kids in one major city get off the school bus to find homeless folks and drug addicts everywhere. president biden heading to saudi arabia this week to beg for oil, and he s trying to defend the trip in an op-ed written by him or his team. the president is trying to paint saudi arabia as an important, quote, strategic partner, even though a couple of years ago he calls the kingdom a pariah after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. in the op-ed, biden writes from the start, my aim was to reorient, but not rupture relations with a country that s been a strategic partner for 80 years. today saudi arabia has helped to restore unity among the six countries of gulf cooperation council and is now working with my experts to help stabilize markets with other opec producers. i know there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to saudi arabia. my views human rights are c
that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation s highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, the president s upcoming trip to the saudi kingdom comes with fairly heavy risk on both the domestic and international fronts. from the international perspective, he ll to obviously tie to smooth other hard feel feelings with the saudis, all while maybe encouraging them to open the spigot when it comes to oil production. but there s heavy cost and heavy risk here domestically because the president is
deadly heatwave is baking parts of europe, sparking wildfires along its path. we ll look at what s causing these record-breaking temperatures. it s now noon here in saudi arabia, and the leaders of the gulf cooperation council plus three will soon be gathering for their rather important summit. president biden will be meeting one-on-one this hour with the president of the united arab emirates. earlier he talked with the leaders of egypt and iraq. the summit officially gets under way in the next hour after president biden and others is a assemble for what s called the classic photo, which is expected at the top of the hour. the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi certainly cast appal. president biden is hoping this trip will help move the two countries forward, while still making clear, he says, that he holds mohammad bin salman, the crown prince, responsible for the killing. here s what he said after meeting with the crown prince in jeddah on friday. i made my vie
the president has been meeting this morning with key allies in the east, including the president of egypt and the prime minister of iraq before posing for the traditional family photo at the summit in jeddah. one of the most controversial meetings was president biden s sit-down with saudi s crown prince, mohammad bin salman. our colleague wolf blitzer is traveling with the president and joins us from saudi arabia. wolf, members of the biden administration have been stressing that these meetings are really about trying to reset that relationship between the middle east and the united states, right? they certainly do. they believe this is a moment that the u.s. can reset the overall u.s. relationship with countries in the middle east, and they re working to do that right now. president biden, right now, kristin, is laying out his mini strategy, on this, his last day o a trip to the region. he s talking about everything from security to economics and human rights. but it s h
good morning and welcome to your new day. i m kristin fisher. good morning, kristen. i m boris sanchez. why one committee says their explanation doesn t make any sense. president biden is meeting with key leaders in saudi arabia saudi arabia. what he s hoping to achieve. and then the criticism over the meeting with the crown prince yesterday. truckers are struggling with diesel prices. their concerns as costs continue to climb, coming up. this may be my favorite of the day. the deep space discovery, the heartbeat sounds that have astronomers all aflutter. aflutter. i know. do you see what i did there? good morning and welcome to your new day. it is july 16th. you know, boris, it may be a saturday in the summer, but it s a busy saturday in the summer with the president s trip overseas and all these new revelations about the jan 67 committee. there is a lot going on. we re going to take you there. first there s concern over the text going add ups sent