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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s high-stakes trip after Greenland comments rock NATO; Millions battle brutal arctic blast and snow; Trump touts arrests by ICE in Minneapolis while acknowledging potential ‘mistakes’; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight, the president's escalating war of words over Greenland now rocking the NATO alliance

0:06.4

and your 401K, the stock market taking a huge hit. President Trump in a marathon news conference

0:13.0

today claiming America needs Greenland. European countries not backing down, with more troops

0:19.3

arriving in Greenland, our reporter is there.

0:22.1

And as fears of a trade war with America's top allies grow, U.S. stocks plunge today.

0:28.0

Dangerous Arctic blasts sending cars off roads, even freezing up one major city's water supply.

0:34.5

Plus, Al Roker tracking the next winter storm, which may be the worst one down south

0:39.3

in years. The Justice Department's new legal action against Minnesota's top Democratic officials.

0:45.6

Plus, the growing outrage over an American citizen detained wearing just shorts and a blanket,

0:51.4

plus the protest inside of a church in the middle of Sunday service.

0:56.0

Breaking moments ago, actor Timothy Busfield set free as he awaits trial after a court

1:01.9

hearing over his child sex abuse case. Four shark attacks in just 48 hours, shutting down

1:07.8

beaches in Australia, video of the shark thrashing, and a victim carried

1:12.3

out of the water. Rescuers speaking out after a woman drove her car into freezing water, how

1:18.1

they broke her free, breaking baby news, Vice President J.D. Vance and the second lady

1:23.6

announcing they're expecting their fourth child. Nightly news starts right now.

1:30.4

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yomas. And good evening. We begin tonight with the

1:38.1

exploding rift between President Trump and some of America's closest allies over Greenland,

1:43.9

with the divide now rocking America's

1:45.9

stock market. The president heading to Switzerland later tonight, where he'll likely face an icy

1:50.8

welcome from many European leaders. Mr. Trump's increasingly tough talk on Greenland, rattling not

1:56.5

just the NATO alliance overseas, but the stock market here in the U.S.

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