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Highlights that right now at a time when prices at the pump are high for the american people, theyve come down. here in delaware 50 cents over the last month. but they are still too high. there are three countries that have significant capacity not on the market today. iran, venezuela and saudi arabia. and of those three, the saudis have for decades been important strategic partners for the united states. after the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi many of us said we dont want to continue to be p...

The US president has used harsh words to describe Mohammed bin Salman's (MBS) human rights record. But that was before Russia invaded Ukraine and sent oil prices soaring.

Against everything he said in the campaign simply because his policies from day one have denied america to be energy independent, to have american jobs and be more environmentally sound. it is unbelievable. >> harris: as we await the president to come off of air force one down the steps that theyll quickly be attaching to the plane, well cover that live. peter doocy is live for us also in saudi arabia in jetta, where the president is meeting with saudi leaders later today. peter. >> and harris, ...

Hand here. >> well, john, also creates the worst of both worlds. joe biden should have never ostracized saudi arabia and mohammed bin salman. and back to roosevelt, the leaders have worked with safety and prosperity for the people. by going down the path and calling it a pariah state and saying he would not meet with the ruler of saudi arabia, only antagonizes the saudis more and turns around and meets with them when he is there. he should just say as a dozen presidents for 80 years have said sa...

We are, though, getting some late breaking information from the press pool that went in to take some pictures of the biden and m.b.s. meeting, a reporter shouted out jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, that was while the president and the crown prince were sitting right there. this reporter says m.b.s. had a slight smirk before a saudi aide grabbed his arm tightly. we expect to see that tape soon. we know president biden and his officials had said that he was going to bring up hum...

Maybe the price of gasoline will go down before the midterms, that would be important for the president. and secondly they want to reestablish a strategic coordination and want to see the saudis normalize relationships with israel. thats a high item on the agenda for the president. we will see if the saudis do what the uae and other arab states have done, establish full diplomatic relations with israel. >> we dont know if the president will bring up but we do understand that when the reporters w...

The first thing is i dont think that the president should be getting the level of criticism that he is for going to saudi arabia. he is the head of our state, he should go there. there are a number of issues he has to solve on a world stage. we are for all those positive things. we could talk all day about the positives that can come out of a good relationship with saudi arabia, but he has to address and i think and we think topic number one, who president bidens own fbi has said per his executi...

Wanted to convey that mbs sort of redeemed himself with president biden, that is the relationship is back on and the vacuum that president biden has been speaking about from a saudi perspective they can begin to have a conversation, an open, direct conversation with the united states and where they stand together going forward. >> step back and look at the trip by president biden. big picture right now. what do you think are the key takeaways? >> you have seen today two key things. president bid...

>> sandra: so as it was noted in the pool note when that came in to us that we just played out for the audience, it was noted m.b.s. had a slight smirk before the saudi aide grabbed the arm of the reporter tightly to leave the room. obviously the audio listening to the exchange there was very difficult, but the question from the reporter clearly heard. >> john: ive been to countless of these around the world. they are always a little bit chaotic, that one maybe less so. but you know, trying to h...

Remarks from the president after his two-hour meeting with the saudi king, crown prince, other officials there. nic robertson, to you, the white house spent weeks trying to contextualize the role of mbs in this meeting. would he be there, would he be part of it, what would be the interaction, is there any indication from the greeting, from the set up, from the list of topics that this meeting is any different than it would have been before the murder of jamal khashoggi, that that had any influen...