ian bremmer: many travel to the region.ime he goes, people are saying he is happy we are over there, but we still see complaints that the relationship is deteriorating. >> i think the tension in the relationship is being greatly overblown. there are tensions, but there are strong bonds of national interest on both sides keeping the united states and saudi arabia together in a marriage of convenience. it is not a love match, there are great differences on principle and politics in a variety of things. there are great differences on the priorities of different interests, whether it is oppose iran, opposition to isis, try to topple assad, they want things, but they want different ones first. there are tensions the saudis , don't have other options and -- other options in terms of security. united states does for stabilizing global oil. we don't depend on them for our oil. we want to avoid this emergency in general. obama's big problem is talking openly about negative things, dissing his allies in public, which he should not ha

ian bremmer: let me ask another question.ed judge obama's foreign policy over seven years, one way you can do it, to what extent our relationships but it or worse? it is clearly more difficult with relationships in the middle east. i want to ask you, how much of that can you honestly put on one person, on the obama administration? how much is simply structural? jane harman: he went to cairo and give a major speech at the start of his administration. some did not like it, but i did. he talked about a way forward for the middle east. they did nothing to be much follow-through. there is not an overarching narrative. we do this little move here. part of it is retrenching from bush's adventurism, don't do stupid stuff, it is not foreign policy. do something that conveys to people that are values of interest, they are wide across the middle east. i was going to say something else, and it relates mostly to saudi arabia. we have not talked about wavism,, their extreme islam being exported around and the intellectual basis to the adve

that's what we're seeing. >> ian bremmer, thank you very much for joining us.ns now. >>> good monday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." jim cramer, di vang di vang and i'm carl quintanilla. big week ahead. busiest of fed meeting, primaries, gdp, premarket soft for the moment. oil is steady as the saudis disclose plans to take their state oil giant public. a road map begins with saudi arabia laying out its plan for economic reform and

. ♪ you can always see the sun ♪ ♪ good evening i'm ian bremmer of the eurasia group filling in for charliewho is off today. president obama was in saudi arabia today when he met with the leaders of six persian gulf nations. his visit comes at a moment of heightened tensions in u.s. saudrelations. tomorrow's degz nation is saudi arabia. here is the broader i plications for the u.s. foreign policy is a top panel of experts. we have gideon rose editor of foreign affairs. putin russia down but not yet out. john mick wait is the he had if you are in chief of bloomberg news and bret stephens foreign awares columnist and deputy editorial page editor at the "wall street journal." and jane harman former ranking member of the house intelligences committee and currently president of the woodrow wilson center. welcome all. so obama in saudi arabia can't have been the easiest trip of this administration, not a lot of specifics that have come out but one thing i've seen already, ben rhodes said that this was an opportunity to clear the air. what do you usually say about one of your more important allies

i put ian bremmer's book on sero.about g did we get more as we wandered into 2016?ena: i love this, you are talking to mrs. g plus economist and you are talking about g0. i am worried about you globalization, is what i think you are alluding to. whether 2015 was about grexit and now about brexit, there are calls about referendum from spain to germany. in financial terms, we have seen the end of globalization and capital flows with this massive accidents is of investments from emerging markets. in economic terms, we are seeing global trade flows the lowest level since the global -- global recession. i'm worried about this g0 world because it is a zero-sum game, a negative sum game. with us. komileva coming back, we will speak with angus blair of the segment institute. after an important interview with the deputy crown prince in saudi arabia, angus player on egypt, on saudi arabia. stay with us, bloomberg surveillance. ♪ tom: within the quarter, brexit, london, look at that. what a gorgeous shot. congratulations to our technical team, that is a spectacular shot. our n

. >> ian bremmer, thank you very much for joining us. we'll see you tomorrow. "squawk on the street" begins now. >>> good monday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." jim cramer, di vang di vang and i'm carl quintanilla. big week ahead. busiest of fed meeting, primaries, gdp, premarket soft for the moment. oil is steady as the saudis disclose plans to take their state oil giant public. a road map begins with saudi arabia laying out its plan for economic reform and the global economies they're watching closely. we'll get you the latest from the crown prince and go live to saudi arabia. >>> perrigo ceo joe papa is out, he's heading to valeant. >>> and surprising sales number from the apple watch on its first birthday. we'll break those down and get a preview of apple's earnings tomorrow. the three major indices in the green for the month the dow leading the pack up. saudi arabia's cabinet approved a plan laying out economic reform priorities for the next decade and a half aiming to reduce the country's reliance on oil, a partial ipo of the state-owned oil c

i also want to show you this graphic that was put up by ian bremmer, the president of the you asian -the president of the eurasia group. "don't stop the presses." the panama papers barely featured on u.s. front pages on monday. it was featured on the washington post below the fold but as he said, not a lot mention on the front page of the newspapers. many newspapers did have stories inside about this. mark in new hampshire, a republican. good morning. caller: i guess this is knows a prize. i think it was kissinger who said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. if you think about it, mr. bush once said that if the american people knew what we were getting away with, the next day they which exist on the street and there wouldn't be an empty tree in washington. so. i guess this is no big surprise. do you feel like anything will get done about it? caller: of course not. the elite cover of everything, just like they did about the libor scandal. why would they get in trouble? they never get in trouble. host: that was mark in new hampshire. a little news on campaign 201