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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel pool note #14 - Alaska and AF1 gaggle ✈️
Air Force One landed at Ted Stevens Anchorage Airport at 7.11am to refuel.
POTUS came back to gaggle shortly after takeoff, speaking for around 27 minutes. Parts later appeared on Fox News on the screens in the cabin so presumably it was played back, but some highlights below.
Fox News host Sean Hannity, Eric and Lara Trump and USTR Jamieson Greer were standing behind POTUS. Hannity later came back to the press cabin while his own interview with POTUS was playing on the screens.
On China trip:
“We had an amazing time. Very historic…it was a pretty historic couple of days.”
Iran deal
Said its offer still unacceptable
“I looked at it and if I don’t like the first sentence I throw it away. “
Enrichment: “20 years is enough. But the level of guarantee from them, she's got to be a real”
Taiwan
“President Xi and I talked a lot about Taiwan… On Taiwan does not want to see a fight for independence. That would be a very strong confrontation, and I heard him out.
Risk of conflict over Taiwan, as Xi warned? “No, I don't think so. He doesn’t want to see a war… on Taiwan, he doesn't want to see a movement for independence. He says, look, you know, we've had it for thousands of years, and then, at a certain period of time, it left, then we were gonna get it back…. but Taiwan, he feels very strongly. I made no commitment on that.”
Arms sales to Taiwan: “I'll make a determination over the next fairly short period… I have to speak to the person that right now is, you know, is running Taiwan.
Xi Iran commitments? “I'm not asking for any favors.”
“I didn't ask him to put pressure, because I don't need favors. I think he will, I think, automatically, he'd like to see it opened up. He gets about 40% of his energy there oil from the strait.”