Jared Kushner

They were the first Muslim country to stand up and do that after 9-11 because they didn't want it to be a war of the West against the Muslim religion.

So they joined the fight because they saw it as a fight between right and wrong.

They have rockets shot into their country from the Houthis, and they basically don't get a call from the U.S.

for 17 days.

They need their equipment that they buy from the US, which creates jobs in the US.

They need it restocked.

We don't call.

So they've severely degraded the trust that we had to rebuild with our allies.

I think they've been working now to get it back.

They, after two years, started working with Saudi and Israel, which I think was good.

I think that they realized after a stint that maybe the process that President Trump had created in the region was the right policy.

And keep in mind, President Trump's policy was

that I was working on was very strongly criticized during the first three years before we were able to achieve the results because it was departure from the failed policies of the past.

And so first there was a return to those policies, appease Iran, let's criticize Saudi Arabia.

Then they started embracing and working on the Israel-Saudi deal, which was really exciting.

I think we were all very excited about it.

But they did it in public.

And I think that that also was something, and I didn't have access to their intelligence.

So I assumed that by doing it so publicly, they thought that they'd either had a deal with Iran because they were letting them get all this revenue where Iran wouldn't be a problem.

But one of the reasons with the Abraham Accords, we kept it so quiet during the whole time was because we always felt like