out her meeting as a congresswoman with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as a point of contention….