Establishment hawks will be running the State Department and National Security Council, but Trump has peppered in some antiestablishment mavericks too.

The former Green Beret and three-term congressman from Florida has established himself as a hawkish Republican voice on matters of national security.

Trump, in his first term in office, went through four national security advisers

Gabbard, an Army Reserve officer whose antiwar views are seen as sympathetic to Moscow, is considered an unconventional choice to lead U.S. spy agencies.

A former Clinton administration official said Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence is "really concerning."

"Just before boarding a flight on July 23, my husband and I were pulled aside for additional TSA screening," Gabbard said in the video. "We were told by the TSA agent there that t

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created after 9/11 to remedy what American policy makers believed was a lack of coordination among the various national-intelligence agencies,

Tulsi Gabbard’s expressed support for national security leakers and her elevation of Russian-backed narratives are coming under renewed scrutiny after President-elect Trump nominated her to the highest intelligence post in the country.