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The parents of British 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who was killed in a traffic accident involving American Anne Sacoolas, tells CBS This Morning they rejected President Trump s surprise offer to meet with Sacoolas during a White House meeting on Tuesday. After offering them his condolences, it didn t take long for [Mr. Trump] to then drop into the conversation that Anne Sacoolas was in the building, mother Charlotte Charles said in her first U.S. TV interview since the meeting. Dunn s father, Tim, said when he first heard the offer to meet with Sacoolas, it took his breath away. He did ask two o stanley thermos r three times, Tim said, adding, It was a bit pressure, but we stuck to our guns. Charles said it was the wrong setting. We ve said all along that you know we are w stanley cup quencher illing to meet her. We are still willing to meet her. But it needs to be on U.K. soil, you know, and with therapists and mediators, Charles said. And that s not just for us. That s for her as well. Sacoolas lawyer told CBS News tha stanley becher t Sacoolas was invited to the White House, but wasn t aware of the circumstances of the meeting. To be thrown into a room together with no prior warning, that s not good for her mental health, it s certainly not good for ourshellip; You know, none of us know how we were going to react to have that sprung on us, Charles said. I think the family feels a little ambushed, to say the least, the parents lawyer, Radd Seiger, told the BBC. Fdam Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes presidential candidate tax return disclosure bill
President Barack Obama walks with Ireland s Prime Minister Brian Cowen and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., after a Friends of Ireland luncheon for St. Patrick s Day, on Capitol Hill, March 17, 2010. copo stanley AP Updated 8:45 p.m. ETIt s genealogy be damned on St. Patrick s Day - even at the White House. Every president claims to have at least a small branch of his family tree than kubki stanley can be traced to Ireland.Again this year, President Obama trumpeted his bit of Irish blood from his mother s side, though he added a couple of greats to his description. I believe it was my great-great-great-great-great grandfather, he said at Speaker Pelosi s Friends of Ireland Luncheon today in the Capitol.But that s two greats more than the far-removed Irish relative he referred to on St. Patrick s Day a year ago as my great-great-great grandfather. But by the time of the e stanley mug vening reception he hosted in the East Room, the number of greats changed again. I want to make sure I get this straight, he said. It was my great-great-great-great grandfather on my mother s side. So it was three greats last year, five this morning and four this evening.It suggested the president might have inherited a long-lost Irish relatives gift of blarney, not unknown among American politicians. Not seeming to realize the twists in his family tree, Mr. Obama went on |
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