Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard attends a House Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats at the Capitol on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC, USA. Reuters/Leah Millis
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is scheduled to publicly testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 18, MS Now reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Gabbard is scheduled to appear at a hearing on global threats.
But the scheduling of her testimony comes amid growing concerns that she was at an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, when FBI agents seized ballots from the 2020 election last month.
Gabbard said she was the central figure at the direction of President Donald Trump.
But President Trump said Gabbard was there at the “strong request” of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia), vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, called on Gabbard last week to testify about her presence during the raid.
Warner said he was particularly concerned that Gabbard mediated a phone call between Trump and the FBI agent who was executing the search warrant.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stands at the edge of a truck loading area and speaks on the phone after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant on the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center in connection with the 2020 election in Union City, Georgia, on January 28, 2026, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter.
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“Let me be clear: It is inappropriate for a sitting president to become personally involved in a criminal investigation related to an election he lost,” Warner told reporters last week.
Mr. Warner and other Democrats have warned that Mr. Trump could try to interfere in the 2026 Congressional elections, in which the president’s fellow Republicans risk losing their majority in the House.
Trump has falsely claimed for years that he won the 2020 presidential election. Trump lost that election to former President Joe Biden, who also lost Georgia and other states.
A federal judge in Georgia over the weekend ordered that an affidavit filed to obtain an FBI search warrant be unsealed by Tuesday.
