Tulsi Gabbard told the House Intelligence Committee that Iran “is not building a nuclear weapon.” The director of national intelligence made the assessment based on deep research and intelligence-gathering from the massive conglomerate of spy agencies she oversees,

President Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, appeared to be at odds over whether Iran was close to having a nuclear weapon, but Gabbard said the two leaders were saying "the same thing.