Tulsi Gabbard faced her first test as a nominee to be the next director of national intelligence during her confirmation hearing on Thursday before a key Senate panel, but it’s unclear if her testimony was enough to consolidate the support she needs to advance out of the committee onto the Senate floor.

If the Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, she will be the person briefing him each day on the nation’s most closely held secrets. At her confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee,

Former Democrat and military veteran Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence was grilled about her past remarks supporting government whistleblower Edward Snowden as well as her relationships with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria's former dictator Bashar al-Assad.