New york correspondent. Its like something straight out of a spy thriller revealing predetermine to russia wherever youre tuning into the program from this hour. Welcome to our, to international my names. You know, many of you with us the transition process for the u. S. Presidency is still in limbo with donald trump refusing to concede defeat. But joe biden is already lining up candidates for his proposed administration. There are some familiar faces from the obama era. From the details, lets speak to our u. S. Correspondent, kill up in kill of the biden hardest team name, their next secretary of state, tell us more about him, and indeed the significance of the appointment. Indeed, well, at this point, weve heard from the Biden Harris Administration that they have named 6 individuals that will be in their cabinet, one of those the nominee and the person they will select for their secretary of state is Anthony Blinken. Now Anthony Blinken is certainly not a newcomer to the washington d
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Hello welcome to our teens and i still live from moscow and Daniel Hawkins review arts and i thanks for tuning in on the program but. The u. S. President has lashed out at the British Ambassador in washington calling him a pompous fall so after a leaked memo in which the envoy gave a damning assessment of the trump ministration the feud has put a strain on the socalled special relationship between the 2 countries as more. This all began when this message message was leaked which showed the you can bask in the describing the trumpet ministration in really harsh terms describing them as being inept and not seeing the situation improving any time soon and perhaps in typical donald trump fashion the u. S. President took to twitter to express his feeling. They didnt pull any punches and he described the u. K. Ambassador as being a very stupid guy the wacky ambassador that the u. K. Foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy he should speak to his co
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