Other declassified materials show that the Russian intelligence reports Gabbard cited were already found to be “objectively false.”

Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is accusing former President Obama of “manipulating” intelligence related to the 2016 Russia probe and is signaling potential prosecutions. NBC News’ David Rohde joins Way Too Early to discuss Gabbard’s politicization of the intelligence community,

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday declassified additional materials on the intelligence community's assessment of Russia's actions in the 2016 election, claiming in a social media post and at a White House press briefing that they showed Obama administration officials "manufactured" information in order to undermine then-candidate Donald Trump.

One day after President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of treason over the intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and sought to help Trump, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a highly sensitive congressional report she claimed was more evidence of a “treasonous conspiracy.

Donald Trump’s intel chief Tulsi Gabbard stood in the White House briefing room on Wednesday and accused members of the Obama administration of a “years-long coup” against the president. The director of national intelligence accused the former president of directing the creation of a “false” intelligence assessment nearly a decade ago on 2016 Russian election interference,