when we came in, president biden was determined that we recalibrate the relationship with saudi arabia. and to make sure that that relationship was serving our own interests as well as our values as we move forward. julie: secretary of state antony blinken backing the president s plans to court energy producers in saudi arabia later this month. it is part of his plan to rebuild energy relations, also to help drive down gas prices here at home. ambassador kurt volker is standing by. first lucas tomlinson is live from the state department with this one. today the price of gasoline in this country is double what it was when president biden was sworn in. one of the reasons he is making this trip to saudi arabia after a trip to israel later this month. now as a presidential candidate he said the following about saudi arabia. president biden: khashoggi was murdered and dismembered and i believe in the order of the crown prince. we were going to make them pay
international airspace 20 miles from iranian shores when it was shot down. president trump has not ruled out taking action. this is a new wrinkle, a new fly in the ointment what happened, shooting down the drone. in this country will not stand for it, that i can tell you. the iranians releases a video of a missile he used to shoot down the high-altitude american drone with a wingspan the size of a boeing 737. late last night, the faa released a statement prohibiting u.s. aircraft from falling over the persian gulf, the area where i ran shot down the american drone. as you can see from its flight tracker radar, there has been a steep drop in commercial airline traffic. today, iranian officials said it almost shot down an american risk reconnaissance aircraft, they said they held fire. sandra: lucas tomlinson at the pentagon, thank you. bill: bill: data hoffman,r
organizations. to my former cia station chief dan hoffman is standing by but first lucas tomlinson. officials say it at the u.s. military counterattack has been paused but they are not ruling out strikes today were in the last night, strikes were called off and is not immediately clear why. today, iranian state tv show this video claiming what it shows to be the wreckage of the drone was flying in a space. if the second time they have fired on u.s. drones and this time, they were successful for shooting down a drone with over $100 million. if iran is not denying it took action. they were competing narratives about where the drone was flying when it was shot down. iran s foreign minister chose this hand drawn map with cornice that would ve put the drone about 8 miles off the coast of iran which is an iranian interspace. the pentagon responded with a map showing a flight path path of its own and denied the drone was flying over iranian territory claiming it was in