Trump pushing for the maximum

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00:00Ahmed, Saudi is also a country Donald Trump is so determined to work closely with.

00:07Does he see Saudi as a key part to helping end the conflicts in the Middle East and Europe?

00:13Or do you think he sees it as a good strategic step business-wise?

00:21I think he sees them both.

00:23You know, we all understand that President Donald Trump, he comes from a business background,

00:28but he also likes the concept of flipping the table.

00:32So what he does is he comes and he flips the table in politics.

00:37He asks for the maximum.

00:39And this is dangerous, of course, but sometimes it works, it needs to be managed.

00:43But he always asks for the maximum and he can settle for less.

00:46We've seen that in the previous four years of his presidency.

00:50We're seeing it right now in some of the files, because he's putting the extreme, hoping to

00:54get things at a certain level in order to basically do peace.

00:59We've seen that with Israel.

01:00We've seen that in Iran.

01:01We've seen that in a couple of other countries, with NATO, with Germany.