Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sharply criticized President Trump on Wednesday for delaying the nomination of Jay Clayton to be director of national intelligence. “What we’re witnessing is an extraordinary display of dysfunction from a president who seems determined to turn America’s national security into a political bargaining chip,” Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate…

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sharply criticized President Trump on Wednesday for delaying the nomination of Jay Clayton to be director of national intelligence. “What we’re witnessing is an extraordinary display of dysfunction from a president who seems determined to turn America’s national security into a political bargaining chip,” Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate…

A key Republican senator, Tom Cotton, had vowed to push forward with a hearing anyway, but Trump eventually directed Clayton to not appear for his confirmation proceedings, forcing Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to announce that the hearing was postponed.