Rachel Maddow: “And now here’s word of another. And, and this one is for the Trump nominee, who I think is probably the least confirmable of any of them. This is the Trump nominee who I would argue might even be less confirmable than Matt Gaetz would have been if they had left him as the nominee, nominee for attorney general. I’m speaking, of course, of, of Trump’s choice for director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Uh, this is the, the choice when, when this nomination was announced. Russian state TV reacted to this announcement, like, it was the Kremlin’s biggest international victory since they launched Sputnik.
A source at the Senate Intelligence Committee told us last week that Republicans were hoping the confirmation hearing for Tulsi Gabbard was gonna be this Friday, January 17th. So that was the date we had penciled in for Tulsi Gabbard, but it’s not happening. Amid multiple reports of yet more trouble getting the paperwork together. Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing is not on the calendar for this week. It has still not been scheduled at all. And this is one to watch just to see if it ever gets scheduled, ever.”