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He is coming face-to-face with him because he has sought to reassert himself on the world stage ever since the killing of jamal khashoggi, hes just started making trips out of the country. so that is also a part of this. you dont see the royal family -- or the crown prince or the king greeting president biden. that is not atypical. but they will be meeting with them shortly. it is the first stop on the trip here. so a lot has changed. and one thing i think when it comes to what people say when t...

Yes, can still keep and protect americas interests, but he doesnt have to sell somehow americas values. today was a divorce from that promise. >> and the challenges -- this is what president biden said about gas prize. theres been a real change. gas prices are coming down every single day. peter alexander of nbc asked when will we see the impact of the visit? maybe not for a couple of weeks but well see it. there was an imperative in this trip to say im here to bring your gas prize down and it f...

The airspace between israel and saudi arabia. there was that one-time flight for president trump. it would be a big deal to have biden take that flight. now the airspace is reopen and you can do commercial flights. what does that signal for the relationship and the status quo in the middle east, especially with israel for so many years being kind of for so many years enemy number one for many of those states? >> its a step forward and a positive thing thats happened. i agree with ambassador smit...

"The fist bump between President Biden and Mohammed bin Salman was worse than a handshake," Jamal Khashoggis former employer said.

It was optics except that obviously its also imbued with meaning and i guess that the president thought that a fist bump was less friendly, somehow, than a handshake, but we got this note from the "washington post," a statement, i should say, from the publisher of the "washington post" who says the fist bump between president trump and mohammed bin salmon was worst than a handshake. it was shameful. it projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivers to mbs the unwarranted redemption he h...

The trip represents a delicate balancing act for a president who less than two years ago promised to make Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, a "pariah" on the international stage.

With m.b.s., the saudi crown prince, the question is eventually shouted. we are going to watch it together. >> thank you. >> jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? >> president biden -- pariah -- president biden -- >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you, guys. >> thank you.

Arabia. you shut up about humans rights, democracy and dignity. you basically deal with us in terms of transaction. this is -- we know what mbs is. >> yeah. >> when he was a teenager. he used to send bullets to judges to intimidate them. today hes using oil and gas. hes use corruption. hes using money, and above all hes using our -- this moment of crisis because of ukraine to blackmail democracy and hes succeeding so far. >> unfortunately. it appears you are correct. thank you very much, my fr...

Direct thoughts on how they can improve the situation here and do so cleaner than turning to, say, saudi arabia for their lauren, thank you very much. >> yeah. all right. john. >> john: arkansas republican senator tom cotton. the main event on president bidens schedule this evening in saudi arabia is the big meeting as we saw on the pool spray with salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia, a complete 180 what the president said was going to be the focus of the trip. listen to what he said in jun...

Between president bidens foreign policy for the middle class, for the american middle class, and his values-based foreign policy. how can you urge saudi arabia, the uae, and other gulf countries to increase the supply of oil to bring down gas prices while, at the same time, demanding that people who have been outspoken or released from jail are allowed to travel, insisting saudi arabia face what happened with jamal khashoggi? it is a tight rope that president biden is going to have to walk here ...