-- with the congressman this is a moment like khashoggi. we have seen a pattern of behavior ever since he ascended to the throne, starting off with the decision to go toward yemen. he is assured of sport on the hill comely he is assured of support from the democratic party, and assured of the support of the press, he needs to lead. cutting off arms sales is a good step come when you look at the provision of spare parts and minutes, we need to look at contractors. one of the things we learned last year in afghanistan is that united states government can compel contractors to leave a country. we can compel them to leave saudi arabia as well. that will ground, effectively, the royal saudi air force come at least significant parts of it. we should appeal to british and french counterparts, britain and france are part of nato. they are in war supporting ukraine. they should be part of this effort as well. it will take a broad effort, i think those are terry to military steps are very good places to start. that does not mean we we give up our rel

and now_ free pass over the khashoggi murder. and now they've deteriorated again under_ and now they've deteriorated again under biden. salaries and us democratic party don't seem to go well together. the americans had to do something because biden took a considerable domestic hit by going to saudi _ considerable domestic hit by going to saudi arabia and just pumping, as you say, _ to saudi arabia and just pumping, as you say, with the crown prince. in effect _ you say, with the crown prince. in effect looking to be trying to have a good _ effect looking to be trying to have a good relationship. and the reward is the _ a good relationship. and the reward is the audis— a good relationship. and the reward is the audisjoined a good relationship. and the reward is the audis joined the a good relationship. and the reward is the audisjoined the iranians a good relationship. and the reward is the audis joined the iranians and the russians in reducing oil production, which puts the prices up 'ust production, which puts the prices up ju

-- of jamaal khashoggi, the journalist. there are many other instances, which are highly problematic. and i think that it is also very important that we have both of their approaches, they are different and complementary. answering the question, what kind of future do we want ahead with saudi arabia? the president has called for a reevaluation of the relationship. so i think this is a very important moment to have this kind of discussion. and i think the president needs to order up some internal studies, within the administration, some consultation with the congress, to take advantage of this pause in the relationship, and the reevaluation. senator murphy's objective could be described as a something between a divorce and a transactional relationship. she was very clear about conditioning our relation on the saudi regime's treatment of its own people. but i approach it from a different perspective, and i think that actually we are in a situation where we cannot live with mbs, and we cannot live without them. -- cannot live

the same man who ordered a hit squad to kill jamal khashoggi. let's bring in the article's co-author. greg whitlock. greg, thanks so much you had to sue the state department and branches of the military to get this through the freedom of information act what was the rationale for those parties keeping it private in the first place? >> well, there wasn't much of a good rationale, shep they just didn't want the public to know about it it's important to underline the documents we did obtain as a result of suing the government, these aren't classified records, they're records that a judge decided finally should be made public the government just said they didn't think there was much of a public interest in knowing retired generals and admirals had these high paying jobs we of course disagree that the public very much ought to know who these people are working for, what they're doing, how much they're getting paid. this is the first tiem time any' been able to get their arms around it. >> you reported the murder of jamal khashoggi, chopping him up an

judge to dismiss a case accusing him of ordering the killing of demo khashoggi. -- jamaal khashoggi. the suit was filed by khashoggi's fiance. 58 people were killed by eric dane ian as the damage amounts. according to -- people were killed by hurricane ian as the damage amounts. mounts. global news 24 hours a day, on-air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. shery: we are continuing to track the missile launch by north korea. japan giving more details of this trajectory saying that the north korean missile passed overhead through the pacific ocean. authorities are sending a missile alert for hokaido, and parts of tokyo as well. they have warned citizens to seek shelter from the missile. your hearing from authorities that they north korea missile flew over the pacific ocean -- that the north korea missile flew over the pacific ocean. there were missile tests last week due to the visit of kamala harris to the region. we will be watching what is happening in japan as authorities are alerting the public. let us turn to the l

with khashoggi, thei journalists who was literally record with khashoggi, the - journalists who was literally hacked up journalists who was literally hacked up with _ journalists who was literally hacked up with a _ journalists who was literally hacked up with a buzz— journalists who was literally hacked up with a buzz saw— journalists who was literally hacked up with a buzz saw in _ journalists who was literally hacked up with a buzz saw in the _ journalists who was literally hacked up with a buzz saw in the saudi - up with a buzz saw in the saudi embassy in— up with a buzz saw in the saudi embassy in turkey. _ up with a buzz saw in the saudi embassy in turkey. it - up with a buzz saw in the saudi embassy in turkey. it was - embassy in turkey. it was uncomfortable _ embassy in turkey. it was uncomfortable enough - embassy in turkey. it was. uncomfortable enough that embassy in turkey. it was - uncomfortable enough that biden embassy in turkey. it was _ uncomfortable enough that biden went and actually _ uncomfortable enough that biden went and actually bumped _ uncomfortable

this is -- yes, the khashoggi murder was bad, but this is not a player in the middle east that's looking to dislodge our influence there, that's looking to destroy israel. and it's actually a bulwark against iran which is, by any measure, is a much worse global actor. and plus, we need them for our economy. so i think it's a little bit -- neil: by the way, if we're using murders and what happens under a despot or kingdom's watch, i mean, we talked to stalin as we were trying to get out of world war ii. >> yes. neil: you know, you can't be choosers. charlie, always good to have you on, my friend. >> yes, yes. one of the greatest mass murderers of all time was our ally back then. neil: yeah. so just put it in perspective. charlie gasparino, the best in the business giving us the business. maybe a reminder that you've got to go slow trying to give another country business especially when you're in the position of not being able too old that. in the meantime, how do you deal with a vladimir putin who seems to almost every day talk about the wisdom of using tactical nuclear weapons? this past

whether it is a failure to investigate 9/11, what happened with the murder and dismemberment of jamal khashoggi, the yemen crisis that kied and 2 -- turn into a killing of innocent children. the list goes on and on. for us to treat the country as another ally is totally inappropriate now that they have sided with putin. laura: did president biden achieve anything with his visit, the fist bump with the saudi crown prince? sen. durbin: we can say we tried. we made an effort to try to reach some accommodation and it did not work. the saudis decide to pitch in with vladimir putin with pricing. laura: ukraine is dominating kyiv politics. are you concerned if republicans make gains in theouse a set it up the midterms they could dial back american support for ukraine? sen. durbin: there are few people on the right and left the question our commitment to ukraine but the vast majority of both political parties support the effort. they understand vladimir putin -- that is up to the ukrainian people. if we do not stop putin and his aggression, there will be another victim. i am personally sensitive to the

and besides the khashoggi murder, which, you know, pompeo and trump refused to address, there was that fancy two billion dollars of money that was dropped in jared kushner's lap. >> yep. >> to manage immediately after he lost power. so i think that you are right about that. on the other side, i am not sure whether there is the direct connection between what good he might have done for trump and what that he is doing for biden in front of the midterms. but what there has been is an assault on oil prices. now, first we have to remember that the fundamental backdrop for oil is for it to be a lot higher than it is right now. i know people don't really believe that, but it is true. russia has clearly removed one of the most -- largest pieces of the global supply chain. it is now very much at risk, where the russian supplies will reach the rest. whether they will even reach the east. how much will be lost. but instead of prices going, up we have seen oil prices come down $40 a barrel over the course of the last two and a half months. that has been mostly cause of, one, the federal reserve co

you mentioned jamal khashoggi, the washington post writer that he put her head on. the gentleman's life. i'm not surprised that he is colluding with russia. but i have to tell you aiden, even after president biden is gone. democrats aren't gonna forget this. and i hope the republican administration doesn't forget this as well. i think they're betting on russia, which may lead to some short term victories and winds for saudi arabia. but in the long term, i think they're really jeopardizing the relationship that they're having with the united states. it benefits russia, for the audience state, because it does allow them to provide the resources to the war in ukraine. but again, this is only temporary. what happens when this is over? what happens when two administrations are out of line. says you know, saudi arabia, we're gonna take a step back. not sell arms to you. not work on technology. in other areas where we've been working on for years now, it's not only gonna be a detriment to the crown prince went to the people of saudi arabia. >> the and have to ask you, you

the saudis do something terrible, they take the murder of jamal khashoggi, we were upset but then we have these conversations in washington d.c. in which we enumerate the four of five things, the useful things that saudis do for us and we say, gosh we can't jeopardize those things. and meanwhile the saudis don't go through a similar exercise, we're gonna kill washington post journalists, and we're gonna cut oil production in a way that hurts the united states of america. they don't enumerate the things that we do for them because they know that at the end of the day, we followed this pattern of always taking it upon ourselves to save the relationship from the consequences of their misbehavior. if you think about, it that's like the definition of an unhealthy relationship where they're talking about countries or two people. think of a marriage or one partner does all the abusing and one partner does all of the work to try to protect the relationship and that is kind of the way things have been between us and saudi arabia. >> and let's go back to iran. we've seen protests around, befor

in another one he mentions naming a street after jamal khashoggi. they're incredibly mild. i didn't say anything else that was even that critical in the 14 tweets he sent. very, very vague. josh, it just doesn't seem to add up. >> right. well, what's important to note here is that these tweets were made by an american citizen while he was in the united states. in other words, he's expressing the right to freedom of speech as an american citizen while in our country. and then when he shows up at the airport in riyadh, they take him from the airport, throw him in prison and sentence him to 16 years in prison. now that's not only a violation of his rights as an american citizen, it doesn't even comport with saudi law. and when you think about that, it means that the saudi regime under crown prince mohammad bin salman has been extending its arm of trans national impression into our society. and now they feel they have the right to imprison anyone who commits any slight against the regime even if it doesn't happen in their own country. and that's a really dangerous precedent. an

you mentioned jamal khashoggi, the washington post writer that he clearly put ahead on this gentleman's life. i'm not surprised that they backed with russia, but i have to tell you, charlie crist ayman, but i think even after president biden is, gone the president should not forget this. and i hope the republican administration do not forget this as well. i think they're betting on russia, which may lead to some short term victories and winds of some kind of weird way for saudi arabia. but in the long term, i think they are really jeopardizing their relationship that they're having with united states. now, it's been with russia, as the audience say, but it does allow them to continue to provide the resources to fuel this war in ukraine. but again, ayman, this is only temporary. what happens when this is over? what happens when two instruments are out of lines, you know what, saudi arabia, we're gonna take a step back. we don't to sell arms to you guys. we don't work to you with you guys on technology, and other areas that we worked on them for a couple of years now. i think it's gonna b

not to do this, meeting with mbs, that roben referred to, absolutely no love lost there, particularly khashoggi related and allegations of what he did, so political ramifications -- >>. >>> we remember the image of the president with mbs and he said he wanted to make saudi arabia a pariah state after the killing and dismembering of jamal khashoggi but he went over there and he met with him, and there was supposed to be political advantages to that, are we seeing them? >> yeah, there's some criticism of being willing to do that, and being willing to have that fist bump that you showed, and while there were the saudis at that moment, increased production slightly, really not much to show for that meeting. at this point, and you know, certainly economic concerns, that created in this country in terms of inflation, this also creates an international concern, and it aligns, the opec nations with more closely with russia, it provides something of a reprieve for russia, when it comes to their own oil prices, so this is all the way around a negative development for this administration. >> what sort of

decades of criticism of saudi arabia's poor human rights record crescendoed in 18 after journalist jamal khashoggi walked into the saudi istanbul's consulate, was murdered, and cut into pieces. the u.s. intelligence community assessed the operation was approved by the kingdom's powerful crown prince, and future king, mohammad bin salman. the following year, candidate joe biden promised punishment. pres. biden: we were going to in fact make them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are. nick: but that proved to be a speed bump that preceded this year's fist bump. president biden and his team worked with mbs, an acknowledgement the kingdom has helped the u.s. for decades, across continents. in the late 1970's, saudi arabia provided crucial support for the afghan mujahideen to defeat the soviet military and help collapse the soviet union. in the early 1990's, saudi arabia invited the largest u.s. overseas deployment in decades. u.s. troops used the kingdom as a base to fight the gulf war. after 9/11, the bush administration held onto the alliance, to cooperate on terrorism and ta

crown prince mohammad bin salman, despite his role in the murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. >> saudi arabia is our second most important security partner in the middle east after israel. >> reporter: cbs news senior security contributor michael morell says many of the potential punishments come with downsides. >> denying arm sales to saudi arabia not only hurts u.s. firms selling those weapons, but it also hurts the security of the region because we want the saudis to have american weapons. they want to have american weapons because if we ever have to fight iran together, we want those weapon systems to compliment each other. >> reporter: the president said today he wants to consult with congress before imposing any consequences on saudi arabia. and it's a delicate situation, because any rift in the u.s.-saudi relationship could rattle oil markets and drive prices up, norah, just one month before the midterm elections. >> nancy cordes, thank you. >>> well, tonight the kremlin is claiming it has arrested eight people in connection with the embarrassing destruction of a key b

crown prince mohammad bin salman, despite his role in the murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. >> saudi arabia is our second most important security partner in the middle east after israel. >> reporter: cbs news senior security contributor mike morell says many of the potential punishments come with downsides. >> denying arms sales to saudi arabia not only hurts u.s. firms selling those weapons, but it also hurts the security of the region, because we want the saudis to have american weapons, they want to have american weapons, because if we ever have to fight iran together, we want those weapon systems to complement each other. >> reporter: the president said today he wants to consult with congress before imposing any consequences on saudi arabia. and it's a delicate situation, because any rift in the u.s.- saudi relationship could rattle oil markets and drive prices up, just one month before the midterm elections. norah. >> o'donnell: nancy cordes, thank you. well, tonight, the kremlin is claiming that it has arrested eight people in connection with the embarrassing destruct

we know that mbs, as he's called, we know his recordl with khashoggi — the dissident journalist who was literally - hacked up with a buzz saw - in the saudi embassy in turkey — it was uncomfortable enough that biden went and actually. bumped fists with him but now, it is a very. uncomfortable moment, to say the least. - i think it has to be a lesson for the whole world. the democratic world, you don't compromise with monsters. and saudi arabia has always been the exception. but actually, they are not. you have to treat them with the long spoon that you always should have done. i think the idea you could pretend they're friends, you might have to negotiate on certain things, but not friends or allies. but monsters with a lot of oili seem to have more influence. we have to get off oil. this is the reason why we have to go green because it will free us from dependence on dictators from putin to mbs. one common enemy saudi arabia and the west — and certainly in the us — has is iran, or the regime in iran. we've been talking about leadership, the protest over the death of mahsa amini.

killing of khashoggi. even republicans were opposed to how tight the trump administration was with saudi officials during those four years. so you could certainly see obviously we'll see what happens in the november elections, and the makeup of congress, but you can certainly see bipartisan efforts to do certain things. like as you raise. dial back military aid. weapons sales. you know, economic ties. i think there probably could be bipartisan support for that, and then, to all of your discussions about the strategic interests of the saudis, that, then, raises the question of what will the saudis do next? is it calling their bluff saying, okay. go buy chinese military equipment. do you really want that? a feeling in congress start to call their bluff. dial back some of these military equipment sales, and then see what they do then. i certainly think there's an attitude of that in congress. >> last word, richard. >> yeah. there is a model for this it's called turkey. an ally but we don't treat them like an

how much of the conversation to the extent there is one, you know, is about the cloud of khashoggi and the standoff with the u.s. and saudi arabia with the price of oil -- how much is in the discussion there or is that put to the side >> reporter: it's absolutely in the conversation with regards to the killing of jamal khashoggi, yes, it is still in the room. however, you could say in this instance that business is trumping politics. it is clear global investors see this part of the world as a new investment destination saudi arabia and the uae had lax lockdown policies. we will see the economy the fastest growing in the g20 oil prices are tracking at $140 u.s. a barrel earlier this year have helped. investors see opportunity here that is what is bringing people into the room. they are not too overly concerned about matters of the past even though it is still a major issue on the minds of many in the room. >> dan, gut reaction optimistic or pessimistic about the economy? the feelings in the room what is your sense more people feeling good or feeling bad? >> reporter: feeling good i wou

president biden met in july with salman and the issue of jamal khashoggi came up. in another interview last night with another network, here is what he said aboutlet issue of oil production. >> president biden: there will be consequences for what they have done with russia, i will not give -- there will be consequences. >> cheryl: what are we going to do here? he was asked and didn't answer, we don't have power over saudis and opec plus includes russia we are kowtowing to the russians issue gas prices sitting at $3.92, oil almost 90 bucks, not 1twenty, pushing 90. >> carley: if oil goes to $100 per barrel, vladamir putin can make billion dollars per day in oil and gas, which is further fuelling his war in ukraine that the united states and president biden has taken a stance against. >> todd: i also read nobody messes with a biden. >> carley: and he is a quarter puerto rico an. >> todd: two rollouts americans await with baited breath, mc rib and season three of fpn. >> cheryl: we have your honor aring shows like mine and new shows, kelsey grammar will be back, duck

we know that after joe biden called saudi arabia's crown prince a murderer of jamal khashoggi. joe flies to saudi arabia. he won't have domestic energy production here. he begged them to increase oil production. joe was humiliated and told there would not be an increase in production but a decrease in out put. joe tried to collude with saudi arabia to delay opec's oil reduction announcement until after the mid-term elections. the saudis exposed him. biden circled back to a favorite political stunt. joe biden has put our country at risk by draining our petroleum reserves at a 4 decade low. donald trump built it up. he is taking it away. it's getting worse. biden poised to release 10 to 15 million barrels of oil but the reserve is intended for national emergencies only. democrats polling badly before the mid-terms. that's not an emergency. joe is compromising our national security to lower the price at the pump for 3 weeks. the white house doesn't care. they are upset their plan to do collude with saudi arabia didn't work. they are not concerned about lower gas prices and prices

," the show's second episode, a sharp criticism of saudi arabia and the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi made waves when the saudi government asked netflix to take it down in that country and netflix complied. >> comedians should push the envelope, but sometimes the envelope pushes back. and there are consequences and repercussions for what you say. and so i had to reevaluate especially because i've got a wife, two kids. i had to figure out, hey, what's my line now that i have these other things that i deeply care about that are very important to me? >> and you have to sort of weigh those, don't you. >> totally. and when people go you're so courageous i go you know i'm 165 pounds, i'm not ready to die for those jokes. >> minhaj is looking ahead with an open mind. trevor noah just announced he's leaving the daily show. it's such an interesting time. >> are you setting me up right now? >> no, no, i wouldn't do it. >> i've got some plans, let's put it that way. >> stay tuned. hasan's new stand up special "the king's jester" is streaming now on netflix. our big thanks to cherry lane theater

americans working for saudi's expanded after the khashoggi assassination. james jones, former nato commander, marine commodore, expanded his consulting business with the saudi defense ministry following that assassination. did you talk to general jones in did he explain why he did that? guest: i did interview general jones and we have known that his company had first gotten those contracts to work for the saudi ministry of defense in 2017 and they are headed by the crown prince, mohammed bin salman, the de facto ruler of saudi arabia in the person who according to u.s. intelligence agencies orchestrated that assassination in october of 2018. we wanted to know if general jones tried to pull out of the country or if he had qualms about working for the crown prince and what he said in the interview with us is that he expanded his business with the ministry of defense after the assassination, saying that the u.s. government encouraged him to maintain ties with the saudi government and that it was a good thing, to keep the saudi's from pulling out of the america

. -- jamal khashoggi in 2019. we are waiting to see concrete reaction from the u.s.. they have made it clear they will do something even if jake sullivan says joe biden is going to act without agree, i think it is clear we have to see something. whether it turns out to be a purely symbolic move that doesn't change much on the ground, or something that really does hurt the saudis remains to be seen. we are basically looking at two things. a change or some kind of restriction in arms sales from the u.s. to the kingdom, or perhaps the nopec bill being passed into law. it is a big if but it would certainly be unwelcome in saudi arabia. dani: the other variable is china, of course. how surprised was the market by xi jinping doubling down on his covid zero strategy? paul: i think in some ways the market took this sort of in its stride. the consensus, at least amongst oil traders for a while now, has been that china is not going to ease its covid zero restrictions anytime soon. perhaps not until march of next year or even beyond. i would say it is pretty much the biggest thi

. >> not after 9/11, not after khashoggi, but now in recent years in 2015 through 2021 the pentagon spent this, get this, more than $44 billion to help the saudi kingdom according to the government accountability office. now there's movement on capitol hill to punish the saudis. kayla tausche live with the details of that. ka kayla? >> reporter: president biden says he'll consult directly with members of congress when they're back in washington next month. lawmakers keep lobbing proposals from out of town senator joe manchin from energy rich west virginia calling on them to expedite regulatory reviews and new leases for projects so the u.s. can supplant the oil they plan to turn off senator richard blumenthal working to reduce the 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. >> reporter: in just the last year the state department has

. >> after the khashoggi assistant then he wound, and he began his war on fossil fuel. in part to placate the far left grind energy zealots, he did what you know the administration could do to ensure that we were not moving our way toward energy independence and fossil fuels because somehow we're all driving electric cars in next couple of years, but we can't do both. we didn't have fossil fuel and energy independence and pursue green energy, according to the administration and zealots, the saudis acted if their own best interest -- in their own best interest, they decided in opec meeting they agreed to cut production by 2 million barrels a day, that was entirely predictable. because they again, act in their own best interest, as does everything nation excepting here in the u.s., whether we do we apologize, only way to get saudis and opec to any leverage, and is by being energy independent, you have to get your oil and gas from somewhere else, we can do that but not under that administration's policy. kennedy: what is shocking to me, you point out the green zealots they

we've seen the problems with free press with khashoggi. they're not taking the path we look like to see them take. this is just another step away from those values. i also find their decision, quite frankly, odd, given that we have worked very hard now in the last several pieces of legislation, including the national defense authorization act out of the house on my committee, the house armed services committee, to gain energy independence in this country. with an economy look russia and saudi arabia has, which is highly dependent on oil, almost nothing else in their economy supports them, to see them making these decisions to destabilize world oil markets i think is very short-sighted and will lead to people moving away from these fossil fuels more quickly than possibly if they hadn't engaged in this, to their detriment. >> congresswoman, we'll have to leave it there. thank you, as always. we appreciate your time. >> thank you so much. >>> more from president biden's exclusive cnn interview as he acknowledging a slight recession is possibl

assassination of can showngy, khashoggi, but they are the best over there. liz: israel is. >> in the arab world. by the way supporter of israel, tacitly. liz: underneath the table. >> but they are not little lidge rent, and they're a divider, not divider a bulwark against iran's ambition. liz: that is true. >> they have oil. the chinese are kissing up to them like crazy now. what jamie dimon, what larry fink, what i believe david solomon, what i understand they're telling the biden administration is back off the belligerence okay? we need them. they need us and you know, the saudis have a side here. okay biden thought he had a deal, right, that they were going to ramp up oil production. instead they cut it by a couple billion barrels but there is a reason why they did that and they say they signaled it to the biden administration. liz: they cut it by two million. >> two million. what they're saying, the saudis are saying opec cut it, we agreed to do this, they were kind light the lead dog in opec because we want to keep this oil at 80 to $90 a barrel. it was

are getting higher every day periods plan begging opec and the guy he called the murderer of jamal khashoggi from the pariah nation of saudi arabia didn't work. his new plan is to bribe the murdering dictator, thug -- that reeks of desperation. his decision to drain our strategic petroleum reserves to salvage a few boats is putting our country's national security at risk. it is not a national emergency when democrats believe they are going to lose midterm elections to tap into those emergency reserves. he is draining all of our petroleum reserves. it's now at a 40 year low to artificially increase the world supply in the hopes it will temporarily lower prices at the pump, all for the midterm elections. now joe biden he doesn't want to talk about any of it. instead he is rolling out a political hail mary and to date one year after firing or suspending dozens of white house staffers for past marijuana use, he announced a widespread pardon to anybody convicted of marijuana possession on the federal level. this only involves charges at the federal level, it could include a huge number of drug tr

own parties -- senator dick durbin wrote from unanswered questions about 9/11, the brutal murder of khashoggi and exporting of extremism to the jailing of peaceful dissidents and conspiring with vladimir putin to punish the ashen us with higher oil prices the saudi royal family has never been a trustworthy ally of our nation. it is time for our foreign policy to imagine a world without this alliance with these royal back stabers. the secretary of state says they're working on it. >> we made clear our views to opec members. we have a multiplicity of interests with regard to saudi arabia and i think the president laid those out during his trip and they include everything from regional relationships including improving relations between our countries and israel, yemen. >> it's complicated. later on this morning we expect to hear president biden giving remarks in hayingerstown, maryland about jobs and economy. interesting to hear how much or little he thinks energy factors into that. harris. >> harris: science and math. it's complicated. peter doocy, thank you. steve forbes, chairman and editor i

there's always something that has given us pause, concern, the murder of jamal khashoggi, 9/11, the air and oil embargo in the 1970s. there's always just something that makes this a very difficult relationship to maintain, but we've got to pay some attention to it. so i would start with appointing the ambassador there. this administration didn't even nominate an ambassador until april of this year. the senate has yet to confirm him. two senators have apparently held that up. so i would encourage the senate instead of complaining about a lot of what's going on here, to get us an ambassador over here to manage the relationship on a day-to-day basis. secondly, i think we've got to find a way, if we increase our own oil production so that we're not quite at their mercy. we need to sit down and talk about the entire relationship. what does it mean? yes, our need for their oil has diminished greatly over the last decade. their need for our security probably has not diminished. we've got to find ways to make it balanced in the relationship and to make sure we understand what we expect of each

with the crown prince even after saying very harsh things about him because of the murder of jamal khashoggi. that's exhibit a of how complicated it is. you layer the opec. i think it's the president's fellow democrats pushing legislation on saudi, it's another example of people out there wanting their members of corning, their senators to do something. this is a chance -- senator blumenthal is afternoon example. he's tough on saudi, probably in a pretty safe seat in connecticut, but he is out for reelection. the fact he's out front is also telling where the voters are. >>> i also want to play what biden also said about his son hunter, and the possibility he would face criminal charges for a tax crimes. >> by the way, this thing about a gun, i didn't know anything about it, but it turns out when he made application to purchase a gun, what happened was le -- you get asked the question are you odd drugs or use drugs? he said no, and wrote about saying no in his book. so i have confidence in my son. i love him, he's on the straight and narrow, and has been for a couple years now, and i'm just s

after 9/11, after the brutal murder of khashoggi, the relations between us and saudi arabia are frail, basically, and we asked saudi arabia to use its influence not to raise opec oil prices, not to side with putin who wants prices to go high so he can get money for pumping less oil. and the saudis made a calculation based on their interests, their budgetary needs, and basically told biden to take a hike. i get it. they've got that power. i don't think we're going to break relations with them in the short run. but, lord, how long are we going to have an energy policy that leaves us exposed that forces our president to go to saudi arabia, or anywhere else, on bended knee and ask for more oil? we have the resources and we have to do it with a climate policy. but we have waited too long. there has to be a coherent, strategic approach to this, and get over the whole progressive thing that we can't talk to oil companies. if the biden administration doesn't get a coherent policy together, if the energy secretary, who has been missing in action, doesn't get the group together, we need to have

saudi arabia's activities in the war on yemen and the civilian casualties followed by the murder of khashoggi, congress has become more critical and controlling of u.s. foreign military sales to saudi arabia. there's very little coercion left that the u.s. can do in trying to control military sales to saudi arabia. >> reporter: so, fred, a u.s. official did tell us that a lot of this was theater by the saudis because some of those oil-producing countries did not agree with their decision, that we might not actually see that full 2 million barrels per day taken off the market. but they are watching for another meeting of opec to see if the saudis stay on this path. >> natasha bertrand, thank you so much. >>> still to come, new footage that shows congressional leaders making contingency plans on january 6th as trump supporters were attacking the capitol. we'll be right back. now ports can know where every pipiece of cargo is. and where itit's going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns and order theieir own replacemet parts. (foreman) nice work. (vo) and d retailers c

. >> how many times have we said, we need to reevaluate our relationship with saudi arabia, jamal khashoggi, this move by opec plus, it never happens because we're reliant on the saudis on the world stage. >>> in iran, there's something extraordinary happening, workers on a petrochemical company went on strike. it's the first time the demonstrations have spread to iran's oil and gas industry since the unrest began last month. before that it was mostly small businesses who had closed doors in support of the movement. unclear whether the strike will affect oil production. the demonstrations began when a 22-year-old woman died after being held by country's morality police for allegedly violating the strict islamic dress code. >> it's fascinating, every day what's happening in iran, and it's fascinating because it's not led by anybody. it's an up rising of women and girls, middle school girls. professional women. >> unbelievably brave, these young women and teenagers, and students across the campuses. what's been heartening to see is the degree young male students standing behind them. it's har

we clearly sided with the saudis, but the saudis engaged in a brutal war, murdered khashoggi, there's no doubt gas prices have gone up and are starting to go up again. they're slapping americans in the face. allies don't do that to each other. >> we wouldn't be in this pickle if we explored more energy on our own here. >> i have said let's have a ban on exporting gasoline. as you know, oil production in this country is up. it is up over 2021, not quite 2019 levels. 2023, supposed to be record production. >> comparing to 2021, we were dealing with covid and everything else. >> by 2023, is supposed to be around 2019 levels and perhaps exceed it. refineries, that's a five year horizon in terms of building refineries. short term, biggest thing we can do is stop exporting gasoline other than to allies in europe and be tougher on opec. >> isn't it weird having to get oil, reach out for oil and not getting enough from opec and opec plus countries when we have plenty of it here. i see what you say about exporting it, but we have known to make overtures to the venezuela and iranians, that's a

mbs in saudi arabia, having called him a pariah appropriately so because of his execution of jamal khashoggi now fist bumping. saudi arabia has hugely disrespected president biden and it's united states of america. i'm not the only one who thinks part of the opec plus motivation was to help the gop and donald trump. in his column titled putin and mbs are laughing at us, pull list prize winner thomas l. friedman says this, we have russia, saudi arabia, iran, bernie sanders, the house progressive caucus and the whole gop all working deliberately, or because they are dupes, to ensure that putin has more oil revenue than ever to kill ukrainians and freeze the europeans this winter until they abandon kyiv. and another dark corner, putin and saudi, defactor ruler crown prince mohammed bin salman are probably secretly hoping that the unleash of inflation helps that donald trump led republicans to regain control in the house of representatives in next month's election. that would be icing on the cake for both who view trump as still the president who still loves black crude over green solar and know

and i think she understands this was a strategic mistake, just like the murder of khashoggi was a mistake and i hope that saudi leaders will listen to her because she has a pulse on how capitol hill feels and how the american people feel about this decision. >> congressman ro khanna, appreciate you joining us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, health officials issue a stark warning about this year's flu season and an alarming new study on the rise in cancer rate as mong increasingly young patients. those under 50 need to pay attention. but first getting back to real live after a vacation. we know it is never easy. so here is dr. sanjay gupta with today's chasing life. >> i'm dr. sanjay gupta, hope of chasing life podcast. coming back from vacation is never easy but there are ways to ease back into the routine of daily life. first off, plan a buffer when you come back. try to give yourself a transition day between vacation and work. this could help avoid the whiplashesque. it is also good to ease back on to the grid said dr. lori santos. that means you doan necessarily n

president biden has vowed to punish saudi arabia for the oil decision, something we did not do for khashoggi and 9/11. it's time to rethink the relationship with riyadh. >>> four people injured now at a local hospital in raleigh. wake med raleigh is their trauma center and they now say they've received a fourth patient. and even more disturbing, a second crime scene has been opened up in the raleigh area. the first, of course, in east raleigh where we believe multiple people have been shot and killed now a second crime scene has been open. many people pushed away from it and i think we have some live cameras coming in from there local reporters showing people were running and crying away from the second scene. people seem uncertain about what's happened there. the one thing we do know is a man believed to be wearing camo and carrying a rifle or a shotgun, i should say, has opened fire on multiple people according to our local station, wral, our nbc affiliate there, the gunman has killed multiple people and shot at least four, all of whom are in a local trauma center now and that gunman is no

what i'd consider and what i have in mind, but there will be consequences >> not after 9/11, not after khashoggi, but now saudi arabia of course, hugely dependent on the united states for defense assistance in recent years from 2015 through 2021 the pentagon spent, get this, more than 44 billion dollars to help the saudi kingdom 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

telling me in the 2019 debate before the election that he would make the sauds a pariah because of the khashoggi murder and one of the reasons why this is so controversial. the worst reason is that gas prices are going up. even before they announced it, in anticipation of the pec plus decision, which is the saudis and russia. >> that's right. and it's not just gas prices. in what you'd hear from administration officials, there are a bunch of issues with which we have to work, including increasingly trying to have some kind of a diplomatic breakthrough with israel. we saw in the trump administration the abraham accords, this normalization between israel and other arab states. the big prize at this point is saudi arabia. i think biden officials would like to see that happen. so it's not just about the energy prices. that means that saudi arabia has a lot of leverage. it always has. and the u.s. never really takes that step to throw relations into a crisis. even when the saudis drive us craz crazy, as they often do. >> one way to get more oil pumped, although the equipment, the refinery equipment i