palace. i have not seen in the president and the king together. we will see when that happens. as they sit down for dinner. they are behind schedule because the president only had a few hours of sleep, certainly tired, certainly enjoying himself. liz and i are back tomorrow. meanwhile our friends in your takeover. >> is day one of president first official trip overseas. the president and first lady attending a with king salman at the banquet dinner. they received a regal welcome of this key american ally. hello, welcome to a brand-new hour of americans news headquarters. i'm kellyanne i'm julie. >> thank you for joining us on this historic moment. historically can. the presence first trip overseas. he is the first american president to visit saudi arabia. the president and king salman

are reaffirming the strong alliance between the us and saudi arabia. they find in a historic 110 billion-dollar defense agreement. tomorrow the president is making a major speech on fighting terrorism at the arab-islamic summit. we will pick up our coverage, john roberts, is traveling with the president and joins us live from riyadh, saudi arabia. hi there, john. it's a windy day where you are. reporter: julie, good afternoon. a rainstorm if you can believe it blew through here just a few minutes ago. were still feeling the effects of the wind and now it's picking up sand. welcome to saudi arabia. the president clearly enjoying the day and he is at the palace right now which is north of riyadh where he's going to have a big banquet celebration. you can hear drumming and chanting. what is going right there at the palace is something called the. [inaudible] this is a traditional sword

dance, dance by men for the most part, it's not exclusively by men but it's an old saudi war dance which is now a dance of celebrations and weddings at the like. today is surrounded by, second ago, this $110 billion arms agreement between the united states and saudi arabia involving a big american companies like general electric, lockheed martin, and others. one of the saw things the saudi wants to buy is the missile defense system. now the saudis want one. it's a high altitude defense that gets ballistic missiles and the necessity of that was driven home as we touched down here on friday night when rebels in yemen fired a ballistic missile at riyadh and it was brought down by an antimissile system in the southern part of saudi arabia. it landed harmlessly in unoccupied territory about hundred 20 miles southwest of

riyadh. what the american demonstration is doing is billing this arms agreement as an opportunity for closer cooperation strategically between united states and saudi arabia and as well as an opportunity for saudi arabia to take a greater hands in his own defense. the united states has been deprived going back decades and you remember the reason for the gulf war in 1991 with saddam hussein occupied kuwait and we were protecting saudi arabia for possible invasion from the south. we were using airbases that we established years before that to launch our. us wants to dial down our involvement in terms of how much it's costing us to defend countries in this region and by selling saudi arabia these arms it could take some of the pressure off the united states according to rex tillerson, secretary of state appeared at a press conference here in our hotel earlier today foreign minr three.

three said this is a historic point in a turning point in relations between the saudi arabia and united states. it increases the partnership between the two countries. in terms of what saudi arabia is looking for from the united states is a greater commitment and a firm commitment to reign in iran. there were problems in the administration with the signing of the nuclear deal that saudi arabia really believes that the policy of the obama administration was more containment of iran, trying to work with you ron and some form of cooperation but nothing was changing ron's bad behavior. they like the top talk coming from president trump. they like the talk of his talk on isis and terrorism because it befalls saudi arabia to get with the program, at least, when it comes to isis. they see iran as a greater threat and we see iran is a great start.

julie, it looks like his first day has gone very well. the president said it was a perfect day and that we listened to the chanting and dancing and the drums at the palace. julie. >> john roberts lied at saudi arabia. thank you very much. >> a lot going on right now. today marks an admission nine-day international former president trump will meet with dozens of world leaders. the she joins us now with her perspective on this trip. tell me your first initial reaction when you saw the president meet with king salman who came out to meet him and greet him at the airport. >> i think there were some great images from that coffee ceremony that the two of them shared at the terminal. it was clear that the saudi's from the beginning were prepared

to pull out all the stops to welcome him to riyadh. it shows that very excited about his administration and it signals that they will make the us-saudi race relationship and if the evidence is any indication then this trip is going to accomplish a lot in terms of reasserting us credibility in the region and credibility in the eyes of our allies in that region, particularly saudi arabia and was israel. clearly, the president has a busy schedule today and for the rest of the trip we have dozens of events and will be meeting with dozens of leaders. it will be ambitious and aggressive schedule. track absolute, were not to interrupt you but were seen the president shown with some paintings and meeting with people there. sarah, i want to get to another point. that's the fact that this has been a good day, $110 billion in contracts for arm sales.

that means the president jobs, jobs, jobs and that will relate well to a lot of people here in the united states who support the president and want to see him do well. this trip could have significant impact on american economy. >> exactly. that $110 billion killed two birds with one stone in terms of the present agenda. it creates jobs back home which is honestly good for the economy but it also does a lot to strengthen the relationship for saudi arabia to empower them to counter iranian aggression and to increase cooperation when it comes to countering extremism. those are all goals of the president's visit to saudi arabia that are furthered by that arms deal. he's accomplishing a twofold goal with the extension of that deal. >> that is so significant. in fact, we've not seen in these pictures but there are billboards or posters, if you will, scattered throughout riyadh. riyadh that show king salman and

president trump and it says, together, we prevail. at the core of this when we go back to what secretary of state rex tillerson said earlier in the day, talked about the core is our shared security interest in america's security strengthen when saudi arabia is strong and we can counterbalance extreme messaging and we will pursue new approaches to disrupting financing terrorism. again, going to what that banner or poster, if you will, says, together we can prevail. meaning what to you, sir. >> one of the problems with the obama administration approach to the middle east, at least in the eyes of the saudis, obama spent more this time engaging with iran trying to reorient the middle east policy around iran rather than saudi arabia. administration has been taking two steps to reverse that into empower saudi arabia to be one of the stronger allies in the region and to freeze out those ties that were forced which i

iran during the obama immigration. what you're seeing is how excited the saudi's are to welcome the pump and american delegations to riyadh. it shows they are looking forward to having the authority that comes with being backed fully by the united states. that was eroded during the past eight years back absolutely. there's some a different calendar angles now and it as well as president trump and looking at marabba palace and saudis celebrating arrival of american president. quite different from what we saw when president obama were there. the saudis were upset with president obama in terms of how he dealt with iran, was more of issue. step down and be a player on the world stage in terms of finding peace. this president, president trump

going there, striking a deal with the saudi arabia people and we can see some of the production there as well. you can see the american flag. as we see all of this, sarah, what are the optics of this in america where the president has been, well, he's been trounced in the media and accused him of all manners of all things? >> it was sort to reset his agenda, a way for his staff and white house to regain footing after this fire storm of controversies that had side-tracked his message and side-tracked his agenda just as they were trying to work on big legislative items. this trip is to turn the page, reclaim the presidential persona that comes with sitting next to a world leader and inking the big deals. when he returns, he will have a much stronger hold on the things that he needs to do and he would be able to forge ahead much more

easily. >> we are just looking at video early in the day when the president initially arrived. we saw president and melania and king salman greeting him there at the tarmac, at the airport. the first lady was not wearing a scarf as custom in saudi arabia. the looks of that is we are saying, we respect women in the united states and what do you think the message is to saudi arabia? >> well, i think that saudi arabia is moving towards more modernization, moving away from those very strict traditional religious values but soon, i believe, women are going to be able allowed to drive in saudi arabia in the coming year and deputy crown prince salaman. the son of the king has pushed

for modernization, for women, for instance, not to wear a scarf. >> they are younger and they know america, they know our way of life in the united states and actually they're getting away from oil and building skyscrapers and looking at oil that will eventually expire on them and want to move forward and be part of this world, part of the make-up of the united states and a strong ally in the middle east, sarah, thank you. >> thank you. >> a reminder president trump will deliver a major on fighting terrorism. that's tomorrow in saudi arabia. we will have that for you live at 9:30 a.m. eastern. you can see it right here on the fox news channel. julie: meanwhile iranian president winning the election today. this was a close race, in fact, he says, though that the victory represents iran's interest in promoting friendly relations around the world. john live in jerusalem with the

details. >> julie, it's easier said than done. let's see if this is, indeed, truth. this is big turnout. 70% iranians showed up at the poll to put rouhani back in office. he has responsibilities ahead. rouhani said that the election is victory for freedom and independence. he's seen as a more reform and liberal-minded leader. the victory is a victory for moderates and also for those who want more freedom within the country and better relations with the rest of the world, but as i said, he has a lot of challenges ahead, no doubt, such as reducing high unemployment rate and hard-line elements and iran as we discontinued was a major topic today in saudi arabia and as you heard from john roberts, saudi arabia and iran hadn't had relations since

2006. earlier today secretary of state rex tillerson said in part that he hopes rouhani uses to dismantle terrorism and missile testing and restore the rights to iranians of free speech and organization adding that, quote, rouhani expects to change relationship with the world, those are the things he can do. while president rouhani said in televised address that victory is peace against violence and to live with the world in friendship away from radicalism but, julie, he also added that, quote, we are not ready to be belittled and deletened. julie: thank you so much. kelly. >> president trump is to deliver major speech tomorrow on day two of first foreign trip urging unity in the fight against terrorism. so how would the muslim world

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onlookers cheering as they torn down the moment of general robert lee. julie: fired fbi director james comey agree to go testify in a public hearing about ongoing investigation into russia's election meddling, but now senator chuck grassley is expressing that robert mueller, probe can get in the way. grassley tweeting, i would not be surprised if the new special counsel mueller stops comey testifying before the senate committee even though comey is willing. michael is former prosecutor and former independent counsel. michael, thank you so much. >> thank you. julie: first of all, what do you make of senator gassily's remarks, chairman of the senate judiciary committee. let's remind folks that he's also upset that comey will not be testifying before judiciary committee and now he's tweeting that he wouldn't be surprise that had mueller intervenes and

stop him from testifying before intelligence committee. >> well, i wouldn't have a lot of good common sense. he may be right about this. mueller may well ask comey to testify. there's no upside as mueller with special counsel to have comey testify in a hearing, public hearing of this sort. if it was a closed-door hearing and giving update so they know where the transition is, that's fine. publicly, they that's may not help mueller's case and mueller may ask his good friend comey to not do it. julie: you did call him his good friend and there is questions as to the relationship between these two former fbi directors, robert mueller and james comey, both fbi directors, both friends. james comey said that mueller was sort of a role model for him and looked up to him and there's certainly a friendship there which is sort of ironic that mueller has been assigned the task of trying to investigate a

number of things including comey's firing. do you think that has any conflict of interest? >> are professionals and they know where to draw the line, so i'm not worried at all about that. so i think the bigger issue for mueller with respect to comey and his testimony is how might it interfere with my prosecution, could comey be asked questions that might interfere, say, with the collusion investigation or the obstruction of justice investigation or the financial investigations with respect to flynn and manafort. i think it's too difficult for mule tore control the environment and therefore he might well ask that it not occur. he can't make him. he has no executive privilege basis to exclude comey from doing it but i think that would probably be his preference. it would have been my preference if i was the independent counsel.

july: explain testifying before in senate committee and judiciary committee? >> judiciary has responsibilities over the fbi and the department of justice and matters like that and intelligence agencies, so comey picked which one he we wanted to testify before. i don't think there's a particular difference in terms of types of questions that he would get from either committee, i think he would be asking about the same broad topic so i think it's really not a matter of importance which one he would pick. julie: that's what i was wondering. right. >> if i was his lawyer i would say don't pick either, stay home. julie: well, yeah. >> watch cleveland cavaliers and see what they do. julie: that's one way to spend your afternoon. doesn't having a special counsel assigned to the investigations into russia's election interference and comey's fire --

firing benefit the trump administration and also keep the details of investigation sealed from the public and that's something that president trump has wanted to try to do, and that's keep the information from the white house and prevent further information getting out there despite all the leak that is keep coming out of there? >> right, a couple of threads there. first is if you look back to watergate, we had leon jeraski and irving through the offices of congress, that probably should be the case here whether they want to do it through a fractured system of judiciary and intelligence and house and senate or former unifyied -- unified-commission type of committee. the politicians should work out that stuff. there should be parallel lines of public and private. the difficulty is what one of

the senators once called deconfliction which is making sure that what takes place on either side doesn't interfere with the other side and most particularly it's making sure that congress doesn't do anything that would interfere with the prosecutor's ability to indict and prosecute, oliver north got immunized. julie: he doesn't want anybody else getting involved. he wants to the single source of investigation in order not to mess it up. >> that's right. julie: real quick. >> he doesn't want to deal with it after the fact of a public hearing. julie: if comey is denied the ability to testify before senate committee, could he still release memos that he documented anyway of his conversations he said where he took notes of the

president that president trump actually told him that he wanted to have him end the russia investigation or does a block prohibit from releasing memos? >> he can't be blocked before testifying in judiciary committee. maybe the president could assert executive privilege to prevent it. with respect to the memos they're owned by the government, they're not comey's memos, i don't think he's free to release them in private-citizen category. julie: okay, yeah. we we wanted to get that clear. michael, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. julie: kelly. kelly: president trump visitingg the birthplace of islam to ask for help of fight extremist. what he will say tomorrow to get others on board. >> if we can change to partnership with the u.s. and if we can change the conversation

in the u.s. and in the west to want to partnership, we would have truly changed our role and we would have truly drowned the voices of extremism

kelly: president trump is expected to call for a united front in the war on terror when he delivers his speech tomorrow in saudi arabia. the message will center on the need for other nations to join forces with the u.s. and the fight against extremists. joining me now embassador james jeffrey, former u.s. embassador to iraq and turkey and former deputy adviser of president george w. bush. embassador, good of you to join us today and certainly we want to hear insights and perspective on what you see uncoiling in the historic first trip for the president of the united states. >> this is extraordinary. he's starting in the islamic world, then going to israel,

then to rome, so he hits all three major, if you will, religions and then to brussels and then to italy to do nato, the european union, the french president and then the g7 states including japan. he will set all kinds of signals in doing this beginning with relations with the islamic world and the fight against terror, the fight against iran and the fight for a stabilized world under american leadership. that's the message he's trying very hard to get out. kelly: embassador, as you know, that's a strong message to get out and certainly one that's vital not only to the national security interest of the united states but the national security interest of the world as it relates to fighting al-qaeda and isis, people don't mention al-qaeda but if you think about saudi arabia, al-qaeda has its roots right there in saudi arabia because of the extremist form of islam that's taught

there, can you explain what the president will have to do during this trip and beyond to get the saudi arabia government to try to diminish the effect that wahabisim has on young islamic people in the world and why it might cause further disturbances in terms of peace? >> that's a very good important point. saudi arabia is our an ally and victim of the. >> terrorism that some of the saudi religious leaders and some of the saudi population has supported. as you said, osama bin laden comes from saudi family, prominent one, in fact. what the president is doing is he's working with the saudis for them to set up an antiextremist center, a center to try to work to get out messages of peace, messages of partnership with the outside world to the entire global muslim community. that's a very different message than what from some saudi

religious leaders are preaching so it'll put saudi arabia in the hot spot, if you will, to counteract things that are coming out of their very own society. so that's a very wise step. kelly: wise step, indeed. i know that you worked in iraq and also in turkey. i recall when i covered the war in iraq back in 2004, i learned then that they recognized the strong men. there would be a lot of respect for him. kind of unlike like they had for president obama because president obama didn't appear or show himself as being as strong as president trump is right now in terms of stating very categorically what he says about islam and the radical export of that. what will he have to say tomorrow in order not to offend the religious elite there and inspire them to rally around him in the global war on terrorism

that we call it? >> having worked with obama, the problem in the middle east it was not that he was weak but perceived on not understanding the middle east. he was strong on the nuclear deal with iran, they just thought it was the wrong deal. in that respect, he's already way ahead of president obama who wanted to have the region share its future with iran. and president trump has also shown in increasing military tempo against isis, islamic state and striking syria twice in the last six weeks that he's willing to use military force effectively. that's not what president trump -- rather president obama signaled in his actions in the middle east. kelly: thank you for your candor on that. i would like to show you video

of president trump in riyadh. i think the are -- reaction, the president dancing at some point. yeah, he's kind of a little jig there. your comments on that, sir, seems like the president is enjoying the moment. >> absolutely. washington is always tough for my president, it's nothing but hassles and slow action, you get out in the world stage particularly when you're being welcomed and everybody welcomes this message the president has of american leadership of american strength, this is what they are thirsting for particularly in saudi arabia but he's going to encounter this everywhere he goes, this trip is going to be, i think, very important because it also shows that president trump is different than candidate trump. kelly: embassador james jeffrey, well, said. thank you for your perspective. and you can watch live as president trump delivers his speech on radical ideology and

his hopes for a peaceful islam tomorrow. you can tune in to the fox news channel at 9:30 a.m. eastern time. julie: are you guys loving them as much as i. this trip is absolutely historical. kelly: i like the fact that he was actually trying to dance. julie: it's amazing. i love it. the first time a president has made saudi arabia the very first stop on -- kelly: i can't do it like he does. julie: no, you certainly cannot. [laughter] julie: he can sing. he has that. pippa middleton's wedding tieing the knot with members of the royal family watching. hi, kitty. >> well, this is being built as the almost royal wedding. pippa isn't exactly royal herself but she's sister of the

duchess of cambridge. many people turning out to watch this. she was wearing a custom-made dress marrying today a wealthy businessman matthews. now, this was a high-profile but small gathering the and among those guests were kate's husband, prince william and his brother prince harry. at this stage of the ceremony harry was not seen with his current girl meghan merkle. all eyes there were on the royal children, take a look at this. 3-year-old prince george, son of william and kate, he was a page boy along side him his

2-year-old sister, charlotte, princess charlotte. she was a bride's maid. kate wasn't taking role of bride's maid but taking care of all those kids as they came out of the church. there was plenty public coverage, many waiting prez there, local people turning out to watch it too, the newly married couple celebrated with 200 guests at a special champagne reception at the middleton family estate nearby. we are hearing that they'll be a wedding dinner later tonight. it's estimated that this wedding ceremony has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, julie. julie: no surprise. thank you so much. kelly. kelly: moments from now president trump and the first lady will tour the national museum of saudi arabia and that is quite a trip there and we will bring you that when we get it, plus, new questions after a series of leaks rot the white

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julie: welcome back, questions surrounding the possibility of a loyalty issue within the trump administration. after a series of bombshell news reports rocking the administration, charles says that one such report with trump with russian officials says the problem lies within the president's own inner circle. >> what's unusual is the niagara

of leaks that come from the white house, as you said, this must have been somebody in the room, picked up the phone and read the notes, so the problem here is an inner circle of people who have lost faith or betraying or whatever. julie: let's bring in former 2008 clinton campaign adviser and fox news contributor and brian robertson and gop strategists. thank you so much for talkingtous. what do you say, what is the reason for the loyalty problem, there's clearly a lack of loyalty. >> i agree with you, there is a loyalty problem in the white house but starts with the fact that president trump wants advisers to have personally loyalty to him over the united states of america, but thank goodness we have people in the white house, in that building that are willing to risk it all because they are putting country

first over personal loyalty. we are a nation of laws and law enforcement even though he wants to be above the law, you have people in his administration saying, because this white house lied from day one, we are going to make sure the truth gets out. julie: there are loyalists. >> that's true. julie: there are leakers and i believe the more and more that the leaks come out, the way that the white house responds to the leaks almost makes it worst. >> absolutely. you get contradictory explanations from the white house from charges at the heart of them aren't that serious. you talked about law enforcement, a nation of law, no one is saying in any of the leak that is the president has broken the law even with the russian intelligence sharing that was perfectly legal for the president of the united states to share within his purview. no one is accusing them of doing

anything illegal. even democrats aren't accusing them of that even though some are calling for itch -- impeachment whatsoever. julie: there's no evidence of collusion between russia and trump administration and that remain it is case. let's remind our viewers, however, it seems that the contradictions do reflect a bit on the president's management style, he was the manager of a huge could you repeat the question, managing the white house and a country is a little different. how does that reflect on the management style? >> clearly his management style, he said it in the first few pages of the art of the deal, he makes no plans, he goes into a room and a situation and decides off the cuff. that's not how you can run the united states of america, back to the loyalty issue, on one hand, he wants his aides to be absolutely loyal to him, above country and when they go out

they put themselves out there and they make a statement and then he does an interview and contradicts them and con pleatly tarnishes their reputation. that's not a good manager. at the same time when you have a congress, republican congress that has decided not to put party -- not to put country first but to put party first, it is absolutely important and -- to the checks and balance that is we all learned about in social studies. julie: rod rosenstein, are you referring to him? he basically said he fired him based on the direction of his advisers? rosenstein among them. he later came out and said, no, i fired him in an interview with lester holt because he did not want to stop the russian investigation and came back and said, i did fire him because of rosenstein and others and rosenstein said, no, he we wanted to fire him long ago

because of the hillary clinton e-mails which i'm not sure that really bothered him at all. the only thing he was bothered about the clinton emails that he wasn't convicted and prosecuted and thrown behind bars. that's what he campaigned on. >> he was more truthful to the russians than to the american people. >> the trump administration had a very small team on the campaign and because -- they had one spokesman and that was donald trump and they were able to stay on his message that way. now he has a much larger apparatus, some of these leaks are to hurt others in the white house, not necessarily to hurt him. it is gaming for position within the white house but i think he has got to be consistent with his white house team and the white house has to be consistent with him or this is going to continue. julie: bryan robertson and jehmu greene, thank you so much. another disturbance involving an

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kelly: today is armed forces day and we are looking at a nonprofit group helping veterans by pairing them with mentors at big companies across the country. laura is live with more details. laura. >> thousands of veterans leave the military each and every year and one of the main challenges of returning home is how to find not only a good job but a long-lasting, meaningful career. >> moving from a life in the military to a life in the corporate world can be a daunting task for veterans. >> i think the program is crucial for the transition definitely. >> army reserve jamila smith jumped at the program that matches vets with mentors based on their skill sets and interests which helped her launch a new career. >> working on deadlines and learning how to do more with less resources. so i would say those are the

biggest transitions that i've taken from the military. >> acp is a nonprofit groups assisting veterans across the country. each vet is teamed up with one vet for one year, from pepsco to coca-cola even fox news' parent company 21st fox. the membership program was used to use big brothers big sisters concept. in this case might be a 250-pound veteran looking for work. >> we have 2700 veterans nationwide, we help nearly 10,000 people where they call us one by one and their mentors have changed their life. >> after coming back from deployments in iraq and afghanistan, jamilla smith landed a position at bloomberg in new york city with her mentor's assistance. >> we want to attract veterans

to our organization because they embody these phenomenal characters that benefit us, yes, they gain but we gain too by that exposure. >> it's expect that had 200,000 people will leave the military this year. the average starting salary in this program impressive $70,000 and those interested and served since 9/11 can apply online wwww.acp.com. julie: president trump's historic visit to saudi arabia, the first stop on overseas trip, our continuing coverage right after this break.

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julie: fox news alert. president trump afforded saudi arabia highest civilian honor. just hours after touching down in the first half of his first international tour since taking office. president trump and first mate lady taking part in reception and banquet at the saudi arabia oil company. hello, good afternoon. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's youth headquarters. i'm julie. kelly: and i'm kelly. one of the first orders of business today