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the president has been meeting this morning with key allies in the east, including the president of egypt and the prime minister of iraq before posing for the traditional family photo at the summit in jeddah. >> one of the most controversial meetings was president biden's sit-down with saudi's crown prince, mohammad bin salman. our colleague wolf blitzer is traveling with the president and joins us from saudi arabia. wolf, members of the biden administration have been stressing that these meetings are really about trying to reset that relationship between the middle east and the unit...

From china or the domestic challenges that the president raises. the other point is iran. vladimir putin will travel there to meet with erdogan. i'm sure he'll see the eastern leader as well. the president has friends, partners, allies, gg 3 plus three equals six and that will conclude the trip. >> yeah, these are important leaders here in the middle east, there's no doubt about that. and these conversations, the one-on-one conversations the president has with each leader as well as the entire group will be significant, especially as you look down the roads, it will ease oil and gas prices in ...

Over. it was the most politically fraught trip. >> it certainly was. we'll see how the fallout was. kaitlan, don't go too far. stay with us. i want to continue the conversation. joining us the former middle east peace negotiator, and a senior fellow over at the carnegie in washington. aaron, thanks so much for joining us. president biden's agenda to bring so-called stability to the global energy markets, how important are his meetings with the arab leaders, the ggc as it's called today? >> it's important. in the last two months the biden administration have take an step back. jake sullivan a...

Detain u.s. nationals inside saudi arabia. that's a problem particularly for the president who genuinely believes human rights and our values are critically important. we can argue our values are our values and our interests are our interests. but there has to be a balance struck to begin at least dealing with some of the criticism. frankly, i don't think there was that balance in terms of the tone. the criticism is mounting. it will go away, but the stain that exists over mbs for co-shoghi and his other human rights abuses won't. >> so as president biden, aaron, tries to turn the page on u.s....

>> the u.s. intelligence committee as you know concluded that the crown prince ordered -- effectively ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi. >> i don't believe that was specified in those terms nurjs ber one. number two, it was an ass assessment. >> aaron, you and i have known adel al jabeir. what do you think of the way he was treated with the saudi arabia minister in those meetings? >> frankly, wolf, and i thought your questions were quite penetrating follow-ups. i think adel exposed president biden unfairly. when he said the crown prince was not responsible and even as