{"id":1748880,"date":"2022-11-23T06:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748880"},"modified":"2022-11-23T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T14:11:19","slug":"biden-energy-advisor-definitely-no-quid-pro-quo-with-biden-granting-legal-immunity-to-saudi-crown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-energy-advisor-definitely-no-quid-pro-quo-with-biden-granting-legal-immunity-to-saudi-crown-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Energy Advisor: Definitely No Quid Pro Quo With Biden Granting Legal Immunity to Saudi Crown Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-energy-advisor-definitely-no-quid-pro-quo-with-biden-granting-legal-immunity-to-saudi-crown-prince%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748880&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1241285351-640x335-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Energy Security senior advisor Amos Hochstein\u00a0said Tuesday on\u00a0CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d that President Joe Biden\u2019s move to grant Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman legal immunity for his role in\u00a0Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi\u2019s murder was not a \u201cquid pro quo\u201d for lower oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Joe Kernen said, \u201cAs far as palace intrigue, and I know you know this stuff, and I know you can\u2019t tell us, but when the Biden administration told the federal court judge that MBS, Mohammed bin Salman has sovereign immunity, that was nice and conciliatory. And there had been some acrimony between the United States and the Saudis. It just seems interesting that they would even, after cutting, that they would broach the possibility of cooperating right before Russia, right before the cap goes maybe goes on Russian oil. It is like, they\u2019re helping us out right after \u2014 and I would say that is the right move for them because the China situation and the lockdowns. It made sense for the Saudis to cut production. So is there any quid pro quo behind that \u2014 that we\u2019re being nicer to them, and they might cooperate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Amos Hochstein said,\u201dThere is no quid pro quo. I think the decision on the immunity was a strict legal decision by the lawyers about him becoming a prime minister and the determination that was made by the lawyers. That was not done by policymakers, but really just a legal one. As far as their decision to cut, you know, you and I may disagree on that. I think a 2 million cut announcement at the time was \u2014 we did not believe it was warranted. I think that prices were at about 88 or 87 when they announced that it went up to almost $100 and settled back down. Mostly because, you know, when you announce a cut at 2 million, what we all know is that 2 million is not going to be cut, and most countries are not in a position to cut production and definitely not cut exports.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He added, \u201cI\u2019m not going to get into the palace intrigue there, as you called it, but rather focus on bringing the prices down and do what we have to do here at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pamkeyNEN\">@pamkeyNEN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Security senior advisor Amos Hochstein\u00a0said Tuesday on\u00a0CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d that President Joe Biden\u2019s move to grant Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman legal immunity for his role in\u00a0Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Energy Advisor: Definitely No Quid Pro Quo With Biden Granting Legal Immunity to Saudi Crown Prince","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Energy Advisor: Definitely No Quid Pro Quo With Biden Granting Legal Immunity to Saudi Crown Prince","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}