It is not yet clear how President-elect Trump’s foreign policy team will perform as some are professionals while others have no government experience, former Deputy Secretary of State for Defense Jim Townsend says.
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00:00Jim, do you think the team he's chosen to have around him can be the people to do those
00:04negotiations?
00:05Some of them.
00:06You know, we're going to have to see because we don't know a lot of them in terms of how
00:10they might perform.
00:12Marco Rubio, I think, has a better record of being more of a diplomat or certainly a
00:19politician that he can get along with people.
00:23He's been re-elected a number of times, so obviously he's got a constituency that likes
00:28what he says.
00:29So I think we've had Seth, who is online to be the Secretary of Defense.
00:36We don't know a whole lot about how he will act.
00:38We know him from television, this type of thing.
00:41We know the people around him can be professional, certainly the civil servants and certainly
00:48the diplomats and the military officers.
00:50But the other political appointees who are underneath Hegseth and the Pentagon, some
00:55of those are known, like Elbridge Colby is known and he's good.
01:02Others we don't know.
01:04They've never been in government before and we'll just have to see how they do.