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February 3, 2017

After Trump's Phone Call, John McCain Tries to Smooth Over Relations with Australia
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Arizona Senator John Mc Cain called Australian Ambassador Joe Hockey
Thursday in efforts to smooth over relations with Australia after
President Trump insulted Australia's prime minister and abruptly ended
the phone call over the weekend. On Saturday, Trump complained to Prime
Minister Malcolm Turnbull about the terms of a refugee deal between the
U.S. and Australia and told Turnbull that their conversation was the
"worst call by far" that he'd had with a foreign leader that day. Under
the Obama administration, the United States had pledged to accept and
resettle 1,250 refugees from a detention center in Australia.


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