after his statement, our sports editor dan roan challenged mr infantino on some of his comments. to some in the west, the critics are being hypocritical. isn t it hypocritical to, on the one hand say that fifa stands for equality and non discrimination while at the same time supporting an event in a country which has discriminatory laws? if you were to exclude all the countries who have discriminatory laws or other human rights problems. we re playing football only. maybe you and me. maybe because i don t know. i know that me, i don t discriminate. but you. i don t know. i hope not. so. i think it is real to bring that football, brings people together
anyway. there is a concern i know in the white house among foreign policy hands that there is a real risk of saudi going more and more into the sphere of like-minded, you know, autocratic governments in russia and china and that part of that geopolitical consideration is almost certainly motivating how the administration has again and again and again appeared to treat the saudis with kid gloves. i think there s a sort of split-the-difference program. the saudis were lecturing president biden about hikts but back in washington, people believe he didn t do enough to emphasize human rights problems and the terrible murder of an american columnist for the washington post. is there a time period mbs being appointed prime minister perhaps, you know, specifically to insulate him from any legal action?
are under a cloud of politics, as well as covid casting a shadow. the u.s. and several other allies holding a diplomatic boycott over china s human rights problems. but president xi and vladimir putin together at the opening ceremonies. david, it s a tense backdrop to the winter olympics. some of the tension playing out in plain sight. just how big are the political implications overhanging these games? yeah, don. as much as beijing has slammed countries like the u.s. for its diplomatic boycott, it seems like the geopolitics are unavoidable. putin and xi, shoulder to shoulder, ahead of the opening
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organizations. there really are some human rights problems in russia s conduct of this war against ukraine but also with russia at home. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, thank you. president biden is set to deliver his first state of the union address tonight. white house officials know that russia might use this moment to ratchet up more attacks on ukraine. new details on that, next.