00:00Why is the administration not taking Denmark's offer to discuss the situation in Greenland?
00:05I'll be meeting with them next week.
00:06Will you take military intervention off the table?
00:09I'm not here to talk about Denmark or military intervention.
00:11I'll be meeting with them next week.
00:13We'll have those conversations with them then.
00:15But I'm not having anything further to add to that.
00:17Well, that's always been the president's intent from the very beginning.
00:19He said it very early on.
00:21I mean, this is not new.
00:22He talked about it in his first term.
00:23And he's not the first U.S. president that has examined or looked at how could we acquire Greenland.
00:29There's an interest there.
00:30But so I just reminded them of the fact that not only did Truman want to do it, but President Trump's been talking about this since his first term.
00:35What I think the White House said yesterday is what I will tell you now and I've always said.
00:38The president always retained the option.
00:40If he, every president, not this president, every president always retains the option.
00:43I'm not talking about Greenland.
00:44I'm just talking about globally.
00:46If the president identifies a threat to the national security of the United States, every president retains the option to address it through military means.
00:52The acquisition of Greenland by the United States is not a new idea.
00:56This is something that presidents dating back to the 1800s have said is advantageous for America's national security.
01:03The president has been very open and clear with all of you and with the world that he views it in the best interest of the United States to deter Russian and Chinese aggression in the Arctic region.
01:15And so that's why his team is currently talking about what a potential purchase would look like.
01:19Why not rule out taking it by military force?
01:25I know that past presidents and past leaders have often ruled things out.
01:32They've often been very open about ruling things in and basically broadcasting their foreign policy strategy to the rest of the world, not just to our allies, but most egregiously to our adversaries.
01:45That's not something this president does.
01:46All options are always on the table for President Trump as he examines what's in the best interest of the United States.
01:52But I will just say that the president's first option always has been diplomacy.
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