A More Hawkish Foreign Policy Ahead, Bremmer Says
Bloomberg Surveillance
Bloomberg
3.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg State Department & Foreign Policy Reporter, and Marty Schenker, Bloomberg Chief Content Officer, examine Trump's firing of Rex Tillerson. Nick was aboard the former Secretary of State's plane 4 hours prior to this news breaking. Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group President, expects Mike Pompeo, the newly appointed Secretary of State, to double down on Trump's hard line message. George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures Chairman & Founder, says there has always been tension between the Defense Department, State Department, and CIA. Michael McKee, Bloomberg International Economics & Politics Correspondent, and Vinny Del Guidice, Bloomberg News Data Editor, break down the CPI data.
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| 1:14.1 | Nick I want to drill right down to task one which is Mike Pompeo. Is he going to be |
| 1:19.5 | different than Rex Tillerson and getting us to an operational functional State |
| 1:25.8 | department or will the president block that effort? |
| 1:30.0 | I mean I you know I think he his foreign policy views are generally much more in line with |
| 1:36.3 | President Trump so much more hard line I think Secretary Tillerson did have a foreign policy outlook that was much more conventional |
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