David Pakman

She is, for better or worse, you know, I disagree with Tulsi about so much.

She is more skeptical of military escalation.

And that puts her out of sync with Trump on Iran, which is a huge deal.

And this is an environment where these small differences can become really problematic.

And in Trump's ecosystem, loyalty and alignment are what matter the most.

And even a small gap can become a huge, huge issue.

So what I think we're seeing here are the beginnings of the beginnings of

a familiar process in which there is a distancing and the distance tends to grow.

Now, it may grow slowly enough that she'll still be able to stick out her full term as the director of national intelligence.

Or maybe not, because with Trump, it'll start with comments like this.

It'll move to direct criticism.

It'll be a full public break.

And then all of a sudden she's gone.

And we've seen it happen many, many times.

Now, I think the interesting part about this with Tulsi

is that she laid down like a doormat and had Trump walk all over her metaphorically in terms of how she did a total 180 on politics and now kowtows to MAGA.

She spent a very long time abandoning everything that used to be part of her political space and edging in on Trump's political space and building credibility with the MAGA people and positioning herself as part of the broader movement.

And now she's running essentially into the same dynamic that for other people has ended up with them being unemployed, where the closeness has an expiration date and you get to some area of disagreement.

It could be a perceived difference or a real one.

And this is a very high profile issue that is core.