the american leader fist—bumped with mohammed bin salman ahead of the talks. years after he promised to make saudi arabia a �*pariah�* over the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. at a news conference injeddah, the president told reporters he made it very clear how he felt about the killing. we discussed human rights and the need for political reform. as i always do, i made clear the topic is vitally important to me and to the united states. in respect of the murder of khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of it now. i was straightforward and direct in discussing it. i made my view crystal clear. i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on human rights is not consistent with who we are and who i am. i will always stand up for our values. our middle east correspondent, anna foster is in jeddah for us. many people will see the striking image of the fist bump betweenjoe biden and the man he called a pariah essentiallyjust a few years ago, and they wil

amy: president biden greeted mohammed bin salman with a fist bump and more. even after biden previously vowed to make saudi arabia pariah for the state-sponsored killing of washington post columnist, khashoggi. we will get an update. in jeddah, another leader of human rights violations, sisi as egypt is set to host the next u.n. climate summit. we will speak with bill mckibben. his new yorker article. he will also speak about senator manchin scheduling the was climate bill and the heatwave raging across europe. >> at 40 degrees celsius, it is only making the more difficult to distinguish -- excuse the fire. it is becoming very hot like the south, amy: than about a dozen republican-led states have moved to ban nearly all abortion since the supreme court overturned roe . shocking cases are surfacing like the 10-year-old ohio girl who became pregnant after she was raped had to travel to indiana to get an abortion. we will speak with the editor of the nieman journalism lab about how unimaginable --"unimaginable abortion stories will become more common. is america

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it's not a norm for almost any other country in the world. >> do you think mohammed bin salman fears he fears my information. >> saad told us his information includes a 2014 meeting between prince mohammed, on the left, and the then head of intelligence, mohammed bin nayef. it was three years before the coup. saad claims the young prince boasted to nayef that he could kill the sitting king, abdullah, to clear the throne for his own father. >> and he told him, i want to assassinate king abdullah, i get a poison drink from russia, it's enough for me just to shake hands with him and he will be done. >> a poisoned ring from russia? >> that's what he said, whether it was just bragging, but he said that, and we took it seriously. >> by "we" saad means saudi intelligence took it seriously. the alleged threat, he says, was handled within the royal family. saad told us he watched the meeting on a video recording. does this video recording still exist? >> yes, i know where it is now, i know there are two copies of that. i know where they are. >> prince mohammed is 36 and wields unlimited power

the american leaderfist bumped with mohammed bin salman ahead of the talks.s after he promised to make saudi arabia a �*pariah' over the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. (biv)at a news conference injeddah, the president told we discussed human rights and the need for political reform. as always, as i always do, i made clear the topic was vitally important to me and to the united states. i visit at the united states. i visit at the top of the meeting. i was straightforward and direct in discussing it. i made my view clear crystal clear. i said very straightforwardly for an american president to be silent in an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are to i am. i will always stand up for our values. let's get some more from our middle east correspondent, many people will see that striking image of the fist bump between joe striking image of the fist bump betweenjoe biden and the man he called a pariah a few years ago and will believe the very fact this meeting happened shows that though that us does not have human rights at the top of its

he said he will isolate mohammed bin salman, the crown prince.murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. also, he avoided most of middle eastern leaders. even egyptian rulers and other parts of the middle east. i believe now he is there saying i'm sorry. he wants to achieve four things — first to salvage the relationship between the united states, strategic relationship between the united states and saudi arabia, which lasted for 80 years and recently it has been deteriorating completely. the second thing is to put pressure on saudi and united arab emirates and other oil producing countries to increase their production, hoping that they could bring the prices of oil down. but you accept what stephanie says about it is limited, a marginal impact. the third thing is how to integrate israel in the middle east to make some sort of integration and to be an integral part of the middle east by normalisation of relationships. the fourth thing is how to confront iran. iran is considered a threat to the middle east and america. he actually declared when he

the saudi's got what they wanted and so did mohammed bin salman.of the united states. i think there is a sense of victory and elation, you saw how quickly they released these photos. the question i would ask you, john, because i don't think there's an answer, will joe biden get what he needs? out of oil, ukraine, russian, human rights, not to put too fine a point on it before years after jamal khashoggi's murder and dismemberment, there's no accountability , and it strikes me not only do we have ongoing saudi repression, but mohammed bin salman got away with murder, so the question is reciprocity, john. will the saudi's begin to change as a consequence of our engagement? values may not be that important in the scheme of things , joe biden decided that they were. and imposes somewhat political credibility for him in fact, if there's no satisfaction on this human rights issues. i hope there will be in the days to come. >> i appreciate your time today. hope you have an enjoyable and peaceful weekend. >>> hello, happy friday, we are covering a text mes

the entire day today was meetings with the saudi leadership, which means meetings with mohammed bin salmans really -- it is something that the saudis actually expected from the very beginning of the biden administration. when the president said that he was going to freeze out mohammed bin salman. the saudis were confident that at some point, the president would have to come to the saudis. they would need the saudis help. and, now they seem to be in the driver seat in the relationship. >> is the u.s. in a position to have asked for an apology or an official apology from the saudi government? would that have even been on the table? i'm still trying to wrap my head around what the u.s. is getting out of this. because some have said, no matter how much oil the saudis put out, it's not enough to make up for the shortfall of the russian ukraine war. it may soften the price of gasoline at the pump by a few cents, but it's not enough to really -- or it's not worth what we saw on display today. >> exactly. exactly right. it does not seem worth it for the president to go. he is going for other reaso

liz: much is being made of this fist bump between the president and mohamed bin salman. as i looked at it, the crown prince, he's 36 years old. he didn't seem to be bothered by that at all, it seemed like he had a common and confident move there. so is it kind of ridiculous to be focusing too much on this? >> yeah, i wouldn't read too much into the meeting. other people have mentioned the deputy governor messed up him at the airport. again, with we don't think salman's -- [inaudible] my guess is he could not make that, and i doubt seriously that they would have had mohamed bin salman meet him because they'd want their first meeting to be many private to work through differences. and then the first bump, for his generation that's what everybody does. it's us older guys that have had to learn. [laughter] liz: yeah. us grown-ups here. although people were saying, oh, it's a handshake avoidance kind of thing because of what president biden had said in the past about saudi arabia. but let me jump to the issue of oil production. the big question has become did president biden

he said he wouldn't meet crown prince mohammed bin salman.he 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 istanbul back in 2018. he, in the first weeks of his presidency, refused to communicate with saudi arabia, in that time where they normally do a round of talks and introductions with different world leaders. and this was something that i raised in the early hours of the morning when i sat down and interviewed saudi arabia's foreign minister, adel bin ahmed al—jubeir. and i asked him about notjust that pariah comment — what he thought of it — but why he thoughtjoe biden had changed his mind and decided to come here and have that meeting. what happens in a political campaign generally doesn't survive the reality of being in office, because in office you have access to informat

with respect to the lawsuit against mohammed bin salman and his co-conspirators, the judge just last asked the biden administration to weigh in on whether or not they want to grant immunity to mohammed bin salman, immunity he should not be entitled to. his father is the head of state. we are waiting to see whether the biden administration will really go as far as the opposite of what biden promised not to hold mohammed bin salman accountable, but to make sure he is immune from accountability in the one remaining lawsuit to hold my for this murder. u.s. court several in the pt crown prince's are not entitled to sovereign immunity. if the biden administration creates new law by asking the court to grant him immunity, that will be a really shocking stab in the back and a total break of president biden's own promises. nermeen: you mentioned the question of arms sales in your piece and you also say saudi arabia is the largest importer of u.s. weapons. you point out in the piece of a secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin have "deep and long-standing commercial

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the american leader fist—bumped with mohammed bin salman ahead of the talks.over the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. at a news conference injeddah, the president told reporters he made it very clear how he felt about the killing.

mohammed bin salman has been consolidating his power for a number of years.lculation of president biden is pretty simple. look, he's about as happy to be there as he would be going to the dentist for a root canal. but he realizes with what's going on in ukraine, what he really wants to prevent is an alliance between russia and saudi arabia that would keep oil prices high. that's really, i think, the number one thing in his book. he has been outspoken about what mbs did to mr. khashoggi, which is hideous and repulsive. but again nations have interests and his interest right now is keeping oil prices low, not letting russia succeed in ukraine and trying to keep inflation down in the u.s. >> this tells you in so many ways the importance of saudi arabia. i mean, look, the president of the united states who said he wouldn't do it, he wouldn't meet with a pariah state, he wouldn't do this, he wouldn't do that is in jedda right now. the importance of saudi arabia for the middle east and indeed because of their extraordinary amount of oil for the world. >> yes. you c

to meet the king and if country's de facto leader crown prince mohammed bin salman.mbs to his face that he believes the young leader is to blame for the cij contributors jamal khashoggi. saying the country is vital to the security in the renal. american officials also announced a number of agreements with saudi arabia on topics like energy security, building 5g networks an opening saudi air pace to flights and extending a truce in yemen. cbs ass ed o'keefe will start us off from the port city of jeda. good evening ed. >> reporter: good evening norah. over how and with whom exactly the president would spend his time here. on the agenda mid east peace, military cooperation, high gas prices and the murder of a prominent critic of the saud rifamily. with the bump two of festivities, president biden gave mohammed bin salman the viral moment he's been seeking. the president was reluctant to meet with mbs as he's known having denounced him milkily after u.s. intelligence wirmd the murder of one of his critics, "washington post" journalist, jamal khashoggi. the fist bumping

fist salute, which saw around the world a well- orchestrated salute with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman , a man who, in the opinion of the american intelligence. approved the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. after biden, who as a candidate promised. the kingdom of saudi arabia happily shared this footage of their warm welcome. today the white house defends the trip. think of so many of our national interests in this region. you can not promote these interests by staying at home and talking on the phone. you need to go there and talk to the leaders khashogeh's bride tweeted that mohammed ben's next victim salman in your arms you are being criticized a lot for your fist salute with the crown prince. i give you the opportunity to respond to this criticism, but just as you can be sure that another incident, another murder, like jamal, khashoggi, will not happen again, the lord is with you. what a stupid question? how can i be sure of any of this, the president raised the issue of jamal khashoggi at the beginning of the meeting with his highness the crown prince and the crown pri

having already come to terms with criticism for meeting with mohammed bin salman in saudi arabia, now he will have the same task with putin to correct the hostile relations that are not in the hands of anyone lifting tariffs with china and developing a new security architecture with russia in europe, including ending the conflict. on after all, it is vital for ukraine to work for the

we will see how this relationship with mohammed bin salman the crown prince for all practical purposes the real leader here in saudi arabia, we will see how this meeting takes place and what emerges from it, statements from mohammed bin salman, statements from the president of the united states, but it's really sensitive and it comes after what were some very sensitive talks as you guys know in israel and the west bank, including this joint news conference that just occurred with mahmoud abbas the palestinian authority president. there are very significant differences between the u.s. and the palestinian authority, but there are some common goals and president biden keeps talking about what he thinks is the ultimate solution in the middle east, namely a two-state solution, israel living alongside a new palestinian state. he keeps talking about what he calls a two-state solution and we heard that come through in the news conference in the joint statement he had with mahmoud abbas the palestinian authority president. there are differences between the u.s. and the palestinians and the pal

and in the weeks preceding this trip to saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman, who's visited turkey wherehashoggi was killed and it's on the heals of what appears to be bin salman's re-entry into the good graces of the world, including with the united states. so, the -- the question really is what exactly is the u.s. getting out of a photo op, handshake, what have you with mohammed bin salman, who's not only been accused -- credibly accused of orchestrating the operation that brutally killed my colleague, but also has been the mastermind of the war in yemen, which has claimed many, many lives, caused humanitarian disaster, who continues to imprison and hold human rights activists in saudi arabia. it just appears that the u.s. is going hat in hand. president biden's going hat in hand to a man that, frankly, you know, we question whether or not he really will get much in the way of freedom and values out of this trip. >> we've repeatedly asked administration officials what they've been promised from the saudis. for instance, you talk about, you know, human rights and concessions along those

look, this is a big test of mohammed bin salman. he's coming to power and got back standing where he wanted to be. he'll always be tarnished by the killing of jamal khashoggi but up to him how he acts and how he plays out his vision 2030 to deliver a more economically stable country, a country that diversifies from petroleum prod du -- products into green energy. he wants to do this. that will be the test of mohammed bin salman and president biden laid down guard rails on that. he's in office and telling him what it will take to get the partnership he wants. at the same time, two-edge sword, you know, biden can't lose saudi into the sphere and orbit. it would be a huge loss for the united states. >> it would, indeed. kaitlin, you've been speaking to white house officials, u.s. officials, what are they saying about the fist bump? it's causing a lot of interest out there. >> they really downplayed it and president biden himself downplayed it. he was asked about the criticism he got for it not just from anyone. it's a publisher of the

the visits off a storm of criticism after a fist bump crown prince mohammed bin salman pretty see it there. he's running for president mr. biden promised to make mbs a pariah over saudi arabia's human rights abuses and the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. the big question is will the saudis open the spigot for more oil? and it's not a rabbit with the very latest on the presidents trip, hi jackie. >> afternoon to eric. present biden on his way back home to the u.s., saudi's are working pretty hard to pour cold water on perceived white house achievements. four days the administration has been lauding the saudi's decision to open its airspace to flights that are coming directly from israel as significant step in normalizing the relationship between the two countries. that airspace was restricted up until the presidents arrival here just a couple of days ago. but tonight that decision was practical. it had nothing to do with deepening diplomatic ties. it does not indicate there will be any more cooperation to come in the future. they also went out of their way to tell reporters the

and if you look, and in an interview given by mohammed bin salman, he directly said that america is ay other country that. well, except for immediate neighbors, but america is a strategic ally. mohammed bin salman said that 90%, uh, is a bilateral agenda. it is not problematic, that is, there are 10%, but what are these 10%, the devil in detail 10% is interference in the internal affairs of saudi arabia. that is, this is criticism of the issue of minority women there. this is uh, as the saudis believe, and the propaganda campaign that is being waged against them in the united states is actually theirs. this is very annoying to the americans. here to fill that vacuum which may appear in the middle east, they need some kind of regional alliance, similar to nato, but in the middle east context, and cooperation between arabs and israel is needed to recreate, but cooperation between arabs and israel is impossible. here, on the required scale, without at least some compromise on the ballistic issue. that's why biden goes, he e -comes to palestine. he meets with palestinians. he resumes assi

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mohammed bin salman is a young man in a hurry. in the air, foreign policy, domestic reform, economic liberalization. >> he is the best hope for the kind of reforms of the government and the economy and the society that we want and most saudis want. but at the same time he is the greatest impediment right now between washington and riyadh. >> as another energy creisis batters america and president biden heads to the region, can this balance continue to work? i'll give you my thoughts when we return. research shows that people remember ads with young people having a good time. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's a pool party. look what i brought! liberty mutual! they customize your home insurance... so you only pay for what you need! ♪young people having a good time with insurance.♪ ♪young people.♪ ♪good times.♪ ♪insurance!♪ only pay for what you need. ♪liberty liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ "shake your thang" by salt n pepa >>> let me begin this brief commentary on a personal no

rather with the country's de facto ruler, crown prince mohammed ben salman, is not much more important. crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed binambitious and charismatic representative of the new generation of the royal family, he was born in 1985 to the third wife of his father the current king of saudi arabia studied in his homeland and received a bachelor's degree in law career began in 2009 when he was appointed special adviser to his father then governor of eriyat province after his parents ascended the throne in 2015 . mohammed became minister of defense and chaired the economic and development council, the main body of economic planning. experts believe that it was he who made the decision to participate in the civil war and was the initiator of the break. diplomatic relations with the cutter in april 2016 mohammed was salman outlined the program of economic modernization, the introduction of 2030, in fact. these are plans for economic reforms, the purpose of which is to diversify the country's economy and reduce its dependence on oil, according to the crown prince of saudi arabia, there are three sources of strength th

you would know what mohammed bin salman is like. deemed a murderer of this "washington post" journalist. i'm wondering whether you share that view that mohammed bin salman is a murderer. >> we were there to discuss. i've traveled to saudi arabia many times over 27 years and over the last six months. the most important thing that i think that we should be focused on is what is good for american interests, for the american people. >> neil: talking to someone like mohammed bin salman is part of the process. >> leaving a vacuum in the middle east to allow china and russia to take over and take -- >> neil: i understand that. these are part of the realities of diplomacy. you have to talk to this guy. you can't ignore him. is that the end result? >> the end of the day, we have to go to the region and engage its leaders. the president engaged first in israel and the palestinian authority and with nine leaders in the middle east. he met with the entirety of the middle east. the split screen of the president meeting with the nine leaders of th

for. >> neil: when the president referred to saudis as pariahs, he's not just talking about mohammed bin salman. so that did make it uncomfortable as well for the royal family insaid, including bin salman's father and the relatives that dominate the ruling power in charge there. i believe when the president made those remarks as a candidate, he was talking about saudi arabia itself being a pariah, wasn't he? >> yes, he was. he was talking about the saudis and the country itself. making it one to make saudi arabia a pariah to what had happened to jamal khaishoggi. saudi arabia has a pretty atrocious record on human rights. we don't really have any idea except for with the president of how the saudis have reacted to this. even though the u.s. press was allowed to go into the palace, they did not allow boom microphones which allow you to get audio of what the leaders are saying. couldn't hear any of that. the saudis, when they put out their video, they scrubbed out the audio. so we depend on what the president says. sounds like he's given quite a lot of detail and that were add odds over biden cla

the president is meeting with saudi king salman and crown prince mohammed bin salman. it's a trip not without criticism in light of the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. >> will you apologize to his family, sir? >> reporter: the saudi prince approved the assassination, but president biden is making the trip to convince the oil-rich nation to produce more. no public announcements are expected before he leaves, but opec may call for more production when it meets next month. >> saudi arabia leads opec. they are in the driver's seat. saudi arabia, uae areorf wo cnte spare caci. president biden met abbas.n m o-stat soln for palnel even though the timing is uncertain. >> even if the ground is nottis negotiations, the united states and my administration will not give up on trying to bring the palestinians and israelis and both sides closer together. >> translator: the opportunity for the two-state solution on the borders may be available today only. >> reporter: in an effort to bolster ties, the biden administration announced more than $300 million for the palestinians,

the president said he rejected mohammed bin salman's denials of involvement.ingering controversy both sides reported substantial progress on friday. b biden says he's optimistic his visit will eventually help bring down gas prices in the u.s. >>> cases of covid-19 are increasing globally. according to the world health organization, the number of new infections rose for the fifth straight week, driven largely by the ba.4 and ba.5 variants. earlier this week the agency's director general warned the public against easing up on the disease. >> the waves of the virus demonstrate again that the covid-19 is nowhere near over. as the virus pushes at us, we must push back. >> and here in the u.s. the centers for disease control says more than half the population lives in a county where there's a high level of community transmission. los angeles county, the nation's largest, is on track to require indoor masks again as covid cases and hospitalizations there continue to soar. and the recent covid-19 outbreak as well as a banking scandal have created a perfect storm for c

he's still facing backlash for fist pumping and meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman,esponsible for the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi. the "washington post" publisher fred ryan calling the fist bump shame full. the president was asked this question when he returned to the white house from his trip. >> the saudi arabia foreign minister said he didn't hear you accuse the crown prince of khashoggi's murder. is he telling the truth? >> no. why don't you guys talk about something that matters? >> joining me now is john brennan, the former cia director for president obama. let's talk about the fist bump or the optics of the trip. you told us before he arrived that you would have advised against this trip. do you think it was worth it in terms of the reputation in the region, the negative in the region as well as the criticism from human rights groups and 9/11 families? >> president biden made a tough decision. i think it probably bothered him that he felt the need to make this trip to meet with mohammed bin salman. first, on the energy front, this was a real motivating fa

he and saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman will attend that same summit in jeddah, but the two arexpected to hold a bilateral meeting. other items on the agenda include the iran nuclear deal. biden says he will continue pressuring tehran to return to the 2015 agreement. former president donald trump, you'll recall, withdrew the u.s. from the accord in 2018. in iraq and syria, biden has approved the use of military force to prevent the resurgence of groups such as isil and to respond to rocket attacks on u.s. targets. and washington is also pushing for negotiations to end the war in yemen. ♪ well, let's bring in our guests. in arlington, virginia, we have khaled elgindy. he's the senior fellow at the middle east institute and also the author of "blind spot: america and the palestinians, from balfour to trump." from london, we are joined by andreas krieg, a senior lecturer in defence studies at king's college, london. and in birmingham, is scott lucas, professor emeritus at birmingham university and founder of ea worldview, a news analysis website. a very warm welcome to you all. tha

cbs ♪ ♪ ♪ >> o'donnell: tonight, president biden's trip to saudi arabia: his big meeting with mohammed bin salman did they discuss, and did the president secure a commitment to help lower gas prices? the fist bump seen around the world, as president biden says he raised the murder of jamal khashoggi with the crown prince. secret service under fire: new questions about what happened to texts sent during the january sixth insurrection. the autopsy results, after 25- year-old jayland walker was killed at a traffic stop, news tonight about what the report reveals. monkeypox outbreak: the growing number of cases and the concern tonight about not having enough vaccines. a massive drug bust, d.e.a. agents seize one million fentanyl pills as the mexican marines arrests one of the f.b.i.'s most wanted. shark attacks on the rise: the warning to swimmers and the reason there may be more sightings this summer. dial 988: the new three digit number for mental health emergencies, nationwide, >> the great thing about our services is it is confidential, it's free, its safe. >> o'donnell: and, on the road, with th

biden should not have come here, it is not necessary to meet with the hereditary principle of mohammed bin salman it was worth it and that saudi arabia will be glad that he did it during his first presidential visit to the east well, now let's talk about how the war is changing ukrainian society and the values ​​of ukrainians. recently, the study on this topic was published by the company degree resorich, in addition to how ukrainians feel about the conditional question of decommunization to the army, a number of conclusions are very interesting, revealing, in fact, the founder, director of the research company gradus reserage yevgenia blyzniuk live with the bbc studio from ukraine. congratulations yevgeny , and let's start with that. and you know, a year ago we also conducted research and then got the results. i called ukrainians a nation of tired optimists. however, now we see that ukrainians turned out to be a nation of stubborn optimists because despite a very difficult situation, a lot of stress, ukrainians continue to hope for better values, of course, migrate and develop in the direction o

moments ago, president biden and crown prince mohammed bin salman meeting each other with a fist bump after more than 18 months of tense negotiations and more than two years after then candidate biden said he would be making mbs and saudi leaders a pariah for their role in the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. i'll be joined by dr. ashish jha to learn more about the hypercontagious ba.5 covid variant sweeping the country, when the next booster shot is approved for people 50 years of age and whether monkeypox is a pandemic. we begin with pete williams. pete, the letter from the office of the inspector general reads in part the department notified us that many u.s. secret service text messages from january 5th and 6th, 2021, were erased as part of a device replacement program. the usss erased those after oig, the inspector general, requested records of communication from the usss as part of the events on january 6th. pete, this is the whole dispute, before or after. if it was erased before they were asked to save the records, not such a big deal although a little bit coincide

. -- the exchange with biden and mohammed bin salman al saud was direct, frank, and open and included president biden raising the issues of human rights and the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. -- promised the u.s. will remain an active and engaged partner in the middle east. >> the united states is gonna remain an active and engaged partner in the middle east. as the world grows more competitive, the challenges we face more complex, it is only becoming clear to me that how closely the world and america's interests are, with the successes in the middle east. we will not walked away. and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia, or iran. >> milwaukee will likely be the host for the 2024 republican national convention. it now heads to a final reproof of all process, after the gop recommended the city on friday. -- donald trump has signaled he wants to be on that stage as the nominee. telling your magazine, he's already made its decision, the only question is whether to announce his bid before or after the midterm elections. we go beyond the headlines now with nbc's julie cheste

sew decided to take the meeting with mohammed bin salman. so whether he shook his hand or fist bumped with him, the net effect would have been the same conversation that you and i are having right now. again, i come back to the question of what is it, exactly beyond a very rhetorical statement that the united states isn't going to walk away from the middle east, beyond that, a lot of commentary about longer term strategic considerations. have the saudis agreed to free up additional energy supply to bring prices down. how much is really vrabavailablr them to do so. have they committed to a cease-fire in yemen. what commitments have they made, if a new nuclear deal with iran does not happen what, is the long-term security commitment to the united states. did they really agree to major steps in normalizing their relationship with israel. none of that is really clear. >> not clear now. but the president said it wasn't his objective to just meet with the saudi arabian prince but to the entire gcc, the gulf cooperation and alions and the united ar

he just had a meeting with crown prince mohammed bin salman.ept in a larger group. we saw the one-on-one greeting as he came in this morning. so obviously a lot of questions about what they talked about. we'll get there as soon as that gets underway. and we all remember this. [chanting]. >> martha: yeah, that's how they were referring to police, pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. that video was taken by my next guest. seattle's mayor says that urgent action is needed. after that, they don't have enough police anymore. 400 officers have left the force the past couple years. so no big surprise, they cannot recruit, they can't retain people and they're not alone. across the country, so much damage done by that movement across this nation. in new york city, bill bratten predicting a crime increase because of what's going on with leadership there. the "new york post" says over 1,500 police officers said forget it, i'm out of here, i'm retiring, resigning. don't want this job anymore. nobody has your back in that job. so jason rantz is a seattle

that face-to-face meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, who the u.s. concluded ordered the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. as a candidate, biden vowed to punish the saudis. >> make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are. >> reporter: but now the u.s. is hoping saudi oil will help bring down soaring gas prices. though biden insists this trip is about regional security. >> what will you say to saudi leaders, specifically to crown prince mohammed bin salman, about the khashoggi murder and other human rights practices? >> my views on khashoggi have been made absolutely positively clear and i have never been quiet about talking about human rights. >> reporter: biden then pressed again. >> so you don't expect to bring up -- >> i always bring up human rights. but my position on khashoggi has been so clear. if anyone doesn't under >> reporter: the president and the white house are treading very carefully here. tonight, they are still negotiating the specifics of this meeting, trying to choreograph every little detail,

his fist bump with crown prince mohammed bin salman drawing increasing fire. now he's facing the collapse of his -- most of his domestic agenda. here's abc's washington correspondent, maryalice parks. >> reporter: president biden returning to washington, and news his legislative agenda has stalled out. joe manchin of west virginia says he's walking away again from the latest round of talks for a democratic bill around climate change funding and taxes for the super wealthy. vermont's senator bernie sanders unloading. >> he has sabotaged the president's agenda. it is the future of the planet. so when manchin sabotages climate change, this is for future generations. this is an existential threat to humanity. >> reporter: manchin said he's worried about inflation. >> they can't buy gasoline, they have a hard time buying groceries. >> reporter: with majorities in the house and the senate, president biden came into office with high hopes and a big to-do list for congress. infrastructure spending, money to fight climate change, paid family leave, child care, universa