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Why are tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalating over protests and leadership claims?

Ted Lindner 0:03
Tensions with Iran continue to rise. I'm Ted Lindner, Fox News. Tensions rising between the U.S. and and Iran over massive protests and the killing of protesters, more than 4,000 dead. Fox's Greg Powell.
Greg Palcott 0:14
The Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Hamani declaring President Trump is responsible for the upheaval. Trump firing back in an interview saying Iran needs new leadership.
Greg Palcott 0:30
To top it off, activists hacked into Iran State TV and posted a message from the exiled son of the late depost Shaw of Iran calling on security. To lay down their arms as the military pressure looms. According to new reports, the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group is now within days of the region, ready to respond if the White House calls for it.

Should President Trump invoke the Insurrection Act to quell the anti‑ICE protests in Minneapolis?

Ted Lindner 0:52
The protest first began over an economic crisis in the country. President Trump considering a military response to anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis after Minnesota Governor Tim Walls mobilized the state's National Guard forces, Fox's Jonathan Hunt.
Jonathan Hunt 1:06
Troops with the 11th Airborne have been given ready to deploy orders. Should President Trump invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the military to restore order.
Unknown 1:25
Have the situation under control. Several thousand law enforcement agents here, and we're conducting that Title VIII immigration mission unabated.
Jonathan Hunt 1:33
Local leaders in Minneapolis, meantime, have decried the suggestion of military involvement as unconstitutional.
Ted Lindner 1:40
Homeland Security Secretary Christine Olms says agents have arrested 3,000 illegal immigrants. A federal judge last week restricted ICE from arresting protesters or using so-called less lethal weapons. CBP commander at large Gregory Babino said agents will continue using those weapons.

How did Indiana’s Hoosiers clinch their first national college‑football championship?

Ted Lindner 1:55
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Ted Lindner 2:17
The Indiana football teams won its first ever national championship. The Hoosiers taking down the Miami Hurricanes twenty seven at twenty one in the college football playoff national championship game that happened Monday night, punctuating an unbeaten sixteen and oh season with the title. President Trump using his favorite tool again, Alba McCuire Greenland, but will it work? Fox's Kevin Cork explains from Washington.
Phil Tinline 2:38
President Trump and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, obviously have a lot on their plates right now.

What is the proposed 10‑% (later 25‑%) tariff on NATO‑linked shipments to Greenland and why?

Phil Tinline 2:43
Davos, Venezuela, Canada's apparent turn toward China. But nothing is as hot, ironically, as the fate of the icy cold island of Greenland. The President said that those NATO countries who've decided to send a few dozen troops over to Greenland, well, they're gonna get hit with a ten percent tariff on all goods sent to the U.S. beginning the First of February. So that means Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, you're all on notice. By the way, that fee goes up to 25% in June. That is, of course, until the US is able to buy the island.
Ted Lindner 3:20
Those countries threatening to retaliate with a so called trade bazooka to shut down the president's Greenland goals. The president has also not ruled out US military action in Greenland.

Why are British leaders opposing Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland and what diplomatic steps are being taken?

Ted Lindner 3:29
House Speaker Mike Johnson addressing the British Parliament today. Fox is Jonathan Savage with more on that from London.
Jonathan Savage 3:34
Mike Johnson visits the Palace of Westminster at a time when relations between the United States and the United Kingdom are strained. British politicians are united in opposing President Trump's desire to acquire Greenland. Speaker Johnson this week saying diplomatic channels are the way to go. He'll address British lawmakers today to mark the USA's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. adding the two nations have stood together as pillars of peace and security across generations. In London, Jonathan Savage, Fox News. And I'm Ted Lindner.
Ted Lindner 4:11
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Jonathan Savage 4:12
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