During Thursday’s State Department press briefing, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce answered questions about President Trump's talks with Iran.
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00:00Speaking of negotiations, can you give us an update on what is expected on Saturday with the
00:06Iran talks? Because Foreign Minister Arachi's column in the Washington Post yesterday
00:14made it very clear that there would be no talks if the U.S. was insisting that they are direct.
00:21And of course the position, as repeated today in the cabinet meeting, was that they will be
00:26direct talks. So do you still expect these talks to take place on Saturday? And will they begin
00:35in direct talks and then move to direct? Or is there some resolution of that?
00:41Well, I'm not on the team that makes that decision or has those conversations, right? And we're not
00:46going to litigate that here. As I said on Tuesday, and repeatedly say really about everything, if the
00:54President says something, that's my North Star. And they are the ones in the midst of the discussions
01:00regarding the arrangement of this meeting. And we'll leave it to them. So I'm not going to speculate
01:05on that or what will happen. There are clearly some very, very good and very important diplomats
01:11involved in this, including, of course, Special Envoy Whitcoff. And we'll leave it there. We'll find
01:17out. At this point, yes, that is still underway. It is happening. And we look forward to it as a good
01:22first step to find out if the Iranians are serious.