Travel pool # 9 - More full quotes here from the bilat with President Trump and the Emir of the State of Qatar, Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani

More full quotes here from the bilat with President Trump and the Emir of the State of Qatar, Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani.

Otter Link (please check transcript against any video /audio you have access to): https://otter.ai/u/K2bceoWpYoiPkyW_Z56X_V-nsRM?utm_source=copy_url

FULL QUOTES:

IRAN:

‘We have our deal done with Iran and it should be successful. It goes to a second stage which I think will be actually easier. I didn't want to attack them last week but we had no choice, and we did it twice actually, we were doing it a third time and we were able to not have to do that.’

‘We are not investing any money in Iran by the way. That rumor that got out there yesterday, it was ridiculous. We have the right to go in someday and do something… or if somebody wants to do something. But we have no obligation to invest money in Iran.’

‘Qatar is going to be investing much more than a trillion dollars in the United States. We set a record. There has never been anything like it.’

‘We appreciate the relationship we have had over this short period of time with Iran.’

‘The one thing that is happening that is of note, frankly the only thing that only matters to me is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. It says it loud and clear. They are not going to develop it, they are not going to buy it, they are not going to do anything with it. If they do, they will suffer unbelievable consequences. Not just a little bit, like, I won’t even tell you the consequences, but they are the ultimate consequences. With that being said I hope we have a good relationship.’

‘Marco was with me, and they originally wrote that we will not develop a nuclear weapon. I said, no no, you are not going to develop it, you are not going to buy it either. That took another of couple of days of time … ridiculous.’

‘If they do, all hell will rain down on them. They are not going to do that.’

‘I never cared about regime change. Never important, but I guess you have regime change. The first group, they are all dead, the second group, they are dead, a part of the third group is gone, and we are dealing with people I think are rational people. I think smarter than the first and second group. They are not radicalized and looking to help their country.’

‘I have watched regime change for years, they never worked.’

‘We were very, very impressed with Qatar and how they have handled things.’

Q: If the Iranian Gov. continues to kill their people, will you go ahead with the deal?

‘Well, we are talking to them, we talked to them about it. We will see. I will say the majority of that took place during the first and second regimes. Much more so than now… It was much more severe. But it is a terrible thing.’

UKRAINE:

‘Well, we have one, but we had a good meeting and I am meeting him later on today.’

‘Look, Russia should make a deal. Russia has lost tremendous amounts of people and so has Ukraine.’

‘I spoke with President Putin on Sunday. It is sort of the same thing, they just keep going fighting, losing soldiers.’

‘I have settled 8 wars, this was the one I thought would be the easiest to settle. A lot of dislike between the two leaders.’

ISRAEL/LEBANON:

‘I consider that the minor war, Iran, the big one, but we have that little pin prick out there that constantly rears its head. And that is Hezbollah.’

'The man that is running Syria right now is a person that I put there… he is not a Boy Scout, but he has done an amazing job of pulling it together.’

‘I didn’t like.. where two hours before we are signing the agreements, that there was an attack in Lebanon… I let them know that.’

‘If Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else, he will do the job. Syria will do the job.’

‘We have a great relationship, I didn’t like that he did an attack.’ (Netanyahu)

‘Without the US, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel because no other President was willing to do what I did. I have had a great relationship with Bibi. Now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.’

’They should have been able to do the job faster.’

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Elina Shirazi

Senior Political Reporter

White House, State Department

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