ious that Trump was sort of underplaying it, I said that's probably the smartest thing he's ever done. Because that gives the United States tremendous leverage over Saudi Arabia because we would have a secret — not really a secret — but we would have a club, if you will, at least in public opinion.

Trump decided to not use that club. What did he get in return? You don't know, do you? I don't know. Do you think that Trump — just think of his personality, think of his deal-making, and think of the fact that he would have been completely aware, completely aware that he had now leverage over Saudi Arabia. You think he didn't know that? I said it every day on a live stream while it was happening. Yeah, of course he knew it. Of course he knew that gave him leverage. Do you think that behind the curtain — or at least maybe he doesn't even have to say it, right? Maybe you don't have to say it to Saudi Arabia because they kind of know it. Do you think he got something in return?

Well, we don't know. But we do know that the peace deals between Israel and a number of countries started coming together and that never happened before. What would it take for those other countries to feel safe in joining with Israel on some kind of a peace deal? Well, probably they needed to know that Saudi Arabia wasn't going to be a problem. And they weren't. So I would say that what we're seeing here is that Trump played it so well that two members of his administration were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. I think at least we could speculate — we can't know this for sure — that the way he handled the Khashoggi thing probably mattered. It probably mattered to the point of two Nobel Peace Prize nominations. Totally deserved. Avi Berkowitz and Jared Kushner for their good work in the Middle East.