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GOP Sen. Mullin hits back at ‘dangerous’ claims by Democrats about Trump pick being a Russian asset
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0:33Now PlayingSen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) fired back at what he described as “dangerous” and false accusations by a senate colleague about President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence being a Russian asset.
In an interview on CNN Sunday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) harked back to DNI-designate Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and coziness with Russia, implying she might be “compromised.”
“I think by going to Syria and basically backing this brutal dictator there — I mean, Russian-controlled media called her a Russian asset. So I do think that we have a real deep concern whether or not she’s a compromised person,” Duckworth told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday earlier in the program.
“Frankly … the U.S. intelligence community has identified her as having troubling relationships with America’s foes. And so my worry is that she couldn’t pass a background check.”
Duckworth, 56, who sits on both the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations, added that “I worry that she will not have America’s best interests at heart.”
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