being? we like a turtle? come on man. seriously? i m jonathan kaye part, this is the sunday show. this sunday, we are getting ready for the january six committees, primetime hearing, this thursday. that will focus on donald trump s 187 minutes of inaction, during the insurrection. crucial to that recounting, could be deleted text messages from the day before, and day of the insurrection. the committee has subpoenaed the secret service, to turn over phone records, by tuesday. after the inspector general, for homeland security, reported the missing messages. at the last hearing, the committee revealed, that trump is accused of witness tampering. a source tells nbc news, he tried to call a member of the white house support staff, who has been talking to the panel. the committee is also considering seeking testimony, from former vice president, mike pence. and trump himself. and trump s legal woes, extend beyond what is happening in washington. this week, yahoo news reported th
strategy planned parenthood in illinois team up to expand abortion access. how that partnership could be a blueprint for other states with restrictive trigger laws. you are watching symone, and we ve got a lot to talk about. we start with breaking news, a new report from a texas house investigative committee paints a damning portrait of the police response in uvalde were gunman murdered 19 children and two children in may. the committee learned that there were nearly 400 state and federal officers on the robb elementary school campus that day. yet surveillance footage released confirms officers waited for more than an hour before finally confronting the shooter. the report states at robb elementary law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training and failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety. out of those 400 officers, as of now, according to the texas tribune, only one has been placed on leave. here with the l
well, it s 10:00 a.m. here in jeddah, and u.s. president joe biden will soon begin the second and final day of what is his controversial trip to saudi arabia. on friday the two nations entered into a number of far-reaching agreements on a wide range of issues including on energy and on food security. but it s the image of the president fist-bumping saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, or mbs as he s known, that has been grabbing the attention. the saudi government also released this video of the u.s. delegation greeting saudi officials with fist bumps. u.s. journalists weren t present at the time, and we only have the saudi version of this exchange. president biden says the first thing he did on friday was confront the crown prince over the 2018 murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. here s what the president said afterwards. with respect to the murder of khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of
uae. this is an incredibly busy day for the u.s. president on what is his first tour of the middle eastern gulf since he became u.s. president. the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi in 2018 has cast a pall. president biden hoping this trip will help move the two countries forward while still making clear he holds mohammed bin salman responsible for that killing. here s what he said after meeting with the crown prince on friday. i made my view crystal clear. i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we and who i am. some will find it difficult to square the president s rhetoric with him greeting the crown prince with a fist bump. it was mr. biden who labeled saudi arabia a pariah just a few years ago. the president says he doesn t regret the remark, but both men close to ignore reporters questions as their meeting started on friday. jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? t
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 biden s sit-down with saudi s 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 these meetings are really about trying to reset that relationship between the middle east and the united states, right? they certainly do. they believe this is a moment that the u.s. can reset the overall u.s. relationship with countries in the middle east, and they re working to do that right now. president biden, right now, kristin, is laying out his mini strategy, on this, his last day o a trip to the region. he s talking about everything from security to economics and human rights. but it s h