good morning and welcome to your new day. i m kristin fisher. good morning, kristen. i m boris sanchez. why one committee says their explanation doesn t make any sense. president biden is meeting with key leaders in saudi arabia saudi arabia. what he s hoping to achieve. and then the criticism over the meeting with the crown prince yesterday. truckers are struggling with diesel prices. their concerns as costs continue to climb, coming up. this may be my favorite of the day. the deep space discovery, the heartbeat sounds that have astronomers all aflutter. aflutter. i know. do you see what i did there? good morning and welcome to your new day. it is july 16th. you know, boris, it may be a saturday in the summer, but it s a busy saturday in the summer with the president s trip overseas and all these new revelations about the jan 67 committee. there is a lot going on. we re going to take you there. first there s concern over the text going add ups sent
the director of middle east security initiative at the think tank in washington. he s also a former deputy intelligence officer at the national intelligence council in washington as well. jonathan, kaitlan and i have some questions for you. thanks so much for joining us. how important are these talks that are underway? what s your analysis, and specifically what s to come as far as gas prices are concerned because that s certainly hovering over these talks as far as the u.s. is concerned? well, thanks so much for having me, wolf. i m thrilled to be here. the reality is this summit was not going to be able fro deuce meaningful changes if gas prices. they have very, very limited spare capacity themselves. on the other happened, there may be a little bit four ta u does timing here. commodity prices may be dropping across the bore.
the president may see a correlation when he gets back to the u.s. with fallen prices continuing. that obviously would be positive for him politically. how much of an economic and difficult minefield, jonathan, is president biden walking with this visit to saudi arabia? did he have no choice but to come here? how important is this trip? hold on a second, jonathan. we ll get back to you in a moment. but let s listen to the president. i d like to thank our saudi host for invited the united states to join this summit and for the hospitality welcoming all of us. a great deal has changed since i visited this region when i served as vice president of the united states, both on the world stage and in the middle east. around the world we re seeing efforts to undermine a rules-based order. with china s increasing actions in the pacific and beyond and russia invoking war against ukraine, with iran s
even israel, to counter iran in the future. that s going to take some time. it s not going to happen immediately. there s a lot of diplomatic issues, a lot of hardware issues to wok out. my sense this was hard to have those discussions. there s a balance to be had. i think it s true. it s moving closer and closer. jonathan, thank you so much. we re watching what s going on at the ggc summit. kaitlan and i will be right back. much more of our special cover raj coming u up. to relieve occasional nerve aches, weaeakness and discomfor. try nervivenerve relelief.
mohammad bin salman, yesterday. that s why he emerged yesterday and made a statement to the media and talked about the achievements he called forthcoming in saudi arabia. this is the last day of his trip to the region. he ll be heading back to washington over the weekend. he s got a lot going on certainly back home, but he s got a lot going to on in the middle east as well, meeting with key middle east leaders ranging from security to economics to human rights. once again he met with the president of the united emirates. moments ago the leaders posed for what s called the so-called family photo. but it s president biden s interaction with the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman that has been looming large since the entire summit. he said he confronted the crown prince and said he was behind the killing of the washington post columnist jamal khashoggi. he said the leader once again