u.s. would try to help saudi arabia and defend saudi arabia from conventional attacks in particular but makes this quite difficult is that this is hack is actually create a symmetric in nature and it's been very difficult to. show exactly how it is tied to iran which has led to a little bit of reticence on all sides to respond because it's unclear what taper of response would be proportional and what should be done but it's likely that the u.s. is going to try and shore up saudi security as best as best it can last week we were talking about something very different a possible fall in the rain in u.s. relations the national security adviser john bolton he had been sawyer truong was reportedly considering easing sanctions on tehran he was reportedly open to a meeting with iranian president rouhani at the u.n.