Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. President biden has reportedly paused arms sales to saudi arabia as his administration reviews relations with his long time strategic ally. Not long ago, candidate biden described the kingdom as a pariah, but is there any prospect of external or internal pressure challenging the authority of saudi arabias De Facto Leader, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman . Well, my guest is exiled saudi opposition activist, madawi al rasheed. What next for saudi arabia reform, repression or maybe both . Madawi al rasheed, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. You have become one of the highest profile saudi critics of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. I just wonder how you felt a couple of weeks ago when we saw the crown prince so warmly welcomed at the World Economic forum, the online davos event, where he was selling saudi arabia as an Investment Opportunity for the entire world. What did you make of that . Well, its a familiar image and a familiar trick. Saudi arabia ha
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would ex ptend political capita to a very capable recognizance satellite program that gives them all the intelligence they need. reporter: but we ve heard the science excuse before from beijing when china tested a missile that went around the world in 2021 they claimed it was a routine spacecraft ex expe experiment. this is like tiktok. does anybody trust china? of course not. for good reason. reporter: china has spy satellites but they can t loitder over a big area like a balloon. the government will track the balloon as it makes its way across america. the u.s. response so far on the diplomatic front with antony blinken delaying the high stakes visit to beijing. conditions are not conducive for a constructive visit at this time. the decision to take this action, my planned visit is detrimental to the discussions we were planned to have. reporter: for where this goes from here. the pentagon says for now they re continuously tracking this balloon and determined it s
both accounts. one, that there were multiple classified documents. some top secret. inside the boxes donald trump packed and two, that there were some more documents at mar-a-lago that had not been turned over. so our questions is what does this mean for the investigation? does it reveal donald trump s intent and does it make his lawyer, alex cannon, a witness himself? let us try to figure it out now. joining me is washington post political investigative reporter, josh. josh, we learned couple new things. donald trump himself packed those 15 boxes that were handed over first to the archives back in january? yeah, that s correct. the lawyer you ve just been speaking about repeatedly told trump advisers at mar-a-lago both senior and junior that they should not touch the boxes. they should not be involved in the boxes and they asked the former president himself to go through the boxes and what we re told before he retired at the end of the day, he did 15 of those boxes. put