President-elect Donald Trump over the weekend suggested the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that was immediately rejected by the government of Panama, which has controlled the passage for decades.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino shot back Sunday after President-elect Trump suggested the Panama Canal return to U.S. control. “As president, I want to express clearly that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone belongs to Panama,

- President Jimmy Carter views the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Locks in Canal Zone on June 17, 1978. On Friday Carter signed the final Panama Canal Treaties giving control of the canal to Panama in 2000.

President-elect Donald Trump says Panama charges the United States too much for letting ships use the canal. Panama says rates are fair.

The president-elect intends to push back on Beijing’s “growth and strategic footprint” in the Western Hemisphere, said Trump’s pick for Latin America special envoy.

President-elect Trump renewed his wish to control Greenland and the Panama Canal. NBC News senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen, Washington Post White House bureau chief Toluse Olorunnipa and co-founder of The Lincoln Project Jennifer Horn join Yamiche Alcindor to discuss.

Donald Trump said he'll ban transgender surgeries for minors on the first day of his presidency and floated saving TikTok.