Travel note 5: Gaggle highlights

On Iran denying any talks happening:

"They have to get themselves better on public relations people.We have had very, very strong talks. We'll see where they lead. We have points of major points of agreement, I would say, almost all points of agreement. Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed. The communication, as you know, has been blown to pieces. They're unable to talk to each other, but we've had very strong talks"

"They want very much to make a deal. We'd like to make a deal too. We're going to get together today by probably phone, because it's very hard to find a country. It's very hard for them to get out, I guess. But we'll, at some point, very, very soon, meet. We're doing a five day period. We'll see how that goes, and if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out."

On who US is talking to in Iran:

"A top person. Don't forget, we've wiped out the leadership, phase one, phase two, and largely phase three. But we're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected and the leader."

Q: The Supreme Leader?

A: "No, not the Supreme Leader. "

Q:If talks go well and you reach a ceasefire, do you believe Israel could abide by that agreement?

A:"I think Israel be will be very happy with what we have. We just spoke to Israel a little while ago. I think they'll be very happy. This will be peace for Israel, long term peace, guaranteed peace if this happens. And you know, I can't guarantee it, but I think it's going to my life is a deal that's all I do is deals my own life. I i think this is something that's going to happen. And why wouldn't it happen? So tomorrow morning, sometime their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build. It's a very good one. There was no dearth of money, and one shot is gone, it collapses. Why would they want that? So they call, I didn't call. They called. They want to make a deal, and we are very willing to make a deal. It's gonna be a good deal, and it's gotta be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore."

Q: How is striking Iran's power plants different from what Russia has done in Ukraine?

"Well, I think it's a lot different. And if you look at the nuclear weapons that they wanted to have, that they wanted to possess, a lot of things are different.

I'm not a fan of what Russia is doing either, just so you understand, all right, but it's a lot different. You're talking about a country that has been evil for 47 years. They've been horrible death all over the world, not just us. Look at the way they attacked unexpectedly all of those countries surrounding them. There was not supposed but nobody was even thinking about it. But they wanted to take over the Middle East, and they wanted to knock out Israel permanently. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have been able to do,"

Andrew Feinberg

White House Correspondent

The Independent

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