this is almost insulting to americans intelligence. we know this was a mob attack, an insurrection, orchestrated and perpetrated by supporters of former president trump. we heard them. we saw them that day. they confirmed their allegiance to trump in social media posts, in the media interviews, they have given, and in their own admissions in court. so the idea this was some sort of secretly plotted attack by left wing antifa is ridiculous. of these more than 700 people charged, not one has shown to have any affiliation with left wing antifa, by contrast, john, hundreds of them have been confirmed as supporters of former president trump, including members and people affiliated with far right extremist groups, not far left, but far right, groups like the oath keepers, proud boys and others. the false flag idea is insulting and ridiculous. 365 days of lies. that s what we re noting today. daniel dale, thank you so much for your work.
saudi arabia. secondly, american oil sort of a sweet spot and $54 at the very low end of that sweet spot. much lower than that as the president is calling for affects production from parts of the country that frack. and the third part is thank you to saudi arabia within 24 hours of the world saying that the response to saudi arabia was inadequate. yes. this is the classic trump double down. i think what he was trying to do there is make it seem as if there was some sort of benefit for america in the way he handled the khashoggi situation the day before and telling the gullible voters, look, i was nice to saudi arabia. they re giving you something back. they re giving you money and not at all how it works and that s his spin here. daniel, good to see you as always. thank you. daniel dale, toronto star washington but owe chief. president trump better get ready for this. nancy pelosi is moving toward another term as the speaker of the house.
i like them very much. daniel, here s the issue. there are lots of reasons why saudi arabia probably needs america more than america needs saudi arabia. saudi arabia s not buying hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars of stuff from america as donald trump claims. $14.5 billion. not hundreds of millions of jo b jobs from saudi arabia. this sounds this smells weird. it smells like donald trump is going absolutely out of his way to not upset the sensibility of the saudi rulers. i agree. and we have seen this before where even for trump, even by his standards, strange behavior. the extent to which goes out of the way not to anger autocrats is eyebrow raising and a number of possible reasons and impossible to pinpoint any given one. he has had financial entanglements with saudi arabia. we know that they flattered him very early in the presidency.
this is a white house moonlighting as a public relations firm for the crown prince. and that s a republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee with a pretty remarkable swipe at a republican president, ali. in that battle between murder and values, values lost. bill, thank you for that. bill neely, chief global correspondent putting this into sharp relief for us. like to bring in washington but owe chief daniel dale. daniel, you have chronicled a lot of what donald trump talks about and we have heard him talk a lot about how much he likes the saudis. let s go back a couple years. listen with me. i like the saudis. they re very nice. they buy all sorts of my stuff. all kinds of toys from trump. they pay me millions and hundreds of millions. saudi arabia and i get along great with all of 24e78. they buy apartments from me. 40 million, 50 million. am i supposed to dislike them?