Inside the Crown Prince
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:08.0 | Saudi Arabia's crown prince comes to the White House. I speak to Bernard Hekel, a scholar with unusual |
| 0:15.0 | access to Muhammad bin Salman, about America's strategic pivot from shunning a controversial guest to offering a warm welcome. |
| 0:23.6 | And he has not been good to the United States, so we'll see what happens. |
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| 1:19.1 | Saudi Arabia's crown prince walked into the White House today just years after being labeled an international pariah. |
| 1:25.5 | President Donald Trump welcomed Muhammad bin Salman, the man increasingly |
| 1:29.4 | seen as the kingdom's most consequential leader in recent history, bringing the country into |
| 1:34.9 | modernity while also shoring up loyalty by crushing dissent. It seems the outrage has faded |
| 1:41.6 | over the killing of Washington Post columnist and prominent Saudi |
| 1:44.9 | Arabian critic Jamal Khashoggi. Now you may remember in 2018, Saudi agents killed and |
| 1:51.6 | dismembered Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Turkey, prompting worldwide condemnation. |
| 1:57.4 | But with the transactional Trump in office and the cold calculus that both countries |
| 2:02.6 | need each other, the president has admitted, I like him, maybe too much. For his part, the crown |
| 2:08.5 | prince wants sophisticated U.S. fighter jets and a pledge for a Palestinian state in return for joining |
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