In-Town Pool Note #8: Oval Remarks Concluded

Oval Office bilateral ended shortly after 4:07. POTUS took numerous questions.

Your pooler has been informed that the remarks were live-streamed.

President Trump said the US is having "direct talks with Iran, and they've started. It'll go on Saturday."

"I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with, or frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with, if they can avoid it," he added. "So we are going to see if we can avoid it, but it's getting to be very dangerous territory, and hopefully those talks will be successful."

Philip Wegmann

White House Reporter

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