Subject:* *Pool Report #10*
POTUS exited the Oval Office at 3:38 with Sarah Sanders.
Gesturing toward the press with both hands, POTUS proceeded to pool to promote his Iowa speech and took questions.
Reporters asked about potential successors to Haley. POTUS said Dina Powell is a person I would consider. POTUS said Ivanka Trump would be wonderful, but doesnt want to be accused of nepotism.
More to come...
Subject:* *Pool Report #11*
POTUS boarded Marine One at 3:55 after taking a slew of questions from reporters. A transcript is forthcoming.
Following POTUS into Marine One was Sarah Sanders and other officials.
Marine One lifted from the South Lawn at 3:57. Handing things off to out-of-town pooler.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations welcomed Tuesday’s surprise resignation of US Ambassador Nikki Haley, one of the Trump administration’s most vocal opponents of the Islamic Republic.
“We do not know who she was or what she was about, but she was a serious problem at the UN with her uninformed statements & her causing the isolation of US,” Alireza Miryousefi, the mission’s press secretary, wrote on his Twitter account.
He also quipped “there is no new sheriff in town,” referring to remarks Haley made at the 2017 annual meeting of the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby.