Now to our other lead story, President Trump welcomed the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia to the White House today

and dismissed the U.S. intelligence communities finding that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the plan to kill Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back in 2018.

The Saudi leader and President Trump also discussed a range of agreements they plan to unveil,

from Saudi plans to invest billions of dollars in the United States to a joint security agreement.

White House correspondent Liz Landers reports.

Today the White House pulled out all the stops for the Saudi Crown Prince, a cavalcade on

horseback, aircraft flying in formation over President Trump, who literally rolled out the red carpet

to welcome Mohammed bin Salman.

We have an extremely respected man in the Oval Office today and a friend of mine for a long time, a very good friend of mine.

Trump heeping praise on the young de facto leader from Saudi Arabia.

I've always been on the same side of every issue.

Highlining the close personal relationship the two men have cultivated during Trump's second term.

The agreement that we are signing today in many areas in technology, in AI, in

air materials, magnet, et cetera, that will create a lot of investment opportunities.

So you are doing that now, you're saying to me now that the $600 billion will be $1 trillion.

Definitely, because what we are signing it will facilitate that.

I like that very much.

It's the first time the Crown Prince has been invited to the White House in more than seven years,

and the first visit since the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

Both leaders were asked about his murder in the Oval Office.

You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that

gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happened,

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