we re going to tell you what they learned from the department of homeland security top watchdog. want to welcome the viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re live here in jetta, saudi arabia, overlooking the red sea covering talks between president biden and saudi leaders. president biden revealing a short time ago he did confront the saudi crown prince about the murder of jamal khashoggi. senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is here with us in jeddah. no question. look. president biden landed here in jeddah with a series of objectives but white house officials were aware. eyes would be on the first meeting between the president and the crown prince and didn t have to wait to find out what it would look like. reporter: with a fist bump, a pariah no more. a recalibration defined. president biden s highly anticipated and sharply criticized first interaction with saudi crown prince salman. i sai
fresh frustration for congressional democrats and president biden tonight as one of their own senator joe man chen of west virginia crushed hop hopes of passing their agenda. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is working the story for us. what explains this major development? it depends on who you talk to. senator joe manchin is saying that he is concerned about inflation. what he told us in the hallway for months now. it started large and whittled down. talking about the slim down version of the bill when the sources tell us that he told schumer s office he would not support the climate and tax provisions and that effectively put an end to the discussions. manchin was on local radio earlier today. this is how he explained it. i said, chuck, until we see
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people are talking about three days about how amazing that is. then maybe on a saturday, oh, i don t know for the sunday paper before the election? pass the other big bill. it hits the sunday morning before the tuesday election, those who things if democrats can get out of their way will make a huge difference in virginia and other races and first thing that s broken in the democrats direction in about six months now but they need to get out of their way, jonathan. so, joe, you obviously, you are right of the politics being all about momentum. the other organization momentum is atlanta braves. give us your series pick here and thank you for being on for my first as host. well, and yeah, this is a big day. it s charlie pearce tweeted in
medicare and combatting climate change. . this is all part of the build back better agenda, which is the president s agenda. so we ve got the president s back here. we re eager to pass both of those bills. they represent the president s agenda. reporter: meanwhile in the senate, two moderate democrats are stalling moving forward. senator joe man chen saying he wants to slim down the cost of the infrastructure bill. the west virginia lawmaker proposing slashing the price tag to $1.5 trillion, keeping the bipartisan infrastructure bill focused on upgrading roads, rails, and bridges. my top line has been 1.5 because i believe in my heart what we can do and the needs we have right now and what we can afford to do without basically changing our whole society to an entitlement society. reporter: senator sinema s stance is less clear calling her meetings at the white house earlier this week productive. while biden s path to moving his