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The previous administration sold about $80 billion worth of military hardware to the gulf. that was figured into qualitative military edge. the united states will engage in an a dialogue with us how we can possibly meet any threats an rising from the entire region together. >> so if they get more than you get more. it all evens out in the wash. >> it has to be the quality. its a qualitative military edge. >> let me ask you about the president saying that its not as difficult as has been said to ...

Headache of george w. bush in iraq which affects any president in the middle east region. not the confines of rigid thinking, the fancy way of the president saying "im flexible." >> its more cautious than weve seen president trump deciding things pretty, you know, make decisions on a whim. here hes trying to show to the muslim world that im not going to just do that. im going to be deliberate, cautious in my thinking, and well see how it plays in that audience, but yes, like you said, hes not su...

Leaders of muslim countries. we know his intent is to bridge the gap there seems to be, and to prop up the muslim faith. does he, however, have the authority to speak on islam based on what he said as a candidate, candidate trump as opposed to president trump? >> reporter: sure. we all know what he said as candidate trump. who would have thought the man who could say those things could come to the cradle of islam and deliver a speech to 50 arab, muslim leaders about how islam should portray itse...

One thing on going in and not having any plans, not all of the white house is working like that at the moment. i had a meeting this week in the white house on the foreign trip. it has been -- theyve spent a lot of time planning that. they have an incredibly ambitious agenda. >> on foreign policy, you look at secretary mattis and you look at general mcmaster, you look at dina powell, you look at that group, yes, theyre planning this out. they believe they have a chance to make a real difference i...

See how it progresses. general mcmaster coming out and saying trump would urge the countries of this region to push back and try and create a more tolerant version of islam. thats a big ask of president trump on this first trip. >> shannon: a heavy lift. benjamin hall, thank you so much. fox news will be all over the presidents trip overseas. bret baier will be live from riyadh. >> bill: president trump stating clearly yesterday this about russia and his campaign. >> president trump: i can only ...

Said this is the first ive heard of it. >> i go back with david, theres a pattern here. >> seems impossible. >> anything is possible in this administration. but, yes, it seems impossible. now to this. >> can i goo jon heilman? >> okay. >> he has a furrowed brow. >> thank you for picking on his facial expressions. >> exactly. >> you just wonder whether -- lets look at it. mike pence appears to have been compromised by donald trump, day traded, thrown under the bus. you had it with rod rosenstein,...

>> youre being sarcastic. >> a little sarcastic. >> i noticed because a little smile started. >> lets not get too carried away. on mcmaster, what mcmaster basically said is what everybody knows. the president of the united states gets good intelligence that would be useful in trying to move an ally or adversary in the direction of u.s. policy. it comes up all the time. and the white house says the intelligence community we want to use this information with country x. and the intelligence communi...

Their work. im interested in the facts. i would be the first want to raise concerns if i thought our national security information had been misused in any way or and anything improper happened, but in the meantime, the people i hear from really want the real world problems affecting them addressed. you know very well, the ones i hear about repeal and replace obamacare, reform the tax cuts very unfair to our working men and women, build the wall, ease the regulatory burden, this is what most of m...

Trump asked comey to stay behind after the meeting was breaking up and they spoke alone. according to a source at the "new york times" he said flynn had done nothing wrong. trump saying, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting flynn go. hes a good guy. i hope you can let this go. the memo said comey did not say anything to trump about curtailing the investigation, e replying only, i agree hes a good guy. the white house responded by saying it is not a truthful or accurate p...

That all of trumps defenders were actually caught up in his lie, that this was about the deputy attorney general. we heard it a thousand times. we heard it on our show. we heard it from the white house, from right wing media outlets. it was proven to be a lie the next morning. then you had the national security adviser, another man, general mcmaster, impeccable credentials, one of the best representations in washington, d.c. we celebrated when he was selected as national security adviser for goo...