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Things really started to roll downhill after Senator James Lankford innocently asked Gabbard whether Edward Snowden, who leaked classified information revealing surveillance programs, was a traitor. Gabbard said he broke the law. (True. He was convicted.) She also said she would not advocate that he be pardoned—a notable pivot from her previous position, when she and Matt Gaetz introduced legislation to pardon him when they both served in the House. But Gabbard still seemed wishy-washy about Snowden, perhaps the most reviled character in the U.S. intelligence community. In fact, Gabbard was asked versions of Lankford’s question no fewer than six times by senators from both parties—including Democrat Michael Bennet of Colorado and Republican Todd Young of Indiana—and never said “yes” or “no.” I’m also told by two sources that she refused to clarify her position in the committee’s closed session with her—even after one member helpfully walked her through how she should answer the Snowden questions. Meanwhile, Snowden himself weighed in on social media during the hearings, not so helpfully, including by reposting one of his own earlier tweets: “If this is treason, what they call loyalty is a crime.” Committee members are now concerned about her judgment, as well as the message she’s sending: Can she really lead the intel workforce when she apparently respects the most hated man in their field? Collins, who had become relatively comfortable with Gabbard, is now rethinking her position. Gabbard’s performance made a swing vote of Lankford, who had previously backed her publicly. And Young appears skeptical, too.

Over in the Hart building, Kash Patel overperformed expectations in his bid to lead the F.B.I., whose headquarters he previously vowed to “shut down” on “day one.”  Democrats struggled to wound him, as has been abundantly noted, and he impressed Republicans who were surprised to find themselves sympathetic to his cause. North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, the most moderate Republican on the fiery Judiciary Committee, liked him so much after their first meeting that he became Patel’s emissary to other senators, and even introduced him at his hearing. Patel also scored a meeting with Mitch McConnell, who declined to meet with Gabbard and Kennedy. Patel notably broke with Trump on his pardoning of January 6 rioters who attacked law enforcement, surprising Democrats. After all, he is listed as the producer of a national anthem rendition recorded by imprisoned rioters—the J6 Prison Choir—that Trump liked to play during his rallies. Patel claimed at the hearing to be unaware that any of the choir’s members had been convicted of violent crimes. He will easily make it out of the committee with the support of every Republican, and everyone I spoke with in the party predicted that he will get confirmed. I don’t even think they’re spinning me. Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s fate is harder to predict, and appears to lie in the hands of Senator Bill Cassidy. The Louisiana Republican sits on both committees that questioned R.F.K. Jr. last week—Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Finance. He spent 30 years as a physician before entering politics, and appeared unnerved during an emotional closing statement after listening to Kennedy’s testimony for two days. “I just had a friend text me—two children died in an intensive care unit in a Baton Rouge hospital from vaccine-preventable diseases this past month,” he said, worrying aloud that “if there’s any false note, any undermining of a mama’s trust in vaccines, another person will die from a vaccine-preventable disease.” He admitted, “I’ve been struggling with your nomination.” It’s a good thing for Kennedy’s sake that the HELP committee doesn’t vote on the H.H.S. nominee out of committee—it just held a courtesy hearing because so much of its jurisdiction involves H.H.S. After all, senators Collins and Lisa Murkowski, also not yet sold on Kennedy, are on that committee, too. I ran into a defeated-looking Cassidy after the hearing, and he said he didn’t know what else to say. He is, in short, undecided and dismayed. We’ll likely have to wait until Tuesday to find out what Cassidy will do when the Finance Committee puts Kennedy to a vote.

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