I'm John Batsworth, my colleague and friend Elizabeth Peek.

She is a columnist at the Hill, commissed Fox News, much on Fox Business, and she's written for the Hill.

This question, is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, that's the young vital one with big

ideas, is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed That's the young vital one with big ideas.

Is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed trying to sabotage Joe Biden's re-election bid?

I started the column there, not certain, Liz. I ended the column there not certain Liz I ended the column thinking well maybe what's

the case Liz well okay a little bit backing up within weeks of becoming president Joe Biden went out of his way to

insult Mohammed bin Sam in the crown prince of Saudi Arabia saying he wouldn't

speak to him he would only speak to his father, releasing an intelligence

report about the murder of Jamal Paseogi, which implicated the Crown Prince.

Any further pursued policies like cutting off sales of aggressive weapons to the

Saudis, declaring removing the terrorist designation from the Hutis that Trump had put on even as the Hutis were

attacking Saudi oil installations and basically making life difficult for the

Saudi. So fast forward when gasoline prices touched five dollars at

all time record high in 2022 June, Biden panicked because that was driving down his approval

ratings goes to Saudi Arabia, begs Mohammed

to increase production, and MBS said no. By way, he'd already dampened cut production right after all those early things

that Joe Biden did, showing me and others that he was willing to use oil as a weapon to make his point. He's doing that again.

Just last week there was a ministerial meeting, OPEC Plus agreed to maintain production cuts that arguably they could have relaxed in light of increasing

demand.

Why is demand increasing?

Well, because A, we need oil with the world already.

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