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Speaker 2: Okay, so let me ask you. Trump yesterday has said

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Speaker 2: he's calling off all of the tariffs that were going

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Speaker 2: to be imposed. He's now rescinding them because they have

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Speaker 2: the framework of a deal over Greenland, according now to

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Speaker 2: the White House, they released an official statement saying now

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Speaker 2: that the United States is going to be acquiring many bases,

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Speaker 2: military bases across Greenland, especially in the northern part of

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Speaker 2: the country, that those bases will be sovereign US territory.

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Speaker 2: They're not going to be leased, They're not going to

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Speaker 2: be contingent upon a government in fifty years or one

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Speaker 2: hundred years renewing them. They will be considered sort of

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Speaker 2: like Guantanamo Bay. It will be those bases will be ours,

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Speaker 2: and the land underneath them will be considered and around

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Speaker 2: them will be considered sovereign US territory. Those bases or

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Speaker 2: will be there to be part of the Golden Dome,

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Speaker 2: this national defense or intercontinental defense shield that Trump says

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Speaker 2: he wants to construct by the end of his first

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Speaker 2: term that will neutralize any potential threat from the Russians

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Speaker 2: or the Chinese in case they want to launch missiles,

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Speaker 2: even nuclear missiles at the continental United States. So my

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Speaker 2: question to you is this a good deal? Are you

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Speaker 2: happy with what Trump has accomplished? And was it worth

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Speaker 2: all of the economic and diplomatic fallout? Six one seven

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Speaker 2: two six six sixty eight sixty eight Nick in Weymouth,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for holding Nick and welcome.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it will be deal because I have to put

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Speaker 3: it into perspective. Massachusetts population is greater than the population

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Speaker 3: of the Mighty Finland. Not to denigrate them, but this

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Speaker 3: is all about territory. It's about protection as the Norway, Denmark, Sweden.

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Speaker 3: There's more people in Florida than those three places combined.

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Speaker 3: So once again, what do they produces helping us? There

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Speaker 3: isn't even a SOB car anymore, So it's all about protection.

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Speaker 4: Do they want to go back to the Soviet Union?

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Speaker 4: You want to join up with them? Is this why

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Speaker 4: Trudeau that imbecile? And Trump's first term the first year

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Speaker 4: Chinese were doing cold weather training and various parts of Canada.

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Speaker 4: Give me a break. They need to snap into reality.

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Speaker 4: What will happen to them? You join the you join

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Speaker 4: the Chinese, You join the Russians. Your youth will be

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Speaker 4: conscripted to fight against the United States. So let's face reality.

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Speaker 4: What do you think, je Oh, by the way, one

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Speaker 4: final slap to that heat pump Heely. Here in her

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Speaker 4: magic energy plan, oil is only mentioned at two particular places.

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Speaker 4: We're not going to poison oil band for now.

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Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, you need to get heat pumps,

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeff. What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Well, Nick, look, I don't want to talk about Healey

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Speaker 2: right now. I promise I will because a lot needs

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Speaker 2: to be said about her. But apparently now she came

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Speaker 2: out what was it a day or two ago, and

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Speaker 2: she tell you know, was saying telling Trump to do

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Speaker 2: is you know, his damn job to get heating assistance

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Speaker 2: to people in Massachusetts. It's cold, it's going to get

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Speaker 2: apparently very cold this weekend with a lot of snow.

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Speaker 2: People not have no heat, and she's trying to blame Trump.

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Speaker 2: Don't blame Trump. As I said on X this is

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Speaker 2: a classic bait and switch. Who is the one that

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Speaker 2: declared war on fossil fuels? It was Healey? Who is

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Speaker 2: the one that is against oil and natural gas? Healey,

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Speaker 2: who is the one that's trying to push everybody to

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Speaker 2: convert the wind and so power. Heally, well, guess what,

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Speaker 2: solar panels don't work in the winter time. Duh. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, anybody could have anybody would have a brain,

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Speaker 2: could have figured that out. And so now we have

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Speaker 2: an energy crisis in the middle of a freezing winter,

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Speaker 2: and she's trying to pass the buck and blame Trump.

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Speaker 2: Don't blame Trump, blame you. So you know, look to

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Speaker 2: me what I find incredible, just to bring it back

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Speaker 2: to Greenland. And this has been Trump's point the entire time.

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Speaker 2: You can see it's like a train wreck. You can

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Speaker 2: see there's a train on one side of the tracks

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Speaker 2: and a train on the other side of the tracks,

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Speaker 2: and they're heading towards each other. And you're looking at

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Speaker 2: it and you're like, if we don't get a parallel

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Speaker 2: track here, they're gonna collide. Like hello, if they don't

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Speaker 2: hit the brakes or get a parallel track, there's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a massive collision. It's so obvious the Russians and

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Speaker 2: the Chinese are moving aggressively into Greenland and into the Arctic.

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Speaker 2: In fact, China, as I said in my monologue, claims

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Speaker 2: to be now an Arctic nation. Just look at a map.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't be further from the Arctic than the Chinese.

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Speaker 2: But now they're an Arctic power. According to them, they

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Speaker 2: made an offer to buy a big harbor in Greenland, Okay,

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Speaker 2: right near NUK. They're now making offers. They want to

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Speaker 2: buy mines, they want the rare earth minerals. Once the

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Speaker 2: Chinese get their teeth into a country or a territory,

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Speaker 2: they don't leave. And so Trump is saying, and you

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Speaker 2: got the Russians aggressively. Now they've got submarines, they've got ships.

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Speaker 2: They're making claims on all the oil, all of it

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Speaker 2: at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. So Trump is saying, look,

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Speaker 2: you don't have to be a genius to figure this out.

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Speaker 2: We wait another five, ten, fifteen years, the Arctic will

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Speaker 2: be a Russian lake, the Arctic will be a Chinese

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Speaker 2: lake together, and Greenland will be gone. They're gonna snatch

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Speaker 2: up Greenland. And that you know. The Danes can't defend them,

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Speaker 2: The French can't defend them, the Dutch can't defend them,

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Speaker 2: the Brits can't. I'm sorry they don't. They don't have

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Speaker 2: the desire the willingness or the ability to defend them.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be us. So if we're gonna defend them,

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Speaker 2: we want it obviously at least then there's something in

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Speaker 2: it for us. And it looks like he got something

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Speaker 2: approaching what he wanted. So I want to ask you

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Speaker 2: what do you make now of Trump's announcement yesterday. Are

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Speaker 2: you happy with what he's achieved or do you think

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Speaker 2: essentially he got what the Europeans offered him weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: that for all of his talk in bluster, didn't really

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Speaker 2: move the ball and it was all for nothing. Your reaction,

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Speaker 2: your calls.

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