tulsa gabbert made her name, telling the truth about the syrian war and the gas attacks. right. so they wanted brock obama to bomb syria and to do another decapitation like they did in libya like they did in the rec, out those turn out. and so they did the same thing in the brock obama said you had a red line and syria of gas attacks. and so of course, that's the 1st thing that the of the c i a engineered through to isis an iso and a l news row, which is what we were in bed with in syria. people think we're fighting them, we're actually working with them. the c i and the pentagon were often funding to different terrorist organizations inside syria, and then they would end up fighting each other. that's a, that's not speculation that was actually printed on page $78.00 of the washington post. so nobody knows about it except people like me. but um, yes, it was quite a thing that was a gap. it will be the head of intelligence director of natural intelligence overseeing to see a and she knows and recognizes what you just said. i don't know whether she's been on your show even. yes.

but then they has come above a cell in the name of chelsea, gabbert. now she is an anti war veteran form a democrat who used to support bernie sanders on pretty much the far left of a democratic party. this year she directed to the trump campaign and now trump is nominated as director of national intelligence. and that's a joke is meant to quoted in between america is various intelligence organizations . so it's already sensitive jumps and absolutely massive price for her. and really quite extraordinary, given that she is somebody who the day off to of letting me uprooted and invaded ukraine in early 222022. she tweeted that the 5 ministration was essentially to blame for not respecting what she called russia's legitimate security interest. now for those kind of views you might find gabbert and some of the other people that donald trump has nominated, facing pretty tough opposition in the senate during the confirmation process that will be coming up. but these nominations clearly assigned that donald trump is prepared to mix things up with his new admi

in that same category. gabbert is confidence capable. and all they've got to do is put her in front of a microphone. she'll tell those people up that are attacked, you know, she's very capable of defending herself hardware. sorry, thank you so much for joining. the program is always good to hear your thoughts. have been talking to laurie jones and pharmacy i on the list on the c or with business consulting firm book associates have a good evening. thank you. good evening. thank you. so can you suppose malware protesting fall? most of blokes, a road closely with neighboring ukraine. the line of waiting trucks is reportedly we started the kilometer and the lens would use industry work is the angry with the will also government's taxation policy as well as a free trade agreement with south american countries. farm is say that business is of also being taking losses due to cheap ukrainian grains, plugging totally small kids protest as it was supposed to be lessing no more than one trunk across the board of our well, the largest ones are turn

while former democrats will see gabbert is his pick for the director of national intelligence and math gates has been chosen as attorney general. all 3 must be confirmed by the senate, which will be under republican control from january. alpha 0 is white house correspondent, kimberly healthcare has more on this from washington. astonishment from both democrats and republicans here in washington and across the united states over the decision to a point not only tulsa gabbert, a one time democrat, to director of national intelligence, but also mat gates a one time congressman. now to be the attorney general, the top law enforcement officer picks by president elect donald trump coming as a bit of a surprise given their backgrounds. tulsa gabbert has been at odds with foreign policy in the united states. she has met in the past in 2017 with syrian president bosher all off that that is at odds with us foreign policy. also claiming that there are bio labs in you frame, but it is really, mat gates is background. that is a grave is concerned to both democrats and some republicans. until recent

it's a good sign when the establishment freaks out at people like chelsea, gabbert bobby kennedy mat gates at their appointments. right. that's it's the, it's the appointments. busy the establishment doesn't make a rock as those are the ones you need to worry about. so i hear what you're saying . i that does, donald trump know that are uh, you know, our imperialist policies is what actually leads to immigration. so it what we just had a thing during the campaign where there's uh 20000 haitian immigrants into a town in ohio, which is right in this, you know, central america, midwest, america in the town of like 50000 people. 20000 asian immigrants came in there and they took a took over a lot of their menu, factoring jobs. and ged vance and donald trump spoke on this, extensively about the problems that this cause. but what they didn't do was talk about what caused those haitians to be so desperate to leave their own country to come to the united states and take those manufacturing jobs. right. so they used to be, we would out source those jobs to places like katie. now we're just in

>> speaking of people targeted, kelsey gabbert was nominated.ant to put this question to you because you're the only one here who put on the uniform like her. she is an antiwar stance and there's criticism around that having met with foreign leaders considered adversaries. what you think about kelsey gabbert as the director of national intelligence? >> i don't know to what extent she was target. i read something today, i can't remember the name of it but a lot of people travel to certain places a certain amount of time and the explanation shows that idiocy because it was a former congressman, i think peter meyer and it was like i had a top-secret clearance that was put on that list and it showed you how bad it is, uncoordinated disjointed and ineffective it is. you got someone currently serving now maybe two people if he's a correct in the assessment on the list and people serving and have security clearances put on a watchlist because it's so automated and impersonal so void of common sense nobody's checking to see who these people are and make

yeah, some of the nominees that are proven controversial include tulsa gabbert, who has been nominated to be the director of national intelligence. she's a former democratic congresswoman who is also a military veteran. she's been very critical of democratic policy. is it like not supporting american involvement in for and complex and she has switched to the republican party, but she has no experience in the intelligence community. his health, no intelligence positions, as opposed to her predecessor arrow gains who work for many years in the intelligence community. she's also parroted russian conspiracy theories against ukraine after the war began there. so she's seen as definitely someone who may not be qualified for that position by many moderate republicans. another person who could be seen as controversial as pete hicks, that's who has been nominated for the defense secretary position. he's a former fox news news host. he also served in the military and he use that platform to really go against what he calls woke generals in the military who are trying to promote equity and equalit

of nominations that we have gotten a flurry of today, more than a decade ago that you and kelsey gabbert came to congress together, both female iraq war veterans, you sponsored legislation together, you appeared together on cnn at times. when you see that she has been nominated as director of national intelligence, would you vote yes on that? >> know. she is not qualified. she is yet another person along the line, just within the last 24 hours, a member of number of unqualified individuals that donald trump has nominated two very important positions in our government, it is astonishing. she does not have the national intelligence experience. she was a medical records clerk in iraq as a t-four e4, she does not have the experience for director of national intelligence. she is a very nice person and obviously has a position very close to donald trump but perhaps that is what you need in order to get a nomination in this administrator and. >> you are arguing that you don't think pete hegseth is qualified, you don't think elsie gabbert is qualified for national intelligence, he also announced

and my gates is the attorney general gabbert has criticized the us as involvement and what she calls wasteful. foreign was and this confirmed she'll be in charge of putting together the president's daily brief of information on national security issues. gates is a 5 and trump loyalist. he's about to and what he calls the weaponized ation of the justice system. as the attorney general, he will lead to the department of justice over the senate drum kuhn was elected majority leader, paul to the establishment wing of the republican party. he's made his peace with donald trump and pledge to carry out the president elect agenda. we have a mandate from the american people, a mandate not only to clean up the mess left by the highest light in here as humor agenda, but also to deliver on president trump's priorities. but it is notable the food in times to confirm donald trump's cabinet nominees through the senate as quickly as possible. before trump nominated gates, gathered both, i'd like you to face a tough conservation, baffled with some republicans already expressing their opposition to th

all the former democrats, hulsy gabbert is this pick for director of national intelligence. and my gates has been chosen as attorney general. all 3 must be confirmed by the senate, which was now under republican control. our white house correspondent, kimberly how could is joining us to tell us what's, what's being said about these nominations. kimberly a little bit of eyebrow raising about the couple of these nominations in particular. chelsea gabbert not just because she is a one time republican but more because of some of her foreign policy positions at odds with us foreign policy in 2017. she met with boshra law sub that is at odds with us for a policy and also with her claims about via labs in you frame. but it's really, mat gate says the top law enforcement officer, that nomination. that is really astonishing, not just democrats, but republicans as well. and here's the reason why. up until a, just a few days ago, he was being investigated by a house ethics committee for allegations that he denies and sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and accepting improper guess. now

he has some of the, uh, people like tulsa gabbert, who have been, uh, tremendous. uh, critics of what's been going on for the past couple of decades. so we have a mix. okay, and how about you? because, i mean, one could say this is all by design. is that um, they'll be a lot of in fighting. maybe that's what trump wants. no one will have to gemini, they'll all have to look to him as the mediator. i mean, you've been in a bureaucracies before what you read on this. well, the obvious conclusion of joint is the jumps, the tensions by much tiny tools and what's happening in the middle east, and also what's happening in china. and so i want an apple focus on, on ukraine, and in support for the boy, for the day is going to be on the city to climb much as the site and in some election campaign. and i'm house go, i mean it's a so it's stress during the campaign and even is victory speech with that, he's a man that he wants to create peace and wars with this, with this lot coming in here. they don't seem very peace driven to me. pasco know, and i agree and tend is owens one

on the other hand, that gave you the nominee for attorney general's mis gabbert. as d n i perhaps even p tech stuff has been nominated for the secretary of defense are going to be far more controversial and are really going to test the degree to which the senate g o p which alternately will decide whether or not these nominees get through or really complete lock step behind the president are willing to maintain and safeguard the institutional prerogative. ready the congress or you were just mentioning, the senate that because republican policy now controls by the house of representatives, as well as the senate, a major boost for donald trump's agenda. i absolutely use not going to have to fight with the so met with the democrats in which would control one of the houses. the other problem though, is that it's a fairly narrow majority within both the car in both houses in the senate. you know, you've got at least susan collins and we some more cows do you are normally republican independence a by definition of both express skepticism about some of these names and of

well, a plus for chelsea gabbert is that she's not part of the foreign policy blob. that's why there's so much resistance to her. and then there's the issue of qualification that's all over the place. well, look at the by the administrative looking at his cabinet, of what qualifications to these people have. okay. i mean, it's really quite extraordinary. marco rubio, pete heck sets, i mean, was a tb increment wrong. reagan was an actor. i mean, i'm not trying to denigrate or support any of these people here, but i don't really think this is the issue. it play qualifications, george. no, it is. that is one of these completely bogus arguments that people try that why, you know, or the real issue is lack of qualifications to post us. they've got a big issue. she actually, so she served in the military. she has taken a consistent interest in matters of intelligence and secure with any rate if you were to ask, well what's, what's the thing, what's issues are, i think it's been foreign policy, a critique of american foreign policy and intervention is and they probably won'

hill in all across washington and policy circles as well to some of the nominations, namely telson, gabbert, ford, director of national intelligence, and matt gates for the top law enforcement officer, attorney general, and here's why tulsa gabbert is a democrat, but also the fact that she has been a somewhat controversal for summer, for, for a policy decisions that have been at odds with us for a policy. for example, a 2017 she met with the syrian president basra side. that is at odds with you inform policy. and also she is infuriated critics for claims that there were bio labs and ukraine, but it's really mat gates. that is the big concern. and that is because he until just recently was a us congressman that immediately resigned when he was nominated for attorney general because he was being investigated for a very serious ethics allegation to that report on those aspects. allegations was due to be released on friday for good and things such as sexual misconduct, illegal drug use, and accepted in proper gifts. so you can see why this is a bit of a problem for the top law enforcement offic

army special forces, jim hansen joining me now is great to see you and remember, toasty gabbert is an and former democrat which is why i think the coming after her in the independent goes as far to say that she's a prolifically prolific propaganda, there's absolutely no evidence of it except for as he said that she questions. >> see what i think if you look at whose accusing hers left-wing loons like tammy duckworth and others in her views are a lot closer to president trump's and the democrat party which is why she left to join the right team, the think that she has that they hate is a she refuses to become part of the military industrial forever war complex and she believes that maybe we should not start a fight with every bad guy in the world to make this amazing and a pledge about that because also in the team independent piece that i reference, they said that tulsi gabbard made an antiwar democrat from moscow friendly they don't worry are generally in the irony about is because when you think of the democrats today, antiwar, not antiwar it always matter fact, all i've seen is mo

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he does have, you know, bobby kennedy ran on an anti interventionism, tulsa gabbert got kicked out of the democratic party for telling the truth about syria and the gas attacks. that's why they swear here as it rush and they're currently doing the same thing. they're currently saying that she's in the pocket of putting in russia, and that's all they have. so the, that's a good sign. it's a good sign when the establishment freaks out at people like tennessee gabbert bobby kennedy, mat gates at their appointments. right. that's, it's the, it's the appointments when the establishment doesn't make a rock as those are the ones you need to worry about. so i hear what you're saying . i have that. does donald trump know that are uh, you know, our imperialist policies is what actually leads to immigration? so it what we just had a thing during the campaign where there's uh 20000 haitian immigrants into a town in ohio, which is right in this, you know, central america, midwest, america. um, it is a town of like 50000 people, 20000 asian immigrants came in there and they took a took over a lot o

. >> he announced he's selected tulsi gabbert to be his director of national intelligence.ative politics. the president-elect also just announced moments ago he has picked florida republican congressman, matt gaetz, as his attorney general. he's been a long standing supporter of the president-elect and faced controversy over questionable personal conduct. >> president-elect trump's picks come as republicans have cemented their control of capitol hill. it is projected house republicans will maintain their majority in the house of representatives and for the first time in nearly two decades, there's a new top republican in the senate. south dakota senator, john thune, will succeed senator mitch mcconnell as the next majority leader after being elected by his colleagues in a secret vote earlier today. >> it's a new day in the united states senate and in america. the american people have loudly rejected the failed policies of the biden harris schumer agenda. this republican team is united. we are on one team. we are excited to reclaim the majority and the get to work with our c

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pete hague says the defense secretary, nominee is a tv presenter, myers, and sex scandals and tulsa. gabbert domini for director of national intelligence has been accused of spreading pro russian propaganda and has never held an intelligence post. all 3 share, a lack of experience and of shocked the establishment. do the nominees have publicly endorsed trumps america 1st policy views. they're suspicious of alliances like nato, in favor of the us withdrawing from the international order. it helped create many, including tom homan, the nominee for border security are linked to project 2025, a guidebook to re make the federal government into a strong hold of conservative power that would allow the president to do is he likes attorney general nominee pam bondi the former attorney general of florida has taken trump side and legal battles before and would be expected to shut down federal legal cases against him. but senate confirmation may be a major hurdle for the more controversial nominees. republicans have the majority in the chamber, but moderate republicans could still block nominations all

and uh, any other nominations that have full control, the one that you on site as well as tools he gabbert. she has been nominated as the director of national intelligence. she is a former democrat, very fiercely loyal as well to donald trump. once again, likes experience and intelligence matters. she's known because she is opposed to us interventions in both ukraine and in syria. and since even suggested that the us provoked rushed into aggressive policies, there were being plenty of people who said that she's very too friendly at to russia. and so that's also caused a lot of concern. and right now what's, what's the common thread done in these moment? nations here's loyalty to donald, that's it isn't, that's essentially what we've been seeing. fierce loyalty to donald trump. it's not a surprise. and donald trump in many ways is shocking and many aspects, but we're already prepared. we know he's unpredictable. i don't know if that was particularly india unpredictable. he is in the 5 a thank you very much, scott. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines, or hey,

and you've got a tulsa gabbert, was always a controversial figure. she's now supposed to go to intelligence director. and then you go to my mat gates. probably one of the biggest red alarms for a lot of people and they go to kennedy. so individually these will cause concerns from a lot of senators moderate senators taken together, it becomes a game, a strategy. where do you plant your flag? we're what he'll do. you dial and are you going to go against all of these? i think gates is going to have a real real problem just from the voice of the we've heard from the senate, robert f. kennedy junior. i can imagine it will also be a lot of reservations but, but we'll see it in the system while your selection team. thank you very much. as time now to have looked at some of the other stories making headlines, israel's military says it hit more than 120. it has blood targets throughout lebanon. over the past day. they root has come under attack again and the southern suburbs of the here and a few kilometers from the center and tell you in a israel gave evacua

now for those kind of views you might find gabbert and some of the other people that donald trump has nominated, facing pretty tough opposition in the senate during the confirmation process that will be coming up. but these nominations clearly assigned that donald trump is prepared to mix things up with his new administration. mixing establishment takes with downright kind of like kind of plastic peaks. but then of course, with donald trump, maybe that shouldn't come as a surprise someplace he was nominate congressman map gates of attorney general gates has been one of his dom just allies on the critic of the justice department. he was investigated over sex, profiting allegations involving the 17 year old girl with no charges were brought against him from floodgates with end weaponized government and restore americans faith. i'm confidence in the justice develop, patterson, in green, and i or not. now, us secretary of state anthony blinking has been visiting nato headquarters in brussels, where he twice to reassure ukrainians. they will be able to defend the country off the donald tru

do you really want to put the entire western alliance at risk, with tulsi gabbert in that position?u really want to have one of your first votes to be to confirm a conspiracy theorist, like rfk jr.? and so, there are others that i think might be emboldened by this. i mean, look, obviously, the first early test is going to be on these confirmations, but there is a real difference between mitch mcconnell and people like mike brown, for example, in the senate, who have been allied with trump, on issues like ukraine. and when it comes down to it, what stance will they take against a donald trump that wants to throw nato under the bus? or, wants to cut off ukraine? that might be a redline for some of them. and again, with 53 votes, you don't need more than a handful. and again, we have seen this over and over, the way they cave in. but, you know, new day, new game, new personality. >> yeah, susan collins, lisa murkowski, thom tillis, mitch mcconnell, i can't believe i am saying those names, a nation turned the lonely eyes to you, charlie sykes. thank you for your time, sir, tonight. >> t

is director of national intelligence and mountain gates is attorney general gabbert has criticized the us as involvement and watch equals wasteful foreign was and this confirmed she'll be in charge of putting together the president's daily brief of information on national security issues. dates is a 5 and trump loyalist. he's about to and what he calls the weaponized ation of the justice system. as the attorney general, he will lead to the department of justice over the senate drum tune was elected majority that they part of the establishment wing of the republican party. he's made his peace with donald trump and pledge to carry out the president's alexa agenda. we have a mandate from the american people mandate, not only to clean up the mass left by the highest light in here as tumor agenda, but also to deliver on president trump's priorities. but it is notable the food in times to confirm donald trump's cabinet nominees through the senate as quickly as possible. before trump nominated gates cabinets. both i'd like you to face a tough conservation, baffled with some republicans alread

and some of the concern here is whether kelsey gabbert has the expertise and experience but also thetruth to power. geoff: the role of director of national intelligence was created after 9/11 because there was a concern other intelligence agencies were not sharing information. information had been sideload. help us understand what the dni actually does. michael: the director of national intelligence, the dni, was a result of decades of challenges and fights between the intelligence organizations, the fbi, cia, national security agency. those were epitomized in the failures of the weapons of mass destruction debacle in iraq and 9/11. the dni was supposed to take this large enterprise, coordinate budgets and efforts, and make sure the president and the cabinet had the best intelligence possible regardless of where it came from. and making sure that different views were coming to the president. it has been the subject of criticism over its 20 years as being overly bureaucratic and not efficient. but i think those core needs for the intelligence community to be well coordinated and to ma

picks by president elect donald trump coming as a bit of a surprise given their backgrounds. tulsa gabbert has been at odds with foreign policy in the united states. she has met in the past and 2017 with syrian president bosher all off that that is at odds with us foreign policy. also claiming that there are bio labs in ukraine, but it is really, mat gates is background that is of greatest concern to both democrats and some republicans. until recently, she had been investigated by a house ethics panel for concerns about morality including illicit drug use, accepting gifts, ad sexual misconduct. this panel was set to release its report on friday that will no longer be made public due to his appointment as attorney general. now, there are concerns about whether or not donald trump will now be able to have a check power given the fact that the republican party controls the house of representatives, the senate. and now donald trump is able to potentially push through his appointments without having any sort of vote at all. in fact, he posted on acts that he would like to do. so during recess i

nominated marco rubio, a senator from florida for secretary states, while the former democrats also gabbert is picked for the director of national intelligence. and my gates has been chosen as the attorney general. all 3 must be confirmed by the senate, which is now under republican control. kimberly how good is our white house correspondent? that is joining us to tell us what reaction has been like to these nominations. well, there's been a little bit of a scottish ment among democrats and republicans about the appointment of tulsa gabbert, but the one that's really got the jobs dropping is the one for attorney general. and that's matt gates. and here's why tulsa gathered raising some eyebrows. she's a democrats, but that's not the issue. the issue is her a foreign policy stands. it's a bit at odds with american foreign policy. and she raised some eyebrows back in 2017. when she went and had a meeting with beishir, alas of the syrian presidents, she's also made some unusual claims about via labs and ukraine. but the real i brought raising appointment here by donald trump is matt gates. and

for the top law enforcement officer, attorney general, and here's why tulsa gabbert is uh, democrat, but also the fact that she has been a somewhat controversal for summer, for, for a policy decisions that have been at odds with us for a policy. for example, in 2017, she met with the syrian president by cheryl. i saw that is at odds with you in for a policy and also, and she is infuriated critics for claims. there were bio labs and ukraine, but it's really mat gates, but it's the big concern. and that is because she, until just recently, was a us congressman that immediately resigned when he was nominated for attorney general because he was being investigated for a very serious ethics allegations. and that report on those aspects allegations was due to be released on friday for good things such as sexual misconduct, illegal drug use, and accepting improper guess. so you can see why this is a bit of a problem for the top law enforcement officer. so this is really raised some eyebrows. why donald trump would be a pointing such an individual to be the top law enforcement officer. essent