Miriam Lord's Week: Plot twists and U-turns at a crunch meeting in Washington

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : As the first European in the room since the announcement from Trump, the meeting became something of an information gathering exercise.
57% : The first person Simon Harris rang when he left the room was the EU Commissioner for Trade.
52% : MEP Nina Carberry attended along with former MEP and EU commissioner, Mairead McGuinness.
47% : After the interview, the Tánaiste was driven at speed to The Waldorf Astoria Hotel (formerly owned by Trump) as it was nearer the White House.
45% : He talked about the importance of keeping up negotiations while David remarked there didn't seem much sign of willingness to negotiate from Trump.
42% : While Simon Harris waited for the US commerce secretary, Donald Trump was announcing a pause on tariffs Enda Kenny was always well received when he went to the States as Taoiseach.
40% : After it, the plan was that the Tánaiste would go live to David McCullagh on RTÉ's Six-One news and reveal how the talks went. What the Irish side didn't know was that Lutnick was detained in the White House because Trump was doing a reverse ferret on his plan to hit most of the world with punitive tariffs.
26% : And moments later, McCullagh broke the news that Trump was now pausing the tariffs for 90 days.

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