Travel pool 14: more POTUS gaggle (inc. Epstein comments)

POTUS gaggled on the tarmac until 6:55pm. Fuller quotes tk. Check against audio and transcript, hard to hear over plane engines. More quotes tk.

Otter link:

https://otter.ai/u/Ty_2JRbbamC07Yp3DqB7BjR5mQc

Epstein: "he's been dead for a long time... I don't understand" why people are so interested. "I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be interesting to anybody."

Why give Putin another 50 days on Ukraine?

Says Putin may change his mind "rapidly."

Says he hasn't spoken to Putin since his announcement yesterday.

"He says he wants peace."

"Oftentimes he says he wants peace. I hope he does."

"I'm on the side of people stopping dying."

On secondary tariffs on Russia potential hiring Americans: "I don't think so." Predicts they won't need to be implemented.

Progress on Iran?

"They want to talk. I'm in no rush to talk. ... They have to pick a different mountain" it was so damaged.

He declined to say which other states he wants Republicans to redraw congressional lines besides Texas, says there are "about four of them" but declined to name them. "I'll let you figure that one out."

Says pharmaceutical tariffs will begin "probably at the end of the month." Says they'll begin low and gradually rise.

Cameron Joseph

Senior Washington Reporter

The Christian Science Monitor

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