in the white house. he's across the middle east. and the weekend before the crowned prince had his kcrackdon in saudi arabia, some would say his reforms, jared is over throughout the entire weekend. >> i think he's effectively the secretary of state for the middle east. the bad news for jared is it's not going anywhere. he's obviously got the lead with saudi arabia. much more than the secretary of state. he got the united states to side with saudi against qatar several months ago and more recently he was just there before the big crackdown in saudi arabia. this administration has gone all in. >> he has very close ties with leaders across the middle east, doesn't he? >> the israeli leadership and the saudi leadership and the ue. the problem is the saudi leadership has done a major roll of the dice. they are pursuing an aggressive foreign policy in yemen and lebanon and so forth. at home they've essentially done a political consolidation that