President Joe Biden is in Saudi Arabia on Friday for the first time since he took office. He is meeting with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Biden said in the past that he’d make the Kingdom “the pariah that it is.” But as gas prices skyrocketed, he changed his tune. Can this visit salvage the decadesold US-Saudi alliance? The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.
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