On this episode of C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast: Since 1933 The United States and Saudi Arabia have held full diplomatic relations with each other….despite one country being an conservative Islamic absolute monarchy and the other a secular, constitutional republic. But since the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi…relations between the two countries have come into a new light. Joining us on C-SPAN's The Weekly Podcast to discuss the history of the United States and Saudi Arabia, the special relationship between the two countries, and what's next is Aaron David Miller, Vice President and Middle East Program Director at the Wilson Center. An expert on US policy in the Middle East he answers these questions and proposes what the Trump Administration could do moving forward.

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