<p>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard joined President Donald Trump in the Situation Room on Tuesday following a report that she was not invited to attend a June 8 Camp David retreat, where the president &#8220;convened senior national security officials to discuss the Middle East.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to a <a href="https://x.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1935020530337284546">report</a> from Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy, Gabbard &#8220;had a scheduling conflict with National Guard orders, but was never invited [to Camp David] in the first place.&#8221; A senior intelligence official told The Daily Wire that the Camp David retreat was not originally planned to be an intelligence meeting and that CIA Director John Ratcliffe also wasn&#8217;t initially invited to attend, but he ended up going at the last minute. The senior intelligence official added that Tuesday&#8217;s national security meeting with Trump in the Situation Room was moved to the afternoon so that Gabbard could attend.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tulsi Gabbard is in the Situation Room with Trump and his team right now, according to a senior intelligence official. </p>
<p>The meeting was supposed to be earlier, but was shifted to 1 o&#39;clock so that Tulsi could attend, the official says. She was testifying on the Hill.</p>
<p>&mdash; Brent Scher (@BrentScher) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1935042470112305641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Trump dismissed Gabbard&#8217;s March testimony before Congress, when she said Iran did not appear to be building a nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>“I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One while on his way back to the White House from the G7 summit in Canada.</p>
<p>Gabbard said in her opening statement before Congress in March that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.” She acknowledged that &#8220;in the past year, we’ve seen an erosion of a decades-long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decision-making apparatus.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons,” she added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">From March 26 House Intelligence Committee, DNI Tulsi Gabbard: &quot;The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.&quot;</p>
<p>Full video here: <a href="https://t.co/5PRCofvScf">https://t.co/5PRCofvScf</a> <a href="https://t.co/Mb5dj8zoAo">pic.twitter.com/Mb5dj8zoAo</a></p>
<p>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1935000400437903639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Asked to respond to Trump&#8217;s comments, Gabbard backed the president, saying there is no conflict between his stance on Iran and her prior statements to Congress.</p>
<p>&#8220;What President Trump is saying is the same thing I said in my annual threat assessment in March to Congress,&#8221; Gabbard said, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/5354764-trump-gabbard-iran-intelligence-assessment/">The Hill</a>.</p>
<p>A senior intelligence official told <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/trump-gabbard-iran-nuclear-weapon-testimony">Axios</a> that Gabbard&#8217;s testimony does not contradict Trump&#8217;s statement that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a distinction. Just because they don&#8217;t have one does not mean that they don&#8217;t want to build one,&#8221; the official said.</p>
<p>Israeli intelligence suggested that the radical Islamic regime was close to obtaining a nuclear weapon, while a U.S. intelligence official told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/israel-iran-nuclear-bomb-us-intelligence-years-away">CNN</a>, &#8220;If Iran wanted one, they have all the things they need.”</p>
<p>Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, joined the Republican Party after endorsing Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign last year. During her time in the Trump administration, Gabbard has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/from-asia-tulsi-gabbard-hails-trump-as-president-of-peace-amid-rising-china-threat?author=Jayden+Jelso&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=From+Asia%2C+Tulsi+Gabbard+Hails+Trump+As+%E2%80%98President+Of+Peace%E2%80%99+Amid+Rising+China+Threat">hailed</a> Trump as &#8220;the president of peace.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>This article has been updated with additional information. </em></p>

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