Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list. Kennedy Jr. The onslaught of claims, promises and testy exchanges did not occur in a political vacuum. Patty Murray, D-Washington, earlier.
A majority vote, in the Senate which is led by Republicans , is needed for confirmation, leaving little room for dissent. But her hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee offered a roadmap toward confirmation.
It opened with the chairman, Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the panel, questioned whether she could build the trust needed, at home and abroad, to do the job. Pressed on her secret trip to meet with then-Syrian President Bashir Assad, who has since been toppled by rebels and fled to Russia, she defended her work as diplomacy. Gabbard may have made some inroads with one potentially skeptical Republican.
The former government contractor was charged with espionage after leaking a trove of sensitive intelligence material, and fled to residency in Russia.
Robert F. Kennedy responded that his father, the late Robert F. Kennedy, told him that people in positions of power do lie. Maggie Hassan, D-N. But Sen. The president played the song opening his campaign rallies.
