<p>Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) defended former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, over the weekend after she has been attacked in the media over the last couple of weeks.</p>
<p>Schmitt made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; with Kristen Welker when asked about remarks that former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley made about Gabbard.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is not a place for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer,&#8221; Haley said recently. &#8220;DNI has to analyze real threats. Are we comfortable with someone like that at the top of our national intelligence agencies?&#8221;</p>
<p>Schmitt responded: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s really interesting that anybody that has a different political view now is being cast as a Russian asset.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s totally ridiculous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Tulsi Gabbard has served in our military. She&#8217;s served as a congresswoman from Hawaii — as a Democrat, I might add, part of this unique coalition that President Trump has put together and won and got that mandate. But I think it&#8217;s insulting. It&#8217;s a slur, quite frankly.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no evidence that she&#8217;s an asset of another country,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;She&#8217;s served this country honorably. And, by the way, she cares deeply about our constitution and civil liberties and making sure people aren&#8217;t being targeted by these intelligence agencies.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schmitt said that Gabbard was &#8220;a reformer&#8221; who can come in and shake up the intelligence community.</p>
<p>He later added that he planned to vote for Gabbard as well as Pam Bondi for attorney general and Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense.</p>
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