Out-of-town pool report 12: more color

The presser ended at 6:39 pm.

They shook hands and congratulated each other. Members of both delegations clapped.

"I think we both wanted to make a deal."

"This started months ago, this negotiation, so we knew what we were getting into" and make a "satisfactory" for both sides.

"I think it's going to be great for both" and said it's the "biggest of them all."

On steel, POTUS said it's a "worldwide thing that stays the way it is."

He was asked about the timing on the Epstein saga and the deal, and said only the press would think the the timing was correlated.

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Myah Ward

White House reporter

POLITICO

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