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Led by religious figures. mohammed bin salman has been consolidating his power for a number of years. i think the calculation of president biden is pretty simple. look, hes about as happy to be there as he would be going to the dentist for a root canal. but he realizes with whats going on in ukraine, what he really wants to prevent is an alliance between russia and saudi arabia that would keep oil prices high. thats really, i think, the number one thing in his book. he has been outspoken about w...

With the bump two of festivities, president biden gave mohammed bin salman the viral moment hes been seeking. the president was reluctant to meet with mbs as hes known having denounced him milkily after u.s. intelligence wirmd the murder of one of his critics, "washington post" journalist, jamal khashoggi. the fist bumping continued with other top u.s. officials. >> i was straightforward and direct in discussing it. for an american president to be silent on an issue of human rights is as inconsi...

Community believes that mbs, muhammad bin salman, did in fact order the execution, the murder of jamal khashoggi. and the saudis fought back on that pretty hard, im told, during the course of that meeting. on some of the other big issues like yemen, for example, the president emerged saying that they made some really significant progress in dealing with these issues. so he was stressing, as we knew going into this statement by the president, he was stressing what he saw as his achievements. and ...

Meeting, even if it comes at a political cost to president biden. >> we will get details obviously in the hours ahead but the saudi foreign ministry rushing out a number of photographs of the fist bump, them walking, the saudis view this as a win already the rehabilitation on the global stage of their crown prince with the president of the united states. >> they do. and one of the reasons they do is because they believe the crown prince is going to be king and probably the not too distant future...

Khashoggis wife who said after this visit the blood of mbss next victim is on your hands. what do you say to mrs. khashoggi? >> im sorry she feels that way. i was straightforward back then. i was straightforward today. this is a meeting, i didnt come here to meet with the crown prince. i came here to meet with the gcc and nine nations, to deal with the security and the needs of the free world, and particularly the united states. and not leave a vacuum here, which was happening as it has in other...

I will use every power i have as president to continue to fulfill my pledge to move toward dealing with global warming. thank you very much. >> is joe manchin negotiating in good faith? >> i didnt negotiate with joe manchin. i have no idea. >> so you have just been listening there to president biden talking about what he thinks he accomplished in these conversations. obviously, this visit was controversial and he laid out six tenants of their talks that he defined as deliverables or things hes c...

0 for president biden, it was a deputy governor, not the crown prince. they met at the palace. they fist bumped and did not smile. perhaps not surprising since biden during the campaign promised to make his country a pariah after mbs was said to be the behind of murder of jamaal kashoggi. the two leaders sat face to face and asked the question that americans would like an answer to. >> jamal kashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? >> president biden! president biden! >> thank you. thank...

Tarek Osman thinks the Kingdom will use recent diplomatic gains to secure three strategic objectives.

Fists as the white house indicated he would, as an effort to try to avoid covid. it clearly gave an opportunity to avoid a handshake with mbs in saudi arabia. after his arrival here, as you noted, he was shaking hands, gripping hands with bibi netanyahu, embracing the holocaust survivors, and even in the last hour or so he was holding hands for an extended period of time, holding hands with president herzog who presented president biden with a medal of honor. if theyre going to say thats a reaso...

Has all of the memories, all the chairs of all the national security committees, we also wrote the president. i think that sometimes when you dont agree with someone, its important to talk to them, but make sure were raising the issue of khashoggi, make sure were raising the issue of human rights, make sure were raising the issue of women, and make sure were raising the issues that are important that we know of yemen, for example. so, weve got to raise those issues and talk -- just as we talk to...