well, it s 10:00 a.m. here in jeddah, and u.s. president joe biden will soon begin the second and final day of what is his controversial trip to saudi arabia. on friday the two nations entered into a number of far-reaching agreements on a wide range of issues including on energy and on food security. but it s the image of the president fist-bumping saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, or mbs as he s known, that has been grabbing the attention. the saudi government also released this video of the u.s. delegation greeting saudi officials with fist bumps. u.s. journalists weren t present at the time, and we only have the saudi version of this exchange. president biden says the first thing he did on friday was confront the crown prince over the 2018 murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. here s what the president said afterwards. with respect to the murder of khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of
ambassador. today israel launching a serious of air strikes in gaza, who they were targeting, and the incident civilians that may have been caught up in the cross fire. good day to you. i m peter alexander in washington. for my friend hallie jackson. and joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent allie vitale and anna palmer. with great gratitude we are all inside with some air-conditioning on this stifling d.c. day. allie, let s walk through this kyrsten sinema, the deal the democrats got. talk about feeling the heat. the at democracy were very concerned how this was going to end up. republicans wither trying to peel off sinema s vote. what twos from here? what happens next? yeah, peter, thankfully we are going to be in air-conditioning all the rest of the weekend, too, because the senate is working both saturday and sunday now that they have senator kyrsten sinema on board. the changes she made to the legislation, not entirely surprising for those of us who h
coming from 100 different countries. this is something border officials have never seen before. let s go outfront . and good evening. i m erin burnett. a georgia district attorney leading the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the election, warning a top georgia georgia republican official he may be indicted. willis sending a target letter, a specific word here, to georgia gop party chairman david schaeffer. schaeffer has told the january 6th committee that the fake elector s plat phrot in georgia came at the direction of the trump campaign. and yahoo! news first reported this target letter and is also reporting tonight that several other georgia republicans received similar letters warning of possible indictments. now, of course as we all know, georgia is ground zero for investigators when it comes to trump election schemes. the fulton county investigation was prompted because of that infamous phone call, right, it was stprtribed when donald trum called brad r
abrams. president biden meets with international leaders at a time of worldwide uncertainty and fear, what can they realistically accomplish? secretary of state antony blinken joins me exclusively to discuss in a moment. plus, keep calm, carry on. boris johnson with his job. i want to say this to the people of the united states. as the world s economy slows and russia s war rages, what s next for a key ally? british prime minister boris johnson joins me in a u.s. exclusive ahead. hello, i m jake tapper live in krun, germany, at the site of the g7 global summit. president biden is on the world stage meeting with fellow leaders of western democracies, in addition to the u.s. and germany. the other five in the g7 or group of seven are italy, france, japan, and the united kingdom, whose prime minister we just interviewed. they re here to try to figure out how to stave off a global recession and ensure stability at a time of autocratic muscle flexing, especially russia s
state antony blinken as well as british prime minister boris johnson who just survived a no-confidence vote back at home and trying to ensure that no one in the g7 goes wobbly on ukraine. but let s begin with chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins, entirely new challenges than when they met last year. yeah, jake, it s a completely different set of subjects they re facing and obviously you just heard the president speak about china. that s something something that the white house wants to make sure is known on the agenda while the leaders are meeting here in germany but also the table for the summit is being set by russia s invasion of ukraine and the ensuing war and how these g7 nations are responding to it. in part, you saw that announcement from the united states and other g7 leaders saying that they are going to be banning russian imports of russian gold. that s a pretty big deal, especially when it comes to the united kingdom, jake, which takes in billions of d