SCOOP: Top GOP Sen. Cotton to meet with embattled Trump defense nominee as doubts swirl
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Tom Cotton will meet with a key nominee after finding himself at apparent odds with some figures in the MAGA-sphere.
According to the source, senators on the Senate Committee on Armed Services (SASC) had come to Cotton with concerns regarding some of Colby's stances, particularly past comments on Iran potentially obtaining a nuclear weapon. Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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