7: Fiona Hill: Working with Trump and fighting against Putin
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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Do You Think Trump's Foreign Policy Strategy Will Work?
Many Republican foreign policy analysts had refused to serve in his administration. Many of them had written an open letter condemning him. I find it a bit difficult to understand how you could still, with all that was going on in that campaign, the way that he conducted himself against Hillary Clinton, could possibly have believed this was going to work. Look, the Russians had interfered in the election. This was a national security crisis. So I thought about this in many respects as in case of emergency bread, glass, pull handle. Trump created huge holes for himself over and over again. And you know, we needed to have people in place to try to push back.
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