campaign, biden called them a pariah state. today he said a meeting is in the u.s. interest to help normalize gas prices. chief white house correspondent katilan collins is in saudi arabia following president biden. do we know if the president has raised the murder of khashoggi to the prince? we don t know and don t have a guarantee if we are going to find out because when white house officials were pressed on this earlier given they had not given a clear direct answer on whether he was going to definitely bring it up. they said it s up to whether or not president biden wants to tell reporters that afterward because they want to keep some of this conversation private. they just took reporters in briefly at the top of that meeting. so it will really be up to president biden whether or not we find out if he actually brought that up with the saudi crown prince. of course, we know a reporter did bring it up when they were taken into the room just briefly. this is how mbs respon
rights is inconsistent with who we are and who i am. still, the saudis are rejoicing at the meeting, and president biden s presence there at all, despite his campaign pledge to make saudi arabia a, quote, pariah, over khashoggi s murder. president biden in fact greeted mbs, the country s de facto ruler, with a fist bump earlier today. neither leader answering questions from the press at the very start of their meeting. jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? thank you, guys. a reminder, according to president biden s own director of national intelligence, quote, we assess that saudi arabia s crown prince, muhammad bin salman, approved an operation in turkey to capture or kill saudi journalist jamal khashoggi, unquote. among the reasons for that assessment, the dni notes, among the murderous thugs who killed the washington post columnist and then chopped him up with a bone saw, were seven members of mbs quote elite personal protective detail, one tha
service disputing the inspector general s claims saying a reset of the agency s mobile phones and a system migration where some data were lost began more than a month before the request to save them. those messages would be critical evidence about january 6th committee testimony that the president got physical with his protective detail for not letting him join the rioters at the capitol. 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 off
secret service exchanged texts on the and around the date of january 6th. what we re learning and why they weren t saved. more than 85 million people under heat alerts today, and mother nature is only cranking up the heat as we go through the weekend. where we can see dozens of records set for tomorrow. and the white house says president biden s covid symptoms have improved, but we still haven t heard directly from his doctor how he s doing. we ll be joined live by dr. anthony fauci this hour for an update. good morning to you and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, july 23rd. food to b good to be with you, alex. good to be with you, amara. we haven t done this in a while. no, we haven t. we begin with the latest on the fallout of the january 6th commission hearing. it s about donald trump s refusal to call after the attack on the capitol. 187 minutes, donald trump watched televised carnage at the capitol while refusing pleas from everyone around him to cal
metadata that shows text messages were exchanged around january 5th and 6th, 2021, but the data was lost due to a migration that started after that. another ten of those agents had no text messages at all. three had only personal text messages, and one person did save a text message exchange. the big question had been what was the secret service doing to try to find these text messages, and for several days they had been conducting a rigorous probe at the request of the house committee saying you must find these records and conduct a rigorous investigation. and what the secret service had told the house select committee in a letter on july 19th was that investigators had planned to conduct forensic exams of any available devices used by the identified individuals and any follow-up in locations that were not already searched by the secret service. however, those efforts are now