Subject: Out of town pool report #13a — Abe again
Pool was rushed into a bilat room at 3:04 p.m.
Its the same room where POTUS and Japanese PM Abe already held a bilat earlier this morning. Four chairs are set up in front of the G7 backdrop and the US and Japan flags.
None of the principles are here yet, nor are the Japanese press.
Subject: Out of town pool report #14 — Trump and Abe on trade deal
Japanese press entered at 3:11. Aides for both sides cane in a few minutes later. Then POTUS and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe entered the bilat room together at 3:14 from a side door and sat down. Lighthizer sat beside Trump.
Trump: “We’ve been working on a deal with Japan for a long time. And we’ve agreed in principle...billions and billions of dollars.”
He said Japan has agreed to buy a lot of the US corn surplus.
“We probably will be signing it around UNGA.”