CNN's Kaitlan Collins Gets Into Heated Press Room Debate With Tulsi Gabbard: 'The President Has Publicly Undermined Her'

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins sparred with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the latter’s latest info dump, asking whether it was a play to get back in Trump’s good graces.

Collins fired off her questions in the White House press room days after Gabbard accused former president Barack Obama and other officials of “manufacturing intelligence” to suggest Russia attempted to influence the results of the 2016 election. The CNN reporter asked if the intelligence director made these claims to improve her standing with Trump.

“You referenced the past intelligence reports and assessments on this, including that 2017 one that was signed off, as Ed noted, by every Republican on the Senate Intelligence Community, including the acting chair of the time, now Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said in a statement that they did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, but what they did find, however, is very troubling and they found irrefutable evidence of Russia meddling,” Collins began.

She continued: “Secondly, what would you say to people who believe that you’re only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?”

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