A framework for a deal or an off-rem.

President Trump backs down after his aggressive efforts to acquire Greenland enraged and insulted American allies.

What's in the agreement that quieted some international backlash?

And how much damage to America's most important relationships has already been done tonight on Compass Points. Hello and welcome to Compass Points.

For the last decade, President Trump has purposely created a great

disturbance in the force that binds the U.S. and Europe together, and he has realized results.

NATO now pledges to spend more money than any time in its history on defense. But over the last

week, President Trump threatened the Danish territory of Greenland with an implicit military threat,

and then European allies with explicit

economic threats, and then said he might not prioritize peace because he didn't win the peace

prize. Now, he and NATO say there's a Greenland deal, but has this week finally proven to Europe

that the art of the deal threatens the U.S.'s oldest alliances. To discuss this today, I'm joined by a fantastic panel.

Carla Sands chairs the Foreign Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute,

and was President Trump's ambassador to Denmark in the first term.

Sherry Goodman is a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council and former Deputy

Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental

Security in the Clinton administration. Eric Edelman was the Ambassador to Finland under President

Clinton, Ambassador to Turkey under President George W. Bush, and a former senior official in the

State and Defense Departments. And Professor Matthias Mattias is the Europe faculty lead at the Johns

Hopkins School of Advanced International

Studies and Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. Thank you very much.

Really appreciate your being here for our second show. And I want to begin with the question

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