Trump foreign policy takes shape, or does it?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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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?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.0 | Has Donald Trump nominated a team of dissenters? |
| 0:14.6 | Hello again, I'm Mormon Only, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:17.5 | Donald Trump's picks to lead two major national security agencies are contradicting |
| 0:21.5 | positions taken by the president-elect. In testimony before a Senate committee today, CIA chief |
| 0:27.5 | designate Mike Pompeo said he would not use enhanced interrogation, even if Trump told him to. |
| 0:33.7 | At another hearing, Trump's choice for defense secretary, General James Mattis, said Russia's Vladimir Putin is trying to break up the NATO alliance. |
| 0:41.2 | When his nominees differ with him in such important ways, what are we learning about Trump's national security policy and who's going to shape it? |
| 0:49.1 | Later, on today's talking point, France's right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen pays a visit to Trump Tower. |
| 0:56.2 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:31.3 | Hello again, Warren. I'll name back with To the Point. |
| 1:33.5 | 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. |
| 1:42.0 | What will that mean for their chances of confirmation? |
| 1:44.2 | What do we know about Trump's national security policy? Yes. president-elect when he's in the White House? What will that mean for their chances of confirmation? |
| 1:50.4 | What do we know about Trump's national security policy? Today's talking point, as French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen visits Trump Tower, what's the connection to right-wing movements in |
| 1:55.6 | Western and Eastern Europe? First this news update in the wee hours this morning on Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans |
| 2:01.9 | started down the road to repeal of Obamacare while Democrats made passionate appeals as the |
| 2:07.5 | gavel came down. On behalf of elderly people who cannot afford higher prescription drugs, |
| 2:12.9 | I vote now. This is not as usual. You are stealing health care from Americans. I vote no. |
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