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Administration. >> thank you so much, tim, steve, appreciate it again. live pictures there from riyadh, saudi arabia, were awaiting the u.s. secretary of state. rex tillerson, along with the foreign minister of a saudi arabia to conduct a briefing there. well take that live as it happens. meantime, after the break. with president trump in saudi arabia, all weekend long, how does he deliver a message of unity, given his track record with islam? that is next. >> a total and complete shutdown of mu...

Dominate his presidency. so, this is an easy test. we will see how he does in the next few days. >> tim, what would make this trip successful for trump? >> well, the pictures that saudi television sent our way were i assume helpful to the white house. the president looks presidential. hes, you know -- he is the head of state and hes acting like one. so the images the optics thatll come from this could be very helpful to the president. i would caution though that itll be very difficult for russia...

Russia, thats taken off, end quote. russias foreign minister denying that topic was even discussed while in the white house. meeting with the president of the united states. all right. back with us now, cnn historian tim natalli. also joining me is steve moore, cnn law enforcement contributor and a retired supervisory special agent with the fbi. all right. steve, good to see you. your reaction now on the reporting of this document, president using the word nut job and also talking about the reli...

To -- whether that would translate to a jury with a clever defense attorney there sitting here saying, hey, hes a show boat himself, and he was probably just blowing off steam and trying to look important in front of the russians. >> as opposed to obstruction of justice, trying to get in between or interview with this process, the investigation. >> right, if you could prove that that statement was true in court, yes, that goes a long way toward obstruction. im just saying that we might have trou...

It does not. its a good headline. its american jobs, but this is not a long-term strategy for dealing with this threat. >> all right. well talk more, thanks to all of you, tim, clarissa, david, appreciate that. again live pictures right there from riyadh because momentarily, u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson will be part of a briefing there along with the saudi foreign minister, of course well take that as it happens. meanti meantime, back in the u.s., fired fbi director james comey has agre...

My colleague at the "new yorker" robin wright has a story today about how tens of thousands of people across the middle east dont have electricity, major cities have blackouts, go for 12 hour periods where they dont have electricity. these are regimes and governments and economies most importantly that are not functioning. so selling a bunch of weapons to saudi arabia on top of the weapons president obama already sold doesnt improve the lives of average people in the region. isis uses that frust...