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caused by the wildfires in pacific palisades, california. he sense has had to move from the location as the fire spread. theorist wildfires continuing to rage across los angeles at this hour and two dennis reported in putting out the fires progressing slowly at this time. i'm sandra smith in new york. john, just heartbreak for all of those people that are affected by this. >> john: definitely, but the fact they are getting water bombers and six aircraft and helicopters to attack the fire with winds subsiding is good news. i am john roberts and this is "america reports." time lapse footage captured with uc san diego show how quickly the palisades fire erupted yesterday afternoon. you can see the hillside smoking and how it is ablaze. it almost looks like the kona bay volcano there. folks given erupted evacuation

warnings without no prior notice. look how quickly he had routes. >> sandra: people had to flee from their cars and that let's them and then i think that highway. but of course, emergency vehicles need to get through so now bulldozers working to clear the roads and shove the cars to the side. >> john: wow, it is close to apocalyptic movie. william la jeunesse in malibu with the flames to continue to burn along the pacific coast highway. i have been where you are standing many, many times. eight years to be a long row of houses with beautiful views of the beach and now nothing there. >> john, we are getting a better luck and obviously daylight now. as she has had, normally pch this is lined with home spam go to banff, bam. when we arrived,standing but now they are gone. so there is about a dozen or maybe 14 homes here lost and you can see gas line flowing here

and you see the flames. we knew winds coming and all it was was a spark. 50 miles north of the palisades. it could have been a lot worse. in the palisades, we say it is a wildfire but many ways, and urban fire towards the palisades and migrated north to malibu and beyond. so we had about 30,000 evacuees down there. some very dense neighborhoods. $10 million homes mixed in with apartments, condos, businesses m&a destroyed. of course, countywide, about a thousand and that is preliminary and that will go up hear a joke that the helicopter, as you mentioned, john, they had a hare getting water and retardant on the fire because the wind so high. eventually those were granted around 8:00. also they lost water pressure.

dps 3 million-gallon tanks ran dry. after 11:00 p.m., there was no water for firefighters to even use. no fatalities and the fire but some chose not to evacuate. >> it looked like a war zone. they must have been 50-75 cars pushed aside which we have seen images up. they were is burning to agree on the grounds. you know, fire hoses and blockages everywhere. all of the landmarks and schools and grocery store churches, all the way down to pch on fire around us. >> so, i know you mentioned, john, the eaton fire with a two fatalities occurred there. that grew over 2,000 acres now. 100 structures destroyed including nursing home that had to be evacuated. so the situation is far from over in southern california. we still have sizable gust flow

as shaking the automobile and that kind of thing. talking to some friends old neighborhood of mine, 12 homes lost and some homes above me on the cliffs those are burning as we speak right now. we are probably going to be in the situation until friday. and then probably get some containment lines until this weekend or next week because of the high winds. john. >> john: 31 years ago, we had a base operation down the street from where you are gladstone. we were covering all topanga canyon fire. this keeps happening here after year after year. how is it that it keeps happening? trump back in 2020 was very critical of california for not enforcing rules to clear underbrush and make sure the forests floors were clean to stop the fires from spreading so rapidly. why does this keep happening again and again? >> why? well, there is a multitude of

reasons, right? number one, this fire in the valley started in a residential area. it didn't have anything to do with the wildfires we often do see in the national forest or what we call the urban rule interface where a lot of peopler care and don't put, you know cec their homes and take care of it like that. that we now have and this isn't really going to answer your question, that we have a year around fire season. we have marginal rain for last few months. i think you can blame california on some things, but other things i don't want to say mother nature. i have not looked at total statistics of acres burned. but when it starts in the middle of a community, you will have problems. another problem that is related, of course, insurance. that is something you can look at the state and look at responsibility. may be kicked off of their

policies and i got kicked off and had to go to estate plan. malibu going without insurance altogether. gosh only knows, but these homes along the water, these are $10 million homes and up here to the palisades, $30 million up in riviera area, right question like this is going to be a very, very, very expensive fire. john. >> john: no question about that but don't forget when it comes to malibu a $10 million home and $9.5 million is the property and you might be able to rebuild with less cost and that. i know a long, long day for you and you are doing fantastic work. thank you. >> thank you. >> john: sandra. >> sandra: we thank william for his reporting and will check back soon. caruso founder and executive chairman against karen bass in l.a. two years ago. thank you for joining us. you caught our attention this morning with analysis of the situation saying this looks like a third world country.

>> yeah, first of all, thank you for having me. it does look like a third world country. to the devastation up in the palisades area is so widespread most of the downtown is gone. one of my developments at there was damaged but still standing, which we are very, very grateful for. but obviously, we are not sure what will happen because they were still fire around it. most of the sections are gone i heard on the report schools, churches. what is amazing to me how widespread station this could happen in a relatively short period of time. one of the things you reported was the lack of water and fire hydrants. i think there is a lot of tough questions to be asked how it happened. was the citic to make city adequately prepared and new high winds were coming? trigger point, the brush in this area has not happened for

decades. although it started in a neighborhood, it in the brush in the hills controlled by the city, county, state and provided an enormous of tools and took off. we really need the whole leadership responsible. ask but they did and find out what they did wrong and help people. >> sandra: in the meantime, this is survival mode, rick. >> it absolutely is. you are talking to and million dollar homes and $30 million homes. just to be clear the majority of the businesses in the palisades are small independent businesse. but there is a far majority of homes in the palisades that people have had for 30 or 40 years. not all wealthy people. these people will be wiped out and the businesses will be wiped out. this is what saddens and angers me frustrates me is is that the city has a sacred duty and obligation to protect people's lives and livelihood.

when you don't have water in a fire hydrant, you have to have some real tough questions on how the hell this could happen in a major city coach at the second largest city in the country. >> sandra: we know we are about to hear from presi president biden. he has with the governor right now and herks. at the team can alert me when we began. here we go, we have video up here rate, if you could stand by without us, this is leadership in the form at the governor that you are criticizing. we will see what he has been discussing with the president and what resources they can deploy. i know two year point, there are firemen on-site in some cases can't do anything because they don't have resources and they don't have the ability to fight these fires right now. it looks like he has a map up and i believe we will dip in and listen to the president.

thank you. >> thank you for being there on behalf at the fire service. last week the national fire service significant winds to hit southern california. at this is not something a surprise to us in southern california and something well-prepared for them based on those predictive conditions have wind gusts 100 miles an hour east pushing offshore, we begin increasing staffing, local, state, federal agencies. hundreds of firefighters began moving sunday afternoon from northern california into southern california. my local partners began up staffing their own fire stations and helicopters, fire engines and hand crews to be prepared for an incident like this that occur to. those were prepositioning counties throughout southern california for an event just like this. tuesday morning the palisades fire began. i would like to introduce you to chief crowley to touch on the palisades fire, chief.

>> thank you so much mr. president. we will provide you a brief on pretty significant fires that occurred in the city of los angeles. the fact, we will focus on the palisades fire. that fire broke out yesterday morning 10:30. we did employ a number of resources. we knew there was a potential for significant threat to our constituents due to the weather event, high, high, high winds i have never seen in my 25 career. we lean forward as much as possible. with fat we had a significant amount of fire that occurred here too we had been aggressive fire attack here to the fire has grown from originally 10 acres to 10,802 acres as we speak here it is an active, active firefight with the firefighters and they are doing their very best to protect their people within this area. interesting and a half the winds in the low humidity, we had a second player break out and that

was the hurst fire just north of that area. again, this was 11,000 acres. this is close to 500 acres and also broke out. the information that i wanted to share with you it's also significance of multiple fires and the area within the city and also the county. that is the second fire that actually came out. we are actively engaged in that firefight. the third fire broke out this morning at 4:00 in the morning in which we have an active firefight there as well. we are working with local jurisdictions in our state, regional, as well as federal. we are doing everything we can to protect light first and property next. we will go ahead and pass this off to police chief mcdonald. thank you. >> it is an honor to be here and represent the men and women of l.a.p.d. and police to support our partners in the fire service. what we saw in the last 24 hours

is unprecedented. to have never seen anything like this. fires driven by the type of lands 100 miles an hour. strictly support for evacuations and to get people out of the affected area and to be able to provide traffic info and crime suppression has a fire is thought. some will come in and try to take the opportunity to go into these homes and steal from them. we will be on top of that. i want to say the relationship we enjoy here in my leadership in all of the elected officials and is unlike else in the country. we are blessed to have the relationship between the police and fire we do have fear. we did this frequently but never to this level. i cannot say how important it is as we go into the next five years with the super bowl and the world cup in the olympics coming up, it is critical to maintain those partnerships. thank you for this opportunity. let me introduce my partner

from county fire department, chief tony. >> thank you, mr. president. i will give you an update on eaton fire, which is east. the county starts all the way up in lancaster and goes all the way down to long beach border. we go from the county line, all the weight ventura and 4,300 ac. so we have a fire east of the palisades fire that began last night. it is called the eaton fire and it is currently 10,600 acres, 0% containment. we have over 750 firefighters on the line. unfortunately, two people have lost their lives, residents have lost their lives at the eaton fire in impacting tens of thousands of homes not only of the city of pasadena but also the county area of altadena. we are doing our best. we just have out-of-state

resources arrived from arizona at the eaton fire to assist us here to last night as a regional one coordinator, i contacted the governor's office of emergency services and requested 250 additional engines into l.a. county with 1,000 personnel. we also are using our inner contacts with other states like arizona, nevada, oregon, and washington. firefighters have those regions are on their way down to los angeles county right now to assist us. thank you for your interest and thank you for your attention. >> governor, can i ask a question? [inaudible] >> president biden: folks, the fact is that b.o.d.

[inaudible] district firefighters in the california national guard with air fighting systems and two more from the national guard inaudible four more are coming. [inaudible] anything and everything... they have a long, long way app.we will give you everythingu need. >> personal and that makes a disaster declaration that needs to be improved.

in southern california. as the chief said, we have assets this week in anticipation of the weather events. here till multiple fires and the likelihood that this will continue. it will impact the structures that have already been destroyed and 1,000 plus people have been evacuated and lives lost. traditions, places -- [inaudible] and the president happen to be in the region in town. it is impossible to express the level of appreciation and cooperation we received at the white house from this administration. so for that, mr. president, thank you for being here not just to date that of those incident last to attend the firefighting.

[inaudible] >> it is astounding what is happening. my son was out here and got notification yesterday that their home and it was burning around it. but the good news is, the great-grandfather. [applause] i have a new granddaughter. a baby girl, baby boy. so i will remember this day. >> reporter: mr. president ...

>> we are walking out. thank you, mr. president. >> sandra: all right to go to the has been briefed. let's see if we can pick up any questions there. okay, i believe, john was making a remark about becoming a great-grandfather as his eldest granddaughter had a child. we didn't make out much of what he said about what he heard from the briefing there. that he was getting a full update of what is happening with these fires as they continue to spread. you heard about the challenges that we all know wealth at this hour to contain them. >> john: we continue to look at this picture we have been looking at the last couple of hours and a couple of water bombers drop in the plume that the steam and smoke that comes up from that that extend the fire that overall, it does not look like they made much headway on it. they were still thousands of homes in danger of going up in

flames as we have seen from pacific palisades. some of the expensive real estate on the planet as well as not so expensive real estate that middle-class folks live in. we have entire neighborhoods burnt down. i have not seen anything on that scale since laguna beach fire back in 1983 where an entire neighborhood called mystic hills went up. literally only one house standing out of 100 in that neighborhood. it was built on a hill with the roads basically ringing the hill as they went to the summit. every house except one was gone. that is the same thing we see in pacpacific palisades. jonathan hunt bringing us the pictures from there and set to move locations because fire danger and the police wanting to keep the area clear. he will be back with us soon. william losh and s pacific coast highway in malibu were in the past we have seen mostly back up in the

hills but coming right down to the pacific ocean. and wiping out row upon row of homes there that some of them $10 million and those are not the big malibu mansions the movie stars and the producers and tech billionaires are living in. those are modest houses and melody accounted in the the tens of millions of dollars. to put those houses all gone now. as william la jeunesse was saying for situation in california for a lot of sheriff insurance companies no longer underwriting because of the fire danger. if they don't have insurance through the state, which is limited, they will be in for a larger rebuild. >> sandra: john, getting an update from the ap here as we have been seeing and reporting on currently just to reiterate the aircraft now able to return the dropping water on these

los angeles wildfires after being grounded because of the winds. we note that wind gusts strong at this hour and likely to continue, but they are a backup in the air at the aircraft's on the l.a. fires as absolute destruction overall medina california and that fires raging on right now. gentlemen, bring back and rick caruso joining the coverage and we had you on a moment ago prior to the president receiving that briefing. guerin against karen bass in l.a. and there was a credit nod to leadership at the beginning of the briefing. i thought of the you that many are saying it is the lack of leadership that got us to where we are today and not be able to contain the fire is right now. >> i certainly think it is the lack of leadership that got us to a point where we may have damage and can ever prevent these things. but what we were talking about earlier the brush mainly was a

massive failure and has been for years and water management and the fact that you had firefighters working their tails off and risking their lives and the hoses are empty and they have to stand by and watch homes burned down. is ju heartbreaking and frustrating. you have to ask that quee leadeg the mayor not because i ran against him, but i think everyone who holds a political office should be held accountable. we need to ask the tough questions when she gets back in town. she has not been in los angeles. i don't know when -- >> sandra: if you where the mayor right now and dealt this, what are you doing about it and what would you be doing right now differently? >> i think they have to say is and they are a couple of years ago what would you be doing? i would not cut the budget for the fire department like the mayor did. i would make sure we had the infrastructure to support the fire suppression systems.

i would make sure we had the brush removed in these neighborhoods that have been overgrown for decades. witness in a way start today. there is a lot of things you could be doing today but the big part would be rebuilding and supporting the communities and supporting small businesses. i will lean on heavily tinted fat. we will come back and palisades welcome back in los angeles is a tough city and we are strong. that it will take a lot of the city resources to help. frankly, cut through red tape so they can pull building permits and rebuild their homes quickly. los angeles started with overregulation. so there is hundreds of things. >> sandra: got it. rick, glad to have you want to date and thank you for joining the coverage and staying with us through the president's remarks there. >> take care. >> john: we will keep you up-to-date on the virus california but the major ship by meta, social media giant with

content moderation policy scrapped. is this a sign they are trying to embrace the president-elect? michael shellenberger ways and coming up. >> sandra: an eye on the top stories that wildfires burning out of control in southern california. we will walk over to the fox news studio with the latest. that is next. all the landmarks, schools, grocery stores, church is everything on the way down to pch was on fire around us. pch was on fire around us. it was hard to see that in the driveaway. ted. it isn't. not with rosland capital. with rosland... the entire process from start to finish is built on one concept. one... keep...it...simple. rosland capital a trusted leader in helping people acquire precious metals. gold bullion, lady liberty gold and silver proofs, and our premium coins, can help you preserve your wealth.

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we do know they have the aircraft back up and dropping water and retardant right now. they had to take a break because of the lands. we will join en with the latest wins. thank you for letting us drop in but what can you tell us about the winds right now. that is making this challenge for those fighting the fires here fires. >> brutally persistent and wind gust up to 100 miles an hour persistent over 60 miles an hour. we got the update on the ian fire and quadrupled in size from the latest check 2500 over 10,000 acres now. >> sandra: wow, what does the forecast look like for her ability to fight the buyers into the night as hours go on? >> you reported the aircraft able to get back up on the threshold how they can safely operate for the six wing aircraft. ps 1 continues so a little bit of improvement in the evening and overnight hours. the conditions make it a little

bit worse. choice a little bit of improvement that under normal circumstances, these would be critical fire weather conditions. dropping him from the worst winds event in 15 years. fox business correspondent max gorden out on the scene and worked with us for a couple of years. max, i want to bring you a hand on this. you are literally the son of two firefighters. in the context of your family, have you seen anything like this? >> well, of course go to my parents encountered this as firefighting. i have encountered this reporting for fox weather and fox news channel and fox business. but it does something you can never fully get used to. seems like this. photojournalist thomas to show you the scene in this mobile home park. it looks to be a tesla cybertruck burnt to the ground and multiple homes here reduced to ashes. if you pan over here, thomas, we

can see one of these homes are still burning. we actually talked to the owner of the home. he said his family had multiple family heirlooms inside. that you know, there is simply nothing they can do. shelter in place and the smoke began to emerge 10:00 a.m. yesterday morning. and then this fire whipped by the strong santa ana winds turn into an inferno engulfing the mobile home park and so many communities along the coast. it has been incredible to see as we have driven along the pacific coast highway, which is visible actually just down the hill. you can see the ocean right here as the smoke continues to pour out over the pacific once a beautiful place and usually vacation destination now turned. back to you guys. >> during max's report we literally thought and update cal fire from the palisades fire and

went from 5,000 up to almost 12 now. we have doubled in size with the latest update. >> sandra: this is spreading quickly and part of the problem, too, the wind gusts and extremely dry conditions. >> folks are saying what is up with the lens of that magnitude? santa ana winds without mountain over to the west but the issue potent area of low pressure down in baja, california, and that actually becomes the winter storm in texas tomorrow. said this effectively is a little bit of a super santana set up and the winds brutally and gusting the last hour up over 60. >> sandra: ian, i want to tell you in our viewers as well i will borrow for studio 9:30 a.m. eastern time we will kick off full fox weather fire coverage right here and working with the best weather team in the business and we will have reporters all over. we will bring you the latest from the ground and all of these

areas. 9:30 a.m. eastern time and fox weather will have them for you. >> we look forward to seeing you then. >> sandra: thank you so much. >> john: meta makes a move to scrap moderation policies following the footsteps of other social media platforms. is it a sign they tech pivoting to embrace president trump weeks before he takes office? let's bring in michael shellenberger, free-speech chair the public news. it is great to see you. hear us the change to meta policies with moderation and content here till they will and third-party fact-checking and move to the community notes model much the same as x. some topics part of mainstream discourse. focusing on legal and high severity violations and take personalized approach to political content. donald trump praise the changes. what do you think? >> i think it is great. they would did not go as far as i have gone but we have told

them account that they have moved to a new format fact-checking which is crowd sourced fact-checking and much more accurate. you may know facebook wrongly censored people sharing side effects from the covid vaccines. wrongly censored debate around covid origins. they censored the biden laptop issue. so bravo to elon musk and donald trump to help inspire it. >> john: meta says it is getting back to its roots here to listen to global chief officers affairs says about that. there is an opportunity with a new president taking office who believes in free expression. that gives us the space to get back to those values. unfortunately there's been a lot of political and societal pressure here and around the world that have pushed away from those values. we have an opportunity to reset and get back to them. >> john: you alluded to this a second ago and where was that backbone three years ago when people were being banned on

social media platforms and the things they were saying about covid, many of which turned out to be true? or was that backbone four years ago when social media was censoring people talking about hunter biden's laptop? >> yeah, obviously, zuckerberg failed at the moment when he was really being tested on. the last 12 years was a woke reign of terror and create a many victims of censorship including myself and including donald trump and we note elon musk was worried about being censored and part of the reason he wanted to buy twitter. i think what we see is a return to the norm. the creed has added center of free-speech. that is a big reason why the founders created the created the united states of america. we put speech before government and we don't ask the government for permission to say in the government is based on speech. i do see here, we also saw zuckerberg a year to rebrand a

reprieve and coming back to the norm of american culture. >> john: mark zuckerberg patriotic bro. it has a nice ring to it. our programs like siri, and it shows up on your phone, well, apple is being forced to pay $95 million with siri private lawsuit and mobile device owners reuters complained that apple routinely recorded their private conversations after they activated siri unintentionally and disclose these conversations to third parties such as advertisers. to complain and say mention of air jordans thinkers and all of garden restaurants triggered for these products and listen to this, and other said he got ads for brand-name surgical treatment after discussing it. he thought privately with his doctor. so we discovered, michael, siri is a nosy parker. >> i have experienced this

myself when i thought i was going slightly crazy or conspiracy theories. many have experienced the fat. another big sign big tech needs to be transparent weather on the issue of censorship or question of privacy. we need some rebalancing here. we depend on they tech so much here till they have behaved and shouldn't be subject to basic oversight and to basic transparency. these power are not limited to facebook but companies like apple. >> john: beware the next time you talk about something in private. keep your phone somewhere else. in a box with white noise. michael, great to talk to you. sandra. >> sandra: massive damage to southern california as the wildfires there more than doubled in size. we learned that in the past hour a close look santa ana winds making things worse right now. m we will have that update next.

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♪ ♪ >> john: we are tracking apocalyptic wildfires as they burn out of control in the los angeles area is made worse by santa ana winds. i want to show you and bill hemmer alluded to this how quickly palisades fire spread. 5:00 in the afternoon yesterday about 8:00 on the east coast. this is where the fire erupted and began to spread very quickly. but watch what happens in the course of an hour. boom, it blows up in the course of the next few hours, comes to the coast close to santa monica and also malibu. that is where william la jeunesse and those homes that have burned down that swept through the canyons. and 3:40 a.m. eastern time to 6:00 a.m. where we are most

recently 8:16:00 a.m. this morning the fire spread from there. we talk about santa ana winds and how those developed on the screen. so high-pressure system that settles in over the great basin and i don't want to play amateur meteorologist coach at that creates a clockwise circulationf air that comes down across the high desert. you go from 4500 feet in elevation down to sea level. what happens when that comes down through the mahogany desert and into the san gabriel mountains? they are really, really dries out so it has got like less than 10% humidity and it. it comes to the san gabriel mountains and the mountain passes and like a river that gets squeezed down goes faster and faster and faster who at onf los angeles, those winds plumbing close to 100 miles an hour which is hurricane-forest. you get a little bit of a fire going with her some brush and it's like taking a blow torch to

it and the whole thing blows up. that is where we are today and that is what california lives with with the santa ana winds start just like apple and sisters. here comes the santa ana winds again and they are here and they don't like it, sandra. >> sandra: good stuff. thank you very much for that. andrew proulx on with us right now organizing relief efforts in the area. thank you for joining us. caught your eye to help folks and what is the plan and how are you reaching out to them and all of the people affected? >> we are about 30 miles south of the affected area. what we are doing is opening up the restaurant or a parking lot for anyone that needs a state and supplies in free meals as much as they need. we are trying to connect with local organizations and we don't want to get in the thick of it and bother anyone for opening up the restaurant to get free meals. >> sandra: that is amazing, shaft, to many who need a warm milk and comfort right now. but if you didn't sing as people

coming in? >> we have been contacting people through private messaging who do need a place because although the hotels in l.a. and orange county and getting a lot of donations. what we will try to do is coordinate all donations, food, supplies budget et cetera. in heaps i 6 shoes and that is how detailed and we will bring that up to l.a. think of this as a rec area with massive parking lot. anybody can come down at 1600, pch towards huntington beach. >> sandra: chef herald by a hero by so many as your message spreads to those looking for help. thank you very much for what you are doing. jeff, thanks. spilling president trump putting the world on notice plans to expand u.s. influence and potentially u.s. territory. bret baier weighs in coming up next. stay with us.

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editor of social report also fox news chief political anchor. this has a grand history of acquiring more territory, the marshall islands, 1917 we bought of the virgin islands from denmark for $25 million, 1898 we acquired puerto rico, hawaii, we bought alaska from russia. the $7 million. when i greenland? >> listen, i think a lot of people will look at those, there are strategic big picture items, most of it has to do with china. and at china's influence not only in the panama canal but also possibly the waterways there, natural resources, rare earth minerals, greenland, all kind of factors here. when the president-elect said he would not rule out military action, that was a headlines across the board, i do nothing that is a real sense the u.s. military will invade greenland.

last night on the show, he offered to this caution, that democrats should not take everything to freak out stage in his words. and he is really becoming one of the joe mansion with a hoodie, into this new congress. >> you reference the louisiana purchase, routed by most of america from the french. the panama canal, operated by china, we gave it back to panama. here's what trump said about yesterday. >> mr. trump: the panama canal is a vital for our country, it's been operated by china. china! and we gave the panama canal to panama, not china. they have abused that gift. >> john: if his toadies ever broke out, china would slam the door shut on the panama canal. what he's saying is making a lot of sense. >> i think this is part of

negotiating, president-elect trump style, i think the hope is economically they can force them changes, especially with the u.s. gets charged through the panama canal, there's a lot of big picture stuff, i do not think it is front of mind as far as the first things to do, back to greenland, signatures say blinken over in paris i it is not going to happen in his words, the idea is obvious he not a good one, it is not going to happen. should not waste time talking about it. i am not sure. greenland will have a say, denmark away end, but assumes that part of negotiation at this point. >> john: again the u.s. bought the virgin islands from denmark in 1917, pretty good bargain, $23 million in gold coins, which is to win $6 billion today. vesia greenland will be worth more than that. >> give every resident of

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