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Scott Bessent: “President Trump has said for the past few weeks the reason…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Scott Bessent Takes Reporters' Questions At G20 Finance Meeting In Asheville, North Carolina

Published | Video Starts at 20:32

… each other, the people are going to turn on them, or they are going to come to the table and want to do a deal that they can stick with. President Trump has said for the past few weeks the reason the MOU failed was they were not ready for a deal. So we will see when they are ready for a deal. But as their bank account, their personal bank accounts disappear around the world as we squeeze this regime as their soldiers look at them when they're not getting paid. (20:32–20:39)

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Asserts that President Trump attributed the failure of the MOU to Iran's unpreparedness for a deal.

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