whether they would apologize for ordering that man s death according to u.s. intelligence. peter alexander that shouted that question said the saudi aide grabbed his arm tightly after he asked. the crown prince appeared to smirk. another reporter shouted a question asking if saudi arabia is still a pariah. no awed i believe answers from biden or the saudis to either questions. the saudis didn t allow boom microphones in the palace. for our viewers that might not be familiar, it s a very strong microphone on a long pole that allows the sound technician to pick up audio of what s being said far away from the camera, which is operated by another person. the camera has a small microphone on it. while we could hear reporters shouting questions, there was no boom mic allowing us to hear what biden said or how bin salman responded that is a departure from other meetings.
let s bring in brandon judd, president of the national border patrol council. as i mentioned, he led the senators on the tour. i ll point out, brandon, we have a bug in the corner of our screen here. we re waiting for president biden. he will speak live. we ll go to that when it gets underway in saudi arabia. brandon, what was the reaction of the senators and when you look at these images of how successful and relatively easy it is for the cartels to get all of this fentanyl across our border? they were extremely disgusted. they understood that the cartels are controlling large areas of our border right now. that s why so many of our children are dying. it s disheartening to them to know that this is easily solved through policy. that s what is so frustrating and unsetting to us. president trump solved this through policy. didn t take new operations. it took policy. if we have the proper policy, we would be able to protect the
but when he left this morning, he didn t leave it with any firm commitments. yes, they discussed everything. they discussed everything in private for an hour and 45 minutes, and boris johnson said, he wanted to make the point that the world has changed since the russian invasion of ukraine, and the world needs to wean itself off of russian oil and gas, which means finding new markets. the saudis didn t make any firm commitments at that meeting, nor were any made in his meeting earlier yesterday with the united arab emirates. the government had manage expectations on that front before he went. i was told that this was the beginning of a process. it wasn t a slam dunk, where he would return with a binding commitment. boris johnson has got to unveil his energy strategy to parliament next week, that s what he promised to do. of course, he s going to insist that we need to develop more green energy of all different kinds, but part of it is going to have to be generating oil and gas from oth
president trump has over this issue with the saudi king, but in past issues with the killing of the washington post journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul, the cia believed there was reason to believe that mohammed bin salman may have had a role in that, the king s son, the crown prince in this country. so those political tensions already exist. and the king recognizes that. so i think what he tried to do by calling out so early is not often that, a, the saudi king gets involved, that, b, he does so with such speed and it really recognizes the importance he places on that relationship with president trump. remember the saudis didn t particularly like president obama. they do like the fact that trump is tough on iran so he does seem to want to protect that relationship but of course it s causing political backlash against president trump when he handles it this way. and, john, the defense
attack on one of our allies in the middle east and this is saudi arabia and the saudis didn t have the appropriate defenses to ensure that this didn t happen. can we send people over there? probably some of them have to be technical experts to make sure that we see the missiles incoming and defend against them any president would do the same thing,ier in. it s the right thing. this comes as the president says iran is going to hell. how do you separate his rhetoric from his actions which so far have been to, frankly, urge restraint? boy, this is really painful. you remember a couple of years ago we were talking about little rocket man, north koreans and then the president saying i love getting love letters from kim jong-un. it s basically a message from the president saying i want diplomacy with the north koreans. if you look at it in this case with the president saying we re locked and loaded a few days ago