Mike Pompeo: “President Trump was simply asking [the Iranians] to hand…”

“And the, the good faith efforts by the vice president and Mr. Kushner, Mr. Wyckoff, were just simply rejected out of hand. I think you see that most starkly with respect to the enriched uranium, the nuclear material. President Trump was simply asking [the Iranians] to hand over highly enriched uranium with which they could make a nuclear weapon. And the Iranians said, nope, not now. We don't feel imperiled enough. And so I can't believe that for at least the immediate future, there's any reason to go back …” (09:11–09:17)

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