magazine, he called for the sunni kingdom to get past their differences with shiite ryan, which he --ran, which he says have helped fuel conflicts. obama said, quote, they need to find an effective way to share the neighborhood and institute some sort of cold peace. when asked recently, isn't the u.s. friends with saudi arabia? obama tellingly replied, it's complicated. >> for more, we speak with simon, at the university of lancaster. thank you for joining us here on the program. first i'd like to ask you, do you think president obama did enough to reassure saudi arabia and the other members of the gulf cooperation council? >> well, i think he certainly has gone some way into wheeling back a lot of the friction that was emerging over the past few weeks and months and probably even the years of his presidency. u.s.-saudi relations have been at their worst in the past 30 years, under the obama presidency and they've deteriorated rapidly in the past few months, particularly since the nuclear deal with iran. so obama's trip was as much about repairing a lot of those ties and making relati