kashoggi pushed back, said he was not.escribed that back and forth as rather brief. i would note, saudi officials wasted no time whatsoever posting on twitter and through video feeds that fist bump with the president. and later on a government agency posted another video, a video the press did not have access to of mbs fist bumping the president's entire national security team. it wasn't just the president. it was his top advisers. this appears to be the cost of trying to do business once again with saudi arabia. a risk calculation the administration knew going in and clear in the wake of it. >> it clear how the saudis thought this day went? >> reporter: you know what, i think the biggest way to kind of view it right now is based on two different things. one, the idea that the crown prince in their eyes was legitimized by the meeting. it is why the photos and videos were posted so widely and prominently in the wake of the meeting itself. but also they recognized this can't be just a transactional relationship. they want mo

leaders sat face to face and asked the question that americans would like an answer to. >> jamal kashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? >> president biden! president biden! >> thank you. thank you. >> as you can see, mbs did not answer. we learned that this sitdown was the end result of fierce lobbying. nbc news reports it's took 18 months of tense negotiations to get the two men in the same room. the saudis say they required biden to meet with mbs, in their minds an effort to make biden show amends for harshly criticizing him over kashoggi's murder. saudi arabia is the third stop on the middle east tour for president biden. he flew to the country from israel, not just on a one off but what can be considered the official opening of airspace between the two countries. commercial air flights are now allowed for the first time in decades. in israel president biden met with the prime minister and the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas. he assured them his administration will work to reinitiate the peace process, including help for refugees, expanded health care. this was

. >> my views on kashoggi have been absolutely, positively clear.uiet about talking about human rights. the question that i'm -- the reason i'm going to saudi arabia, though, is much broader, it's to promote u.s. interests. promote u.s. interests in a way that i think we have an opportunity to reassert what i think we've made a mistake of walking away from, our influence in the middle east. there's so many issues at stake that i want to make clear that we can continue to lead in the region and not create a vacuum. i will bring up, i always bring up human rights. >> joining me now from jerusalem is correspondent carol lee and vali nasher, he has worked with world leader including barack obama and george w. bush and former secretary of state hillary clinton. the news conference covered a lot of ground there. i noticed in that sound bite when he was asked whether he'd bring up jamal kashoggi, he didn't say he would, he just said human rights. >> that's right, the president made no promise to mention jamaal kashoggi. what you hear from administration of

leaders sat face to face and asked the question that americans would like an answer to. >> jamal kashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? >> president biden! president biden! >> thank you. thank you. >> as you can see, mbs did not answer. we learned that this sitdown was the end result of fierce

i knew jamal kashoggi. 18 years ago when i traveled to saudi arabia to write a cover story for newsweekome time with me while i was in that country. >> we have with us jamal kashoggi. >> i had a television show on pbs before i got to cnn. i invited him onto talk about the future of his country. >> the next maybe women will be able to drive. >> he was well read and thoughtful, a saudi reformer, very much a saudi patriot. i reacted to his death personally, viscerally with a sense of horror and disgust, but also a great sadness for the loss of a friend. but i've tried to keep in mind some larger factors when thinking about where the united states should go in its overall relationship with saudi arabia. that relationship between washington and riyadh is often presented as a tradeoff between human rights and real publics. but it's more complex. first, washington does not have the power to choose who will rule saudi arabia. the kingdom is a strange country with three distinct features, tribes, religion and oil, all interacting in complex ways. the ruling family has been able to maintain power

jim all kashoggi.ifically mention kashoggi tomorrow. this sound bite that we have is as close as he came to that. >> president biden: i will bring up -- i always bring up human rights. i always bring up human rights. but my position on kashoggi has been so clear. if anyone doesn't understand it in saudi arabia or anywhere else, than they haven't been around for a while. >> if you put that together with every thing else the president said, he basically wants this trip tomorrow to saudi arabia to be about advancing american interests. they know they want to talk about energy and security, getting the netanyahu partners to pump more oil. it does not sound like mentioning jamaal kashoggi's murder is high on the president's to-do list there. something that he was speaking privately with the raley's about on the other big topic this morning is iran. they signed on to the agreement. part of the text of that agreement that we couldn't see when they were there, the united states stresses that integral to this p

i believe he's responsible for the murder of jamal kashoggi, a dissident saudi journalist brutally killedturkey. but i think the president is playing a long game here. he hopes to sort of restore the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia, maybe in the long-term reduce gas prices by getting saudi arabia to pump more oil. but it's sort of a faustian bargain. it's a risk for the president, but i think it's the right thing that he's trying to do this. in essence, deal with an autocrat in the short-term, but weaken autocracy in the long term by bringing down oil and gas prices. >> i want to remind our viewers what the president said about saudi arabia during the campaign. >> i would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them. we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are. there's very little social redeeming value in the present government in saudi arabia. >> very little social redeeming value in a country and a government where he is going to now that hasn't changed. >> it's try. look, mohammed bin salman has

he is fist bumping with a guy that ordered a guy when it came to journalist jamal kashoggi. >> therethat are looking for pregnancy termination rights, outnumbering and we need to shut them down, we need to shut them down immediately. and we should not be able to torture a present person like this. >> straight up here, joining you now is andrea. the institute at human ecology of the university where he teaches. so what would these be when it comes to mosques being attacked. >> we understand that the core, after the terrible attacks of 9/11, there was a surge of anti-arab-american hate and the federal government put together a task force with the american community, the arab american community, to make sure that there places were safe. so that should be the state response to horrible evangelization of catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centers. >> they have been giving mothers who want some help, baby clothes, strollers, they are going to help them make them want the choice of life and here you have the ones pushing back which says i'm actually an advocate. >> you know, it's real

. >> how can you be sure that another murder like that of jamal kashoggi won't happen again?w can i possibly be sure of any of that. >> the president is overseas, several senators are looking at the southern borders, including a pair of little girls found traveling alone and we will have that for you. in coming up next, the big apple being called rotten at the corner after an odor, a lot of odor complaints reached an all-time high and we begin with president joe biden. we have the details tonight. >> good evening. >> president joe biden insists that he did bring up the murder. >> hydrated, making it clear what i thought of it at the time, and what i think of it now, i said it very straightforwardly, inconsistent with who we are and who i am. >> however president joe biden said that the president of saudi arabia did not take responsibility at all for the death of jamal khashoggi. and president joe biden greeted the crown prince with a fist bump. including national security advisor jake sullivan. there was concern what the image of the handshake could mean as some find the fist

. >> tomorrow biden heads to saudi arabia after refusing if he will bring will the kashoggi murder. team biden pressed on that disconnect. >> some conversations are not going to be easy but they're important to have. >> one regular biden critic says biden should work with the crown prince to bring down oil costs, not condemn him. >> the world is not on a picnic. we have to pick our friends where we can. >> producers at home are scratching their heads. >> we think texas is a lot closer than saudi arabia. >> despite wit efforts to sell a return to the iran nuclear deal as a good idea, the prospects for it happening ever so far seem pretty dim. hours after u.s. and israel signed that joint declaration aimed at part in countering iran, iran president issued a warning telling u.s. and its allies any mistake in the region will be met with harsh response. >> nice to see you in jerusalem jackie. gentlemen, good evening for analysis. thank you for being here. let's start with this talk about iran deal john kingfish i saying there's a deal on the table and it's done and given that comment it

the saudi government of trying to whitewash its human rights record and whitewash killing jamaal kashoggi and infiltrate a big sports arena in the united states. a lot of courses and a number of players have joined with them but most prominently is former president trump by having two of his clubs at part of their tournament series. >> from your most recent reporting the pga cancelled its agreement to host the 2022 championship in bedminister and trump's club has been formally black listed. is this the only game in town for trump's golf clubs? in other words, it's the way for him to make money? >> it's certainly a multi-million dollar payout for the former president. the pga america took away events at his clubs they agreed to have after he made controversial comment about immigrants and after january 6th. and he's wanted forever to host big events there. when the pga tour was removed from his course, he decided to partner up with the saudi liv golf. if you talk to the former president about it, he says i would have done the pga tour but they're the ones who pulled away from me. >> as pre

will bring up, i always bring up human rights, i always bring up human rights but my position on kashoggione doesn't understand it in saudi arabia anywhere else, than they haven't been around for a while. reporter: and the president's comment there shows how delicate this diplomatic trip is because the president is basically saying, very vaguely, that it is tough to tell somebody murdering journalists is bad and then ask them to help pump more oil on to the market. neil? neil: yeah, i understand can schorschgy thing right there, a chance to tell the saudis to their face. i guess not. let's go to david rubin. former mayor of jerusalem, good to have you back. >> neil, good to be with you. neil: how would you describe the american israeli relationship these days? >> the american israeli relationship is based on a value such. when i hear the declaration about iran, it has been recycled many times and israelis have getting very impatient about that but i have to tell you, neil, this visit to israel is not about israel. the visit to israel is about saudi arabia and, what you have here is a situ