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This comes as president biden is preparing for his first trip to the middle east as president. the president leaves tomorrow, tuesday night, for a trip that will take him to israel, the west bank and saudi arabia. the visit to saudi arabia has sparked some controversy as the president vowed to make the oil producing nation a pariah for the 2018 killing of journalist jamal kashoggi. the president defending the trip in an op-ed in the washington post on sunday, writing, quote, my views on human rights are clear and longstanding and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when i travel abroad. with us to talk about this is david rode. great seeing you. the president wrote in his op-ed that there are several different reasons for him to go to saudi arabia. but is this trip about gas, oil or other things? it s about gas and oil. ....
It was only back november 2019 candidate biden said he would make saudi arabia pay for the washington post contributor and calling a nation a pariah. carley: alexandria live for us, thank you so much. let s bring in robert charles and the secretary of state for george w. bush. robert, good morning to you. former president trump did call to date u.s. saudi arabia to undermine iran peer that was something that president biden criticized and now it sounds like he has sort of taking a similar stance. is that the right direction to go in? to be honest, it is the right direction but it is a little late. the reality is president trump paradigm for peace in the middle east. he had a brilliant idea he executed instead of trying to get one consensus, everybody at one page at one time, you establish bilateral with israel, they did it with sedan, morocco, ....
Don t see exactly how the president is going to walk all these lines. i think if you wanted to have diplomatic engagement, it needed to come from a lower level, not for the president himself. to your point, i m looking at this op-ed and he has paragraph biker graph addressing different countries, the issues they are in. did this do anything to blunt your criticism? i mean, he is outlining what his intentions are. i ll grant you, under the guise of mbs, the things that he is talks about, the atrocities there, to your point to put jamal khashoggi, vowing to make the nation a pariah, is the president stuck between a rock and a hard place? i mean, since jamal khashoggi s murder, look at gas prices. that is something the american people want to address. they want some help. they want some relief. absolutely. look, i about my criticism of the president because i think on many things, he s done an excellent job. i also believe that we cannot ....
This week. the president is facing criticism from members of his own party after bowing to make that nation a pariah. joining us now is emma sends more up erin and beach delaware and julie adjuster at the capitol. ladies, welcome to you both. julia, we re going to go to you both. bring us up to date on steve bannon and how this all came about. right, alex, let s rewind it to last fall when the house voted to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress. the department of justice charged him with two counts on that. steve bannon argued that he did not have to cooperate with the committee because president trump asserted executive privilege over their interactions. let s fast forward to saturday, which is about a week out from wayne bannon s trial was set to begin and that jury selection would star when president trump sent a letter to ban and saying that he would waive that executive privilege if bannon and the january six committee ....
Saudi arabia. he is defending the trip amid members from his own party after previously vowing to make the nation a pariah. biden is writing in from the start, my aim was to reorient s, but not rupture, our relations with a country that has been a strategic partner for 80 years. let s go to nbc s warren barrett who is in delaware where the president is spending his weekend. lauren, welcome to you on the sunday. there s a lot to talk about. first the presidents remarks on abortion rights just a short time ago, was that expected, and how did you interpret them? well anytime president biden goes out for a bike ride there is an opportunity to stop and speak with four reporters i ve seen their. a white house official had told me just yesterday after we asked him about those protests around the white house, people frustrated with the fact that they felt the president wasn t doing enough. white house officials are holding firm on their decision, pointing to the fact that the president had b ....