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Outside the administration. this is a dramatic associated press report about what happened at the time. quote, aides to president trump were in deep talks with how to defuse tensions between qatar and other arab nations when the door to the secure room at the white house burst open. the urgent message? trump had just tweeted about qatar. one read it aloud and the policymakers had no other choice but to rework their plans to reflect the president's tweeted assertion. that nation was funding terrorism. it was an assertion that had never been announced with such indelicacy. >> this was just a str...

President has adopted tough approaches to both iran and qatar. mr. nader tempted with $1 billion in contracts and helped deliver deals from the united arab emirates. the times has reportedly seen documents supporting these huge contracts which they have arranged in short order for the trump fundraiser but describe a $2.7 million payment through a variety of pass-through companies. now what these two were reportedly working on, according to their correspondents was number one, getting rid of rex tillerson, check, number two, taking a hard, hard new line -- despite the fact that we've got a base...

And as the trump administration takes this inexplicable, hard, out of the blue turn against uae's archenemy in the east, qatar, does that have anything to do with this strange new influence of uae in the trump administration? well, the "new york times" sort of breaks this open tonight. quote, a cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top trump f fund raiser into an instrument of influence for the rulers of saudi arabia and united arab emirates. citing interviews, the times says what's revealed here is quote, an active effort to cultivate p...

President, over half a million troops had been based in saudi arabia. saudi bases were the launching pad for attacks to defend kuwait against the forces of hussain. -- saddam hussein. after the first gulf war was over, thousands of troops stayed on those saudi bases thereafter. but in 2003, less than two years after 9/11, saudi government asked, and the u.s. government acceded and handed over the keys to the prince sultan air base, that base that had hosted tens, even hundreds of thousands of u.s. troops. where the united states decided to move its big, new, permanent air base in that part of ...

Cutting off qatar by air and sea. they claim that qatar sides with extremists which they deny. it's home to a key u.s. base with 8,000 u.s. service members, flying airstrikes against isis and missions in afghanistan. >> what was not just unexpected but a little weird about that hard turn by the president against qatar was that it sort of felt like it came out of nowhere, not just for those of us observing in the outside, but even from inside the u.s. government. it was the policy of the u.s. government to oppose that block cade of qatar. rex tillerson had publicly stated the u.s. was against t...