David E. Sanger

Usually presidents wait till the end of the year, Christmas, or the end of their term. The final hours, yeah. This was highly unusual to have these pardons happen at the beginning. Right. And to those who are most suspicious of President Trump's motives, they think that he wants an outside president

Usually presidents wait till the end of the year, Christmas, or the end of their term. The final hours, yeah. This was highly unusual to have these pardons happen at the beginning. Right. And to those who are most suspicious of President Trump's motives, they think that he wants an outside president

group, militia, defenders, whatever you would call them, who are now free to go defend his interests out there and who now know that they can be pardoned.

group, militia, defenders, whatever you would call them, who are now free to go defend his interests out there and who now know that they can be pardoned.

And may feel particularly loyal to him Because he let them out of jail in the opening days of his administration and believe, whether they are right or wrong, that that gives them freedom to go defend him in any way that they see necessary.

And may feel particularly loyal to him Because he let them out of jail in the opening days of his administration and believe, whether they are right or wrong, that that gives them freedom to go defend him in any way that they see necessary.

Nice to have you. Well, I'm down the street in Palm Beach. But yes, we've been in and out of Mar-a-Lago a few times.

Nice to have you. Well, I'm down the street in Palm Beach. But yes, we've been in and out of Mar-a-Lago a few times.

Well, for Trump to begin with, just the concept, as Maggie said, of being inaugurated in roughly 10 days as a felon is something that I think he would probably not want to see on his Wikipedia page, right? And it will fit into... the entire grievance argument that President-elect Trump has made that these prosecutions have been entirely political.

Well, for Trump to begin with, just the concept, as Maggie said, of being inaugurated in roughly 10 days as a felon is something that I think he would probably not want to see on his Wikipedia page, right? And it will fit into... the entire grievance argument that President-elect Trump has made that these prosecutions have been entirely political.

And you've heard him make those arguments as recently as earlier this week at his press conference. But more importantly for the institution itself, it then would raise the fundamental question of how somebody could be convicted as a felon and then, quite constitutionally, quite legally, elected as president.

And you've heard him make those arguments as recently as earlier this week at his press conference. But more importantly for the institution itself, it then would raise the fundamental question of how somebody could be convicted as a felon and then, quite constitutionally, quite legally, elected as president.

Let's start, if we could, with your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal and so forth. Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? No. And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote?

Let's start, if we could, with your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal and so forth. Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? No. And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote?

What what is the strategy?

What what is the strategy?

So when this all began in the first term, Michael, you may recall that one of his close friends had suggested to him that the United States should buy Greenland, an idea that actually Harry Truman had had in the 1940s at the opening of the Cold War. And in the first term, it was pretty much described as a real estate offer, right? He was making an offer.

So when this all began in the first term, Michael, you may recall that one of his close friends had suggested to him that the United States should buy Greenland, an idea that actually Harry Truman had had in the 1940s at the opening of the Cold War. And in the first term, it was pretty much described as a real estate offer, right? He was making an offer.

The sellers said they weren't interested in selling. Denmark. And we kind of moved on, okay? Right. Denmark has got the foreign and defense responsibilities for Greenland. Okay. As the president-elect has come back at this in December in a series of tweets and increasingly martial-sounding statements, he has made it sound less like a deal and more like you have to go do this.

The sellers said they weren't interested in selling. Denmark. And we kind of moved on, okay? Right. Denmark has got the foreign and defense responsibilities for Greenland. Okay. As the president-elect has come back at this in December in a series of tweets and increasingly martial-sounding statements, he has made it sound less like a deal and more like you have to go do this.