foreign minister. and this week, they refused to say that the west wall is joining me now with all the inside scoop, rick stagle, and former time magazine editing manager. and ann guerin, correspondent for the washington post. welcome both. ann, you ve been talking to people about this trip. they re going start in riyadh, and they re going to get a good welcome there, despite the muslim ban and all the rest. 50 arab leaders who were distressed with president obama over the way mu bbarak was tread and have really embraced this president as a hard liner against iran. absolutely. the saudis are delighted, beyond delighted that trump is making saudi arabia his first stop. they were happy to host him and
on mu bbarak and the arab sprin. as far as the raid on bin laden, the president was right, you were wrong. absolutely. but what i say in the book is that i think the vice president was against the raid because of the domestic political consequences. i was against the raid because successful or failure, i was worried that it would create such a problem with the pakistanis they would shut down our line of communication in afghanistan. but at the very end, i did turn around and support the raid. you also say you were wrong when the israelis told the prime minister of israel, told the united states, told the president that the israelis were going to take out the syrian nuclear reactor that north korea was helping them build and you didn t want the israelis to do that. the president basically, you say, gave the israelis the green light. well, i didn t say i was wrong in that case. what i said was that my concern that it might spark a wider war
astein from tahrir square, egypt. hosing the protesters. you would think this is before hosni mu bbarak announced he wa leaving. egypt continues to be plagued by problems. reporter: a young egyptian singing a rebel song. in tahrir square, the epicenter of protests, he raised his voice in protests that brought down a d despot and left many egyptians