McCain Calls For Tillerson To Be Given A Team At The State Department

US-Senator John McCain speaks during the Munich Security Conference 2017 in Munich, Germany, 17 February 2017. The Munich Security Conference takes place from 17 to 19 February 2017 in Munich. Photo by: Matthias Balk... US-Senator John McCain speaks during the Munich Security Conference 2017 in Munich, Germany, 17 February 2017. The Munich Security Conference takes place from 17 to 19 February 2017 in Munich. Photo by: Matthias Balk/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain is urging President Donald Trump to nominate a team of senior officials at the State Department to back up new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke Saturday during an event in Brussels. He pointed to “confusion” over whether Tillerson would attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. He does now plan to be there.

McCain said one aspect of that was that Tillerson “doesn’t have a team there at the State Department. And I think it’s incumbent for the president and the administration to get people nominated and confirmed.”

The Arizona Republican added during a news conference at the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels Forum that he expected “that would be a rapid process.”

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