I'm trying to find the exact time of the tarmac meeting, but i have a feeling it will be very close in time to this public broadcast event.
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Phoenix is Mountain time. So this would be broadcast at 2:50 MT.
Possibilities:
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If its before the tarmac meeting he could be signaling something relevant to the deal being struck.
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If it during the tarmac meeting, he could be signaling relevant to the meeting or he could be creating an alibi.
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If its after the meeting he could be responding to something that was said at the meeting.
I think this is primarily a clue we need to return to if/when the video/audio/or transcript of the meeting is released.
Trying to infer what the message is with so little context is almost impossible. I tried watching the part of the this video that was "off the prepared script" but couldn't really come up with anything.