intention from his own accord stepping down from his post as dhs inspector general. there are a lot of folks on the hill and probably in the white house too that wish he would gallop off into the sunset. for him to send an e-mail like this saying criticisms are meritless and suggesting what his office is facing is just quote-unquote speculation, that s probably the clearest sign yet he has no intent of vacating his post and that ultimately it s going to be a decision up to president biden whether or not to keep him there, whether or not he can maintain the confidence needed and credibility to do his job. harry, betsey as she always does lays the stakes out beautifully. and we already knew previously he knew the texts were missing months before he alerted congress. but the january 6th homeland security are now calling this a cover up. he actually withdrew his february 2021 requests for all secret service text messages
stands on it. i personally would prefer that he raise it. i think it s important to make it clear not just to the saudis, but also to the rest of the world, to jamal khashoggi s fiance, to those who have been hurt in many other ways by saudi repression, by saudi human rights violations, that this is what we stand for. i think the president probably in his mind also has a job to do and that is to protect american interests, military interests, security interests, economic interests, at a time when much of our relationship with the middle east is in crisis. so we need the saudis, they know that. but we also have some leverage with them, which i think the president really needs to consider exercising here. maybe that will occur behind closed doors, but we ve got a lot more leverage, i think, than people realize. ambassador, what is that
factfinding and really sort of get to the bottom of what really happened here and this entire scenario. jonathan, let me ask you about this d.c. police officer who has now corroborated cassidy hutchinson s account of the heated exchange between former president trump and the secret service inside the suv right after the rally on january 6th. certainly relevant here considering that tony ornato and engel disputed it, testified. what s your view of the relevance of this. and the d.c. officer wasn t in the vehicle. how much could he know or she? i think what this is doing is confirming parts of hutchinson s testimony that there was a disagreement. now the question is, what level of disagreement was there between the former president and his detail on that day? but i think we all should expect that the president was unhappy that he wasn t able to go with his supporters up to capitol
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 responded.
view of what has happened, we now need to talk to the secret service and our expectation is to reach out to them directly. one of the things we have to make sure is that what secret service is saying and what the ig is saying, that those two issues are, in fact, one and the same. and so now that we have it, we ll ask for the physical information and we ll make a decision ourselves. reporter: and so these missing, deleted text messages are so key and potentially crucial because they are from january 5th and 6th, and they could give more insight as to the heart of what the committee is probing here. what happened with former president trump on the day of the capitol attack and the days surrounding it, and of course those key details, those will really be the focus of the next hearing next week, in particular what trump did during those 187 minutes that he just wasn t seen or heard from publicly, guys.