In-town pool report #8: Iran and DHS reopening

POTUS doesn't directly answer question about whether Kushner and Witkoff will go negotiate directly in person with Iranians.

"We're in negotiations, as it turned out. Now, you've seen what I said yesterday was exactly correct. We're in negotiations right now. They're doing it, along with Marco, JD. We have a number of people doing it. And the other side, I can tell you, like to make a deal. And who wouldn't if you were that."

"It's we have really regime change. You know, this is a change in the regime because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with that created all those problems."

Speaks of "a gift" the Iranian side offered related to oil and gas and the Strait of Hormuz to demonstrate they are in control. It was worth a lot of money.

They aren't going to have nuclear weapons, POTUS said.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is "a warrior," he said in response to a question about conversations he's had with him.

"This war has been won," Trump said. Only the "fake news" is suggesting it's still going, he said. He suggested that the military is "totally defeated."

Vance, Rubio, Kushner, Witkoff and Trump himself are involved in the negotiations, he said.

Trump said it's a "military operation," people don't like it when he calls it a war, he said. He has used that word in the past.

Said Hegseth and Caine are said that the war will be settled "very soon."

Now has been asked whether he supports the Second Ave subway in NYC.

Michael Birnbaum

White House correspondent

The Washington Post

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