Welcome to the NewsHour. Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, the highest-ranking

intelligence official in the U.S. government, resigned today. She said her husband is suffering

from a rare bone cancer that requires her full attention. Foreign and defense correspondent

Nick Schifrin and White House correspondent Liz Landers are both covering this story,

and they join us now. Nick, what did Gabbard say in her announcement, a resignation

announcement today? Well, as you said, William, Gabbard said that she's leaving because of

her husband's illness, and she released this resignation letter, which reads in part,

my husband Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an

extremely rare form of bone cancer. I must step away from public service to be by his side and

fully support him through this battle. In response, President Trump wrote that, quote,

Tulsi has done an incredible job and we will miss her. And the president announced that

her principal deputy, Aaron Lucas, would become the acting director of national intelligence.

So the president using kind words there, William, and Tulsi Gabbard has executed some of his key intelligence community priorities.

A Gabbard aide sent me a list of her accomplishments, listing, cutting what Gabbard called, quote,

agency bloat by more than 40 percent, declassified, including high-profile cases like the JFK

assassination, and exposing what the president calls the weaponization of the intelligence community.

But former intelligence and Trump officials tell me that Gabbard was largely cut out.

She was frozen out of the policymaking process and that, frankly, CIA director John Rackcliffe

has already been running the intelligence community.

Liz, you've been looking into one other part that Gabbard was involved in.

What can you tell us about that?

Gabbard took an unprecedented step and showed up in late January of this year in Fulton County, Georgia

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