WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence, has moved a step closer to Senate confirmation. The Senate Intelligence Committee voted behind closed doors Tuesday to advance Gabbard’s nomination to the full Senate for a vote. Gabbard is a former Democratic congresswoman and one of Trump’s more divisive nominees, given past comments sympathetic to Russia, her meeting with Syria’s now-deposed leader and her past support for government leaker Edward Snowden. Given thin Republican margins in the Senate, she will need almost all GOP senators to vote yes in order to win confirmation.
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