Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Asked about the administration’s threats against Greenland, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, “The idea that you want to talk about completely destroying America’s reputation and our alliances … this is beyond the theater of the absurd,” calling it “outrageous” and “mind-boggling.” But perhaps the most telling comment came from Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s inside man in the Ukraine negotiations with the U.S., Kirill Dmitriev, who posted a quote from Miller on X: “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.
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Published at: 2026-01-07 23:22:57
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