Tuesday, January 20, 2026 07:00PM ET
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | From EBC News, I'm Dave Packard, marking the first anniversary of his second term, President |
| 0:08.4 | Trump making a rare appearance in the White House press briefing room. |
| 0:11.8 | The president asked if his push to take over Greenland would lead to the dissolvement |
| 0:15.4 | of NATO. |
| 0:16.4 | I think something's going to happen that's going to be very good for everybody. Nobody's done more for NATO |
| 0:22.9 | than I have, as I said before, in every way. Trump ticking off a list of what he says |
| 0:28.8 | were the accomplishments of his first year claiming his economic policies, including tariffs, |
| 0:33.3 | have put the U.S. in a strong position. We have taken a mess and made it really good. |
| 0:38.3 | It's going to get even better. |
| 0:40.3 | But as he was saying this, stocks were tanking on Wall Street, |
| 0:43.3 | investors selling America on Trump's tariff threats |
| 0:46.3 | and veiled threats of attacking U.S. allies over the Greenland issue. |
| 0:49.3 | The Dow plummeting 870 points. |
| 0:52.3 | The new federal investigation into Minnesota elected officials is |
| 0:55.4 | wrapping up with the issuance of grand jury subpoenas. Officials say the subpoenas have been |
| 0:59.7 | served on the Minnesota governor, the state's attorney general, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. |
| 1:04.0 | Paul, and the county prosecutors for both cities. Sources say the investigation centers |
| 1:08.7 | around whether those Democratic elected officials have been obstructing federal law enforcement. |
| 1:13.3 | Governor Tim Walls calls it a partisan distraction, and he says neither he nor his state will be intimidated into silence. |
| 1:19.9 | ABC Stephen Portnoy. Southern Command says the U.S. has seized a seventh oil tanker, this time in the Caribbean. |
| 1:26.3 | A judge in New Mexico has released actor Timothy |
| 1:29.2 | Busfield after a pre-trial detention hearing, ABC's Alex Stone. Prosecutors argued Timothy |
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