David E. Sanger

Let's start, if we could, with your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal and so forth. Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? No. And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote?

Let's start, if we could, with your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal and so forth. Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? No. And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote?

What what is the strategy?

What what is the strategy?

So when this all began in the first term, Michael, you may recall that one of his close friends had suggested to him that the United States should buy Greenland, an idea that actually Harry Truman had had in the 1940s at the opening of the Cold War. And in the first term, it was pretty much described as a real estate offer, right? He was making an offer.

So when this all began in the first term, Michael, you may recall that one of his close friends had suggested to him that the United States should buy Greenland, an idea that actually Harry Truman had had in the 1940s at the opening of the Cold War. And in the first term, it was pretty much described as a real estate offer, right? He was making an offer.

The sellers said they weren't interested in selling. Denmark. And we kind of moved on, okay? Right. Denmark has got the foreign and defense responsibilities for Greenland. Okay. As the president-elect has come back at this in December in a series of tweets and increasingly martial-sounding statements, he has made it sound less like a deal and more like you have to go do this.

The sellers said they weren't interested in selling. Denmark. And we kind of moved on, okay? Right. Denmark has got the foreign and defense responsibilities for Greenland. Okay. As the president-elect has come back at this in December in a series of tweets and increasingly martial-sounding statements, he has made it sound less like a deal and more like you have to go do this.

And I had been told by people who had had conversations with him or with his advisors that he was increasingly discussing using the other powers of the United States to force Denmark— and now Panama, to basically make this deal happen. In other words, that he would come to it not just as a real estate developer, but a real estate developer with the world's most powerful, yes, military behind him.

And I had been told by people who had had conversations with him or with his advisors that he was increasingly discussing using the other powers of the United States to force Denmark— and now Panama, to basically make this deal happen. In other words, that he would come to it not just as a real estate developer, but a real estate developer with the world's most powerful, yes, military behind him.

And so that's why I phrased the question as I did, which was to ask him, are you planning to use military or economic coercion? And as you might expect with Donald Trump, who frequently tells you, as Maggie knows better than I do, sort of what's right on his mind, he immediately said, I'm not going to rule out using any of those tools. And that's what made such news.

And so that's why I phrased the question as I did, which was to ask him, are you planning to use military or economic coercion? And as you might expect with Donald Trump, who frequently tells you, as Maggie knows better than I do, sort of what's right on his mind, he immediately said, I'm not going to rule out using any of those tools. And that's what made such news.

Yes. America went through a phase where from the Louisiana Purchase to Alaska, which was dismissed as, you know, Seward's Folly at the time, right, to the Spanish-American War, from which we got Guam and Puerto Rico and had control of the Philippines for a long time. This was the way the U.S. operated.

Yes. America went through a phase where from the Louisiana Purchase to Alaska, which was dismissed as, you know, Seward's Folly at the time, right, to the Spanish-American War, from which we got Guam and Puerto Rico and had control of the Philippines for a long time. This was the way the U.S. operated.

In the post-World War II era, we have talked instead about living in a rule of international law where power took a backseat to what our legal rights were. And our fundamental argument as a nation

In the post-World War II era, we have talked instead about living in a rule of international law where power took a backseat to what our legal rights were. And our fundamental argument as a nation

about why the United States is supporting Ukraine is that Vladimir Putin used the fact that he had a more powerful army to go in on a national security argument, you could call it a pretense, to invade Ukraine. And we have moved beyond that. That was the core of the Biden argument for why this was an illegal move.

about why the United States is supporting Ukraine is that Vladimir Putin used the fact that he had a more powerful army to go in on a national security argument, you could call it a pretense, to invade Ukraine. And we have moved beyond that. That was the core of the Biden argument for why this was an illegal move.

So any suggestion that the United States was moving back to sort of the law of the jungle, is what's got people so, I think, disturbed at this moment.

So any suggestion that the United States was moving back to sort of the law of the jungle, is what's got people so, I think, disturbed at this moment.