A political appointment brecks it is taking yet more victims this time at the heart of government Lawrence Li Al Jazeera in london and hes under. Former u. S. Ambassador to nato and russia and he was also deputy secretary general of nato he says it was impossible for derek to continue doing his job and trance response to the leaked memos was not surprising. Well it looks to me that it was mainly the blackballing by President Trump and the administration which made it almost impossible for a bastard eric to do his job. Perhaps the extra push came from Boris Johnsons failure to stand up for the you cant pass there which was kind of unfortunate to put it diplomatically. But i fear that he did make the right choice the u. K. Needs to be represented by somebody with access to Decision Makers and clearly he likes that access the president hates to be criticized or ridiculed and these leaked telegrams have pretty sharp language is not particularly unusual this is the Standard Assessment of ma
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Who run the House Oversight and titled the hearing kids in cages Inhumane Treatment at the border thats an indictment of the trumpet ministrations family separation policy everyone seems to agree theres a crisis at the border with republicans saying its the pressure of immigrants coming to the u. S. And democrats saying its the detention policy itself. The name also expresses the outrage over what democrats described as jails for children we are creating the generation of children theyll never forget what we did say that this type of trauma can go away some republicans push back i am frustrated with the title of the hearing it is a hearing in titled kids in cages. What we say and i personally we use matters ive been to the border many times and to this day ive never seen a kid in a cage a former immigration and Customs Enforcement chief says it is unfair to blame immigration agencies coping with this surge of Central American immigrants fleeing violence and poverty if you dont reduce t
Becomes Prime Minister hell be faced with the Foreign Office furious at his perceived role in bringing down one of their own. Johnson himself assuming he becomes Prime Minister will pick the next ambassador to washington the question is will it be a neutral diplomat or a political appointment brecks it is taking yet more victims this time at the heart of government Lawrence Leigh aljazeera in london Alexander Vershbow is a former Us Ambassador to nato and russia and he was the deputy section general of nato from 2012 to 2016 he joins me now via skype from philadelphia thanks very much for being with us do you think in the end it was how much of an was it the issue of being frozen out by the Chinese Administration and how much was it that separate issue of not getting the support of johnson one of the potential future Prime Ministers. Well it looks to me that it was mainly the blackballing by President Trump and the administration which made it almost impossible for a bastard barracked
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