Former CIA: Trump’s Middle East trip about deals

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00:00Firstly, what do you believe is the main purpose of President Trump's visit to the Middle East this week?

00:09Well, as you just mentioned, this visit is all about deals, deals, deals, deals.

00:14And it's going to be all about the letter T for trillions.

00:19President Trump wants to project to the American people that he, in traveling to the Middle East,

00:26through the sheer force of his personality, is going to be winning trillions of dollars worth of trade and investment deals

00:33from Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf shaykhs.

00:35And this will all help to drive the re-industrialization of the United States.

00:40And in that sense, it is of a piece with his tariff policy, which is designed to achieve the same end.