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Trump’s Investigator Breaks His Silence

Three years after his appointment as special counsel, Jack Smith finally delivered the legal argument against President Trump on Thursday that he was never allowed to make in court. Glenn Thrush, who reports on the Justice Department, explains what Mr. Smith told Congress and why his message is likely to make him Mr. Trump’s next target. Guest: Glenn Thrush [https://www.nytimes.com/by/glenn-thrush], who reports on the Justice Department for The New York Times. Background reading:  * In his testimony, Jack Smith defended the decision [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/jack-smith-trump-testimony-congress.html] to prosecute Mr. Trump. * Here are four takeaways from what he said [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/takeaways-jack-smith-congress-testimony.html] to a House committee. Photo: Kenny Holston/The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily [http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily]. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts [http://nytimes.com/podcasts] or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher [https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher]. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

The Global Showdown Over Greenland

President Trump has been raising tensions around the world for weeks by claiming that he would stop at nothing in his quest to seize Greenland from Denmark. But on Wednesday, he appeared to back down, announcing that he’d reached the framework of an agreement with NATO over Greenland’s future. Mark Landler, the London bureau chief, explains the ups and downs of Mr. Trump’s Greenland gambit, and why it may signal the beginning of a new world order. Guest: Mark Landler [https://www.nytimes.com/by/mark-landler], the London bureau chief of The New York Times, working with a team of correspondents to cover the United Kingdom. Background reading:  * Mr. Trump said he had a framework for a Greenland deal [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/trump-greenland-threats-diplomacy-force.html] as NATO mulled the idea of U.S. sovereignty over bases. * For decades, leaders have gathered in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss a shared economic and political future. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump turned the forum into a bracing clash between his worldview and theirs [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/davos-trump-speech-greenland-deal.html]. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily [http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily]. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts [http://nytimes.com/podcasts] or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher [https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher]. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

On the Front Line of Minnesota’s Fight With ICE

For weeks, protests around Minneapolis have caught nationwide attention as the city shows open defiance to a federal immigration crackdown. But behind the scenes, a quieter organized resistance has taken shape. Anna Foley and Michael Simon Johnson, producers for “The “Daily,” go on the ground in Minneapolis to capture that effort, and Charles Homans, a New York Times reporter, explains why the city has become ground zero in the fight over the government’s deportation strategy. Guest: Charles Homans [https://www.nytimes.com/by/charles-homans], a reporter for The New York Times and The Times Magazine, covering national politics. Background reading:  * In Minneapolis, an intense cat-and-mouse game is putting enraged residents face to face with heavily armed federal agents [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/us/minneapolis-protests-ice.html]. * President Trump’s fight with Minnesota [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/magazine/minnesota-liberalism-trump-ice.html] is about more than immigration. Photo: Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily [http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily]. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts [http://nytimes.com/podcasts] or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher [https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher]. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

Trump 2.0: A Year of Unconstrained Power

In the 365 days since Donald J. Trump was sworn into his second term as president, he has fired, pardoned, prosecuted, tariffed, deployed, deposed, dismantled and deported his way to a new kind of American government, one designed almost entirely in his image. In the process, he has not only transformed the federal government, he has also changed, possibly forever, the very nature of the American presidency. On today’s episode, Michael Barbaro speaks with three longtime chroniclers of Trump’s presidency about how to make sense of what Trump has done over the past year and what his next three years in office might bring. Guests: * Maggie Haberman [https://www.nytimes.com/by/maggie-haberman], a White House correspondent for The New York Times. * Jonathan Swan [https://www.nytimes.com/by/jonathan-swan], a White House reporter for The New York Times. * Charlie Savage [https://www.nytimes.com/by/charlie-savage], who covers national security and legal policy for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily [http://nytimes.com/thedaily]. Photo: Kenny Holston/The New York TImes Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts [http://nytimes.com/podcasts] or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher [https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher]. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

The Sunday Daily: Hollywood’s A.I. Moment

There’s a lot of anxiety about artificial intelligence invading Hollywood; the general mood there right now could be called “doom and gloom.” But speculation about a future where A.I. actors perform A.I. scripts in A.I.-generated movies often obscures the role A.I. is currently playing in the industry. In this episode, the host Michael Barbaro talks with the Hollywood reporter Brooks Barnes and the movie critic Alissa Wilkinson about the ways that A.I. is already showing up in our movies and television today, and how they see it contributing to — and complicating — the future.   On Today’s Episode: Alissa Wilkinson [https://www.nytimes.com/by/alissa-wilkinson] is a Times movie critic. Brooks Barnes [https://www.nytimes.com/by/brooks-barnes] is the chief Hollywood correspondent for The Times.   Background Reading: Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching? [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/movies/documentary-filmmaking-ai-trust.html] Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/business/media/disney-openai-sora-deal.html] ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Is Getting an A.I. Glow-Up. Cue the Pitchforks. [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/business/media/sphere-wizard-of-oz-ai.html] Is ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Sphere the Future of Cinema? Or the End of It? [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/movies/wizard-of-oz-sphere-review.html]   Photo: Roger Kisby for The New York Times Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts [http://nytimes.com/podcasts] or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher [https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher]. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.