Washington Free Beacon reporter Adam Kredo discussed the Trump administration's $110-billion defense deal with Saudi Arabia during an appearance Monday on One America News.
Host Liz Wheeler took exception to the U.S. deal with Saudi Arabia, due to the majority of the 9/11 terrorists hailing from the country and the nation's continued human rights and women's rights problems.
"They happen to be a major U.S. ally," Kredo said. "I think the announcement of the deal represents one very major thing ... Saudi Arabia, for the past eight years, has really been in a troubled place, and that's because of the power vacuum created by the Obama administration."
Kredo said President Trump's approach was "wildly different," in that it was about empowering allies in the Middle East.
"For better or worse, they are an ally, and the president's chief goal is to conduct diplomacy for the United States of America, and that's what Trump is doing, reasserting America in the region," he said.
Eight years of a "power vacuum," Kredo said, did not work out well for American allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia. Kredo went on to praise Trump's speech Sunday in Saudi Arabia that said the fight against terrorism could not be fought by the U.S. alone.