Mike Davis

It's just how it works.

It's federal law.

Both parties agreed with this until like five minutes ago.

You have to do that.

But at least on the messaging...

We need to show the problem where it is most urgent, where it's most grievous, where you have 80% support.

I hope that's what Homan's doing.

But if the White House is using this as an opportunity to back off, I think it is a huge, potentially existential mistake.

Great to be with you always, Megan.

Thanks for having me.

Well, I think I can buy part of that, but I do question whether the strategic importance of Greenland, in his mind, is really what's at stake here.

Because Greenland is important, but it's not that important.

And in everything that we want to do in Greenland, we could do without acquiring the territory.

And the idea that somehow legally we would not defend it, well, we defend bases, US bases, all over the world.

They're in all different countries.

And we do have this thing called Article V with NATO,

which says we're going to defend, uh, France and Germany and the other NATO countries.

So I'm not sure he's on firm ground legally when he, when he says we need it in order to defend it.

Um, but I do think that, and we played on our show, Howard Lutnick's, uh, bite, which I thought was very revealing where he talked to your point that Europe has followed this path of globalization and globalization has been a failure.

Um, and that to me is the theme of the administration at, uh,