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Speaker 1: Stateside Richard Arnold, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good what he makes so?

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Speaker 1: I was standing mint for a little bit of something

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Speaker 1: in the White House before he leaves for Davos. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's right.

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Speaker 2: He's heading to Switzerland for the World Economic Summit soon

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Speaker 2: after that statement on this first year micro of his

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Speaker 2: second term, he says, it'll be an interesting meeting, no

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Speaker 2: doubt about that. Right this after he slammed his NATO

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Speaker 2: partners in France, Britain, Denmark, Norway while rolling out another

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Speaker 2: welcome matt for Putin. In recent hours, we've seen a

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Speaker 2: slew of private messages between leaders made public, including one

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Speaker 2: from French President Macron, who tells Trump quote, I don't

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Speaker 2: understand what you're doing on Greenland. Mccron also says France

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Speaker 2: will not join what Trump is calling a US lair

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Speaker 2: Board of Peace overseeing the wreckage in Gaza. This is

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Speaker 2: the board to which Putin has been invited, says Trump.

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Speaker 3: Did you say that? Why nobody writes it? Because he's

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Speaker 3: said to be out of office very soon? You know

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Speaker 3: that's all right. What I'll do is, if they feel

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Speaker 3: like casto, I'll put a two hundred percent power for

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Speaker 3: his wine and champagne.

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Speaker 2: Talking about mccron there, whom he says is irrelevant, and

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Speaker 2: if he persists with this, the US will slap massive

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Speaker 2: tariffs on his wines and champagnes. Trump then went back

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Speaker 2: to the Greenland threats, posting an aiimage showing himself hoisting

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Speaker 2: an American flag over the country with a banner reading Greenland,

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Speaker 2: US territory established twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: He says, we have to have it. They have to

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Speaker 3: have this done. They can't protect his Denmark. They're wonderful people,

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Speaker 3: and I know the leaders are very good people, but

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Speaker 3: they they don't even go there.

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Speaker 1: And you know because the.

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Speaker 3: Boat went there five hundred years ago. And then love

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Speaker 3: that does he give you?

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Speaker 2: Titled Robert wonder, what say Columbus or which Ellen or

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Speaker 2: others would think of that? Anyway. In another leaked exchange,

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Speaker 2: Norway's PM sent a note signed Unice and Alex, the

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Speaker 2: latter being the Finnish president, saying let's deescalate on this

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Speaker 2: Greenland stuff, and as for the Nobel Peace Prize, that's

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Speaker 2: a private thing, nothing to do with the government of Norway.

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Speaker 2: Trump replied, quote, dear units, considering your country decided not

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Speaker 2: to give me the note peace prize for having stopped

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Speaker 2: eight was plus in all caps. I no longer feel

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Speaker 2: an obligation to think purely of peace, although it will

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Speaker 2: always be predominant, et cetera. Then Trump, at his late

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Speaker 2: night press gig, jump back onto the Peace Prize issue,

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Speaker 2: saying he is not interested in the Peace Prize, not

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Speaker 2: at all, but then ranting about it again at length.

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Speaker 3: If anybody thinks that Norway does it, does it control

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Speaker 3: the no Belt Prize. They're just getting to have a board,

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Speaker 3: but it's controlled by Norway. And I don't care what

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Speaker 3: Dorway's doing.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't care, which is why he talks about it

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Speaker 2: all the time, and in his later statement links his

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Speaker 2: failure to get the Nobel Peace Prize to his demand

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Speaker 2: for Greenland, which is an independent territory of Denmark over

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Speaker 2: which Norway has no call at all.

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Speaker 3: A little bit crazy.

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Speaker 2: Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen is advising European leaders to

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Speaker 2: chill out, do.

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Speaker 3: Not escalate, do not escalate, and President Trump has a

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Speaker 3: strategy here.

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Speaker 2: Hear him out well. Others say it is not fine,

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Speaker 2: and the president. The EU's executive arm Ursler Vondelon warns

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Speaker 2: that NATA was under threat from within and that quote

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Speaker 2: the old way of doing things is over this as

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Speaker 2: Canada is seeking openings, new openings with China, and the

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Speaker 2: US just joined in a new free trade block in

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Speaker 2: South America between the twenty seven nation EU and countries

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Speaker 2: including Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, creating one of the

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Speaker 2: world's largest free trade zones and reshaping the world economic map.

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Speaker 1: Like it or not, fascinating. Where are we at With Minnesota?

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Speaker 2: Tensions still high as ICE agents continue their raids. The

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Speaker 2: Federal Justice Department now has issued a subpoena for the

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Speaker 2: state's Attorney General, Keith Ellison, for allegedly impeding law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: So much for free speech here. State officials call this

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Speaker 2: nothing more than bullying by the Feds. Meantime, a naturalized

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Speaker 2: American citizen, Scott Tao, is telling of how he was

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Speaker 2: dragged from his home by ICE agents who broke down

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Speaker 2: his front door with guns drawn. They then handcuffed him

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Speaker 2: dragged him out into the snow with almost no clothes.

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Speaker 2: He had on his underpants and his grandson's blanket. It

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Speaker 2: was frigid. He was held by ICE agents for some

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Speaker 2: hours and later was returned to his home. Without any

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Speaker 2: explanation and without any apology.

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Speaker 1: See Friday Richard Donald's side side.

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