Transcript for Grading Trump's trip overseas

Let's bring in Kristen Soltis Anderson. Kristen, first of all, let's talk about the overseas trip, the first overseas trip for president trump. Some praise, some criticism. How do you think he did with Middle Eastern leaders, European leaders? Reporter: With Middle Eastern leaders that first half of the trip I think it was a pretty big success. He gave a speech imploring -- calling on these leaders to step up their work in terms of fighting radicalism within Islam, great portion of the visit to Israel. When we move to Europe, however, that's when things got a little bit dicey. In Europe nato allies expected the president to stand up and say that he would defend them, he would stand by article 5 commitments under nato. That means if any of those European allies get attacked we will defend them. So that's where some of our allies left a little shaky about where America stands on defending the world. Angela Merkel very vocal about that. Jared Kushner under scrutiny now for setting up back channel communications withrussia. Among all the other allegations about trump and Russia where does this fall? This one begins to tie together a few different threads. With the investigations into trump and Russia, there are a million different angles to the story, whether it's about leaks, whether it's about tax returns, this is one that really begins to more closely tie together allegations about trump's family business and trump's family matters to the Russia story. Now, we've heard many times there will be shake-ups in the white house, many of them not really ever coming to fruition. Kushner is a unique situation. Unlike anybody else who is just staff who you can ultimately fire he is married to I.D. Trump, a big asset to the administration. Someone who goes out on the road with the president a lot so Kushner can in a unique position and much closer to the president than most staff. We will be following this very closely as well. Kristen Soltis Anderson, thanks for joining us this morning. Thank you.

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