a president who vowed to be different. president biden is about to kiss the ring. remarkable. it s going to be awkward. is now just another patron of a prince. paying a visit to a country he once called a a dictator renown for a very brutal act. brought a bone saw into the chopped up into small pieces. why would you bring a bone saw to an interrogation. who was at the same time a reformer. this man is extremely popular. revolution nicing his nation. a new era. the kingdom s power lies under the dessert sands. just keep your pumps open, your prices low, and you can do whatever you want out back. liquid gold. oil. is america betraying its values? or swhrewdly coming to terms wih reality. to understand this relationship, you need to understand the very unusual country that is saudi arabia. good evening. i m fareed . this dark kingdom that spawned osama bin laden that for years formed to most extreme of islam is now in the midst of a striking tra
jake, that call that was on full display today during this hearing was, of course, the hour-long phone call that then-president trump had in january with these election officials in the state of georgia. mainly the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you heard from today. and i m told that despite what you saw today, which was the committee playing clips of that call with claims from trump saying thousands of ballots had been shredded or thousands of dead people had voted, and then flashing to raffensperger saying that s not true, we checked that out. that s also not true. trump has continued to defend that call. he has said it was a perfect call. he has told people he assumed it was being recorded. there were attorneys on the line as they were in this hour-lawn call where he alternated between asking for raffensperger to find these votes, thinly veiled threatening him when it came to certain pushback on claims he was making, and despite the fact you heard from them
railways. we start with the war in ukraine, and russia is denying that its invasion has caused a global food crisis, despite the fact that we ve seen soaring wheat prices driven by the collapse of ukrainian exports. its foreign minister, sergey lavrov, is in the turkish capital, ankara, for talks with his turkish counterpart mevlut cavusoglu. on the agenda creating a potential sea corridor for ukrainian agricultural exports. throughout the war, russia has been blockading black sea ports, including odesa. 20 million tonnes of grain is now stuck there grain many countries are reliant on. but mr lavrov says the onus is on ukraine to demine the waters around them, which were laid by ukraine as part of its defence. here s mr lavrov. to resolve this problem, we need one thing for the ukrainians to allow access to their ports, either by demining or the provision of safe corridors. nothing more is required. ukraine wants proper assurances that any safe, demined pathway wouldn t
Return with a response. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has more, from jerusalem. Whats being debated is the permission by the Israeli Military for large numbers of palestinian displaced people, currently who are sheltering in the south of the gaza strip, in the city of rafah, to move back to their homes in the north. Thats something that israel has resisted in the past. Israel, reportedly, would also remove some of its forces from gaza. This would be during a a0 day truce. And there would of course be the exchange of hostages and prisoners. Probably hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinian Prisoners coming out of israeli jails in return for a Rather Lowerfigure Than was originally demanded by israel an initialfigure of around 33 israeli hostages. Now, from the israeli side, there is dual pressure going on here. Pressure from the United States to do this deal, and pressure domestically from all the families and friends of the hostages whove been demonstrating and shouting lo
Ke teamwork, attention to detail, and Customer Service are critical to business success. Like the ones we teach here, every day. In washington today, the spotlight is squarely on the president s legal troubles. The president trying to explain away troubling statements from his new lawyer Rudy Giuliani. When did the president know about that Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels . This was a very bad week for the trump team. Hes exposed President Trump to possible prosecution for two crimes. As far as im concerned, its a nothing burger. Giuliani tries to clean up a potential mess he made for his clients. The president doesnt age knowledge meeting Stormy Daniels, correct . Gee, im not involved in the daniels thing so i dont know. In terms of what you mean by met her. So the president does deny
any sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels . He has. As i said, im not involved in that. Right now im at the point where im learning. I want to make sure, george, did that interview just happen . W