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Else the white house can do about that. >> lets be clear here, you talk to people who know whats going on. this is the saudis getting involved in american domestic politics. this move doesnt make any sense economically. it makes no sense diplomatically. whos the next president going to stick their neck out for mbs. joe biden did it. people are saying, what he did is horrible. we need to move forward with our relationship. hes going to be there for a long time. we need to do it. biden does it, an...

Thats bad for them, but also we are very close to an election, and they know republicans have seize on this issue once again once they thought they put it on the back burner. so, it is going to be interesting to see how we move forward and whether that relationship changes. a lot of this is about leverage. if america is able to put enough leverage on saudi arabia and these other opec-plus countries, what happens next? with can they backpedal from something that richard blumenthal stressed quite ...

Energy, security has a price as well. >> opec announced it will cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day. thats the biggest slash since the start of the pandemic. the white house called the move concerning and unnecessary. the move undermines president bidens controversial visit to saudi arabia this summer, where he tried to convince the crown prince to increase oil production. joining me now, senior adviser at the state department. great to you have on this morning. lets pick up on that co...

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"Trump would be wise to stay out of the way," Austin Carson, an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, told Newsweek.

Discussion this morning about inflation, theyre rightly nervous about it because they dont see anyone in washington who has a damn clue of what to do about it. they dont understand how to help them in their businesses navigate through this as steve rattner pointed out, giving some of these externalities like mbs and his slap at the biden administration, pushing opec to increased production. all of this is going to play politically going into this fall and into next year and were not going to be ...

Gallon. that is a billboard across america -- >> do you mind if i interrupt? >> please. >> you were about to go there partially, but lets just talk about it. jared kushner had extraordinarily close ties with mbs. mbs and the saudis had close ties with donald trump. its quite clear they preferred trump to joe biden. and, again, i do hear the arguments and im a big believer the country should do whats in their best interest. but come on, he knows, this is interfering with u.s. politics to do this ...

American people not to worry. >> theres a lot of alternatives. we havent made up our minds yet. it is a disappointment and says that there are problems. >> all right. well, among the alternative, right, wherever you stand had they okayed it would be the keystone pipeline, but that is obviously not the case. out front now john miller, our chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. so lets start here with the optics, right. biden goes and has this meeting and theres the fist bump. he had said...

Unpinned hand grenade and either way they want to dispose of it as quickly as they can. >> all right. with all of you here i do want to dive into more of what we learned today from naras response to congresswoman maloney and the oversight committee. jackie, this was the question that the committee had sent to nara. is nara aware of any additional presidential records from the trump administration that may be missing or not yet in naras possession? and this was their response. "nara has identifie...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has named his son and heir Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the kingdom's prime minister and his second son Prince Khalid as defense minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.