00:00Concerning Venezuela, how would you assure the Caribbean region that they will remain a zone of peace?
00:07Because some member states in the region are concerned.
00:10Well, look, the president had a very productive phone call with the president of Colombia yesterday,
00:15and we continue to talk at all levels of government with a number of our friends in the Caribbean region.
00:19I actually think this is really good for peace in the Caribbean,
00:22because when you take away a major source of illegal cartel revenue,
00:26which is the cocaine trade, the fentanyl trade, other sources of illicit revenue,
00:30you actually remove the power of one of the main destabilizing forces in Latin America and in the Caribbean.
00:37I really do think, look, we say it all the time, this is the president of peace.
00:41One of the ways that you establish peace in your own hemisphere is to make it clear that the United States is going to be respected,
00:47that the United States is willing to take power away from criminal cartel organizations and give it to legitimate governments.
00:54That's how we see the future of the Western hemisphere.
00:56And we think it's going to be much more peaceful than it was, certainly under Joe Biden.
01:00I'll take one more question.
01:01Go ahead.
01:01Mr. President, thank you.
01:03On Greenland, do you have a message for European leaders?
01:07Many in Europe reject the idea that the island could be forsaken.
01:12Well, first of all, Secretary Rubio, I believe, is meeting with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland next week,
01:17I want to say it is, but maybe it's the week after that.
01:20We'll continue to deliver some of these messages in private, some of them in public.
01:24But I guess my advice to European leaders and anybody else would be to take the president of the United States seriously.
01:29What has he said about Greenland?
01:31Set to the side the crazy overreactions that I've seen from the press and from certain people in Europe.
01:37What has the president said?
01:38Number one, Greenland is really important, not just to America's missile defense, but to the world's missile defense.
01:44Number two, we know that there are hostile adversaries that have shown a lot of interest in that particular territory, that particular slice of the world.
01:51So what we're asking our European friends to do is to take the security of that landmass more seriously,
01:57because if they're not, the United States is going to have to do something about it.
02:01What that is, I'll leave that to the president as we continue to engage in diplomacy with our European friends and everybody on this particular topic.
02:07And again, thank you all for listening.
02:09Thanks for taking questions.
02:10And I just ask you, look, this is politics and often Republicans and, you know, get in arguments with the press about things.
02:18I understand that.
02:20I think it's really irresponsible for you guys to go out there and imply or tell the American people that a guy who defended himself from being rammed by an automobile is guilty of murder.
02:32Be a little bit more careful.
02:33We're going to talk about toning down the temperature, which I know the president wants to do, and I certainly want to do.
02:38One of the ways we tone down the temperature is to have a media that tells the truth.
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