c u. s. senate has voted to confirm chelsea gabbert his director of national intelligence that happened during a party line vote of 52 to 48 voting against her. were every single democrat and the chamber. also, mitch mcconnell, former republican leader, who said the nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the president's receives are tainted by a director of national intelligence with a history of alarming lapses in judgment. those alleged lapses are in the one hand, blaming the united states for rushers invasion of ukraine, and for visiting bashar al assad in syria. and telling the us government that he had no weapons of mass destruction. there were likely other republicans who might have voted against are many it expressed objections. chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate, said he believes that this were a silent vote, that only 10 people would have voted for. he called her a terrible choice. nonetheless, she went through largely with the support of republicans who wanted to make sure that donald trump got his nominees in however controversial. they are

c-span.org. >> on capitol hill the u. s. senate returns later today at 3 p.m.eastern to continue debate on president trump's cabinet nominations. send her to vote to come from christopher reich to the u.s. energy secretary as most offends the nomination of pam bondi to the attorney general and russell vought as white house budget director. the house gavels and tuesday at noon eastern. members are expected to consider several bills under suspension of the rules including legislation requiring the agriculture and injury departments to evaluate the use of new aerial firefighting technology to suppress wildfires. a bill to award the 9/11 memorial and museum in new york city and one-time grant to support its operations security and maintenance. watch live coverage of house on c-span, the senate on c-span2. all of our congressional coverage is available on our free video app c-span now and online at c-span.org. >> democracy, it is just an idea. it's a process, a process sheet by leaders elected to the highest office and entrusted to a select few with guarding its bas

c i a analyst, john curry, aka through while working in couple uncovered u. s. involvement in hurling and i did investigate the cultivation of hair when pop. ready scanned the stand for the senate foreign relations committee, a i actually flew to afghanistan helicopter into the poppy fields and interviewed a poppy farmer. i asked him not easily in retrospect why he didn't grow crops that had to growing seasons instead of poppy. something like tomatoes or onions, or pomegranate, it's an express great frustration and said in 2001, the americans told me that i could grow hair when poppy, if i told them where the error of this were hiding. and when i said what americans told you, you could grow hair when poppy and i was pulled back into the jeep and driven quickly back to the helicopter. now the bottom line, when i got back to washington readable and reported, this was that we wanted ask you understand to grow hair when poppy, because that her, when went to russia into iran and we wanted them to be addicted to heroin. you put your findings forward all of your investigation and that was the response that yes, were allowing her when to grow because it's going to hurt moscow. correct?