good morning and welcome to your new day. i m kristin fisher. good morning, kristen. i m boris sanchez. why one committee says their explanation doesn t make any sense. president biden is meeting with key leaders in saudi arabia saudi arabia. what he s hoping to achieve. and then the criticism over the meeting with the crown prince yesterday. truckers are struggling with diesel prices. their concerns as costs continue to climb, coming up. this may be my favorite of the day. the deep space discovery, the heartbeat sounds that have astronomers all aflutter. aflutter. i know. do you see what i did there? good morning and welcome to your new day. it is july 16th. you know, boris, it may be a saturday in the summer, but it s a busy saturday in the summer with the president s trip overseas and all these new revelations about the jan 67 committee. there is a lot going on. we re going to take you there. first there s concern over the text going add ups sent
the united states is not going anywhere. it s come mmitted to that regio the president spoke in the plus three summit, saudi arabia, kuwait,egypt, i iraq, jordan, the plus three there. near the top of the agenda for biden, the issue of energy production, also security in the region, the war in yemen countering iran and overall of this, also the murder of a washington post journalist. reporter: jamal khashoggi clearly very much high on the agenda for the president of the united states. he s trying, though, to turn the page on u.s. relations with saudi arabia right now, which are so important. he wants to strengthen ties with saudi arabia and other countries in the middle east. listen to how he summed up the u.s. role in the region just a little while ago going forward. listen to this. let me state clearly that the united states is going to remain an active engaged partner in the middle east. as the world grows more competitive and the challenges we face more complex,
plus president biden meets with the saudi crown prince and says he did raise the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. now the crown prince is firing back. plus more than half the country is seeing high community spread of coronavirus. and now some cities are reconsidering mask mandates. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, july 16th. i m kristin fisher. i can t believe it s already july 16th. we re halfway through the month. it s flowna by. this whole year has flown by. i m boris sanchez. we start with new revelations, the january 6th committee digging into reports that the secret service deleted text messages sent the day before and during the insurrection. the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service yesterday after meeting with the inspector general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week a gov
jackson was home watching joe biden deliver a speech and what he saw biden say bothered him deeply. as a physician, biden had just announced that he was a candidate for the u.s. senate. what i m here to ask you for your help where i come fromsk, you don t get far unless you ask. my name is joe biden. i m a democratic for the united states senate. ro so running checks and saw that and then went on twitter and he made the obvious point. joe biden, before this goes any further, should undergo a cognitiveth examination. the country deserves that well within twenty minutes, jackson recalls in his new memoir, barack obama sent him an email, a characteristically sneering one . and we re quoting,raen i havo express my disappointment at the cheap shot you took of joe biden via twitter. obama said it wasnp unprofessional. i expectro better. so that wasn t just obama speaking thatn was the uniform command of the people who runpe the democratic party throughout the twenty camp
police on the scene try to provide the 37 old east before taking them to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. christina coleman is alive in los angeles with the latebreaking details on this, christina. hi arthel tragic news. east keller was arrested by working independently to confirm that information stabbed east to death at a gas station in orange county that happened wednesday just before 6:00 p.m. in the evening in westminster about 35 miles south of los angeles. bobby east was allegedly attacked will he was fueling up his gas tank. in a statement westminster police said quote the victim was found on the ground suffering from a serious stab wound to the chest area. officers attempted life-saving measures until paramedics arrived and transported the victim to a local trauma center where the victim succumbed to his injury. police believed 27 harold trent is behind this brutal deadly attack. they believe he frequents that area in westminster. also the daily mail