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The list of golfers joining the controversy saudi-backed liv golf series is growing. thats despite the pga tour suspending 17 golfers for participating in it and warning the same is going to happen to any golfer that plays in that series. >> bryson dechambeau is the latest to join. six-time major winner phil mickelson, former world number one dustin johnson are headlining the event. here is cnns brian todd. >> reporter: top sports figures again converging with politics in drawing controversy. th...

Invited. some policy analysts doubt the pledges are significant enough to make a difference. the u.s., though, is hoping to repair ties with another key ally, saudi arabia. senior officials have told the kingdom the u.s. is prepared to reset their relationship and effectively move on from the 2018 murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. its a dramatic about-face for president joe biden who came into office vowing to make saudi arabia a pariah over khashoggis murder. >> reporter: p...

The 2018 murder of washington post columnist jam ago khashoggi. alex marquardt has more. >> reporter: president biden vowing to make saudi arabia a pariah on the campaign trail set the tone when biden took office. and until now it hasnt really gotten better. now just a few months after joe biden became president, his head of intelligence issued a report saying that the crown prips of saudi arabia, who runs the country, mbs, approved the murder of jamal khashoggi. the biden administration said th...

Murder and dismemberment of jamal khashoggi in 2018 which bin salman denied. >> these are significant names in the world of golf making this jump to this new entity and the pga tour finds themselves in a really, really precarious situation. >> reporter: former world number one player dustin johnson, former u.s. open champion bryson dechambeau and the player whose jump caused the most controversy, six-time major tournament winner phil mickelson. mickelson and johnson are each reportedly getting a...

Body awards points for that tournament which is kind of a farce. this is much more of an actual competition with a deeper field and a lot of players. so i think the precedent is that theyre going to have to acknowledge these events and give them world ranking points. and then the players who join the liv tour get what they want, they get the money, they get a reduced schedule and still play in the four tournaments that really matter. so, this is unresolved, but i think we know the direction its ...

Done throughout history and i believe that liv golf is going to do a lot of good for the game as well. >> reporter: hardly satisfying to mickelsons critics. >> he knows where the money is coming from and hes doing it willingly and helping mbs to burnish his business. hes been brought to be a part of the p.r. machine of the saudis. >> reporter: mickelson is not the only golf star criticizing for downplaying saudi human rights abuses. greg norman, now the ceo of liv golf, was quoted as saying, loo...

Thanks for having me. lets see what youre saying on my smerconish twitter and facebook pages. and via youtube. the world of twitter, its hard to reconcile the attacks on mickelson and others. come on, i didnt know this was coming. did i not just prove that i dont see the social media that they put up in front of me. that is the point. right? i mean, president biden who said im going to make saudi arabia as a candidate, make saudi arabia a pariah is now going to sit down with mbs. and by the wa...

"washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. the biden administration said at the time they wanted to recalibrate the relationship. mbs and biden dont speak because biden has insisted with dealing with his direct counterpart, which is king salman. now the biden white house wants to reset this relationship and get it back to a much more conventional place. for months, senior biden officials have been traveling to saudi arabia, working towards this reset. one senior u.s. official told our colleag...

Walking around the streets in the capital, as a woman, i had to wear the headscarf and be covered properly. after mohammed bin salman became crown prince, a lot has changed, so for example, the vigilantes, back then, you could see them in the straight, they were very obvious and if your head was not covered, they will tell you, you had to cover your head. i remember. i saw it myself. do you not see them around? you do not see them, they are not as obvious in the streets any more. nobody would ta...

And, what about iran? iran is the sworn enemy, is that right? it is still. it is still the enemy, iran. for saudi arabia. but we notice, like, a very delicate, if i may say, change of tone. we have seen efforts reported of negotiations between the two sides. and what about western europe, britain, france, germany, are they also banging on the door of mohammed bin salman? after the jamal khashoggi murder, there were a lot of questions about that, germany decided to stop exporting arms to saudi ar...