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Nations. a block has completely severed ties over allegations of state funded terrorism. rich edson joins us live from the state department. this is a key one to watch. not all of their hands are clean. >> reporter: when you look at what the secretary of state has been doing, he has been traveling to both sides of this conflict. to qatar, saudi arabia, back to qatar, kuwait. that's a country trying to mediate this conflict. secretary of state has said little about his progress or lack there of over the past week warning only that before this trip, it could drag on for months this crisis. saudi...

Change or whether he's going to go back to the more aggressive. but for the most it went surprisingly well. >> you write that this america first strategy from president trump is really going to, from your perspective, lead to the decline of the u.s. as it compares to and competes with asia, namely china. >> it depends how it goes but i think one of the risky things it's done is pull america out of the transpacific partnership. and one can understand given trump's rhetoric on the campaign trail he had to do it and he did do it on day one. for china, it leaves a big gap and they're trying to bui...