00:00Just sort of more broadly, how much of a success would you say stop one?
00:06I mean, obviously, there are three stops on this Middle Eastern tour that we know about because there's, you know, perhaps there'll be a surprise stop on this on this Middle Eastern tour.
00:14But how well do you think stop one went?
00:18I think it went incredibly well.
00:20I mean, if you look at all of the, you know, all of the things that were done and all of the issues that were discussed on this trip,
00:27you had, you know, economic deals, defense deals, you had the who's who of the tech and banking and, you know, defense and other sectors in the US accompanying Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia.
00:45There was the investment conference that was happening around the same time.
00:49Everyone that I've spoken to who's in Riyadh right now and who was in Riyadh yesterday is talking about the air of excitement and opportunity and really going into this with eyes wide open,
01:02really understanding what challenges lie ahead and what needs to be done to solve them.
01:07And I think one thing that's different that you're seeing that we didn't really see before, including on Trump's last visit to Saudi Arabia,
01:14when he also went to Saudi Arabia on his first international stop as president,
01:19you're seeing a lot of collaboration between actors that didn't really necessarily always collaborate before.
