but he s here now and they re trying to figure out a way forward. so a full day of meetings begins now with the leader of iraq and we re hoping to have some details from inside their at some point later on today ashleigh. okay, peter , you see who is traveling with the president on his mideast trip. peter , thank you so much. will be coming back to you once we get more details. but later on this morning, president biden will also speak to the leaders of egypt and the united arab emirates before heading back to washington. i m ashleigh strohmeyer in order to send you back to regular programing already in progressve. ha can you be sure that anothr incident, another murder, tumultuous joe biden won t happen again? god love you. what a silly question.ggi how could i possibly be sure of any of that? the president is under enormous pressure to bring downo the surging gas prices with thed trip with democrats in his own o party getting tired of hiswn inflation spin. think that w
hello and welcome we start in saudi arabia where president biden has been meeting with the country s de facto leader. despite earlier indicating that he would not value one on one time with him. this is the moment when two leaders bumped this shortly after mr biden flew intojeddah, the us president abandoning any plans because of saudi arabia s record on human rights. mr biden also held talks and we will discuss the details. they have made it clear that his historic visit will come when he attends another summit with other leaders of the gulf. and also how to respond to the gulf. and also how to respond to the high cost of fuel. for more details here is our middle eastern correspondent. it was only four weeks ago thatjoe biden said that he was not coming here to meet crown prince mohammed bin salam. this is a summit tomorrow, he said that he would see him there but he was there to see lots of other leaders. and then in the last 24 hour is on the white house confirmed today s
building get defaced over a lie. and it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest, knowing what i ve been hearing down the hall in the conversations that were happening, saying that we come up, and knowing what was happening on the hill, and it s something that i still struggle to work through. the emotions of that. joining us now is olivia troye, former top aide to vice president mike pence. she attended the hearing today. she is a former colleague of cassidy hutchinson. olivia, i just want to read for the audience the tweet that she was just talking about. it was donald trump tree tweeting at 20 4 pm on the capitol, and that was being televised, he was watching it. he tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth! and