Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber.

Tonight we're reporting on the international chaos that defines Trump's January,

the president repeatedly threatening a once unthinkable step,

attacking our European allies or invading Greenland,

all so that the U.S. might take that country by force,

something you may recall from recent Putin foreign policy.

Now, after major pushback, which includes U.S. lawmakers

condemning Trump's war talk, European leaders, fighting fire with fire, they've talked about

an economic bazooka to go back and hurt the U.S. for Trump's sort of economic war of choice.

And then the mounting tremors in the financial markets

this week, the biggest stock drop in months, which then rebounded today. With all this going

down, Trump is backing off. He says he's taking military action off the table as he arrived and

then spoke and at times ranted at foreign leaders and bankers at the Davos summit in Switzerland. All of this leading to backtracking that international outlets call a

climb down from his threats. So it's a lot. And this reflects a common Trump dynamic.

The bluster, the sweeping claims, the threats to use basically unilateral, unreviewable powers that any president has with few of views like this.

And that obviously requires people and countries to react only after much effort, which might have been spent on other things, and market jitters and the rest I just mentioned,

only after all that to try to just get Trump to stop doing the thing that so many people think

is damaging. In this case, getting him to retract, trim, or outright surrender this threat

of a war with Europe that most Americans are like, are you serious? Now, on tariffs, they call

this whole dance

taco. Trump always chickens out. The Greenland fight comes with fresh concerns about not only Trump's

policies, right, which is a fancy word for starting a war. And does anyone in this country want

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