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Covering china, when it comes to countering russian aggression, when it comes to claiming more stability in the middle east. he was essentially saying that meeting with saudi arabia is integral to that. so we watch and see how this meeting goes and im told that some us officials do want there to be a portion of this meeting that is just president biden and crown prince mohammed bin salman. but we will see if the saudis encourage that because they are the ones who are planning the theatrics and h...

Trip to the middle east for its a lot of issues for the president is to discuss as he moves through the symbolic part of the visit including that trip, starting to meet with these officials tomorrow including the opposition leader as well. >> and the president just bumped some world leaders and he shook hands with others. i know this might sound superficial, but when it comes to diplomacy, the way that leaders engage with one another, particularly in front of the camera are very telling. what is...

A former Saudi intelligence chief described Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) as a "psychopath" in a CBS News interview aired just a few days before United States President Joe Biden is due to visit the kingdom.

Mbs going to be around for a long time. and also you have this one ukraine making the oil conversation much more complicated than it was before. >> while he travels, the president will be watching some domestic business, his senate democrats are working to revive at least some parts of the build back better spending deal. it would focus on lowering health care costs and fighting climate change. this time democrats appear to have buy-in from joe manchin of west virginia and some of the provisions...

And israel is something that were watching and you may heard the word is integration of middle east countries and economic and political concerns and this is where the eyes are going to be. everyone is going to try to figure out, is he going to shake mbss hand, will there be a picture of them together. is he going to bring up the killing of "the washington post" reporter and bring up 9/11 to these folks and that is something that this white house has been talking about. and they know even kind o...

Joe biden, if not get in mbs face in some kind of public way, theyre going to want to see him put khashoggi front and center, even if the actual discourse, the reason he is going, has to do with oil and ukraine and russia. but i think its not going to be that hard for joe biden to express his actual feelings about the way the kingdom is being run. >> jeffrey, elise mentioned the just launched archives, and it features articles that dates back to 1857, the magazines inception. tell us about it. >...

Investments happening there. all eyes are obviously going to be on any interaction the president has with bin salman, who the united states government says killed that -- or ordered the killing of the "washington post" reporter years ago. and president biden said that he wanted this country, saudi arabia, to be a pariah. he didnt want to interact with the gravitas it wants on the world stage. but israel wanted this relationship to be changed and to be fixed, and also the war in ukraine, the inva...

Dont see exactly how the president is going to walk all these lines. i think if you wanted to have diplomatic engagement, it needed to come from a lower level, not for the president himself. >> to your point, im looking at this op-ed and he has paragraph biker graph addressing different countries, the issues they are in. did this do anything to blunt your criticism? i mean, he is outlining what his intentions are. ill grant you, under the guise of mbs, the things that he is talks about, the atro...

Crown prince? >> alex, im not. excuse me, im not. ive said that publicly as well. i dont think that this is a good idea. i think that we are essentially supply maintain human rights at this point with the president going to this business. i dont think that the united states shouldnt have engagement with countries that we disagree with. thats why i think we need to up the presidents involvement in the white houses involvement in getting to a truce in the russia and ukraine war. that, i, think is ...

The US president has been facing a lot of criticism for abandoning his commitment to transform Saudi Arabia into a "pariah".