Meeting with Dunn family was 'beautiful' but 'sad': Trump

Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, parents of Harry Dunn, the 19-year-old who died in the August crash, had been invited on Tuesday to the White House, where they said they learned that Anne Sacoolas, the woman fled Britain after the fatal crash, was in the building.

During the meeting, Trump asked the parents two or three times to meet with Sacoolas, Dunn told "CBS This Morning," but they declined, saying they wanted her to return to Britain to meet with them.

Dunn's parents said Trump had been responsive during their meeting but the planned encounter with Sacoolas had come as a bombshell. "There was a bit of pressure, but we stuck to our guns," he said.

Later Trump told reporters he had expressed condolences on behalf of the United States.

The meeting was "beautiful in a certain way" and "very sad, to be honest," said Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday ahead of an Oval Office meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

"I offered to bring the person in question in, and they weren't ready for it," the president said. "I know the people were lovely, they were very nice and they were desperately sad."

Trump suggested that the idea of bringing Dunn's parents and Sacoolas together came from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

"I spoke with Boris," Trump told reporters. "He asked me if I'd do that, and I did it."

The parents want Sacoolas, who left Britain under a disputed claim of diplomatic immunity, to return to England to speak to the police. Through her lawyers, Sacoolas said she was "devastated" and was willing to meet Dunn's family.

Harry Dunn, 19, died after a car driven by Anne Sacoolas collided with his motorbike near an air force base in central England used by the U.S. military.