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Progressives line up their own national security recruits for Biden POLITICO 12/18/2020 By Bryan Bender © AP Photo/Patrick Semansky President-elect Joe Biden speaks, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. In a forceful effort to shape a more progressive foreign policy, a coalition of left-leaning and other groups on Friday will deliver a detailed roster of 100 candidates they recommend for senior posts in the Biden administration, according to organizers and a glossy book of resumes prepared for the president-elect. The effort marks a new phase f...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Progressive foreign policy groups advising President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team are planning to send the team a glitzy booklet featuring profiles of 100 people they want serving in the administration — the greatest effort yet by progressives to sway Biden’s handling of global affairs. During the campaign, left-leaning foreign policy organizations held regular sessions with top members of Biden’s team — including Antony Blinken, who has now been tapped as secretary of state — about how the nominee could pursue a more progressive foreign policy. Thei...

Trump said in front of the leaders of the nato alliance. let's go to michelle kozinski. michelle, what are you learning? >> reporter: hi, wolf, the strange back and suppois forth support for nato. this is always a question, what does trump really feel about it? it is possible that nothing sheds more light on his true feelings than this new reporting that there was language that was supposed to be in one of his speeches that was taken out at last minute that would have shown support for nato's common defense. the absence of which stunned not only nato leaders but some of trump's own top nationa...