WH Discussing Options For Greenland, Military Not Off The Table
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Quote, if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country. |
| 0:07.5 | End quote. |
| 0:08.9 | President Donald J. Trump, on this day, five years ago. |
| 0:13.1 | Elite starts right now. |
| 0:15.5 | A new Capitol rally after the deadly riots there five years ago today. |
| 0:20.3 | A riot incited by President Trump, |
| 0:22.1 | who then refused to accept that he lost the 2020 election. What was his message for Republicans |
| 0:27.5 | today? Plus, the world reacts to Stephen Miller on this show saying that the U.S. is going to take |
| 0:34.3 | Greenland. I'm going to talk to a Republican congressman and former general |
| 0:37.9 | who calls Miller's Plan BS. |
| 0:41.1 | And the major change to the number of vaccines |
| 0:45.1 | now recommended for children in America, |
| 0:48.2 | what this could mean for your own family's health. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the lead. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Jake Tapper, and we're going to start today in the politics lead, |
| 1:02.0 | because it has been five years since one of the darkest chapters in American political history, |
| 1:07.0 | the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. |
| 1:10.0 | Today, House Democrats and members of the former January 6th Select Committee held an unofficial |
| 1:13.6 | hearing with people who witnessed the violence and later gathered on the Capitol steps |
| 1:19.6 | to mark the memory of what happened. |
| 1:21.6 | We also saw a different type of remembrance today, a march on the Capitol led by the people who know their way around |
| 1:29.6 | from five years ago because many of them participated in the attack. Many were pardoned by Trump |
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