>> almost double what the publisher of the wall street journal was trading at before the surprise offerwall street journal don't change hands very often. this is a once-in-a-century kind of moment. >> the first thing i remember trying to do was get an interview with rupert murdoch. i remember they said, come on over. >> and so i walked down 6th avenue and went to the news corp building into the belly of the beast. and there were newspapers everywhere. that's the thing i remember actually more than anything. he had almost every newspaper lined up on the wall. and i think he read them. he was so knee-deep in the family dynamics of the bancroft family and who liked who and who wanted to screw who and who was going to kill who and how you were basically going to split these people apart. of course, he told us repeatedly, i'm not here to break up the family. i think my family should meet with their family. he was a family man who had been a steward of his media companies and he really wanted to be able to prove to them that he was just like them, just like the bancrofts. >> the bancrofts fin

also the story coming up a major story about government corruption the wall street journal reveals a overnment officials doing wall street level fast trading in the tens of thousands in companies that have regulated and forced four years. revelations of the hunter biden case, congressman james comer next on "the evening edit". ♪ who's on it with jardiance? ♪ ♪ we're the ones getting it done. we're managing type 2 diabetes and heart risk. we're on it with jardiance. join the growing number of people who are on it with the once-daily pill, jardiance. jardiance not only lowers a1c, it goes beyond to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease. and jardiance may help you lose some weight. jardiance may cause serious side effects including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, (that can lead to sudden worsening of kidney function), and genital yeast or urinary tract infections. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if you have symp

saudis snubbed biden again, the wall street journal said. and the second missile launched, what is the intent, do you believe, of north korea and these exercises? >> in the past typically north korea has fired missiles or tested nuclear weapons as a way to extract concessions from the west, especially from the united states to try to cede to their demands. it's vital we don't make the mistake in both parties viewing it as another reason to give concessions to north korea. and second, vital we make sure we have the weapons and especially the missile and the air defenses that we need to protect our troops, and protect our partners like south korea and japan, patriot missile batteries, more defense technology to neutralize the threat from north korea. i would say third as well, joe biden needs to stop making concessions to dictators in places like venezuela and iran. if you make concessions to dictators there, kim jong-un believes the store is open, so it's important we don't project weakness to one dictator. anti-american dictators will smell

"wall street journal" says they viewed it as a political gam bet by the biden administration to avoid bad news ahead of the u.s. midterm elections, so they said no to joe. they're going to cut production and increase oil prices. wait a second. are you telling me that joe biden, a statesman, the former

another front-page headline that has been in advertisements in the wall street journal, "cuomo is back." chris cuomo returns with an all new show. that advertisement in today's wall street journal. chris cuomo, according to -- starting the second chapter of his career after being picked up by news nation. cuomo seeking a million dollars in damages after his firing from cnn. terminated by -- after advising his brother andrew cuomo about allegations brought against him. jim, out of tom beam, texas, good morning. caller: i just wonder, i am retired. there is no mention in the news, television or in the paper about this terrible situation we have with the stock market. it just comes to collapsing. why doesn't anybody talk about it? i would really like to hear somebody say something about it. and hopefully try to fix it. that is my comment for today. host: this is tommy in belcher, kentucky. tommy, good morning. caller: i worked in the coal mines all my life. i worked for a living. biden, they tried to act like trump is a strong man. if he was so strong, why didn't he go into the military w

. >> hello this week in the "wall street journal at large" democrat say if they lose the midterms democracy is over, who exactly is it that is denied the legitimacy of elections these days. it was debate week in america, who is winning as the campaign enters the final stretch. a judge reinstates workers fired for refusing to get a vaccination. the age of covid extremism come to an end and wake up america or wake up mr. president, joe biden is asleep on the job literally we will be talking about all that this week with my guest tim stossel and richard fowler but back in the headlines this week it with a dire warning of the state of american democracy at the midterm elections go the wrong way next month. >> right wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election and they are not making a secret of it. the right wing controlled supreme court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures, yes you heard me correctly state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections. maria: let's just act this claim, first of all the claim by the former first

"wall street journal" rebecca ballhouse on "the evening edit" next. vo: it's a new day.just got a big update. just in time for everyone who works. with other people. just in time for... ...more togetherness. just in time to say “oh, you bet we'll be there!” because the updated vaccines can now protect against both the original covid virus and omicron. and that's a moment... we've all been waiting for. ♪ ♪ ♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪ ♪. elizabeth: look who is here, rebecca ballhouse, investigate testify reporter for "the wall street journal." rebecca, so good you joined us tonight. thank you so much. okay, your paper has been doing a deep dive into conflicts of interest in the government. what is going on with what your new report, top government officials were ramping up stock trades right when the pandemic hit in big companies affected by covid policies? what happened here? >> there were a couple things we found in the analysis. we were looking for interesting patterns of trades in the beginning of 2020 in a period where the federal government had a lot more insi

"wall street journal" deep dive.housands of top government officials caught trading stocks in the same companies they enforce. plus this green fail, electric car charging stations and batteries spontaneously exploding into uncontrollable fires but california, home to a lot of wildfires, they're keeping their voters in the dark about that in their new push to go all electric. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: we begin with a wild day on wall street, stocks rally in a dramatic turn around. there was heavy buying of the dip. it was a volatile session. investors basically shrugging off another brutal read on inflation, hotter than expected. now we got core cpi hit a new record high. it is the biggest annual increase in that number in 40 years. now markets are fully pricing in an expected 75 basis point rate hike next month. we've got a lot at that took at that you about tonight. edward lawrence at the white house with more. edward? reporter: liz, that overall number, that was rea

won federal contracts for treating covid the exact amount is, to this point, unclear but "the wall street journal" reports it's somewhere between $9 million and $28 million officials at the federal reserve and treasury department were also wheeling and dealing in early 2020 the journal reporters wrote, in part, on february 28th, the fed chairman jerome powell signalled in a written statement that the central bank was prepared to cut interest rates in the seven days preceding that statement, officials at the treasury and fed reported more than twice as many trades as they made during the same seven days of 2019 the fed instituted a policy earlier this year that severely restricts what top officials can buy and sell that's new and it's important to know trading stocks isn't necessarily a problem. there are no restrictions on federal officials investing in mutual funds at all. they just can't work on projects in which they have a major financial stake. and they can't trade on non-public information you can't do that. the journal reports ethics officials confirm that all of the workers identified in

this week on "the wall street journal" at large, democrats insist that everything is fine, and it's youdoesn't really understand what's going on. do they actually think gaslighting the american public is going to work for them? yet another conservative prime minister is out in the u.k. what on earth is going on over there? here at home government officials make money on the stocks of companies that they regulate. nice work if you can get it. and as crime soars, the desperate measures we are forced to try to recruit new police officers. we'll be talking about all this and more with our guests this week, deroy murdock and brian brenberg. but first, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? the strategy democrats have adopted. on issue after issue, their message to the american people is what you see before you is not real. take the economy. inflation is at its highest level for 40 years, the stock market and everyone's wealth has been in freefall for months, interest rates going through the roof, real wages are falling at their fastest rates in decades. you may think that means

and i guess i wonder, and this isn't the first time, that the wall street journal has come out against has said or done. but do you think that any of this has any impact because, to your point at the beginning, we have gotten used to it, haven't we? >> the more and more donald trump does these things, the more and more they turn and say, we're done with this chapter. what's the best way to turn away from this chapter? the only answer comes in five weeks, which is the midterm. which is, in the public's mind, to vote against republicans who they think represent donald trump. that's the fundamental answer, the public's desire, as i said earlier, to turn the chapter and move on from donald trump. i think the editorial raises a vastly important point, which is donald trump, when he looks at public service, it's never about service to the common good. it's about service to his own good. that has been the case since donald trump came down the escalator when he launched his presidential campaign seven years ago. it's never about service to the country as a whole. it's always about service to h

breaking news for any wall street journal on a witness their mar-a-lago restoration.miliar with the matter, the justice department is interested in testimony from two aides to donald trump. one who might be able to provide information on whether missing government arguments were transported to a trump property other than mar-a-lago. that witness will russell, served in the trump white house including as according to presidential travel, and went on to work for the former president in florida after he left office. the journal reports federal officials have expressed concern about whether trump took documents on flights you traveled from mar-a-lago to his other properties in new york in new jersey. according to a person familiar with the matter, mr. trump declined to comment on the matter. the new york times previously named the other witness, watch nowata, the navy veteran. sources say he told sources he moved documents at mar-a-lago before the federal search the property. surveillance video showed him doing that. they have not responded to nbc's news's request for com

"wall street journal" writes about the dumbing down of america.high schoolers have gone way down and it is really one of the things that you will see probably continue unfortunately unless we get a handle of it because of reading and math scores we've seen in elementary and middle school students. going into college prep tests it makes everything so much harder. i'm dismayed about this and headlines say republicans pounce on the issue. well, somebody should pounce on it immediately. it is an emergency, sir. >> yeah, it is an emergency for our kids and emergency for our country. it has to do with our competitiveness and standing in the world. it also has to do with the child's ability to function, to work in the world. there are two sets of these results that i would like to talk about. one biggest failure is in eighth grade math. that was the biggest drop we saw from the national assessment. this means that our top students are dropping in their ability to do math, which means the next generation of scientists will be smaller, the next generation

according to new exclusive report of the wall street journal, to people in trump's inner circle are talking to the fbi about moving government documents in and out of mar-a-lago. abc news has reached out all parties were comments. we haven't heard back. another big development. the justice department annexed the federal appeals court to throw out the lawsuit challenging the seizure of the documents. they also asked to vacate the appointment of special master in the case. shut down in the georgia senate race could determine control the senate. democratic senator raphael warnock and republican candidate herschel walker coming several issues including the abortion scandal surrounding walker's campaign. >> georgia is a state that respects life, and i'll be the senator that protects life. and i saw that was a lie and i'm not putting to him. we have senator warnock, people that would do anything and say anything for -- but i'm not going to back down. because this is two going to the georgia people. women in charge of a clear choice. as we are watching women die, do you want to senator who wants t

. ♪ welcome back, desperate for oil "wall street journal" reporting president biden looking to socialistictator nicholas maduro after opec that by adding arabia and russia would cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day sending oil prices higher. the move seen as a flop in the face after president biden visited saudi arabia today, oil. former energy secretary former texas governor rick perry. critics argue we need to drill more at home but here's national security council john kirby on why it's not happening. >> we are trying to transition to clean energy environment good for the economy and the environment and where the president wants to take us but transitions are tests take time. maria: they do take time like ten or 20 years, should we kill off also fuels now? >> the hardest thing for someone in the political business to do is stand up and say you know what? who wrong in this administration will not do that. they will drive america into the ditch and they are economically and national security wise having to rely upon foreign countries for energy is bad public policy so they are

i'd like to begin, if i could, with this "wall street journal" piece with the sub headline, the land of lincoln is failing his children and covering up. statewide in 201936% of all third-grade students could read at grade level. that is an f and that's the good news. the number drops to 37% for hispanic students and 32% for black students statewide. certain public school systems numbers plummet to single di digits. 2% of black third-graders are reading at th third grade level. we are often speechless but the extent which that performance is betraying a generation of schoolchildren is hard to put into words. it's not just awful. it's embarrassed saying and it should not be tolerated. your thoughts. >> absolutely. i think i can put it in words. this was pre-pandemic. if anything, it's likely that those scores went down during the pandemic. that's been pretty much the case for every score we've gotten in since the pandemic. as bad as this was, it probably got worse. let me just say something about reading to cut through it. if you can't read by the third grade, and most of these kids ca

let's bring in our panel wall street journal editorial member kyle peterson so kim, are you seeing moreadly this movement toward the republicans in the polls and what's behind it? >> i think you are seeing more prodly and you're seeing it both in the house an in the senate and i think it is post labor day of focus by voters again on core issues you look for instance at wisconsin and pennsylvania both of those candidates ron johnson and the republican side are talking very much on the economy inflation, but also an issue that's really resurfacing is crime. they're really beating up their opponents on it. whaing is also helped them no those states is having candidates that are very much part of the progressive left and it's been easier to pick up some of their past policies and show them to be a little bit of out of step with a lot of mainstream voters. >> kyle i was in wisconsin and johnson ads are really hitting mandela barnes on crime and some of his previous statements on what he would do with police, on bail reform, on i.c.e. how he would handle the immigration. and even though mande

your response tonight. >> the wall street journal identified something we were working on in the trumpion, think of it more broadly as the defense industrial base, the capacity to make simple and high end weapons and munitions to build our navy, trump increased our budgets but we have to make sure we have all the tools for when the day comes, chinese confrontation comes, or more likely when they threaten us and try to use that as leverage we're prepared to engage them in a serious way. it's not as big a gap as the wall street journal suggested but make no mistake, xi jinping as he gives these speeches has been talking about building out his technology space and cyber program in ways the united states and more broadly the west must match. >> laura: mr. secretary wonderful to see you tonight. thank you >> i really hope china will decide, sometime in the next days that it's worth coming back to this because we owe it to human kind. they suspended. they didn't terminate. >> when you say back channel outreach, are you texting? >> i have -- >> are you? >> i have e-mailed. >> okay. >> but he'

speak to jerry baker "wall street journal" editor at large and "wall street journal" jerry baker on foxiness, jerry, i love to have you on fridays because you can look back at the week and look forward to next week. we are in a huge moment right now in this country as we approach midterm elections, sky-high interest rates. you don't have a clear and present plan from the white house to tackle this crisis. >> no plan. in fact, the plants make things worse. the reduction act, eventually will cut the deficit a little bit but not for another five years. we need to rein in spending to get control over that. the policy torch domain towards energy price has made the problem worse. and so, no surprise one of the first things they did was cancel xl pipeline. the keystone xl pipeline. that sends a signal to everybody in the united states government under joe biden. >> sandra: not to mention all of the added implications to make us energy independent. >> the lowest in the history. they are against these traditional energy sources. they told us that that it destroys the planet. now they want us to

>> martha: sure. >> the "wall street journal" has covered the abortion issue. they had a piece a few days ago about what happened to women. women that had to wait to get into sepsis to get the medical care that happens to poor witch and people living in rural counties and in big cities. maybe it happens by accidents, people get pregnant and they need healthcare treatment. don't minimize this that it's one of -- >> i'm not minimalizing it. >> martha: he's saying -- >> when i say it's not resonating -- >> martha: we're talking about the numbers, jessica. when you look at what appears to be resonating with voters as marc is saying, it's falling low on the list. >> i understand that. i know -- >> martha: if you look at every governor, jesse, every governor, you have brian kemp that has signed a 15-week abortion law. he winning by double digits. in ohio, dewine passed a 6-week abortion ban. he's winning by 20 points. every state where you have governors implementing abortion laws, they're not paying a price nor it. this is not resonating with the american people. wh

hello this week on the wall street journal at large. democrats say that if they lose the midterms, democracy is over . so who exactly is it? who's denying the legitimacy of elections these days? it was debate week in america, who's winning now as the campaign enters its final stretch. judge reinstates workers fired for refusing to get a vaccination as the age of covid extremism come to an end. and wake up america or at least wake up. mr. president joe biden is asleep on the job literally. we'll be talking about all that this week with my guest, kim strassel and richard fowler. but first hillary clinton was back in the headlines this week with a dire warning about the state of american democracy if the midterm elections go the wrong way next month, right wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election, and they're not making a secret of it. the right wing controlled supreme court. may be poised to rule and giving state legislatures yes, you heard me that correctly. state legislatures the power to ove

"wall street journal." trump presidency caused many people to lose their minds.the checks on radical policies vanished as trump was the self-defining political mission. maybe the party will go back to reality. we have a split screen on the cable channels. it is astounding to me. i don't know dana how you feel about this, how many stories they still do on donald trump. it just seems like there is an obsession where they kind of lost the focus of what people are thinking and feeling these days. that's point number one. point number two would be perhaps if things go the way you just projected a moment ago, the candidates they have put up especially on the side like fetterman are wrong on the policies when it comes to crime and energy and inflation. what do you think about that, jessica? >> the first part is donald trump is still the defact ing leader of the republican party so it makes sense to talk about him and he is and continues to be really good at manipulating the media cycle. even someone off twitter has a way of infiltrating every major story and he is stump

once the ball starts going and see actual communities and there's damaging commentary in the wall street journal article puts things into perspective where they talk about the hot girls and they never any at the pool party and let's just talk about what happened to meta's stock it's down 60% over the last year and that's a huge decline, and if you just put metaverse at zero, what would you say about the rest of the stock? because we can talk about metaverse having 200,000 people who will show up here for horizon, but you have 2.5 billion people to show up and it's embarrassing to change the name to meta before there's anything there just stripping out meta, what would you say the stock is worth? >> well, the near-term, certainly not meta, of course, it would be a positive for the stock because investors, generally, it plays into the narrative this it's so far away it won't happen at all and when you look at the investment they lost a billion, and they'll lose a similar amount this year and put that into perspective and apple and microsoft will spend close to 30 billion on rnd and it's a huge num

trump's disgraceful behavior on january 6th. >> i think this is the "wall street journal" editorial paget. this is the "wall street journal" editorial page. the mr. trump's apologists say he merely meant mr. mcconnell has a political death wish. that isn't what he wrote. it's too easy to imagine some fanatic taking mr. trump seriously, and literally, in fact, that has happened. >> we've seen this happen. >> and attempting to attack mr. mcconnell. >> to kill mr. mcconnell. >> the rhetoric about former vice president mike pence all too seriously on january 6th. five weeks from election day, mr. trump could be working and spending money to elect a gop congress or to help his home state of florida recover from hurricane ian, and instead, he's attack mr. mcconnell and his wife as part of a personal political vendetta and putting every republican candidate on the spot to respond to questions about mr. trump's rant. mr. trump always puts himself first and with this rhetoric, he may put others at genuine risk of harm. that, again, from the "wall street journal." but again, it's really painful to

"the wall street journal" reports the administration is negotiating to buy oil from venezuela dictator nicolas maduro. biden had begged the saudis to pump more oil, they turned him down and cut production. russia wins, europe loses, and american consumers pay more for gas. we are still not allowed to go get the energy that's under our own feet. look at this, gas prices going up again. 3 cents higher this morning at an average price now of $3.if 86 a gallon. at this rate, we'll be at $4 by the 'em of the month if not sooner. it is, by the way, $5 a gallon on the west coast, and it's $6.42 in california. elsewhere, annal amicable meeting of political rivals in florida. the president went to see the hurricane damage, the governor, desantis, showed him around. a hot mic caught the prime minister if don't f with a -- president saying don't f with a bind. i'll leave it there. we've got some red ink but not much, dow down can about 70, s&p down 8, 12 down for the nasdaq. that's not a big move. enter rates are still pointed to recession. the 2-year yields well above 4% at 4.16, and the 10-year

>> we are in a blackout period now and that is what we got the wall street journal article on friday.arketed a good job of moving their prices to 75 for the november meeting and we get up to a place where the terminal rate is achieved. bullard said he was to get the fed funds effective into that kind of range and see what happens. we will see a prolonged pause when we get to that point. the next huge drop, just after the next meeting we have payroll numbers, cpi print and that will be a big one. we are going to see headline and core inflation trickle down. it will take a while to get near target of course, the fact that we are moving into a sustainable period means they could hold off from rate hikes at the end of q3. what remains, how to the markets affect by consultative tightening, and the idea that we will see the balance sheet reduced by 95 billion. that is a headwind for equity appreciation. shery: the differential between what is happening in the fed and what is happening at boj really pushing the japanese yen lower, and we broke the 32 year low against the u.s. dollar. the vol

it will take a long time to get back there there was a story in the wall street journal this morning that chevron is allowed to continue to operate in venezuela. i talked to chevron last night they will not confirm the details of the story i got the sense it was directly correct. venezuela politics is sensitive. chevron is semi confirming i don't want to make too much of it just another note, this literally broke moments ago. venture global lng provider, a private company, not public, not yet. announcing they are expanding the partnership with germany to import or export lng and import into germany frank, the short answer to your question is no from a natural gas perspective, we are working hard to make sure europe will have natural gas, in other words, heat, power and light, this winter that news from venture global breaking literally 30 seconds ago. there you go >> big news there. brian, as you mentioned natural gas prices up 1.5% brian, great to see you. great coverage from vienna i saw you yesterday. you had a suit and a tie on and now in a vest? where is the suit? >> in the lugg

she's a senior contributor to the federalist and her writings have also appeared in "the wall street journal," fox news, national review, "newsweek" and other national media. helen has also served on several boards and commissions in metro denver where she lives with her husband. those include the colorado state advisory committee to the u.s. commission on civil rights and several others. but what impresses me most is her courage and her love of america and our precious freedom. helen became a citizen in 2013. and she takes her oath to protect and defend the united states of america very seriously. by publishing her latest book which is of course for sale out here in the lobby and she will be signing after tonight's event, her book "backlash how china's aggression has backfired." helen is shining a spotlight on the repressive tactics of the chinese communist party and is providing a wake-up call to americans who embrace socialist ideologies like those she and her families painfully endured in china. for this display of courage, helen has been ruthlessly attacked on social media and regularly

right before the big opec meeting, according to the "wall street journal," u.s. officials called their counterparts in saudi arabia and other big gulf producers with an urgent appeal, delay the decision for another month. why a month? why not a week or two months? what's so special about a month from now? wait a second. isn't that when people head to the polls for the midterms? it is, isn't it? doesn't it kind of sound like joe biden is demanding the saudis do him a political favor? that's what the saudis thought too. "wall street journal" says they viewed it as a political gam bet by the biden administration to avoid bad news ahead of the u.s. midterm elections, so they said no to joe. they're going to cut production and increase oil prices. wait a second. are you telling me that joe biden, a statesman, the former vice president, the former chair of the foreign relations committee, mr. diplomat, mr. i've been to every country and know every leader, wasn't he going to work his charm on the crown prince? that didn't work? apparently the meeting biden had with him

and to find the, what i call the wall street journal, running a story like this one is actually interesting because maybe we're finally starting to see how this is. we're finally forensic just how much, how far we could wind up in a situation. none of us wanted, i do clear war with the russians and because we're all playing these stupid reindeer games over trying to, you know, make another good traitor. make a feather our nest for our, our grandkids or whatever. just it's crazy. i thought i, i think is out of control. well, geopolitical that market on the list and of course, publisher of the gold goats and guns news that are coming along a great to see you as always. thanks so much. thank you. i think the joining us here an arty international, anything you need to catch up on to set up the website r t thought com. otherwise. checkout ortiz, plethora of telegram channels. ah, no one else seemed wrong when i just don't hold with an engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look some common ground. ah, lisa canter, russian state, total narrative. i'v

"wall street journal" looking into possible insider trading and conflicts of interest at all levels ofournal finding thousands of officials across the government's executive branch reported owning or trading stock in companies their agencies oversi. a senior reporter for the "wall street journal" and grateful to have you here to walk us through. what did you find? >> that was the big key finding. one in five, a remarkable number, were investing in companies that the agencies were overseeing. in addition to that, if you go deeper into the agencies you'll see one in three officials that we reviewed in the epa were also investing in companies that they were regulating. we found both examples of potential conflicts of interest and appearance of conflicts of interest when we aassembly of god -- that have to fill out this financial disclosure form and compared the forms with what they oversaw and we even looked at their actions. we found five dozen federal officials were actually trading within a window period prior to a major action involving a company that they were invested in. five dozen

wall street" right now. thanks for being here, and i'll see you again next time. ♪ ♪ gerry: hello. this week on "the wall street journallarge." , ratcheting up the economic pain. the fed hikes interest rates again and promises more to come. how much worse is it going to get? and putin mobilizes and threatens nuclear war. is it just a bluff, or is the unthinkable actually about to happen? plus, the border chaos gets worse as illegal crossings soar and democrats insist it's actually those migrant flights by republican governors that are to blame. and the dance craze that has the whole white house in motion. yes, it's the joe biden walkback. we'll be talking about this and more with our guests this week, byron york and richard fowler, but first, the beatings will continue until morale improves. that seems to be the message from the federal reserve this week as it raised interest rates again in the massive mounting evidence that the economy is in a slump. a target range of between 3-3.25 the %, and there seems to be more to come. the forecasts accompanying the move fed officials now think rates will have to two as high as

now the "wall street journal" reporting some of the begging that was going on that was failing. what do you make quickly of the failed diplomacy here. saudi arabia reading the politics of this country. >> well, look, it didn't used to be this way when donald trump was in office. the sub text here is about iran. i think the saudis know that biden desperately wants a relationship with iran and right across the gulf from saudi arabia that's a non-starter. so if you want to have that discussion, mr. president, let's have that discussion because we should not be trying to cozy up to iran. >> harris: all right. we'll move to this. the stakes with russia are higher than ever with vladimir putin's threats of nuclear action. president biden warning the situation is dire. doubling down last night on the controversial comments that he made last week. >> when people hear the word armageddon they get scared used by a u.s. president. >> president biden: putin. he cannot continue with impunity to talk about the use of a tactical nuclear weapon as if it's a rational things to do. mistakes get m