Meet the Press NOW — January 20
Meet the Press
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington. |
| 0:15.1 | As President Trump prepares to head to Europe amid a spike in tensions with U.S. allies over his vow to annex Greenland, |
| 0:23.4 | which echoed through the stock market today as the administration tries to address mounting anxiety from voters about the state of the economy. |
| 0:31.4 | Today, President Trump holding a wide-ranging and at times meandering press conference from the White House briefing room, |
| 0:38.3 | officially marking one year since his return to office. His remarks and questions lasting for |
| 0:44.2 | nearly two hours, touting his record, his immigration crackdown, and defending his tariff strategy, |
| 0:50.8 | which he's now using as leverage to Ann annex Greenland from Denmark, a NATO ally. |
| 0:56.3 | President Trump using today's press conference as well to sow doubts about the U.S. commitment |
| 1:01.0 | to the NATO alliance. |
| 1:03.7 | I've done more for NATO than anybody, and I see all this up, but NATO has to treat us fairly, too. |
| 1:09.5 | The big fear I have with NATO is we spend tremendous amounts of money with NATO, |
| 1:13.6 | and I know we'll come to their rescue, |
| 1:15.3 | but I just really do question whether or not they'll come to ours. |
| 1:19.0 | How far are you willing to go to acquire green? |
| 1:22.4 | You'll find out. |
| 1:24.9 | To be clear, Article 5 of the NATO Charter has only been invoked once. That's for the common |
| 1:30.4 | defense of members. And that happened after 9-11 when our international partners, including many |
| 1:36.3 | Danes, came to the defense of the United States. Meanwhile, markets closing the day just moments |
| 1:42.4 | ago and plunging in response to the president's announced 10% tariffs on eight European countries opposed to his takeover of Greenland. |
| 1:51.8 | At his press conference, President Trump touting what he views as the great successes of his economic agenda, while also recognizing his message is not breaking through to some skeptical voters. |
| 2:05.2 | We've had the best stock market in history, the best 401Ks in history, and we inherited a mess. |
| 2:13.1 | The numbers that we inherited were way up, and now we brought them, almost all of them |
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