Confusion over Biden visit to Saudi Arabia

There’s been a lot of back and forth over whether US President Biden is going to visit Saudi Arabia soon. Initial reports said he was going to visit, but then he said he had nothing planned. Why all the back and forth? The World’s host Marco Werman spoke with Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar with the Arab Gulf States Institute, about the confusion and what a potential visit could mean for Saudi-US relations.

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