Two of the president's top intelligence community picks faced some sharp questioning today.

Appearing before Senate committees on Capitol Hill, Cash Patel, President Trump's choice to lead the FBI,

and Tulsi Gabbard nominated for Director of National Intelligence.

Nick Schifrin and Larbarone Lopez have been following today's confirmation hearings,

and Nick begins our coverage with Tulsi today's confirmation hearings, and Nick begins

our coverage with Tulsi Gabbard.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.

Today in the Senate Intelligence Committee, the name used more than any other was not

the woman nominated to lead the intelligence community, but the man responsible for its

largest breach.

Edward Snowden was a national security agency contractor who leaked more than a million classified

documents.

In 2020, Tulsi Gabbard wanted him pardoned.

I've introduced legislation to stand up for and to protect brave whistleblowers.

Do you still think Edward Snowden is brave?

Today, Gabbard's past comments grew by partisan concern, beginning

with Vice Chairman, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner.

Edward Snowden broke the law. I do not agree with or support with all of the information

and intelligence that he released, nor the way in which he did it.

Oklahoma Republican James Langford.

Was he a traitor at the time when he took America's secrets, released them in public,

and then ran to China and became a Russian citizen?

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