the president has been meeting this morning with key allies in the east, including the president of egypt and the prime minister of iraq before posing for the traditional family photo at the summit in jeddah. one of the most controversial meetings was president biden s sit-down with saudi s crown prince, mohammad bin salman. our colleague wolf blitzer is traveling with the president and joins us from saudi arabia. wolf, members of the biden administration have been stressing that these meetings are really about trying to reset that relationship between the middle east and the united states, right? they certainly do. they believe this is a moment that the u.s. can reset the overall u.s. relationship with countries in the middle east, and they re working to do that right now. president biden, right now, kristin, is laying out his mini strategy, on this, his last day o a trip to the region. he s talking about everything from security to economics and human rights. but it s h
closer to it. so i cannot confirm or deny whether there was a military presence inside the factory zone. what i can say, though, is that the constant threat of missile strikes coming from the russian military is something ukrainians are living with day and night now. you mentioned the city of mykolaiv. it s about two hours east of where i am right now. it s been hit by dozens of missiles. just this last week i visited an elementary school that s been destroyed. we heard of universities that were hit, a hotel that was hit there. we know the city of vinnytsia was hit by rockets, kill 24g, including children, wounding dozens, including the mother of one of those children who was killed. the mother is in the hospital right now. other cities have been pounded as well. on the front lines, this is an