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Joe? >> i will only say one prominent figure friday afternoon said that for the first time it sounded like he was absorbing that. >> joe, one further piece of advice he's clearly following, get out of dodge. i think we're going to see more of this theme of donald trump foreign policy president. sounds unlikely but they have really felt this trip went the way they wanted to. so many domestic things have gone wrong. this seems to be going more or less right. i bet they will do more. >> the bigger problem is him alone in a room at the white house with a phone. i say that with absolutely no humor....

Bigger questions? i'm not confident that, for whatever commitment the administration makes, as previous presidents have made, they're going to get anywhere. >> i'm interested, robin, what do we learn about tillerson on the trip, secretary of state, secretary of commerce, wilbur ross, are they doing anything to build relationships that other presidents have used in the past? >> that's what's missing. we don't have a lot of that. there is the economic component but not the political. one of the most interesting things that came out in the press conference over the weekend was when rex tillerson ...

Allies are so concerned about this intelligence breach. i have to tell you, so far the president is not having news conferences on this trip. he's not tweeting on this trip, reading off his teleprompter, not speaking. this has been sober mission to riyadh and i assume israel as well. >> thank you very much, appreciate it. let's go to richard haass. richard, i asked david ignatius to comment on the last 24, 48 hours. what's your take away and what you're hearing this morning? >> take away, surprisingly uncharacteristically normal trip. what didn't happen is at least as important as what what ha...

I just hope people have thought through exactly what it is we're signing onto. >> david, at the same time, it is barack obama's move towards iran that has united the sunni world, even moved them closer to israel and closer to the united states than any time since dwight eisenhower first became president back in the early '50s. >> joe, it's fascinating to see this trip in mirror image to obama's eight years ago. the theme of obama's trip was i'm going to reach out to our enemies. the theme of trump's trip is i'm going to embrace our friends. it's that simple. obviously the friends being embrace...

Energy the u.s. is now producing. that changes the balance of power a little bit. what do you think will be top of mind when he meets with the king? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. i mean, and just look at this in the context of this trip as a whole. it has been a big and important tr trip, four countries in five days. and really the point, before the issues in ukraine came up, was to re-establish and emphasize the ties between the u.s. and its strongest allies around the world, not only in europe, but also asia and now the middle east. and saudi arabia has been one of the u.s.'s strongest part...