During confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard faced tough senate scrutiny on their controversial pasts.

Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are under Senate scrutiny as they face confirmation hearings for key positions in President Donald Trump's administration. Gabbard, nominated for Director of National Intelligence,

Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are among Trump's more controversial nominees, and faced tough questions from senators Thursday.

Maine's U.S. senators questioned Tulsi Gabbard Thursday about her past efforts to excuse Edward Snowden from criminal charges for disclosing classified national intelligence information during a sometimes contentious confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's nominee to be the director of national intelligence.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced skeptical senators Thursday in the second day of his confirmation hearing to lead the department of Health and Human Services, Sen. Bill Cassidy confronted Kennedy about vaccines.

When one lawmaker asked if she believed Mr. Snowden was a traitor, Ms. Gabbard simply said that she was ‘focused on the future.’

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to be Director of National Intelligence, refused to call Edward Snowden a traitor at her confirmation hearing.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wasn't the only one of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks to face tough questions on Capitol Hill Thursday.

If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for roughly half the country.

If approved by the Senate, Gabbard will oversee US intelligence agencies like the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA).

Learn more about what happened at the latest round of Senate confirmation hearings for Trump Cabinet picks RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel.

The most powerful moment in two days of confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom President Donald Trump nominated to head Health and Human Services, came from Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy. A physician, Cassidy told Kennedy of an 18-year-old patient with hepatitis B who suffered from liver failure and needed a transplant.