acknowledges saudi arabia as a core element of the middle east tragedy which is aimed against iran firmly so all of this doesn't bode too well for the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states so there are some here who say of course that's the reason why mr frum wants to keep borders fairly calm with saudi arabia and then you have u.s. turkish relations in this calculus we know that the relations have been strained and then you had the release this week or last week rather of that u.s. pastor who had been under house arrest in turkey you know speculation has been high that truong struck some kind of a deal with area one and here's what i had to say. we had no deal with syria he will make deals he deals for hostage says the prisoner. but i will tell you that i feel much differently about thirty days that i felt about seven days ago i have