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Norway pushes back after Trump disparages it over Nobel

Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says Norway reminded Trump the Nobel Committee is independent; the president insists Norway controlled the prize anyway.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAt a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, President Trump called Norway a crude name and said he did not want anybody from Norway, after this year's Peace Prize went elsewhere.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe prize went to Navi Pillay of South Africa, a former U. N. human rights chief. Professor Thaddeus Okonkwo-Reyes wrote a book about this.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorProfessor, thank you for joining us.

  4. Thaddeus Okonkwo-ReyesThank you, Gloria. I predicted this, and I predicted the opposite. As I wrote on page forty, both outcomes are possible. That is analysis.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe president said, quote, I don't care about the Nobel Prize. He also said Norway controlled it. Which is it?

  6. Thaddeus Okonkwo-ReyesBoth. As I wrote on page one hundred twelve, a man who does not care will explain at length that he does not care.

  7. Thaddeus Okonkwo-ReyesHe is being thorough.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThorough, at a rally.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorForeign Minister Espen Barth Eide told NRK the committee is independent, and that Norway reminded the president of it. Prime Minister Støre said the same.

  10. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDoes that settle it?

  11. Thaddeus Okonkwo-ReyesNo. As I wrote on page two hundred six, a government that cannot control a prize is the most suspicious kind of government. Chapter nine covers that.

  12. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn January he wrote to the Norwegian prime minister that he no longer felt obligated to think purely of peace.

  13. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is a letter from a man who cares.

  14. Thaddeus Okonkwo-ReyesOr one who has moved on. As I wrote on page three hundred nineteen, caring and moving on look identical from a podium.

  15. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe committee also says a medal cannot be transferred, shared or revoked. Maria Corina Machado gave the president her gold medal. Where does that leave him?

  16. Thaddeus Okonkwo-ReyesHolding a medal that is not his, which he does not want.

  17. Thaddeus Okonkwo-ReyesAs I wrote on page four hundred two, that is a very full hand.

  18. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI'll give it a verdict: the professor predicted everything, which is how he is never wrong.

  19. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorProfessor, if you truly didn't care about sales, you wouldn't have held the book up eleven times.

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