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Steven, its great to see you again, thank you so much for joining us. >> great to see you again. before we even get into why president biden is in saudi arabia, let me get your reaction to the optics of what we saw play out today, in particular the fist bump between joe biden and the crown prince. how will history remember this moment? >> look, i think everybody remembers during the campaign that the president said that he was going to render the crown prince a pariah, and said the saudi governm...

Joining us. before we even get into why president biden is in saudi arabia, let me get your reaction to the optics of what we saw play out today, in particular the fist bump between joe biden and the crown prince. how will history remember this moment? >> look, i think everybody remembers during the campaign that the president said that he was going to render the crown prince a pariah, and said those saudi government had no room redeeming value. so i think history is going to look back and remem...

Yesterday he met crown prince mohammed bin salman, the kingdoms de facto ruler one—to—one. the cia concluded that the crown prince approved the brutal murder ofjamal khashoggi in istanbul, although he has always denied it. afterwards, the president vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. today the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs told me that was simply election talk. what happens in campaigns is what i call what happens during the silly season. but disagreement with the regime, diss...

The kingdoms de facto leader one—to—one. the cia concluded that he approved the brutal murder ofjamal khashoggi in istanbul, although he has always denied it. afterwards, the president vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. today the saudi minister of state for foreign affairs told me that was simply election talk. what happens in campaigns is what i call what happens during the silly season. but disagreement with the regime, dissent, is still frowned upon and ultimately punished, so when will...

Jeddah for the presidents trip. so phil, did president biden accomplish what he set out to do on this trip? >> reporter: fredericka, if the question going into the trip was, is it worth it to take the short term blast of criticism to reverse the position with respect to saudi arabia and on the crown prince, going from calling him a pariah to giving him a fist bump and walked with him throughout multiple events, today was a great example of why the president and his advisers thought the answer wa...

♪ president biden heading back to washington, d.c., after wrapping up his first trip to the middle east as the commander in chief. he set off a storm of criticism after this, the president fist bumping saudi crown prince muhammad bin salman. when he was running for president, remember, then-candidate biden promised to make mbs a pariah over human rights abuses and the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. the question now is will the saudis open the spigot for more oil? cnns ...

The brutal murder of jamal khashoggi. thank you very much. and yet the president is still meeting with the murder or whos responsible for killing an american for doing his job, being a journalist. >> yeah. no, it is a disaster. its a disaster on every level. >> yeah. >> even if you take his set of priorities of, you know, what his stated desire, desired outcome of his policies whether its standing up for the honor, integrity of jamal khashoggi, a better environment, clean or environment or turni...

The brutal murder of jamal khashoggi in istanbul, though hes always denied it. afterwards, the president vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. today, the saudi minister of state forforeign affairs told me that was simply election talk. what happens in campaigns is what i call what happens during the silly season. but disagreement with the regime, descent, is still frowned upon and ultimately punished, so when will that change? i think we can have a discussion about this and an argument about this...

With the crown prince, did involve a change in policy. he said he wouldnt meet crown prince mohammed bin salman. even four weeks ago, he said that he was only coming here for the summit of the gulf cooperation council. and yet we saw that meeting yesterday between the two leaders. rememberjoe biden, from his time on the election campaign trail, had talked about saudi arabia as a pariah because of the killing of jamal khashoggi, the journalist who was brutally murdered in the consulate in istanbu...

Levels in terms of our production and the reasons why we are not, our companies are not investing is because they have an administration thats been so unfriendly, thats canceled the keystone pipeline, that refuses to build the infrastructure, that refuses to give the leases necessary to ramp up production domestically. it is a national security issue and the president should be doing it right here in the united states, not going to individuals all around the world and i will add that, you know, ...