between the u.s. and saudi arabia hitting new lows over the opec decision to cut oil production. there is more bad economic news with only 26 days before the midterms. for the second straight day we received worse than expected inflation numbers and that has the white house scribbling for an explanation. jacqui heinrich starts us off from the north lawn. there is no timeline on when the consequences for the saudis that the president biden talked about might come. he might want to consult with congress and they are out of session until after the midterms but officials here are starting to paint a bit clearer of a picture of what it all might look like. the white house getting vocal about how seriously the president is considering calls from congress to scale back arms sales to saudi arabia after opec plus rejected white house please and slashed production. that is going to be on the table, that will be an option the president looks at. the spate and the scale, the size, th
house doesn t object. so that s where we are. it lays before the white house to see if the white house is going to object. now, we know, we re pretty confident the white house isn t going to object. here are the questions we face right now. will the white house make any changes in it based on a review by the intelligence committee agencies? is it the same thing that the committee originally set up there? and then how does it become public? now this may seem like we re going down into nerdland, but it really is important. if the white house releases it, if the president sort of blesses its release, well, that, in essence, declassifies it. if he doesn t, and he just says fine with me if you guys release it and the house makes it public, that doesn t declassify it, it just makes it public. may seem odd. it s classified but public. but it s important because if it s still classified, it ties the hands of the fbi or the other intelligence agencies on how many they can say in resp d respon