Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testified before Senate committees on Capitol Hill Thursday as urgency builds to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS), faced his second day of questioning on the Hill before the Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions on Thursday. Kennedy clashed with Democratic...

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump‘s director of national intelligence (DNI) pick, said the attack on Sept. 11 likely could have been prevented if not for government “stovepiping,” where government officials deliver intelligence directly to high-ranking officials without broadening communications.  “There’s a general consensus that there was a massive intelligence failure,” Republican Sen. Roger Wicker said during Gabbard’s hearing regarding 9/11. “This caught us all by surprise, even though...

Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, ripped into “false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations” from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Patel, a former public defender and DOJ official, was grilled by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who accused Patel of having called for FBI headquarters to be shut down. That came on the back of a number of barbs coming from...