saad: indeed.nk you so much for invieding the professor and then ribbing on canada. >> greg: commerciality i was going to do all segments on canada but there's not enough news in canada. you have one story. and then that's it. and then everybody goes to bed. >> dr. saad: exactly. you know, in 2017, both jordan pederson and i appeared in front of the senate to precisely warn against these kind of boundary positions, these kind of extreme situations and everybody laughed at us, they scoffed, they mocked but look what we have now. >> greg: what is your gut feeling on this? do you think this is -- it can only be two things, it's a long con or it's somebody who's mentally ill. because if it's actually trans they wouldn't go for the giant boobs. >> dr. saad: my first reaction was that it was real but now that i'm hearing the greater number of people saying it could be a troll, the reality is whether it's real or a troll it shows that they're not doing too well these days. >> greg: it shouldn't matter if

when saad had his hearing, nobody from the embassy attended at all. they forgot it. they had a snafu, a mix-up. that shows you the different level of attention. unfortunately what a lot of families are learning, when they are not your family members in russia or saudi arabia, or iran or what have you, the best thing that you could do is make a public stink because that is the only thing that the u.s. government really responds to. so, again, i think he deserves more attention. i just don't think he's getting it. >> josh rogan, good to talk to you, thank you. >> thank you. >> still to come, the new british prime minister delivering his first message to the world. he vows to bring economic stability and confident to the ux k. we'll take you live to ten downing street. plus adidas cutting ties with kanye west after his string of anti-semitic comments. let's look at the rising hate in the jewish community nationwide. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist

saad's son says his father is being held in conditions that amount to torture and has criticized the u.s. government for not doing more to free his father. "the washington post" reports at least 15 retired u.s. generals and admirals have worked as paid consultants for saudi arabia's ministry of defense since 2016. the sweeping investigation reveals hundreds of former military personnel have taken highly lucrative jobs with foreign governments accused of human rights abuses, with the approval of the u.s. military. the u.s. has long sought to keep these ties hidden, but "washington post" reporters brought the matter to court, eventually obtaining 4000 pages of documents through the freedom of information act. over 100 haitian migrants, including pregnant people and children, were found stranded on an uninhabited island west of puerto rico tuesday. mona island, located midway between the dominican republic and puerto rico, has become a popular drop off point for boats of migrants departing from the dominican republic. smugglers often abandon migrants there, falsely telling them they've

out front now, saad ibrahim almadi's son ibrahim. this is his first television interview.e is "the washington post" reporter who first broke this whole story. thank you both for being with me. ibrahim, let me start with you. it is unbelievably shocking news and horrible news. 16-year prison sentence for your father you've found out about. have you been able to speak to him or to get any information about how he's being treated? >> zero calls until now. >> zero calls? >> my father have been tortured, and i have not been able to contact him, not even through phone, the department of state have told me they are working on his case, but i have not seen any progress. they have been working 11 months in silence yet but there is no progress. >> and they've talked to you about the torture that your father is enduring, right? >> absolutely. my father received freezing temperature in his cell. they wake him up in the middle of the night. they prevent him from sleeping. they torture him until he says he made some tweets in order to destabilize the kingdom. my father is nowhere being

according to the government accountability office, and now there's movement on capitol hill to punish the saad ease. kayla tausche live with the details of that. kayla? >> reporter: well, president biden says he'll consult directly with members of congress when they're back in washington next month. but in the meantime, lawmakers keep lobbing proposals from out of town, designed to stabilize gas prices now senator joe manchin from energy-rich west virginia calling on the president to expedite regulatory reviews, relax permitting rules and offer new leases for projects so the u.s. can supplant the oil that opec plans to turn off senator richard blumenthal releasing another bill to suspend arm sales to the kingdom for one year unless it reverses that production cut before it kicks in, in november. >> the saudis need to come to their senses they have committed a humongous blunder. very much against their own economic and security interests as well as ours. the only apparent purpose of this cut in oil supplies is to help the russians and harm americans. >> in just the last year, the state departme

also contending to be fair to them a lot of other mental crises, afghanistan, egypt was in turmoil, saadsed chemical weapons. there is a lot of other things happening in the middle east i diverted the white house from paying attention to this particular file. >> will meet file up with you if i may. the subtitle is for mock barack obama to donald trump. what are the similarities and differences between the two administrations how they view and prosecuted the war? >> during the presidential campaign then candidate trump made a number of statements should he become president, he is going to bomb dhec out of crisis. he did not use the word hectic. and take the gloves off so to speak. andp change the strategy. point of fact president trump did not change in strategy. and he did not change the rules of engagement according to commanders i have talked too. basically what he did was he reduced a level of white house oversight critics would say it micromanagement that slowed the pace of decisions. atand for example the end of the obama ministration header restriction there could only three helico