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Trump foreign policy takes shape, or does it?
Donald Trump's nominees to lead the CIA and the Pentagon have told Senate Committees they'll have no trouble disagreeing with the President Elect when he's in the White House. What will that mean for their chances of confirmation?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenPhoto: Rex Tillerson, the former chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be US secretary of state in Washington, January 11, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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At yesterday's news conference President-elect Donald Trump called for a speedy resolution on Obamacare. "It'll be repeal and replace, essentially simultaneously, various segments obviously but most likely the same day, or same week, probably same day – could be the same hour."
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The US isn't the only country beset by Russia's political hacking. The French Ministry of Defense says there were some 24,000 such incidents last year — with presidential elections coming up later this year. Today, the right-wing populist and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen paid a visit to Trump Tower.
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