Saturday, January 17, 2026 07:00PM ET
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | From ABC News, I'm Dave Packer. |
| 0:05.5 | Protests today in Greenland's capital, |
| 0:09.7 | Nuk, as crowds turned out to demonstrate against President Trump's repeated threats |
| 0:14.3 | to take control of Greenland, which is a territory of NATO ally Denmark. |
| 0:19.0 | Now a major escalation from the White House. The president posting that |
| 0:22.0 | Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland will face |
| 0:27.7 | 10% tariffs starting on February 1st. Those tariffs are set to jump to 25% in June until, quote, |
| 0:35.0 | a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland. |
| 0:39.1 | Now, those countries have sent small groups of military forces to Greenland to back our NATO-Aid Denmark, |
| 0:45.3 | which has long controlled the Arctic territory. |
| 0:47.7 | ABC, Selena Wang, France and Sweden responding to Trump's terror of threats saying they will not be blackmailed. |
| 0:53.4 | Another day of protests in Minnesota, tensions running high as federal agents and anti-ice |
| 0:58.2 | demonstrators take to the streets. |
| 1:00.4 | Late Friday, a Minneapolis judge handed down restrictions on ice tactics toward peaceful protesters |
| 1:05.3 | there, including using tear gas and making arrests. |
| 1:08.3 | ABC's Olivia Rubin. |
| 1:09.4 | It was brought by a number of protesters who said that they were unlawfully arrested |
| 1:14.1 | when they were just carrying out peaceful First Amendment protests. |
| 1:18.4 | So this is the judge sort of siding with them telling ICE that those sort of tactics |
| 1:22.5 | aren't allowed when people are just exercising their First Amendment right there. |
| 1:26.5 | A historic day in Virginia. |
| 1:29.3 | Democrat Abigail Spanberger sworn into office as the state's first female governor. |
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