Donald Trump attempted to head off a Republican rebellion against his nomination of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state by rolling out some of the party’s most respected foreign policy hands to insist the ExxonMobil chief’s Russia ties did not disqualify him for the job.
Robert Gates and Condol
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