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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:04.3 | There is a sense of relief in Europe that President Trump is not pursuing military force to take Greenland. |
| 0:10.4 | NPR's Eleanor Beardsley says Europeans know that the crisis is far from over. |
| 0:14.4 | Danish foreign minister Lars Lek-Rasmussen welcomed the fact that Trump now says he won't use force to capture Greenland, |
| 0:21.6 | but warned that his expansionist ambitions remain intact. |
| 0:25.6 | Speaking on French television, former NATO general Olivier de Bavinshov remarked on Trump's disdain for Europe. |
| 0:34.4 | He basically said, you are all ingrates, we Americans do everything, and without us, you are nothing. |
| 0:40.9 | Then, a few hours after his speech, Trump said he and NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta |
| 0:46.6 | have reached agreement on a framework of a future deal on Greenland. |
| 0:50.8 | No details yet, though it does not apparently entail the U.S. owning the Arctic |
| 0:55.9 | Island. Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News, Paris. The Department of Homeland Security today |
| 1:01.0 | confirmed it has launched an immigration enforcement operation in Maine. Maine public's Ari Snyder |
| 1:06.5 | has more. The confirmation comes after days of mounting speculation that ramped up enforcement was imminent |
| 1:12.1 | and as a growing number of videos cropped up on social media purporting to show ICE arrests |
| 1:17.3 | in southern and central Maine. Portland mayor Mark Dion says ISIS tactics around the country have put |
| 1:22.8 | his city on edge. While we respect the law, we challenge the need for a paramilitary approach for the |
| 1:31.1 | enforcement of federal statutes. DHS did not immediately return a request for comment about the |
| 1:36.4 | number of people arrested so far. For NPR News, I'm Ari Snyder in Portland, Maine. Just 32 companies |
| 1:43.0 | can be linked to more than half the world's carbon emissions from fossil fuels and cement. |
| 1:47.9 | That's according to an annual release of data from Carbon Majors, a project run by a think tank |
| 1:52.2 | and designed to hold energy producers accountable for their role in climate change. |
| 1:56.5 | NPR's Kamila Dominovsky reports. |
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