in-town pool 14 otter link and quotes on iran, tariffs, world cup

Here is a repeat of the Otter link, to capture in email slug for history.

https://otter.ai/u/WTm2hT1JQZYspl_K3rkbYKGwLJU?utm_source=copy_url

Again, thanks much to co-pooler Haley Bull for help with the quotes.

IRAN:

President Trump says Iran wants to “desperately meet.”

“They want to desperately meet, and until they're ready to meet in a meaningful way we have no interest in even," he said.

Trump also warned the US would hit any site “where they’re even thinking about nuclear.”

“They can't have a nuclear weapon right now. It would take them years to produce it. and we will absolutely attack. We, you know, the the new site that they're talking about. I mean, how about these people? They're in this because of nuclear weapons, and they're trying to possibly reconstitute a site. We'll hit that site. Any site where they're even thinking about nuclear, we'll be hitting it very, very powerfully. Now, nobody knows except the Iranians the damage that we've done to them. We have done damage that will take them 20, 25 years to recover from. So if we left tomorrow, we had a big we had a big success. But we're not leaving tomorrow.”

President Trump when asked if Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain “I think that they, they may have” but said “it doesn’t mean anything unless they have the material.”

“Well I think that they, they may have. We don't have it on record. All we do is read the fake news, you know" but added "maybe this one they have right, but it's okay. It doesn't mean anything unless they have the material."

“it doesn't mean anything unless they have the material. They don't have. We follow the material. That's where the action is. and we'll be hitting that area very probably pretty soon. And there's not, not a thing they can do about it. You know, normally I wouldn't say that. If I thought they could do something about it, I would never say that. But we'll be hitting that area pretty soon, and and very heavily.”

Trump says if the US left now “it would take Iran 20-25 years to rebuild."

“So, if we left right now, it would take Iran 20, 25 years to rebuild. Okay, and we're not finished at all. But if we left right now, it would take them a long time-years, years-to rebuild. But we're not leaving right now, so we've had a big impact on Iran,” Trump said.

“If we left today, it would take them decades to rebuild, and I don't believe they could ever rebuild. And honestly, they haven't seen anything yet. We've been nice. We've been nice," he said.

Trump touts the blockade. “Nobody get through the blockade, it’s like a steel wall.”

“Iran's been given every opportunity to to negotiate to show that they're reasonable on the Strait of Hormuz. But if they're going to shoot at commercial shipping, then we're going to hit them, as the president said, ten times harder,” Sec. Pete Hegseth said.

President Trump said of his level of concern of a blocked of the Red Sea by the Houthis: “I want to see what happens, so far it hasn’t happened, might happen. But we take care of things. If something like that happens, we take care of it.”

ON TRADE:

President Trump says the tariffs on Canada are not a response to the wildfires, “we’re looking at that separately.”

“I mean, in all fairness to them, they need us to survive. Without us, there's no way they can survive. So, but they've been very, very tough over a period of the last 50 years, actually," he said.

ON CHINA:

President Trump says they will talk to China about what he announced on elections previously.

“Well, we're going to talk to them about it. It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then, but look, they do things too.”

On NY federal building fire:

“Well, this is what's happening with the people that they allowed to come into our country. They shouldn't have allowed them to come in. They shouldn't be here. They're radical lunatics, and I'm getting them out."

WORLD CUP:

President Trump offered congratulations to those involved with the World Cup.

“It was the most successful World Cup ever, we didn't even have a protest. We had no crime. With all those events, was like having many, many Super Bowls. Each one was like a Super Bowl, and with all of that, we didn't have crime. We didn't have bedlam. Everybody left here with a different opinion than what they read in the fake news. They love this country. I saw Scotland. I saw Norway. I saw all these countries. I mean, the level of love that nobody wanted to leave.”

“We just had the most successful World Cup in history, did five times the business of any World Cup in history, and I can't wait to get them back. But I think we won't be able to get them for the next one.”

Bart Jansen

White House correspondent

USA TODAY