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Country in opecs saudi arabia, the most influential country in saudi -- these are two groups who dont like joe biden very much. and know that while inflation is happening all over the world, people associated with gas prices. >> and frankly, i wish that we had learned lessons from dealing with putin in understanding the danger of bolstering a leader and thinking that somehow we can manage him. we applied that lesson to mohammed bin salman, the head crampons of saudi arabia. biden expresses disap...

Language. would it matter? nobody has been able to dismantle the opec cartel since 1960. what with this, do and why would it be interesting? >> i think that it is very important for the u.s. to try to come up with the fundamentally different foreign policy towards saudi arabia. one of the worst humans rights abusers in the world, according to freedom house, the human rights are even worse than iran and russias, if you can believe that. theyre clearly under mohammed bin salman, they dont essentia...

Pattern for mbs, for years you mentioned the invasion of yemen, the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. he also kidnapped that lebanons prime minister. badly damaged to americas interests. it has savaged dissidents and a home, including human rights activists. >> theres been a new development in this, and that is for two nations that are not big fans of joe biden right now for different reasons. joe biden made comments tonight at a fund-raiser, talking about the threat of nuclear response from rus...

Reporter killed and dismembered with a bunch of. his words, as quoted in woodwards book called rage, i saved his ass, i was able to get congress to leave him alone. i was able to get them to stop. and quote. those were trumps actual words about helping a dictator avoid strict routinely for dismemberment of a journalist for an american newspaper who was mildly critical of his regime. i saved his ass. its a far cry from realpolitik acceptance that sometimes a president has to act in an unsavory wa...

33 days. if democracy loses in america, what chance does it have in ukraine or the middle east? who wants democracy to win? he wants it to lose? joining me now, peter beinart, professor of journalism and political science at the city university of new york. he is an msnbc political analyst. and it nicholas kristoff, a pulitzer prize-winning journalist, and author soon to resume his column at the new york times. gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us this evening. peter, i will start with...

You never would have imagined this. things are cracking up in russia, and this is at the feet of the dictator who just turned 70 today. >> joe. >> its just such a melt down. its far more challenging for vladimir putin when the threat comes from the right instead of from liberal dissent that hes already crushed. gene robinson, i want to bring you in here because you look inside russia. you look around the world. whether youre looking at modi, or xi, or erdogan and vladimir putin is isolated. he d...

Lot more money to kill a lot more ukrainians. as you said, biden gave mbs, a fist pump, his reward, a gut punch. explain. >> well, you know, the saudis who lead opec, engineered this cut in production in opec, plus oil production of 2 million barrels a day, which will raise the price of oil, and thats all good for vladimir putin, and obviously mbs knows that. this is his call. this is, you know, biden -- president biden tried to sort of reset this relationship on a more reasonable footing. and, ...

Seeking to do this right. and i think theres very much a path to b scheduling, but thats a question right now. are we rescheduling or descheduling. either way it will be a boom for the cannabis industry, but very much what the industry wants is descheduling so cannabis can be treated like alcohol and tobacco. >> nothing is done with nonpolitical reasons in our world. so why now? >> i think a month ago the president got off of air force one after his meeting with mbs. he was asked about this. he ...

Breaking of international law. putin has been isolated across the globe except in saudi arabia, mbs doing his bidding. im curious, the majority leader spoke a couple days ago about there could be a legislative response. what might that look like? >> well, there are a number of things we can consider. lets lock at the state of the play. the momentum is on the side of the ukrainians. putin is back on his heels. hes issued a conscription of 300,000, many of whom who have no military experience what...

Somebody can push or pull, it would be a good time to surface. >> white house aides always hated that fist bump. it caught them by surprise. he didnt realize mbs would be greeting the presidential car there. it was described as incandescent rage in terms of how they feel ant saudi and opec plus, and this is what he gets in return. theres going to be after shocks here. the u.s. is going to evaluate the relationship with saudi arabia. were hearing rattling about that now. david, what could be the ...