Trump Still Wants Greenland / RFK Jr.'s New Vaccine Schedule

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The White House renews its pressure campaign to take control of Greenland, even suggesting the U.S. could do it by force. But what military access to the island can't already be negotiated? Plus, the CDC drops several shots from its childhood vaccine recommendations, which the trial bar could use as an opening for lawsuits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:40.1	The Trump administration renews its pressure campaign to take control of the Arctic Island of Greenland as the Centers for Disease
0:45.6	Control and Prevention removes a series of vaccinations from its recommended childhood schedule.
0:52.3	Welcome. I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're
0:55.6	joined today by my colleagues on the journal's opinion pages, editorial board member Kate O'Dell,
1:01.1	and columnist Alicia Finley. President Trump isn't the first American leader to recognize the strategic
1:07.4	location of Greenland. Back at the outset of the Cold War president,
1:11.6	Harry S. Truman even floated the idea of buying the island.
1:15.7	But this might be the first White House to suggest that the U.S. is willing to take control of the territory by force if necessary.
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