A pressure campaign is building on the Senate to confirm President-elect Trump's controversial cabinet picks such as RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth. NBC News' Ali Vitali has the latest reporting from Capitol Hill.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard is facing fresh scrutiny about her proximity to Russian-ally Syria amid that country’s sudden collapse of its hardline Assad regime.

During her time in Congress, Gabbard also praised Vladimir Putin for bombing Isis in Syria, while the Obama administration would not. She also spread the conspiratorial idea that “biolabs” funded by the United States across the world — which do not exist — could unleash “dangerous pathogens .”