PREVIEW - SPECIAL EDITION: Gabbard, Kennedy, and Patel's confirmation hearings.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, Senate committees held hearings to consider the nominations of Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Kash Patel as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While most of President Donald Trump’s nominees have been confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support — including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem — Gabbard, Kennedy, and Patel’s outlook is the most uncertain of Trump’s remaining nominees.
In today’s special Friday edition, we’ll cover their Senate hearings in a truncated version of our standard Tangle format with an overview of each hearing, perspectives from writers on the left and right, and our take.
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| 1:19.6 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, |
| 1:29.1 | some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. I am your host today, editor Will Kayback, |
| 1:35.1 | and we have a special Friday edition for you. We are going to be talking about three major |
| 1:40.5 | confirmation hearings for President Trump's appointees. That includes Tulsi Gabbard, |
| 1:45.9 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cash Patel, those hearings were held this week. We're going to be |
| 1:50.4 | diving into what happened at the hearings, what was said, what the reactions were, and then our |
| 1:55.4 | assessment of where those nominations stand going forward. A lot to get to, a lot of news. |
| 2:01.3 | Excited to bring this to you. So let's jump right into it. |
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