reached out to the ceo of lockheed asking him to reduce a war head so it could become available for the saudis. real key issues in the next couple days. jenna: joining us now on set, the author of super power. three choices for america s role in the world. lots of choice. jenna: let s talk ab this trip. what defines success? if he can avoid being distracted by the problems at home. the trip s been set up to be successful. almost every president goes to canada or mexico as their first stop, u.s. ally. president has difficulties with the leaders of both of those states, nafta, immigration, the wall. trudeau has a different lean politically than trump. but a saudi king and the israeli pm are the two allies that individually most wanted to see the back of president obama. they re delighted trump won.
ultimately that was going to under mine the american position more than and the iranians were just going to end up developing oil. so i do think the fact that trump can go in and say we re gonna work with you more closely with you on security. we don t care about human rights abuses in saudi arabia. all the sorts of things that make it easier for the saudis to do business with the u.s. i think that relationship of course, he did just bomb some syrians, supporting the syrian regime in the last 48 hours the russians today extremely aggravated about it. the saudis couldn t be happier, the fact that the u.s. is doing more to show they re willing to be on the saudi side. jenna: do you think the timing has anything to do with this trip? sure. they understood that if they were going to have a window of opportunity to whack someone that the saudis would be happy with seeing whacked, this would be a good time to do it.