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and fascinating to see what comes out of this press briefing, we re waiting to start at the moment. back to you. ben hall is reporting live outside the press conference. as you can see we re waiting on a press conference between secretary of state rex tillerson and his counterpart in saudi arabia. we expected to hopefully to begin at any moment now, but a little more on the timing, just in terms of what you re seeing on your screen. riyadh, saudi arabia, that s the hotel that the press pool is staying in. 6:26 p.m. in riyadh. the president has been on the ground now for about nine hours, a number of meetings, some business being done, a lot of ceremonial receptions, greetings, in the royal halls. the big meat of this trip happens tomorrow and that s what we re expected to hear about at this press briefing. the video on the right-hand side of the screen from earlier today when the president and first lady walked off air force one there, to be greeted by the king. which was a depar
religious establishment that has dominated this country since its very inception in the 1930 s. and this is going to be one heck of a fight. and they are going to depend on their relationship with the united states to make change happen. that s what s so extraordinary about this and that s why the doubling down on president trump after eight years of indifference from barack obama is a huge change, a huge shift, very important signal to us and to the arab world, that the saudis are back. they want the americans to be back. they want to stabilize the price of oil. we want to fight terror together. you do get a sense that there is, as john roberts talked about, this personal relationship between the king and the president, that they are trying to develop, but to your point earlier, judy, saudi arabia s the original exporter of terrorism, which doesn t surprise anybody that most of
on this missile defense system and marilyn huesen was the first person in the exchanging of military documents to go up there and shake the hands of one of the saudi dignataries and hand over from the missile system. and it s interesting to take note about the atmospherics here and the difference from president obama. one of the biggest differences when president obama touched down here in riyadh, at king kaled airport, the king salman did not come out to meet him at the tarmac, but when president trump arrived this morning at about 9:50 a.m., there was a red carpet out there. there was a middle eastern rug out there as well, ceremonial one, and there was king salmans out to greet the president. the two had, what looks like a very good relationship, rim reminiscent of the bush relationship in late 80s and
president trump, who during the campaign talked again and again about the danger of radical isl islam. to be standard in this country and having to talk about working together about the very elements he campaigned against. i tell you, i would not want to be writing the speech for him tomorrow because he s going to have to thread so many needles and walk so delicately on this religious terrain. if he says the wrong thing, the saudis religious establishment will explode in anger no matter how friendly the king wants to be. this is an extremely delicate diplomatic task. we heard he was still working on the speech on air force one on the flight over. right. and the point you brought up, does he mention human rights? does he mention women s rights? much was made about the fact melania and ivanka didn t have