The meetings with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hung over Gabbard, Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence, as she ran for president in 2020.

President-elect Trump has picked former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. She secretly met with Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad in 2017. Former Rep. Charlie Dent describes what he told Gabbard about that visit.

Tulsi Gabbard - a former Democratic congresswoman who joined the Republican Party to back Donald Trump - is the president-elect's pick for director of national intelligence. The wide-ranging role would mean she oversees US intelligence agencies like the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA), which focuses on intelligence gathering.

Some Democrats attacked former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard after President-elect Trump tapped her to serve as director of national intelligence.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) said Wednesday she is “appalled” by President-elect Trump’s choice of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) as the director of national intelligence (DNI). In a series of posts on the social platform X,

Gabbard, an Army Reserve officer whose antiwar views are seen as sympathetic to Moscow, is considered an unconventional choice to lead U.S. spy agencies.

Trump picks Tulsi Gabbard, former Democratic congresswoman, as nominee for director of national intelligence.

Gabbard hasn't worked directly in the intelligence community but served two years on the House Homeland Security Committee.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has selected former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to serve as his director of national intelligence. Gabbard represented Hawaii in Congress as a Democrat from 2013 to 2021 and unsuccessfully sought the party's presidential nomination in 2020.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has chosen Tulsi Gabbard, a 43-year-old former Democratic representative and critic of the Biden administration, as his director of national intelligence.