Trump Foreign Policy Spurned by Veteran Republican Baker

  • Rubio asks ex-secretary of state about nuclear arms, NATO
  • Baker says there’d be ‘a lot more’ problems without alliances

Donald Trump’s Visit to Washington in 90 Seconds

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While Donald Trump met with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday, a Senate hearing provided a forum for critics in his party to take aim at his foreign policy proposals.

At the prompting of Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who dropped out of the presidential race in March, former Secretary of State James Baker said that the world “would be far less stable” if the U.S. left the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or let South Korea and Japan obtain nuclear weapons, proposals floated by Trump during the campaign that made him the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.