I uh...don't have any confidence
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Trump says "good chance" deal reached between Israel and Iran, but "sometimes they have to fight it out"
From CNN's Kit Maher
President Donald Trump stops and talks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, on Sunday.
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While President Donald Trump said Sunday that he wants to see a deal reached between
Israel and Iran and that he believes “there’s a good chance” of that happening, he told reporters that “sometimes they have to fight it out.”
Asked how he plans to de-escalate the intensifying conflict between the two nations, Trump said, “I hope there’s going to be a deal. I think it’s time for deal and we’ll see what happens, but sometimes they have to fight it out.”
“I think there’s a good chance there will be a deal,” he added, while speaking outside the White House as he prepared to leave for the G7 summit in Canada.
Trump also said that “we get along really well” with Iran and that he thinks Israel and Iran “have great respect for each other.”
However, Trump declined to say whether he has asked Israel to pause airstrikes into Iran.
“I don’t want to say that,” he said.
The “fight it out” phrase is similar to how Trump has spoken about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including comparing the war over Moscow’s invasion to a
fight between children.
“Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled, sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart,” Trump said earlier this month
in the Oval Office.