Dave Davies

Was this guy easy to find for you?

Let's go back to the beginning of this strange episode.

The origins of this idea you tell us in the story goes back to Trump's first term in office, I think 2018, when he hears about this from a former business school classmate.

Is that right?

People will remember Fiona Hill from the impeachment hearings in 2019, right?

She was quite an impressive figure in the National Security Council.

So she does some research.

What happens?

The United States does have this one base there.

Under a treaty, it has the opportunity to establish military facilities in Greenland.

Most of them have been abandoned except for this one base to track incoming missiles, right?

Right.

You know, so eventually this does become public because the Wall Street Journal does a story that says Trump is talking about buying Greenland, which gets a lot of attention.

And John Bolton, the national security advisor, wonders where this came from because he's quite sure his staff were under strict orders not to talk about it.

Finally figures it out.

Where did it come from?

Wow.

So give us an idea of who some of these characters were.

You want to pick a couple and tell us about them?

Right.