Um, we're continuing to talk about, of course
, is President Trump's desire to take over Greenland.
Some lawmakers trying to put a stop to that effort
. So what are members of Congress doing to try
to tamp down that Greenland takeover talk? Well,
look, there's been a whole lot of Republicans who
have spoken out on this issue of taking over Greenland
, far larger number than the number who, who've
spoken out about, uh, Venezuela, and there's
a number of reasons for that. For one.
The NATO alliance, Greenland, owned by Denmark,
a staunch US ally and a fellow member of NATO
, if the US were to go in and take
Greenland by military force, which President Trump has not
ruled out, that could be construed as an attack
on NATO, and Senator Chris Coons, before leading
that bipartisan delegation to Denmark that he is now on
today, told me yesterday he believes that the president's
rhetoric could have disastrous consequences. Take a listen.
It's hard to discern what the heck President Trump's talking
about. He just wants to change the color on
the map and make it part of the United States
, like this is the game of risk or something
, um, and our NATO allies are now making
it really clear that any effort to take Greenland by
force would destroy the NATO alliance. So if,
if the US were to take action against Greenland,
in your view, it would end NATO. Yes
. A very, very sharp warning there from Senator
Chris Coons, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. He is now meeting with Danish officials abroad
in Copenhagen. A lot of questions about whether President
Trump will tamp down the rhetoric or possibly come to
some sort of diplomatic solution. There is this working
group made up of Danish and US officials trying to
find some sort of off-ramp, some sort of solution
here, but the Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen
met with Vice President JD Vance and the Secretary of
State Marco Rubio this week, they left Washington with
quote unquote fundamental differences in opinion, at the same
time, no uh resolution to that standoff, that
high stakes standoff with President Trump directly saying that he
wants to take over or purchase Greenland. Greenland and
Danish officials have said repeatedly, the island is not
for sale. We'll have to see where things go
from here. I'm sure you'll stay on top of
it for us. Scripps News congressional correspondent Nathaniel Reed
, thank you very much.