The reason President Obama is having problems bringing Arab states into his anti-ISIS coalition is clear to Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell: the Arab states do not trust him.

Todd was a guest on Friday's Andrea Mitchell Reports. After a segment explaining that Obama’s plan to bring Arab states into his coalition seems to have hit a snag, the host brought in the "Meet The Press" moderator to add perspective. Mitchell explained that the Administration was wrong to announce the Syrians were going to train at a Saudi base, adding that Arab states do not trust Obama. Todd echoed that Obama's backing away from air strikes on Syria and treatment of former Egyptian President Mubarak has added to the mistrust.

Mitchell: Chuck Todd is moderator of "Meet The Press,” and NBC’s political director. Chuck, so much to deal with here. First of all, John Allen, a highly regarded general who has helped Kerry negotiate between the Palestinians and Hamas and the Israelis, is now going to be the guy who tries to put this whole coalition together, previously commander in Afghanistan. And at the same time we're seeing reluctance by the allies, especially to even acknowledge -- what we're told is that the Saudis just didn't want that out there. The White House official should not have been mentioning the Saudis so prominently because the Saudis want it to be quote, "a secret base" even though everyone on the region seems to know it.

Todd: This is certainly the Arab allies aren't flocking to the United States. There isn't this sense of rallying around this.

Mitchell: They don't trust this president, frankly.

Todd: Right. The relationship between the Saudis and this administration has never been close. There's a reason why. They're hoping John Kerry who has been around awhile and has previous relationships with them will help things along. Same way with the Jordanians, with the Jordan king and this administration, they've never -- there's always been this-- and some of it has to do with they're still upset he didn't follow through on the air strikes against Assad and chemical weapons a year ago. And that seemed to -- that hasn't gone away. Never mind the Arab spring or never mind Mubarak. That's something that doesn't sit well with both the monarchs in Jordan and Saudi Arabia.