(CBS NEWS) – Sources from CBS say that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told President Trump on Tuesday that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will increase its investments of $600 billion in the U.S. to near $1 trillion.

The new figure was raised by the president during bin Salman’s White House visit.

“I want to thank you because you’ve agreed to invest $600 billion into the United States, and because he’s my friend, he might make it a trillion, but I’m going to have to work on him,” Mr. Trump said during their Oval Office meeting.

Bin Salman, who goes by MBS, agreed that the figure would be close to $1 trillion.

During Mr. Trump’s first administration, the president touted $450 billion in Saudi investments in the U.S., but an economic analysis by the Arab Gulf States Institute found

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