Gabbard reportedly struggled to sway Republican senators, with some questioning her qualifications for the top intelligence role.

How much will Americans get to know about the people Donald Trump is choosing to run the U.S. government? In the absence of any real vetting the way it's usually done, Rachel Maddow presents a Rachel Maddow Show Public Servant Announcement to hopefully help fill that gap.

A former CIA counterterrorism chief is the latest to back President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

So, it’s not a bad thing that some of Tulsi Gabbard’s ideas reject the status quo. It’s not a bad thing that Tulsi Gabbard sees things differently. And if some of her ideas are outright wrong, then at least she will fit in great with our broken intelligence community.

The Trump transition team has stepped up its support for Tulsi Gabbard, amid fears for her Senate confirmation for the role of director of national intelligence.

Tulsi Gabbard might soon learn director of national intelligence isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

Tulsi Gabbard, who Trump tapped to serve as his director of national intelligence, is expected to join the soon-to-be president at Saturday’s Army-Navy game.

Mo., said Sunday that he has no concerns about Donald Trump's selection of Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence.

Gabbard, Donald Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence, has been called "Russia's girlfriend" and parrots Kremlin talking points.

The Austin Republican leads the House Foreign Affairs Committee and predicted Gabbard’s nomination would fail in the Senate.

Some foreign officials are reportedly concerned about sharing intelligence with Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's choice for director of national intelligence.

During an appearance on Fox News Tuesday, host Laura Ingraham claimed that Trump’s nominee to be the next director of national intelligence had been wrongfully smeared as “an apologist” for Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, the dictator who fled Syria for Russia last week after rebels overtook Damascus.