Officials won't say if Biden will shake hands with the Saudi crown prince.
July 14, 2022, 11:54 AMPresident Joe Biden is shown at an event in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2022. | Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Oct. 14, 2019.It's the handshake that the White House doesn't want to talk about.
President Joe Biden and Israel's caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid shake hands before the start of a joint press conference in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2022."In terms of the precise modalities, I'll leave that to the folks who are actually organizing the trip," the president's top national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said when asked Monday if Biden would be photographed shaking hands or meeting with the crown prince.
The president himself did not respond to ABC News when asked Tuesday whether he'd shake the crown prince's hand. US President Joe Biden shares t moment with Israeli former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, in Lod, Israel, July 13, 2022.that Prince Mohammed, who is also known as "MBS" and who effectively runs the Gulf nation, had approved the operation that left Khashoggi dead.
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