Law Talk: Greenland, Guns, and Money

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4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Can a U.S. president buy — or even invade — Greenland? Can he tear up treaties, fire a member of the Federal Reserve, and still stay within the Constitution? And who actually decides what “fairness” means in women’s sports?In this wide-ranging Law Talk episode, Richard Epstein, John Yoo, and Charles C.W. Cooke debate Trump’s Greenland gambit, the […]

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0:00.0	Well, I always went by default. Charles, you have to shut up your camera, otherwise I'll sneer at you.
0:04.5	But I won't see it.
0:12.5	Welcome to Law Talk. I am Charles C.W. Cook, the host, and I'm here, of course, with Richard Epstein and John U.
0:23.9	This is a production of the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
0:30.7	Richard and John, welcome to the show.
0:34.1	Well, it's good to be here even with John.
0:37.1	Hey, I'm in Texas.
0:39.4	Someone saved me.
0:41.1	Yeah.
0:41.4	You're a Civitas baby today?
0:44.1	Uh-huh.
0:44.8	All semester.
0:46.3	All semester.
0:47.2	I love it.
0:47.7	I wish I could be there with you.
0:49.2	Well, where you are not.
0:52.2	I'm in White Plains, New York.
0:56.0	And not in Greenland. At least not yet.
0:58.0	I may be exiled there by the Trump administration.
1:01.0	You may.
1:02.0	You may.
1:03.0	And in fact, we can ask about the legality of that.
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