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Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense questioning from senators as they fight for a part in Donald Trump's second administration.
They are considered three of the president's most contentious picks for senior roles and face the toughest roads to confirmation.
FBI Director nominee Kash Patel, who has vowed to completely upend the bureau, defended himself against Democratic attacks that he won't be impartial.
He also pledged to release child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein's secretive flight logs, saying 'sex trafficking has no place in the United State of America.'
Gabbard, a former Democrat who became a staunch pro-Trump Republican, is being tapped to serve as the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
She faced a barrage of attacks from Democrats upset over her previous statements in support of Edward Snowden calling him a 'brave whistleblower.'
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Absolutely, senator. Child sex trafficking has no place in the United State of America. And I will do everything, if confirmed as FBI Director, to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened in the past and how we are going to counterman missing children and exploited children going forward.
This is when the rubber hits the road. This is not even to make sure this is not a moment for social media. It's not a moment to propagate theories, conspiracy theories or or attacks on journalism in the United States.
This is when you need to answer the questions of the people whose votes you're asking for to be confirmed as the chief intelligence officer of this nation. As my colleague said, this is not about you, it's about the people that serve the intelligence agencies of the United States.
Is Edward Snowden, a traitor to the United States of America? That is not a hard question to answer when the stakes are this high, senators, your answer yes or no is Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America
Some may view this as an unserious caricature and not appropriate for this committee. Sadly, I consider it a serious caricature of what I expect to be witness today.
I think we’ll have words like ‘enemies list’ and ‘deep state.'
But I also wanted to give an update on the tragedy that happened last night here in Washington, D.C. and provide a little bit more information as we are actively working to investigate and understand what occurred and why. At about 8:48 last night, a UH60, assigned to the U.S. Army Aviation Brigade in the military district of Washington, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, collided tragically with a civilian airliner.
The unit involved the Army unit involved with Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir. It was an annual proficiency training flight. And when we look at the crew and we're not all. Not all kin have been notified, So we're going to withhold ranks and names at this point. We do know on our side who was involved. It was a fairly experienced crew, and that was doing a required annual night evaluation. They did have night vision goggles.
The 12th Aviation Battalion, as of now was granted a 48 hour operational pause on contingency missions as what happened is reviewed and a senior level aviation team, an investigative team from our aviation safety center, was deployed last night and already is in Washington, D.C. to investigate what's going on. We anticipate that the investigation will quickly be able to determine whether the aircraft was in the quarter at the right altitude at the time of the incident.
As I mentioned, next of kin notifications are ongoing. It's a tragedy, a horrible loss of life for those 64 souls on that civilian airliner. And of course, the three soldiers in that Black Hawk. They're in our prayers, their families and their communities as people are notified. I can't imagine and I know it's it's gone from a rescue mission to a recovery mission. And we're with all the first responders that are moving actively to. So at the Defense Department. Our thoughts and prayers go out. We are actively investigating to find out what happened and why. And as we get updates, you will have them. God bless.