Tensions are rising as U.S. President Donald Trump defends Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a high-profile White House visit, insisting MBS “knew nothing” about the 2018 murdr of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — despite the CIA’s assessment pointing to the prince’s likely involvement. Calling the killing a “huge mistake” and “painful,” MBS reaffirmed his denial, while Trump praised him as a transformative leader with an “incredible” human-rights record. The red-carpet welcome, military honors, and fighter-jet flyover underscored Washington’s renewed embrace of Riyadh, reigniting global debate over accountability, U.S.–Saudi relations, and the lingering shadow of Khashoggi’s assassination.
00:00Is it appropriate, Mr. President, for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president?
00:04Is that a conflict of interest?
00:06And, Your Royal Highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist.
00:129-11 families are furious that you are here in the Oval Office.
00:15Who are you with? Who are you with?
00:16Why should Americans trust you? And the same to you, Mr. President.
00:18Now, who are you with? I'm with ABC News, sir.
00:20You're with who? ABC News, sir.
00:22Fake news. ABC fake news. One of the worst in the business.
00:25But I'll answer your question. I have nothing to do with the family business.
00:29I have left. And when I I've devoted 100 percent of my energy, what my family does is fine.
00:35They do business all over. They've done very little with Saudi Arabia, actually.
00:39I'm sure they could do a lot. And anything they've done has been very good.
00:43That's what we've done. We've built a tremendous business for a long time.
00:46I've been very successful. I decided to leave that success be behind and make America very successful.
00:52And I've made America more successful by far than it ever was.
00:56And that it ever could have been, no matter who was president, there would be nobody bringing in 21 trillion dollars.
01:02That I can tell you right now.
01:03Mr. President, you allow me to answer. You know, I feel painful about, you know, families of 9-11 in America.
01:13But, you know, we have to focus on reality. Reality based on CIA documents and based on a lot of documents that Osama bin Laden,
01:20he used Saudi people at that event for one main purpose, is to destroy this relation, to destroy the American Saudi relation.
01:29That's the purpose of 9-11. So whoever buying that, that means they are helping Osama bin Laden's purpose of destroying this relation.
01:37He know that the strong relation between America and Saudi Arabia is bad for extremism.
01:41It's bad for terrorism. And we had to approve him wrong and to build our relation, to continue to bumping our relation.
01:49It's critical in the safety of the world. It's critical against extremism and terrorism.
01:53About the journalists, it's really painful to hear, you know, anyone that's been losing his life for, you know, no real purpose or not in a legal way.
02:07And it's been painful for us in Saudi Arabia. We've did all the right steps of investigation, et cetera, in Saudi Arabia.
02:15And we've improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that.
02:20And it's painful and it's a huge mistake. And we are doing our best that this doesn't happen again.
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