alienate them and potentially, again, cause them to raise prices even further? paul: a couple of other things, dan, that the democrats have threating threatening is, one, stop arms sales to the saudis and withdrawing the 3,000 troops in saudi arabia who are on the ground there. good ideas? no, they re not good ideas. and i think the saudis recognize what s going on here, paul, is these are democratic ideas that have been in the hopper for a long time. the democratic party is basically being directed by the progressives, and the progressives have been anti-saudi for a long time just as they have been anti-israel for quite a while, favoring the palestinians instead. they oppose arms sales whether it s to saudi arabia or anyone else. they want to pull down defense spending. so i think the saudis understand that their interests for the future don t lie with the current edition can of the democratic party. they re not going to do anything
admission goes back there, had in hand, and say let s start over like fdr did 80 years ago. so we don t have leverage in the situation. they can substitute somebody else for us. do you want to take our missile defense outcome aside with yemen who is controlled by iran? take our alliances saudi arabia out. do you know there s no abraham accords? they green-lighted the whole thing? i don t love the country. i don t love the fact that they have it set up that way, but they re not looking for our approval. they are looking for a strategic partner. the anti-saudi arabia is not france, it is iran. if you pull out of saudi arabia, you are saying 1-800-iran. or you pull out of the middle east altogether. i don t think that is to anybody s advantage. steve: said i could be the consequence. stay tuned when the house and senate comes back to business. maybe something will get done. we ll keep you posted. coming up on 6:11 here in the east and have breaking news,
exceptional in the region. however some of the threads he was reposting were antisaudi. one of them was reposting from a saudi author who has been in jail here for three years. these things you might have thought would have hit trip wires somewhere. perhaps they didn t. and perhaps this will be part of the focus of how to build trust. all right. we will of course continue to watch this story. live there. thanks so much for joining us. the president of ukraine and russia made some commitments toward resolving their conflict. they also sidestepped some challenges. president zelensky held his face to face meeting with putin in paris. they afwrgreed on a prisoner exchange and a cease fire. russia and ukraine implementing this cease fire.
he joins us tonight. we are all anti-saudi now. as someone who has been anti-saudi for a long time it s nice to have company. where were all the chest-beaters last spring when the united states bombed syria in part at the direction of saudi arabia? and everybody on the left, including your former boss chuck schumer said it s good idea to do the bidding of saudi arabia? but now anyone who says anything about saudi arabia is immoral. how did that change exactly? i have always been concerned with saudi arabia. i m a new yorker who worked in the united states senate after 9/11. i don t trust them. they gave aid and comfort to people who bombed us. i don t understand how we look at what they did to khashoggi any differently than what al-qaeda did to daniel pearl. it s an act of terror and it should be dealt with that way. as for trump s role, he has been tucker: hold on. wait, wait, wait. stop. before you get to trump and whatever.rut.