you know, what kind of immunity leaders of kun troirs de facto leaders of countries have. and then of course there is the political consideration surrounding it. you want the white house you see that immediately sort of trying to say hot potato, it s not really our call, it s a matter essentially for the lawyers. but again and again and again, what i m struck by is the biden administration has chosen a course of pragmatic reengagement with the saudis regardless of the outrageous situation with khashoggi. i think many allies on capitol hill are looking at this and saying, you know, what on earth has the biden white house gotten by what appears to be selling out principles? look how the saudis treated the president after he went and visited them and basically reversed itself on an oil agreement to keep prices down that the biden white house thought they had agreed upon. right. it s the sequence of events as
the new york times is reporting that the biden white house made a secret oil agreement with saudi arabia only to face a bait and switch. according to the new york times members of the administration believed that saudi arabia agreed to sped up an opec production increase by a couple months then the saudis would convince opec to increase by 200,000 barrels a day for up to a year. while the first half of the deal did happen and biden met with the crown prince shortly after that, the rest did not. in fact, opec slashed production by two million barrels a day. joining me now is mark mazzetti. thank you for joining me. in this reporting with you and your colleagues, you say this wasn t an explicit agreement. you write what happened is a story of hand shake agreements, wishful thinking, missed signals