Tom Malinowski actually said...

I think there were multiple and very complicated motives.

Because we have an interest--first of all, we have a very strong alliance relationship with both countries.

President Trump's very clear public message in Riyadh that we will no longer press the Gulf States on these issues was so harmful.

Shouldn't we abandon all of those efforts so that we clear that up and we are no longer seen as self-righteous or overweening?