deadly heatwave is baking parts of europe, sparking wildfires along its path. we ll look at what s causing these record-breaking temperatures. it s now noon here in saudi arabia, and the leaders of the gulf cooperation council plus three will soon be gathering for their rather important summit. president biden will be meeting one-on-one this hour with the president of the united arab emirates. earlier he talked with the leaders of egypt and iraq. the summit officially gets under way in the next hour after president biden and others is a assemble for what s called the classic photo, which is expected at the top of the hour. the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi certainly cast appal. president biden is hoping this trip will help move the two countries forward, while still making clear, he says, that he holds mohammad bin salman, the crown prince, responsible for the killing. here s what he said after meeting with the crown prince in jeddah on friday. i made my vie
same. yeah. it is significant that the saudis have agreed to allow israeli arab muslims to fly directly from there to saudi arabia. that s a major breakthrough as well. nic robertson will continue our coverage for what s going on. that does it for me in this hour from jeddah. swreel a lot more coverage. there s a lot going on. in the meantime, let s head to tlarn for other top stories, kim? thanks so much, wolf. a war behind the front lines that s turning food into a weapon. wheat fields are on fire, raising concerns millions could gogo hungry around the c countr. stay with us. . and move toward relief after ththe first dose. with injections every two months. stelara® may increase your risk of infectitions, some serious, and cancer. before treatment, get tested for tb.
just doesn t reflect an actual understanding of the strategic threats to the united states. just one thing i sort of highlight one thing the congresswoman said. the kurds were our infantry there. they were our partner. they re not going to do it again. if we have to go back and fight isis, we re going to have to do it. she s exactly requirement. this is costly going down the road. i wanted to ask you now, what does congress do? obviously you and many of your colleagues think this is a seriously flawed policy for all sorts of good reasons. what do you feel now you can do to prevent certain things or to bring about certain things? what wreel powreal power do you this point? it s a great question. we have to acknowledge that in our system the president has real authority on foreign policy. so it s been difficult. we voted yesterday, but realistically that was something that just sort of pushed back on the policies. there are trips, codel s planned to go out to turkey and talk to
he s the man in the room where it happened. and what happened was a year before any of these access hollywood or any of the other affairs that came out was a meeting where they discussed a scheme to conceal his affairs from the voters. so on two fronts you have it s a very significant development. you have another person in addition to michael cohen pointing a finger at donald trump himself, not just the campaign. and it now seems to be a very premeditated, orchestrated scheme. not some kind of reaction to the access hollywood tape that swreel to mitigate the damage any further. this was really a designed plan from the get go. peter baker, of all the consequential stories and consequential nights when you and i speak at this hour, where, in your view, does this one rank? where does this story rank? where are we on the temperature scale? well, that s a great question.
making on his private unsecure phone, and that the chinese have apparently been listening in all this time. current u.s. officials tell nbc they have been worried for months about the sensitive information that president trump has been disclosing when he makes calls on that insecure line, i kid you not, the fox cable news channel. lock her up, lock her up. one other national security thing that has broken today that wreel get to in more detail in a moment is a couple of intriguing new developments today in the robert mueller investigation. first, prosecutors in the michael cohen case told the federal court in new york today that materials related to the michael cohen case have to stay under seal because those materials pertain to ongoing grand jury proceedings that are targeting not just michael cohen himself, but unnamed other persons as well.