meeting face-to-face with the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman, the very man the u.s. intelligence determined likely approved the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. while in israel president biden stopped short of saying that he would raise the killing with the crown prince though saying that he will as he always says he will raise human rights with the country. as a presidential, biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah for their atrocious human rights record. there is a lot at stake in this stop on his middle east tour. joining me now, wolf blitzer and kaitlan collins live in jeddah, saudi arabia. the president will be meeting with the crown prince shortly. he is leaving the plane and the meetings begin. this is the most complicated meeting of the entire trip. set the stage for everyone. it is the most complicated because the u.s. intelligence community concluded that mohammad bin salman the crown prince was directly involved in ordering for all practical purpos
he walked up to mohammad bin salman. but this is all happening here in jeddah right now in saudi arabia. and these talks will continue through much of today and then tomorrow as well the president will continue not only meeting with the saudis but with other members of the gcc, the gulf corporation council, they have all gathered here in jeddah for substantive meetings and the president and u.s. officials have high hopes that they can what they call recalibrate the u.s./saudi relationship and also see if the u.s. can convince some of these oil-producing countries to increase the production of oil in order to reduce the price of gasoline back home in the united states. so there is a lot going on right now. absolutely. beginning with this greeting and now to the substance. good to see you again, wolf, thank you so much. and let s turn now back here at home and an update on the monkeypox outbreak. the cdc is now reporting that nearly 1500 confirmed cases of monkeypox are now in the un
mohammad bin salman the crown prince was directly involved in ordering for all practical purposes the murder of jamal khashoggi, the columnist writing for the washington post and he was brutally killed in turkey a few years ago. and the president himself, president biden himself, said as a result of that and other human rights violations, he regards saudi arabia as a pariah state and he would continue to do so. clearly things have changed somewhat since then because now he wants to for all practical purposes embrace saudi arabia for a variety of reasons, not only for regional integration you are looking at live pictures of air force one. the president will be walking down those stairs momentarily. he will be greeted by the way by the governor of mecca and also princess, saudi ambassador to the united states who is here, and then we ll go over to the palace for the big meetings with the king and with the crown prince. they will be substantive meetings on a variety of issues.
breaking news just in, president biden has arrived at the royal palace in saudi arabia. we ll show you video in from just moments ago. the president arriving fist bumping the crown prince mohammad bin salman. back with me now, wolf blitzer. so one question has been answered, how the two leaders would greet each other. and they greeted each other with a little fist bump, not a formal shaking of hands for whatever any of that means. but they are substantive meeting right now and we ll see if anything emerges positive from that. but you see the president going up to mohammad bin salman the crown prince. de facto really leader of saudi arabia for all practical purposes. and it looked like he was smiling, the president too when
meeting face-to-face with the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman, the very man the u.s. intelligence determined likely approved the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. while in israel president biden stopped short of saying that he would raise the killing with the crown prince though saying that he will as he always says he will raise human rights with the country. as a presidential, biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah for their atrocious human rights record. there is a lot at stake in this stop on his middle east tour. joining me now, wolf blitzer and kaitlan collins live in jeddah, saudi arabia. the president will be meeting with the crown prince shortly. he is leaving the plane and the meetings begin. this is the most complicated meeting of the entire trip. set the stage for everyone. it is the most complicated because the u.s. intelligence community concluded that