Trump prepares to welcome Saudi Arabia’s controversial crown prince to White House
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Today, President Trump announced he'll sell Saudi Arabia F-35 fighter jets. |
| 0:05.3 | It comes ahead of tomorrow's arrival of the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince |
| 0:09.3 | Muhammad bin Salman. |
| 0:10.8 | For years, MBS, as he's widely known, was shunned on the world stage, but President Biden |
| 0:15.4 | visited him in Riyadh three years ago. |
| 0:17.8 | And Nick Schifrin reports that now President Trump will bestow on the 40-year-old |
| 0:21.6 | ruler, the pomp and paddritory, usually reserved for an official state visit. |
| 0:27.1 | At the White House preparations for a royal welcome. Saudi flags flutter on Pennsylvania Avenue |
| 0:33.7 | ahead of a presidential embrace of Saudi crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmon's first visit |
| 0:38.5 | to the Oval Office since 2018. |
| 0:40.5 | $525 million. |
| 0:43.5 | That's peanuts for you. |
| 0:45.5 | The U.S. Marines and Saudi Marines. |
| 0:47.6 | The two are expected to sign a new defense pact that will expand training. |
| 0:52.1 | Commit the U.S. to consider military intervention if Saudi Arabia |
| 0:55.2 | were attacked, and sell the U.S.'s most advanced fighter jet, the F-35. |
| 1:00.0 | We will be doing that. |
| 1:01.6 | We'll be selling F-35. |
| 1:03.2 | An engineering marvel. |
| 1:06.1 | The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are also expected to sign an artificial intelligence agreement |
| 1:10.6 | that will allow Saudi Arabia to purchase the world's most advanced computer chips. |
| 1:14.6 | A nuclear agreement, although it's not clear, whether Saudi Arabia will be allowed to enrich |
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