President-elect Donald Trump makes new administration picks | Quickcast

In today’s Quickcast: President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has selected former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who represented Hawaii in Congress as a Democrat and unsuccessfully sought the party's presidential nomination in 2020, to serve as his director of national intelligence. "For over two decades, Tulsi has fought for our country and the freedoms of all Americans," Trump said in a statement announcing Gabbard as his pick. "As a former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, she has broad support in both parties — she is now a proud Republican!" The president-elect said Gabbard "will bring the fearless spirit that has defined her illustrious career to our intelligence community, championing our constitutional rights, and securing peace through strength." The position requires Senate confirmation. Gabbard does not have experience in the field of intelligence and opposes the United States' intervention in the war in Ukraine. In 2019, she also expressed opposition to U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war and said the country's leader, Bashar al-Assad "is not the enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States." Gabbard met with Assad in 2017, which she defended at the time as a "fact-finding mission," but in 2019 she described him a "brutal dictator." She represented Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2013 to 2021 and ran for president in the Democratic primaries in 2020. Catch the Quickcast with Najahe Sherman weekdays at 4PM ET streaming on the CBS Miami app and CBSMiami.com #florida #miami #miamidade #localnews #local #community #politicalnews