知情人士向ABC新闻证实，国务卿马尔科·卢比奥本周早些时候在国会山的一次机密简报中告诉立法者，美国正在寻求购买格陵兰岛。
卢比奥在周三的一次简报会后告诉记者，购买这片领土一直是唐纳德·特朗普总统的意图。
“嗯，这从一开始就是总统的意图。他很早就说过了。我是说，这并不新鲜。他在他的第一个任期内谈到了这个问题，他不是第一个研究或关注我们如何收购格陵兰岛的美国总统。这是一种兴趣，”卢比奥告诉记者。
国务卿没有回答有关使用军事力量获取该领土的问题，这是白宫提出的一个选项。
“如果总统发现对美国国家安全的威胁，每位总统都保留通过军事手段解决这一威胁的选项，”卢比奥说。“作为一名外交官，这就是我现在的身份，也是我们努力的方向，我们总是喜欢以不同的方式解决问题。”
格陵兰是丹麦的自治领土，有自己的民选政府，由丹麦议会处理国际事务。
特朗普和他的顾问一直在讨论收购格陵兰岛的“一系列选择”，包括使用军事。
白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特(Karoline Leavitt)周三在白宫举行的新闻发布会上加倍强调，特朗普政府不排除使用军事力量，承认尽管外交永远是第一选择，“总统仍保留他的选择。”
“当特朗普总统审视什么最符合美国的利益时，所有选项都摆在桌面上。”当被问及为什么白宫不排除使用武力时，莱维特解释说。“但我会的就说总统的第一选择一直是外交。"
她随后否认了总统不愿意与丹麦人合作的说法。
“谁说外交不是在幕后进行的?我是说，总统对外交感兴趣。他的国家安全团队也是。当然，他总是愿意为每个人拿起电话，倾听他们的关切，”莱维特说。“但是主席是曼联的主席他会一直非常清楚地表明他认为什么是我们国家的最大利益。
格陵兰岛在北极圈之上的位置使它成为一个诱人的国际贸易中心，拥有令人垂涎的矿产资源——中国和俄罗斯竞相寻求在该地区的广大地区发挥影响力。
追问美国会从中获得什么莱维特说，控制格陵兰岛是为了“更多地控制北极地区，确保中国、俄罗斯和我们的对手不能继续在这个非常重要的战略地区进行侵略。此外，还有许多其他好处，这也是总统和他的国家安全团队目前正在谈论的。”
随着外国领导人谴责总统的言论，特别是通过使用军队来获取国家的想法遭到了国会山主要共和党人的强烈反对。
众议院议长·迈克·约翰逊和其他共和党人驳斥了任何美国将使用军事行动收购该国的说法，约翰逊说，美国“没有与格陵兰交战”
“所以，所有这些关于军事行动的东西，我不认为这是，我甚至不认为这是一种可能性。我不认为有人会认真考虑这个。在国会，我们当然不是，”他在新闻发布会上说。
约翰逊说，美国专注于通过外交途径处理格陵兰问题。
这位发言人补充说，“审视我们的战略和国防举措以及什么对我们有利，是美国的首要任务。格陵兰提供了很多这样的东西。”
北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员托姆·蒂利斯(Thom Tillis)周三下午在参议院发言，抨击白宫负责政策的副幕僚长斯蒂芬·米勒(Stephen Miller)本周早些时候关于美国可能动用军队接管格陵兰岛的言论。
“你可以说，格陵兰应该是美国的一部分，这可能是美国总统的立场，但这不是本届政府的立场，因为我们是一个平等的部门，如果这一立场得到通过，议会将进行投票，使之成为现实，”他说。
内布拉斯加州共和党众议员唐·培根告诉记者，收购格陵兰岛是“愚蠢的”
“(国会)不支持任何形式的武力接管格陵兰或试图购买它们。他们是我们的盟友。他们想与我们合作，”培根补充道。
培根和蒂利斯今年都不会竞选连任。
前参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)也公开反对军事行动。
他在周三的一份声明中说，“美国官员就美国对格陵兰的所有权进行威胁和恐吓是不合适的，因为它们会适得其反。”“使用武力夺取美国最忠诚和最有能力的盟友之一的主权民主领土，将是对美国及其全球影响力的特别灾难性的战略自残行为。”
丹麦政府一再驳回特朗普收购格陵兰岛的提议，包括在周二发布的与其他欧洲领导人的联合声明中。
“格陵兰属于它的人民。应该由丹麦和格陵兰，也只有他们，来决定有关丹麦和格陵兰的事务，”声明说。
卢比奥说，他计划下周会见丹麦和格陵兰的同行，此前他们要求周二与他举行紧急会议。
周三，欧洲议会的丹麦议员安德斯·维斯特森讲述CNN他“受够了美国政府的这种态度。”
“明确的信息是，它是非卖品，这不是你可以谈判的事情，你不能在这一点上施压或恐吓我们屈服，”Vistisen说。
Rubio says Trump wants to buy Greenland while White House dangles military option
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers during a classified briefing on Capitol Hill earlier this week that the U.S. is seeking to purchase Greenland, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.
Rubio told reporters after a briefing Wednesday that buying the territory has always been President Donald Trump's intent all along.
"Well, that's always been the president's intent from the very beginning. He said it very early on. I mean, this is not new. He talked about it in his first term, and he's not the first U.S. president that has examined or looked at how could we acquire Greenland? There's an interest there,"Rubio told reporters.
The secretary of state did not answer questions about the use of military force to acquire the territory, which has been floated as an option by the White House.
"If the president identifies a threat to the national security of the United States, every president retains the option to address it through military means,"Rubio said. "As a diplomat, which is what I am now and what we work on, we always prefer to settle it in different ways."
Greenland is a self-sovereign territory of Denmark with its own elected government, with Denmark's parliament handling international matters.
Trump and his advisors have been discussing "a range of options" to acquire Greenland, including use of themilitary.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down Wednesday during a press briefing at the White House that the Trump administration will not rule out using military force, acknowledging that while diplomacy is always the first option, “the president keeps his options open.”
“All options are always on the table for President Trump as he examines what's in the best interests of the United States,”explained Leavitt when asked why the White House wouldn’t rule out the use of force.“But I willjust say that the President's first option always has been diplomacy.”
She then rejected the notion that the president wasn’t willing to collaborate with the Danes.
“Well, who said diplomacy isn't taking place behind the scenes? I mean, the president is interested in diplomacy. His national security team is as well. And of course, he's always willing to pick up the phone for everybody and hear out their concerns,” Leavitt said. “But the president is the president of UnitedStates of America, and he's always going to be very clear about what he views as being in our nation's best interest,” she said.
Greenland's position above the Arctic Circlemakes it an alluring hub for international trade with coveted access to mineral resources -- with China and Russia competitively seeking to assert their influence over wide areas of the region.
Pressed on what the U.S. would gain bytaking control of Greenland, Leavitt said it was about “More control over the Arctic region and ensuring that China and Russia, and our adversaries cannot continue their aggression in this very important and strategic region. And there would be many other benefits as well, that, again, the president and his national security team are currently talking about.”
The notion of acquiring the country, especially through the use of the military, drew major pushback from key Republicans on Capitol Hill as foreign leaders decry the president's rhetoric.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans pushed back on any assertion that the U.S. would use military action to acquire the country, with Johnson saying the U.S. is "not at war with Greenland."
"So, all this stuff about military action and all that, I don't think it's, I don't even think that's a possibility. I don't think anybody's seriously considering that. And in the Congress, we're certainly not," he said at a news conference.
Johnson said the U.S. is focused on using diplomatic channels to deal with Greenland.
The speaker added that "it is an America First priority to look at our strategic and national defense initiatives and what would be advantageous to us. Greenland offers a lot of that."
North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis took to the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon to rip into White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller over his comments earlier in the week about the U.S. possibly using the military to take over Greenland.
"You can say it may be the position of the president of the United States that Greenland should be a part of the United States but it is not the position of this government because we are a coequal branch and if that were come to pass there would be a vote on the floor to make it real," he said.
Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon told reporters acquiring Greenland would be "foolish."
"There is no support [in Congress] for any kind of force to take over Greenland or trying buy them. They are our allies. They want to work with us," Bacon added.
Both Bacon and Tillis are not running for reelection this year.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Senate majority leader, also spoke out against military action.
"Threats and intimidation by U.S. officials over American ownership of Greenland are as unseemly as they are counterproductive," he said in a statement Wednesday. "And the use of force to seize the sovereign democratic territory of one of America's most loyal and capable allies would be an especially catastrophic act of strategic self-harm to America and its global influence."
The Danish government has repeatedly dismissed Trump's proposals to acquire Greenland, including in a joint statement with other European leaders released Tuesday.
"Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland," the statement said.
Rubio said he plans to meet with his counterparts from Denmark and Greenland next week after they requested an urgent meeting with him on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Danish Member of European Parliament Anders VistisentoldCNN he was "fed up with this attitude from the U.S. administration."
"The clear message is that it's not for sale, it's not something you can negotiate about, and you're not going to be able to pressure or bully us into submission on this," Vistisen said.
