Gabbard Was In Situation Room On Iran, Still Key Player Despite Trump Saying She Was 'wrong' On Intel

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was wrong nan Situation Room Saturday erstwhile nan U.S. subject launched successful strikes connected Iranian atomic facilities, a White House official confirmed to Fox News Digital Sunday morning. 

A White House charismatic confirmed Gabbard was successful nan room Saturday and that she is simply a "key player" connected President Donald Trump's nationalist information team. 

Speculation had mounted location was a rift betwixt Gabbard and Trump aft nan president told nan media Gabbard was "wrong" astir intelligence connected Iran backmost successful March erstwhile she testified earlier nan Senate that nan federation was not actively building a atomic weapon. 

Photos of nan Situation Room released Saturday evening did not show Gabbard coming alongside Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and different management officials. The photos, however, did not see wide shots showing nan full room aliases each individual present, pinch nan White House confirming nan intelligence main was present. 

Trump and Gabbard appeared astatine likelihood earlier successful June, erstwhile nan president was asked astir Gabbard's grounds earlier nan Senate successful March, erstwhile she reported intelligence showed Iran was not actively building a atomic weapon. Trump told nan media June 16 he did not "care" what Gabbard had to opportunity successful erstwhile testimony, arguing he believed Iran was adjacent to building a nuke. 

'SHE'S WRONG': TRUMP SAYS TULSI GABBARD INCORRECT ABOUT IRAN NOT HAVING NUCLEAR WEAPON CAPABILITIES

President Trump and DNI Gabbard  (Getty Images)

"You've ever said that you don't judge Iran should beryllium capable to person a atomic weapon," a newsman asked Trump while aboard Air Force One connected June 16. "But really adjacent do you personally deliberation that they were to getting one?" 

"Very close," Trump responded.

Then again Friday, Trump said Gabbard was "wrong" aft she reported that Iran was not actively building a atomic weapon. 

"My intelligence organization is wrong," Trump said erstwhile asked astir nan intelligence organization antecedently reporting that Iran was not actively building a atomic weapon. 

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When Gabbard appeared earlier nan Senate Intelligence Committee successful March, she delivered a connection connected behalf of nan intelligence organization that included grounds that Iran was not actively building a atomic weapon. 

"Iran's cyber operations and capabilities besides coming a superior threat to U.S. networks and data," Gabbard told nan committee March 26. 

President Donald J. Trump successful The Situation Room, June 21, 2025.  (The White House via X)

The intelligence organization "continues to measure that Iran is not building a atomic weapon, and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized nan atomic weapons programme that he suspended successful 2003," she said. She did adhd that "Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is astatine its highest levels and is unprecedented for a authorities without atomic weapons."

"Iran will apt proceed efforts to counter Israel and property for U.S. subject withdrawal from nan region by aiding, arming and helping to reconstitute its loose consortium of like-minded violent actors, which it refers to arsenic its axis of resistance," she warned. 

VANCE DEFENDS GABBARD AS 'CRITICAL PART' OF TRUMP TEAM AFTER PRESIDENT DISMISSED IRAN NUKE THREAT COMMENTS

Members of President Trump's Cabinet beryllium among different apical officials successful nan Situation Room connected June 21, 2025. (The White House via X)

However, arsenic critics picked isolated Gabbard's past comments, nan White House stressed to Fox Digital that Gabbard and Trump were intimately aligned connected Iran. 

A White House charismatic told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday day that Trump and Gabbard are intimately aligned and that nan favoritism being raised betwixt Gabbard's March grounds and Trump's remarks that Iran is "very close" to getting a atomic limb is 1 without a difference. 

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The charismatic noted that Gabbard had underscored successful her March grounds that Iran had nan resources to perchance build a atomic weapon. Her March grounds reflected intelligence she had received that Iran was not building a limb astatine nan clip but that nan state could do truthful based connected nan resources it amassed for specified an endeavor. 

President Donald Trump looks connected successful nan Situation Room connected June 21, 2025. (The White House via X)

Gabbard took to societal media and blasted nan media for "intentionally" taking her March grounds to nan Senate Intelligence Committee "out of context." 

"The dishonest media is intentionally taking my grounds retired of discourse and spreading clone news arsenic a measurement to manufacture division," Gabbard said successful a Friday station connected X, accompanied by a video clip of her March grounds to Congress. 

"America has intelligence that Iran is astatine nan constituent that it tin nutrient a atomic limb wrong weeks to months, if they determine to finalize nan assembly," she wrote. "President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree."

TRUMP ADDRESSES NATION ON 'SPECTACULAR MILITARY SUCCESS' OF US STRIKES ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR FACILITIES

Trump announced successful a Saturday evening Truth Social station that nan U.S. military had carried retired strikes connected 3 atomic accommodation successful Iran, obliterating them. Trump held an reside to nan federation later Saturday night, describing nan strikes arsenic wildly successful and backing Iran into a area to make a bid deal. 

President Donald Trump announced connected June 21, 2025, that nan U.S. subject had carried retired strikes connected 3 atomic accommodation successful Iran, obliterating them. (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"A short clip ago, nan U.S. subject carried retired monolithic precision strikes connected nan 3 cardinal atomic accommodation successful nan Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan," Trump said from nan White House connected Saturday evening. "Everybody heard those names for years arsenic they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our nonsubjective was nan demolition of Iran's atomic enrichment capacity, and a extremity to nan atomic threat posed by nan world's number-one authorities sponsor of terror. Tonight, I tin study to nan world that nan strikes were a spectacular subject success." 

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"For 40 years, Iran has been saying, ‘Death to America. Death to Israel.’ They person been sidesplitting our people, blowing disconnected their arms, blowing disconnected their legs pinch roadside bombs," Trump continued. "That was their specialty. We mislaid complete a 1000 people, and hundreds of thousands passim nan Middle East and astir nan world person died arsenic a nonstop consequence of their dislike successful particular."

Fox News Digital reached retired to nan Office of nan Director of National Intelligence for immoderate further remark connected nan Sunday strikes, but did not instantly person a reply. 

Fox News Digital's Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.