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the president has been meeting this morning with key allies in the east, including the president of egypt and the prime minister of iraq before posing for the traditional family photo at the summit in jeddah. >> one of the most controversial meetings was president bidens sit-down with saudis crown prince, mohammad bin salman. our colleague wolf blitzer is traveling with the president and joins us from saudi arabia. wolf, members of the biden administration have been stressing that thes...

From china or the domestic challenges that the president raises. the other point is iran. vladimir putin will travel there to meet with erdogan. im sure hell see the eastern leader as well. the president has friends, partners, allies, gg 3 plus three equals six and that will conclude the trip. >> yeah, these are important leaders here in the middle east, theres no doubt about that. and these conversations, the one-on-one conversations the president has with each leader as well as the entire grou...

Over. it was the most politically fraught trip. >> it certainly was. well see how the fallout was. kaitlan, dont go too far. stay with us. i want to continue the conversation. joining us the former middle east peace negotiator, and a senior fellow over at the carnegie in washington. aaron, thanks so much for joining us. president bidens agenda to bring so-called stability to the global energy markets, how important are his meetings with the arab leaders, the ggc as its called today? >> its imp...

Detain u.s. nationals inside saudi arabia. thats a problem particularly for the president who genuinely believes human rights and our values are critically important. we can argue our values are our values and our interests are our interests. but there has to be a balance struck to begin at least dealing with some of the criticism. frankly, i dont think there was that balance in terms of the tone. the criticism is mounting. it will go away, but the stain that exists over mbs for co-shoghi and hi...

>> the u.s. intelligence committee as you know concluded that the crown prince ordered -- effectively ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi. >> i dont believe that was specified in those terms nurjs ber one. number two, it was an ass assessment. >> aaron, you and i have known adel al jabeir. what do you think of the way he was treated with the saudi arabia minister in those meetings? >> frankly, wolf, and i thought your questions were quite penetrating follow-ups. i think adel exposed president...

The table without assuming much more active human rights agenda with respect to current saudi arabia behavior. i think thats increasingly going to be a problem here, and its not going to go away. >> aaron david mill eric thank you very much. kaitlan as well, do you have a point? >> i was going to say, there is not the first time the administration has faced criticism over this. oftentimes theyll point to visas and restrictions. even despite the president, president biden releasing that intellige...

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Possible corruption charges. im joined by a middle east negotiator for the state department. aaron, a pleasure to have you on. first how are things going to shake out considering the final round of polls show a really tight race, neck and neck. neither benjamin netanyahu or benny gantz will have an outride majority. are we going to see the results we saw in the last election? >> its very possible. people were surprised by the april outcome. 31 out of the last 42 years he would have an advantage,...