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Speaker 2: Well, the President did exactly what I said he was

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Speaker 2: gonna do. I've only got something right. So Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: is calling off the tariffs on some European nations over

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Speaker 2: a Greenland deal. He's not going to impose the tariffs

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Speaker 2: on several EU nations after he reached the framework of

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Speaker 2: a future deal on Greenland and the Arctic Region with

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Speaker 2: the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutek. The solution, if consummated,

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Speaker 2: will be great for the United States of America and

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Speaker 2: all NATO nations. Trump is writing on truth social and it.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to go through the whole thing here.

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Speaker 2: But what he's doing is basically cutting a deal. And

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Speaker 2: I knew he would cut a deal rather than taking

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Speaker 2: the country. And it concerns the Golden Dome as it

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Speaker 2: pertains to Greenland. You know that that protection, like the

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Speaker 2: like the Israelis have, it has to do with the minerals. Also, Bill,

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Speaker 2: what are our callers, Let's grab Bill's phone call right now.

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Speaker 2: It's got a lot more than just the minerals, because

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Speaker 2: it's got trade routes and it's got well, Bill, you

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Speaker 2: explained it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, if you look at Solvent Waters, if Trump didn't

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Speaker 3: cut this deal and he actually took Greenland through a

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Speaker 3: negotiation bought it, you gain twelve nautical miles off the

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Speaker 3: coastline as Solvent Waters. That means if there's oil down

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Speaker 3: on the ocean floor that an oil company wants to

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Speaker 3: park a rig and start pulling oil out, we would

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Speaker 3: control all of that. But it goes further than just

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Speaker 3: what's down on the ocean floor, the transpolar trade routes.

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Speaker 3: If we owned and we might be able to gain

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Speaker 3: access to those trade routes and control of them through

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Speaker 3: this deal he's making, you get what is known as

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Speaker 3: an exclusive economic zone for I think it's one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty miles or two hundred knut miles off the coastline.

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Speaker 3: So if you look up the transpolar trade routes, the

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Speaker 3: shipping routes, they have to all those ships coming off

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Speaker 3: of Russia anywhere over there on that continent have to

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Speaker 3: go way up close to Greenland to get around through

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Speaker 3: those chok points where they can head out the open seas,

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Speaker 3: and we would control the economic control over that as well,

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Speaker 3: such as shipping containers or oil tankers, anything that has

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Speaker 3: to do with economics. So this deal he's making, if

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Speaker 3: he can incorporate all that in there, that's a treasure trove.

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Speaker 3: That is an economic powerhouse and at minimum a very

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Speaker 3: big chip to put on the negotiation tables if he

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Speaker 3: can pull it off.

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Speaker 2: And this is something that he wanted. And I'm certain

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Speaker 2: that most of it, if not all of it, is

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Speaker 2: in this deal that they had made with mak route

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Speaker 2: and NATO and everybody else involved in this deal. I

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Speaker 2: knew it was going to be a deal rather than

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Speaker 2: taking the country. And you know, we got to worry

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Speaker 2: about Russia and China using those routes for other reasons

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Speaker 2: as well. And you know what I'm talking about, Bill,

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Speaker 2: because you brought them up. This is something that's been

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Speaker 2: a big concern with our president and it's one that

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Speaker 2: you know, I think is not only good for us,

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Speaker 2: but it also further protects those people in the EU

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Speaker 2: just to keep you know, the Russians in the Chinese

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Speaker 2: out of that whole area. Bill, Thank you much, man,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you bringing that up. Blake, You're next on

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Speaker 2: Kmjay Go.

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Speaker 4: So I think this has everything to do with Russia,

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Speaker 4: less about Greenland and Denmark. But like those ghost fleet

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Speaker 4: oil tankers that they chased down, the chasing them down

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Speaker 4: in the North Atlantic, so the shipping lanes Russia. When

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Speaker 4: Russia's dealing with South American countries or African countries and

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Speaker 4: they're trying to send them war, trying to send them

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Speaker 4: these things, that's the route that they take. What Truv's

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Speaker 4: doing is if you shut them down, it's another lifeline

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Speaker 4: of money for Russia, which he's gonna shut the war

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Speaker 4: down in Ukraine. It has everything to do with Russia.

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Speaker 4: And basically also what he's also saying is you Europe.

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Speaker 4: The Europeans don't have the wherewithal to do with themselves,

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Speaker 4: that they don't even have an interest to protect themselves.

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Speaker 4: So I think it has to do with what we

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Speaker 4: pay with. If you don't like us and you want

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Speaker 4: us to leave, we'll leave. But if the US pulls

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Speaker 4: and that's why, and that's why it's the NATO chief

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Speaker 4: that's coming out saying we're going to make a deal,

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Speaker 4: because he's having to tell all of these prime ministers,

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Speaker 4: hey guys, you're stupid. If he leaves we're going to

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Speaker 4: be speaking Russian so they can say whatever they want

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Speaker 4: down with the actual general who runs their armies, he's like,

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Speaker 4: oh no, he's right, yeah, we'll speak Russian if we

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Speaker 4: you know, if we don't do this, if if you

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Speaker 4: got them in between a rock and a hard place.

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Speaker 4: They're either choosing politics or safety. And I think at

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Speaker 4: the end of the day, they're going to choose their politics,

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Speaker 4: they're going to choose their their social groups, and they're

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Speaker 2: I don't think you're too far off the mark there,

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Speaker 2: my friend, Thanks for the call. Well spoken. You know this.

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Speaker 2: He gave a force full hour long speech at the

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Speaker 2: World Economic Forum in Switzerland and Davos today and he delivered,

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Speaker 2: you know, appointed criticisms of long time US allies and

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Speaker 2: representatives from those countries that looked on. He described Europe

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Speaker 2: as you know, unrecognizable from an earlier era when you know,

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Speaker 2: had it in the wrong direction. He feels and maybe

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Speaker 2: that was some of the pressure that brought this deal around.

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Speaker 2: And we're still getting the bits and pieces of it

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Speaker 2: as I speak. That has seemingly made I don't want

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Speaker 2: to say, you know, former friends' friends again, but it

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Speaker 2: looks like it's going to be amenable for everybody. And

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Speaker 2: I mean, the one thing that he did in the

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Speaker 2: speech before the deal was cut or announced what was

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Speaker 2: probably already cut, is he rebuked Denmark is ungrateful, and

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Speaker 2: he's bringing up a lot of these old, you know,

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Speaker 2: songs from World War Two that still ring true and

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Speaker 2: ring strong in talking to some of the European nations

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Speaker 2: and the Scandinavian nations about look, here's you know, if

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Speaker 2: it weren't for us, And I really hate playing that

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Speaker 2: card so many years later, but look, if it weren't

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Speaker 2: for us, you know what I'm saying. You know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying. So some kind of a deal, A deal

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Speaker 2: has been cut, and a deal has been reached, a

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Speaker 2: framework deal on NATO with the NATO Chief of being involved.

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Speaker 2: And I think for the most part this is going

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Speaker 2: to be a really a fat a complete for the

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Speaker 2: Golden Dome, that's for sure, and Greenland and that part

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Speaker 2: of the whole world will benefit from the Golden Dome

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Speaker 2: just as much as the United States does. And it's

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Speaker 2: done in fast order, as fast as somebody who builds

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Speaker 2: world can build it. So, yeah, we have a deal.

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Speaker 2: We have a deal with Greenland, just I mean and

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Speaker 2: practically the way that I laid it out, I think

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Speaker 2: the week before last, the President says he has reached

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Speaker 2: an agreement, as I said, in the last hour with

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Speaker 2: NATO on a Greenland framework that will not be imposing

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Speaker 2: any sort of planned tariffs on the European allies. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's something they really wanted. So the President said this

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Speaker 2: a great one for both the US and the NATO ally,

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Speaker 2: but hasn't really you know, elaborated on all the details

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Speaker 2: yet with NATO and the Secretary General Mark rut So,

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Speaker 2: based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the

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Speaker 2: tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect February first,

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Speaker 2: Trump wrote, the deal eases tensions over the control of Greenland,

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Speaker 2: which Trump has aggressively sought to wrest that control from Denmark,

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Speaker 2: while citing, you know, national security concerns, and Trump said,

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Speaker 2: the discussions around a missile defense system you know, pertaining

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Speaker 2: be led by the Vice President J. D. E. Vans

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Speaker 2: Envoy Steve Wycoff. So the House Speaker Mike Johnson today

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Speaker 2: claimed vindication after learning that the President is ruling out

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Speaker 2: acquiring Greenland by US military force. Quote, I know he

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Speaker 2: you know. He also added, the President has and I

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Speaker 2: that for all of our friends over there at Davos.

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Speaker 2: And the speaker also said the President on Wednesday focused

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Speaker 2: on strategic importance of Greenland, and no one can dispute

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Speaker 2: that Trump has cited national security reasons to thwart Russia

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Speaker 2: because of those two ideological enemies. And the speaker also

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Speaker 2: to expand the base that you're on, You got it,

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Speaker 2: take it, use it. We have no problem with that.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that remained in the deal. So the President

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Speaker 2: He continued, adding later the Trump will use every option

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Speaker 2: on the table to see what develops over Greenland's future.

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Speaker 2: He acknowledged that he did not see Trump's speech at

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Speaker 2: the World Economic Forum in Davos, but said his staff

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Speaker 2: I'm threatening to take the Danish territory by military force.

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Speaker 2: Last week. He said that there was no pending declaration

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Speaker 2: that he did not expect boots on the ground anywhere

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Speaker 2: anytime soon. So as time progresses, will know what the

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Speaker 2: little odds and sods of this deal is. And that's

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Speaker 2: exactly what I thought would come out of Davos, and

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Speaker 2: that's exactly what is coming out of Davos. And I

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Speaker 2: happy with our commander in chief. There's wow. He talked

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Speaker 2: about so much in that speech. He did suffer a

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Speaker 2: was airborne got on his way with a trip. Trump

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Speaker 2: telling the reporters they had a leaving for Davos that

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Speaker 2: what he believed is going to be a very interesting trip.

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Speaker 2: So I think a lot of this negotiating with Greenland

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Speaker 2: for Davos. I have no idea what's going to happen,

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Speaker 2: You already know that. That's probably the biggest statement I'm

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Speaker 2: not use force. No good, I don't have to use force.

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Speaker 2: See, the conventional thought after World War two, his Greenland

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Speaker 2: tread on that a little easier, but he knows a

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Speaker 2: lot more than we do.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: He also talked about cheap energy from fossil fuels, nuclear

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Speaker 2: power over the green new scam. So the overall speech

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Speaker 2: continued as America First Agenda, likely to the dismay of

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Speaker 2: I came after the speech, surprise, you don't have to

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Speaker 2: do it. And we'll know more as the day progresses.

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Speaker 2: We'll know more. Tomorrow we can talk about the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: And I'm glad I for the moment that this whole

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Speaker 2: greenland thing has calmed down.