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>> reporter: its been fairly muted. if they see the secretarys car they will pelt it with eggs. we had reaction from turkey. turkeys president erdogan said this will inflame the region and of course iran was very quick to weigh in saying this is a deliberate policy by the united states to stir trouble here, to support israel and to put a heavy boot on the heads of all the arabs that live in this region and to weigh away iranian influence. >> irans foreign minister tweeted out shocked by donald t...

In fact, the saudis have usually behaved responsibly in their role as the central bankers of oil. >> oil and saudi arabia were synonymous in the 1950s and 60s and 70s and 80s. >> to understand how and why the u.s./saudi bond has endured for almost a century, we need to go back to how it began. in 1938, american oilmen offered saudi king saud $170,000 in gold to let them drill for oil. >> the arabs were suspicious of these strange newcomers. >> the king was reluctant, but the desperately poor des...

Senior strategic analyst. this declaration by the president, general keane, your reaction to it. >> it reflects the contours of change that have taken place in the middle east. clearly the status quo since 1967 of israel occupying that and not recognizing it as having sovereignty over it has been the status weve been in. so what has been the change? one word, iran. iran has taken control of central and western syria and for the last three years has been encroaching on the security of the israeli...

Had been brought in after three long, discouraging years. >> by the early 1940s, it was clear. saudi arabia was an oil bonanza. >> about 1,000 americans and 5,000 saudi arabs were employed -- >> the u.s. and the saudis formed a company to share the profits. the arab american oil company, aramco. at the same time, america was having big oil problems at home. world war ii had severely depleted domestic supplies. >> a fresh warning that our known oil reserves will be exhausted in 10 years -- >> so ...

Israels right to exist. he sighed, people living in that country are not allowed to be there and that is anti-semitic and lets not forget that we dont support israel because it is a jewish state. we support them because it is a state that has western values that the united states also has an democrats and republicans used to be able to agree on those things. democracy, human rights, voting where they had no form of any democracy, womens rights and education for everybody. israeli arabs are treat...

Protest. it will go quiet. why? the arabs are working with the israelis to push back on iranians aggressive behavior. this is all about iran. >> jon: it sounds like you dont see a real down side to the presidents decision here. >> not whatsoever. if youve ever stood on the golan heights and looked into syria you can see for miles. right now today you can actually see the pro-regime forces and hezbollah from the golan heights. if israel was not on the golan heights you know who would be there? he...

Serious efforts across a broad range of threats to extend its reach. we will continue to do that and evaluate whether to sanction a particular iranian entity to work on each and every day. >> you are there in israel meeting with the prime minister, you visited the western wall together, spending a lot of time together talking about the iranian threat and other things. there questions where the peace process goes moving forward. somebody whos officially in the 2020 race is beto orourke. heres wha...

The president announced the decision in a tweet yesterday writing after 52 years it is time for the u.s. to fully recognize israels sovereignty over the golan heights which is a critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel. the u.n. has rejected israels occupation of the golan heights since 1967 when it seized the land from arabs. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tweeted his praise to president trump which comes ahead of netanyahus visit to the white house next week...

Intervene. i will say this, sometimes it actually produces a backlash. sometimes it looks like america is trying to determine what the israeli election ought to produce. so i dont know that its a given necessarily that even though i think this will provide a short-term boost for prime minister netanyahu. im not certain that it wont in the end also create some backlash as well. >> what do you think of the way the president made this announcement today with a tweet? >> well, he also made it a twee...

How far has their ideology shifted? they might have given up on isis and are looking to someone else. shannon: changing allegiances historically in the middle east has occurred. you mentioned the territory. this is remarkable. this is the syrian territory under isis control as of three days ago and now we have territory under isis control today. that is remarkable. >> a lot of it is thanks to our kurdish allies, who were treated better than we have been treating them for a long time. there is an...