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Saudi Arabia plans to offer the vaccine free to all residents in the kingdom 1 of 13 First Saudi citizen preparing to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine (Tozinameran) in the capital Riyadh, as part of a vaccination campaign by the Saudi health ministry. Image Credit: AFP 2 of 13 Saudi Arabia plans to offer the vaccine free to all residents in the kingdom. The country, which has reported about 360,000 cases and 6,080 de...

What has it done since the end of world war ii? it has basically led to mismanagement, deepening authoritarianism. its surprising for me, fareed, that the crown prince mbs is traveling a similar road to the road that had been traveled by other dictators in the middle east. a road leads to nowhere. and its littered with mine fields for saudi arabia and for the people of saudi arabia. >> wendy sherman, let me ask you. this simple question for the united states is what to do. saudi arabia is an imp...

Banker of oil. they buy all these arms from the united states. it should be pointed at the number. its not 110 billion as president trump says but probably close to 20 billion or 30 billion. >> in terms of contract, its only 4 billion. >> but who has the leverage? >> well, theres no doubt that saudis the swing oil producer, have the ability to moderate pl we dont need their oil anymore. but much of the rest of the world does. and we do need them to be in a position to pump oil because on novembe...

To task. because you said the united states before donald trump was basically foreign policy consistent with its values. and the united states was an honest broker. well, the only difference between donald trump and his predecessors, he does not really pay any lip service to the norms that his predecessor did. but what donald trump has done, he made the situation at least much more dangerous than it is. and i know its very difficult for some of your viewers to believe so. moving the american emb...

Martin held many jobs during the clinton administration. he is now a distinguished fellow at the counsel on foreign relations. a professor of international economics. hes the author of "making the arab world." martin, let me start with you. the crucial question it seems to me is can mohammed bin salman survive this? >> its not clear as so much else in saudi arabia. kind of the land of the seven veils. so we dont know what is happening. but we can assume that the shots are gathering. he alienated...

"the new york times" or somebody else. what we were reacting to was this almost unfathombly monstrous crime and attack on free expression. and we just felt that -- and we continue to feel that the rsponsible thing is to get a true accounting and then accountability for those responsible. >> do you think we will get the actual story? how are we going to get to know what happened in that apparently ten minutes in the consulate? >> its a great question. i dont know. i think eventually we will find ...

Is the world ready for me? through internet essentials, comcast has connected more than six-million low-income people to low-cost, high-speed internet at home. im trying to do some homework here. so theyre ready for anything. this is not an explanation. it is a coverup. that was "washington post" publisher and ceo fred ryans response to saudi arabias explanation of how khashoggi died. he was an opinion writer for the paper which has mounted an impressive campaign to get to the truth of this ma...