Talks with North Korea Convinced Trump to Scrap the Iran Deal

May 09, 2018, 11:16 AM

Moments after he declared the U.S. was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, President Trump seemed to abruptly switch topics to announce that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on his way to North Korea to prepare for Trump's meeting with the nuclear-armed despot Kim Jong Un.

What seemed to be a jarring aside was actually part of Trump's decision to reimpose U.S. sanctions against Iran.