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00:00In focus now, Tommy Piggott, State Department spokesperson. Great to have you.
00:04First of all, we're learning more and more. So what can you tell us that is unfolding right now on this?
00:09And you just heard for the first time the foreign minister now talking about, yeah, this is a good deal.
00:14Peter Doocy said she looked a little nervous from Greenland, wondering what was coming.
00:19Well, the real winners here are the American people, are the security of our alliance.
00:24What we saw is President Trump identifying a problem, a real problem, and taking steps to address it.
00:29And only the way that President Trump can. He is truly showing that he is the dealmaker in chief.
00:35And what we're seeing are efforts to enhance the NATO alliance, enhance the security of Greenlanders, enhance the security of the United States.
00:41That is something that only President Trump could have delivered.
00:44And he's truly making this argument about addressing these modern threats we all face and making us all safer.
00:49Tommy, talk to me about the military component of this, though, because there are it's two pronged.
00:54It's that and it's also rare earth. And I will get to the rare earth in a moment.
00:57But just the military, when he took that military force off the table, it seemed to shift things a little bit.
01:03Did that make the deal easier?
01:07Well, I think ultimately what made the deal possible is President Trump.
01:10And President Trump has a suite of options and he keeps those options open until he decides to rule them out.
01:15And ultimately what we saw over the last couple of days, weeks, really going back to the beginning of this administration, is the art of the deal in action.
01:22This is something that presidents have wanted to see happen for many, many decades.
01:27And President Trump is actually taking steps to make it happen.
01:30It's a credit to his leadership.
01:32It's also a credit to the vision he has to address problems before they become problems.
01:37President Trump's really putting us on a great footing here and making sure that our security is truly enhanced.
01:41Yeah. Well, and I think and correct me if I'm wrong, the Alaska purchase, Greenland was originally part of that.
01:46That part of the deal didn't hold together.
01:49And so all these decades later, we see what we see now.
01:53Greenland is the eighth place in the world when it comes to the reserves of the rare earth minerals needed to create and operate technology for pretty much everything.
02:02Most of those reserves are still untapped in Greenland.
02:06The Arctic nation is home to key minerals needed for consumer electronics, defense systems, medical devices, advanced computing and clean energy.
02:15This is a critical part of that deal.
02:17Tommy, talk more.
02:19Well, ultimately, this is about access.
02:21This is about access for the United States.
02:23It's about access from a military perspective.
02:25It's about access from a perspective in order to from those critical minerals.
02:29These are part of all the concerns that President Trump laid out really from the beginning of this administration.
02:33Talking about those critical minerals, talking about the encroachment of our adversaries onto Greenland,
02:38talking about the defense of Greenland, the NATO alliance, our defense, modern threats, the Arctic.
02:42The list goes on.
02:43He's been identifying these threats.
02:45And what we're seeing here is President Trump addressing these threats and also identifying opportunities,
02:50identifying opportunities that can make us all prosperous.
02:53That's the art of the deal in action.
02:54And President Trump is showing, once again, why is the dealmaker in chief?
02:57So is it time to to hit the shores of Greenland as as Americans?
03:01I mean, they don't have a lot of infrastructure there yet.
03:04Does our footprint in those small areas that I understand from the potential deal is coming?
03:09We will have control over small footprints, probably near military bases.
03:13Talk to me about that.
03:14Well, as President Trump said, details on this will be forthcoming.
03:18And I don't want to get ahead of the president.
03:20And as these discussions are being finalized.
03:22But again, I think it's important to stress the context here of President Trump identifying this problem.
03:27Everyone saying a deal wasn't possible.
03:29Don't bring this up.
03:30Ignore this.
03:31President Trump saying, no, I'm not going to ignore this threat to our security.
03:34I'm not going to ignore the opportunities.
03:36He's having these hard conversations.
03:37And the people to have these hard conversations with are our security partners.
03:41So we're seeing President Trump in action, once again, putting America first.
03:44But when he puts America first, that actually helps the NATO alliance.
03:47It helps everyone in terms of our security and prosperity.
03:50Talk to me about the Board of Peace, if you can.
03:52Twenty five, upwards of twenty five members now.
03:57Well, this is something that came out of the Gaza ceasefire deal that was announced,
04:00unprecedented global coalition that was put together by President Trump that saw the release of hostages,
04:06that saw humanitarian assistance entering Gaza in a way that wasn't being looted by Hamas.
04:11And so what we see now is President Trump building on this unprecedented global coalition,
04:15trying to see the implementation of peace and prosperity,
04:18making sure that we're seeing these peace deals put into action.
04:20President Trump, who has negotiated eight peace deals around the world in just a year,
04:25an unprecedented advancement of peace.
04:27We're seeing this board of peace being an effort to see that long term peace and prosperity.
04:31So a really historic announcement that we saw on Davos here,
04:34building on the huge momentum, the global coalition that President Trump has put together.
04:38Yeah, I'm looking down at my notes.
04:40It has been one hundred and three days since Israel and Hamas,
04:44the ceasefire agreement came into place.
04:47And of course, we've seen some bubbling up in the president
04:49and the secretary of state, Rubio, have said, you know, that can happen.
04:53But the peace is holding.
04:55The ceasefire is holding.
04:56And so that that is a huge development in all of this.
04:59It is great to have you on the program.
05:01Tommy Pickett, come back.
05:03Thanks for having me on.
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