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I'm your host today, senior editor Will Keeback, and we are going to be talking about the crown prince of Saudi Arabia's visit to the

United States and his time with President Trump over the past week. A lot of major deals that were

signed, some significant announcements, potentially some progress towards Middle East peace deals.

There's a lot to get into. And so we're going to break all of it down and then I'll be

giving my thoughts on how the meetings and the visit went.

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