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Trump Shares Greenland Texts, FBI Renee Good Probe, Indiana Hoosiers Win and more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has sent a flurry of social media posts aimed at European leaders who have challenged him on Greenland. The FBI only briefly opened a civil rights investigation into the shooter of Renee Good before switching focus. Thousands of buildings in Kyiv are without heating in freezing temperatures. Medical groups are suing to reverse the government’s new childhood vaccine recommendations. Plus, the Indiana Hoosiers have made college football history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi from CNN. I'm Josh and Shana with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, January 20th.

0:07.0

World leaders are traveling to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week,

0:13.0

with one issue dominating the agenda, Greenland.

0:16.0

We have to have it. They have to have this done. They can't protect it. Denmark, they're wonderful people.

0:22.9

And I know the leaders, they're very good people, but they don't even go there.

0:27.1

That's President Donald Trump last night, who's doubled down on his efforts to take

0:30.8

the self-governing territory.

0:32.7

And in the last few hours, he shared several screenshots of messages with European leaders.

0:37.5

One from French President Emmanuel Macron says, quote,

0:41.0

"...my friend, we are totally in line on Syria.

0:43.6

We can do great things on Iran.

0:45.3

I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland."

0:48.3

CNN can't independently verify the text, but a source close to Macron says it's authentic.

0:54.3

Trump has also shared a message apparently from NATO Secretary General Mark Router,

0:58.6

in which he lavish his praise on Trump and says he is, quote, committed to finding a way

1:02.8

forward on Greenland.

1:04.9

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant has just delivered a press conference on the sidelines

1:09.0

of Davos, in which he says he's confident

1:10.9

that Greenland Spat will be worked out, while reassuring European leaders about their trade agreements

1:15.9

with the U.S.

1:16.9

What President Trump is threatening on Greenland is very different than the other trade deals.

1:23.5

So I would urge all countries to stick with their trade deals. We've got more news coming up, including how the FBI switched focus in the investigation into Renee Goods killing.

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