Punishing Germany with US troops withdrawal 

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced a grilling from Senate Democrats on Thursday on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers pressed him on several fronts, including the planned drawdown of US troops in Germany and the Trump administration’s approach to Russia. Host Marco Werman gets a reading from former diplomat and State Department spokesperson Nicholas Burns.

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