During an interview on CBS, Vance spoke in favor of Gabbard\u2019s nomination for Director of National Intelligence and said conservative publications criticizing her have \u201clost relevance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBoth the Wall Street Journal and the National Review, conservative publications, as you know, have been critical of Tulsi Gabbard. The Review called her \u2018an atrocious nominee who deserves to be defeated.\u2019 They compared her defense of Edward Snowden, the fugitive who stole U.S. secrets, to an attorney general who thinks the mob gets a bad rap. Her refusal to accept U.S. intelligence findings that Assad gassed his own people, they said was \u201clike a nominee for OMB Director not being able to count.\u201d Does any of this give you pause putting her in charge of the U.S. intelligence community? Yes or no?\u201d Brennan asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNo, Margaret look, these are publications that attacked Donald J. Trump obsessively, but those publications don\u2019t determine who the president is, the American people do, and Donald J. Trump is the person who determines who his cabinet is, not these publications that I think, frankly, have lost relevance,\u201d Vance shot back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During an interview on CBS, Vance spoke in favor of Gabbard\u2019s nomination for Director of National Intelligence and said conservative publications criticizing her have \u201clost relevance.\u201d \u201cBoth the Wall Street Journal and the National Review, conservative publications, as you know, have been critical of Tulsi Gabbard. The Review called her \u2018an atrocious nominee who deserves to…<\/p>\n