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Markwayne Mullin: “If Denmark wants us to protect them and they want us to put…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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… eastern flank is a tremendous amount of investment and not, I mean, in the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. What we are saying is, our approach is, listen, If Denmark wants us to protect them and they want us to put, put in the hundreds of billions of dollars of the infrastructure that's going to be needed for, for air defense, for ports, for early learning warning systems, the list goes on, then we probably. It'd be in America's best interest that we actually own the soil we're investing those dollars into. And I mean, we're not looking to invade them. We're not doing that. What we would like to do is see Denmark either one, give the people of Greenland an … (14:36–15:35)

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Asserts that the U.S. should own Greenland if it invests in infrastructure there for defense purposes.

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