Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard fits President-elect Donald Trump’s reform agenda, and will serve well as his director of national intelligence, despite the scrutiny she’s facing over her meeting in 2017 with former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, Sen. Eric Schmitt said Sunday. 

“I know Tulsi Gabbard. She’s a patriot,” the Missouri Republican told ABC News “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos. “She served our country honorably.”

Trump, he added, campaigned on disrupting Washington and about having people in his administration who will “view things differently.”

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