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Are most autocratic, that have done the most to oppress their people and have not done jobs. even in oil-rich saudi arabia, you have a society where a third of the young are unemployed. this is a problem that is pervasive. it is a very short-term arrangement that doesnt deal with the broader problem. president bush talked about nation building. president obama talked about building hospitals and roads and schools and having a kind of comprehensive, holistic approach. and president trump, it was ...

Understand the potential conflict of interest, that the white house lawyer is not aware of, you know, what might be construed as obstruction of justice. >> i do believe they are, robin. >> the answer is yes. >> whole new -- >> great frustrations for everyone that has spoken with them from the day after they got elected. they think were big real estate people in new york city. those shmucks down in washington, d.c. dont know how to run anything. weve run huge corporations. we have changed the fac...

Perhaps a personnel decision is in the works. i called around saturday, sunday and said whats this about? theres been talk about a shakeup. im not entirely sure if it come this is week. there is a lot of anger, again, not only about the weeks but communication strategy at the white house. >> robin wright, with this as a backdrop, extraordinary stories coming out on friday, the president took off. unfortunately for his staff members, they were trapped on the flight to saudi arabia while this news...

Presidents trip to drive the conversation in washington but it cannot overshadow new, significant developments into the investigation into russia. a current white house staffer is being targeted. another report says the president personally told the russians that firing james comey, quote, relieved great pressure. david ignatius, katty kay, richard haas in new york and joining the conversation, political reporter for the washington post, robert costa, and "the new yorkers" robin wright, joint fe...

Bigger questions? im not confident that, for whatever commitment the administration makes, as previous presidents have made, theyre going to get anywhere. >> im interested, robin, what do we learn about tillerson on the trip, secretary of state, secretary of commerce, wilbur ross, are they doing anything to build relationships that other presidents have used in the past? >> thats whats missing. we dont have a lot of that. there is the economic component but not the political. one of the most int...

1967 war, the war that formed and framed the modern israeli/palestinian situation, the israeli arab situation and president trump walking into, if you will, the iconic stalemate thats gone on half a century now. he has said its not that hard. he is going to make it a priority, handing it off to jared kushner. the question is what, if any, progress they can make. would it have any impact on the rest of the middle east, syria, libya, iraq? and the answer is no. its a very different middle east tha...

Drive them out of this earth, speaking of the extremists and ending perhaps on a more positive note, speaking of the possibility of a new renaissance in the region once extremism is confronted. im joined again by elliott abrams, vali nasr, robin wright, thomas erdbrink and in riyadh, we have jeff zeleny. i want to go to the panel first. robin wright, your reactions. >> well, i thought one of the things that was most striking was that he takes a military approach to dealing with extr e extremi ex...

Its really in the islamic world driving out moderate forms of islam and its been doing that for decades now and it is one of the reasons for the rise of extremism. >> as we were seeing there and you can see wilbur ross, the presidents commerce secretary, there over his shoulder. his wife, melania, traveled on this trip and thats reince priebus, the chief of staff. so quite a show of force in the trump administration on the presidents first overseas trip. robin wright, of course as this is happen...

Leaders from around the world. i think he has helped himself a lot in pushing back against the idea that the origin of his position is some kind of prejudice. >> thanks very much to elliott abrams, vali nasr, robin wright, that is "gps" for today. fareed zakaria will be back with you next week. "reliable sources" with brian stelter starts right now. hello, everyone, im john berman in for brian stelter. it is time for "reliable sources." this is our weekly look at the story behind the story. ho...

Extremists. drive them out. drive them out of your places of worship, drive them out of your communities, drive them out of your holy land, and drive them out of this earth. >> drive them out, perhaps an intentional tag line of this speech for president trump and the white house. robin wright, can these countries drive out the extremists to a large degree, and will they? >> well, militarily theres been a lot of progress made over the last eight months, for example, in iraq and some in syria agai...