rachel, thank you. and now to president biden arriving in israel today, his first trip to the middle east as president. the president visiting the holocaust memorial. the most controversial leg of his trip coming later this week when he travels to saudi arabia. our senior white house correspondent mary bruce is live from jerusalem. and mary, the president wants to now he s set to meet with the crown prince? reporter: and david, the president is well aware, this is controversial. it is a reversal from that campaign pledge to make saudi arabia a global pariah, but now, the president is set to meet with the crown prince, whom the u.s. concluded ordered the brutal murder of jamal ka show guy. bidened is defending this trip, arguing it is the important to engage with strib, to counter russia and outcompete china, but this is also about oil. with the president facing pressure to bring down high gas prices back home, he s trying to increase the flow of oil back to
gulf corporation council. and that is why president biden would be traveling to saudi arabia. and so they are framing this as, you know our sources are telling us i should say that this is not just a trip that is being planned so that biden can meet one-on-one with mbs, this is a broader meeting of all of the gulf countries and saudi arabia chair has that council. so of course the president would have to heat with mbs directly. but it is such a dramatic shift from what we ve seen from the white house over the last year especially even before biden took office when he promised to make saudi arabia a global pariah. of course he had been highly critical of noor salman after the murder of jamal khashoggi. and so this is really kind of a
it s not a coincidence, you re saying, that you have lavrov, you know, mentioning the use of nuclear weapons right after this on the same day that this meeting is held? i think that s right, anderson. again, they have nothing left. again, we are hammering their economy, their financial system, their business community, putin s inner circle, watching over 300,000 of the most talented russian citizens now voted with their feet and left the country. they don t want to be in a country anymore that s a global pariah. i think they re faced with pretty bleak times ahead. what do you make of this coming phase now of the war? well, i think the phase that we re actually in now, and perhaps in the days that lie ahead, is very, very pivotal for ukraine. they ve been scrambling to move forces down there, just as russia pulled forces out of the north and reconstituted them and shoved them around to the east without really adequate
he s watching his 300,000 of his most talented russian citizens have left the country rather than stay in a country that is now the personification of the evil empire and he s a global pariah. that is a challenge. it s a contest of wills between him and certainly president zelensky and ukraine whose forces have far excited what the russians thought they would do. you said that they thought this would be a few days or week. that is what russia thought it would be. this is a rude a wakening for them about the limitations of their forces and the extraordinary capabilities demonstrated by the ukrainians. thanks, general. appreciate it. thank you, charles. between unleashing more spending and migrant crossings, why is the white house ignoring what has americans working? and elon musk continues his battle for twitter.
research partners in the west or everywhere for that matter. it s their ability, possibility to fly to many countries and now they just have few options open so it is already affecting them and he s not i mean, it s not even bringing back the soviet union because even in the soviet union, certainly the second half of it they remain more connections available that they are available now so it s almost where there is all this iron curtain falling down, it s almost bringing russia to the stone age and black hole of non-existent global pariah. it possible when the whole world is against you and basically against everybody else and everybody shutting their door or their tweet or their everything, at least initially probably it may result in rallying around the flag and people feeling that