Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbaugh. I wish you a good start to the week and a happy Martin Luther King Day.

In this hour, we have a special look at Donald Trump's ongoing attacks on free speech. I'll be joined by Washington Post editor, Marty Barron.

We begin, though, with something that you don't usually think you'd be hearing about in this country or saying on the

news, the President of the United States is threatening war or war actions against Europe.

Specifically, Trump wants to take Greenland, something he's mused about before.

Now he's dialing up the pressure.

He says this is national security, but there's new

text messages where Trump's cites getting snubbed losing the Nobel priest pies, something that he thought

he was in contention for. And his anger over that loss leads him to write to Norway's prime minister,

considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped

eight wars, plus I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace. This may be the first

time in world history, any leader has admitted that because they didn't get a peace prize,

they're now threatening war. He's basically admitting a kind of personal invective

for an international crisis, although even if Trump's critics would look at this as a chance to beat up

on him or say that he has no logic here, we also have to balance out the fact that in public and

private correspondence, Donald Trump is often saying things that are untrue, sometimes knowingly false, lies, other times just things that aren't true for a variety of reasons.

So whether this is a kind of a taunt or a troll or something he threw out there is up for diplomatic interpretation, but Trump is as a factual matter threatening Europe.

He wants to potentially use war powers. He's

already using tariffs. Lawmakers are pushing back. There certainly is no authority that

the president has to use military force to seize territory from a NATO country. America still is for democracy.

America still is for self-determination of people, for sovereignty of other nations.

The only security threat to Greenland right now is the United States. The Danish people,

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