Thursday morning on CNN Newsroom, rule of experts aficionado and Atlantic writer Tom Nichols found himself flustered given the ultra-rare occasion of having faced direct pushback for his views. This time, it came from CNN conservative political commentator Shermichael Singleton over whether former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) should be allowed to make her case to the Senate as President-Elect Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence.
Nichols was first able to make his argument that Gabbard is a threat from a domestic and international standpoint “given her political leanings, which is to say that she’s an admirer both of Bashar Assad of Syria and an apologist for Vladimir Putin of Russia.”
He explained that not only would her own employees hide things from her, but “our allies certainly wouldn’t want to work with her as someone…
