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President Trump on Tuesday said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "knew nothing" about the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, joins "The Takeout" with her reaction.
President Trump welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to the White House on Tuesday. The two leaders announced a boost in Saudi Arabia's planned investment in the U.S., from $600 billion to nearly $1 trillion. CBS News' Aaron Navarro and Olivia Gazis report.
Documents suggest Epstein had contacts with the Saudi royal family and traveled to the Kingdom in the last years of his life.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday visited the U.S. for the first time since U.S. intelligence concluded that he approved the brutal 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.
President Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Tuesday at the White House. CBS News White House reporter Aaron Navarro has more on the meeting and Iulia Joja, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, joins CBS News with analysis.
President Trump said Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "knew nothing" about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite a 2021 intelligence report finding bin Salman ordered the killing. Khashoggi's widow responded on social media. CBS News Middle East reporter Courtney Kealy has more.
President Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Tuesday. During a meeting in the Oval Office where reporters were present, Mr. Trump slammed an ABC News reporter for her approach while she asked about Trump family business ties to Saudi Arabia, Washington Post journalist and human rights activist Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and the calls for the release of the Epstein files. CBS News' Weijia Jiang and Olivia Rinaldi have more on what was discussed.
President Trump welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Tuesday. CBS News Middle East reporter Courtney Kealy has more.
President Trump is hosting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Tuesday. CBS News' Ed O'Keefe reports, and Mohammed Sergie, the editor of Semafor Gulf, joins with more on the U.S.-Saudi dynamic.
President Trump told reporters Monday the U.S. will sell Saudi Arabia F-35 fighter jets, a day before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to visit the White House.
Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Comedy Festival is attracting global stars including Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson and Kevin Hart, with reports that some are being paid more than $1 million each. The event is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's push to rebrand the conservative kingdom through sports and entertainment. Human rights groups say the campaign is an attempt to whitewash abuses, pointing to restrictions on free speech and the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Video game company Electronic Arts, the maker of the "The Sims" and "Madden NFL," is being acquired in a $55 billion deal by a consortium of companies that includes Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund PIF; private equity firm Silver Lake, and Miami-based investment firm Affinity Partners, which is led by President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Nick Earl, former CEO of Glu Mobile, joined CBS News to discuss the deal.
American stand-up comedian Tim Dillon says he's been dropped from the Riyadh Comedy Festival bill after jokes about the country's alleged use of forced labor.
A bipartisan group of former senior government officials and national security experts is pushing the U.S. to revitalize its strategy for preventing more countries from acquiring nuclear weapons. Former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a co-author of the report, joins "The Takeout" to break down the findings.
A rights group is urging some top-level Western comedians not to be "complicit in covering up the abuses of a repressive regime" in Saudi Arabia.
A federal judge in New York kept alive a lawsuit accusing officials in Saudi Arabia of assisting the Sept. 11 hijackers — which the Saudi government has vehemently denied.
Important questions are being raised about 9/11 as evidence surfaces in a lawsuit against the Saudi government filed by families of the people killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
It is the quickest pace of capital punishment since March 2022, when 81 people were executed in a single day for terrorism-related offenses.
President Trump heading back to United States after trip to the Middle East; Contestants prepare for Eurovision song contest final in Switzerland.
Iran launched retaliation against the United States on Monday, firing short- and medium-range missiles targeting the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
Trump secures $600B Saudi investment; "debunk-bot" challenges conspiracy theories.
A new report suggests a WhatsApp account belonging to Saudi Arabia's crown prince was used to hack Jeff Bezos. According to the report, the two exchanged messages before. Jeff Pegues has the latest.
The Guardian reports that Jeff Bezos is blaming Saudi Arabia for hacking his phone last year after an investigation he ordered apparently drew links between a personal message sent from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the malware that caused the hack. Errol Barnett breaks down the timeline between their alleged phone number exchange and the National Enquirer's release of intimate photos and texts between Bezos and TV host Lauren Sanchez.
President Trump addressed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his visit to Saudi Arabia as part of his trip to the Middle East. Mr. Trump boasted about close ties between the U.S. and the Arab kingdom and called for a strong partnership to deal with Iran and other foreign adversaries in the region. Mr. Trump also called for an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria and for more focus on Lebanon's economic growth. CBS News' Courtney Kealy and Aaron Navarro have more.
President Trump is returning to the White House on Friday evening, after wrapping up his 4-day trip to the Middle East, which included stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. CBS News White House and politics coverage executive director Fin Gómez reports.
