Bernie Sanders rebukes Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia, says the US shouldn't 'be maintaining a warm relationship with a dictatorship'

The senator said that the president should not have visited Saudi Arabia.

"I don't think we should be maintaining a warm relationship with a dictatorship like that," he said.

He doesn't think a country that ordered the killing of a journalist should be rewarded with a visit from the US president.

There was a murder and dismemberment of a Saudi journalist in Turkey.

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Does it make a difference that the discussions were about oil? The purpose of Biden's visit was to encourage more oil production in order to lower prices in the US.

Saudi Arabia will take action in the coming weeks, according to President Biden. Is that the reason why he went? What are you going to do now? The interviewer asked the question, "Do you know the answer?"

The truth is, if you're looking at the outrageously high cost of gas at the pumps right now, one of the things we have to look at is the fact that Americans are now paying $4.5

If the oil companies don't stop ripping off the American people, we need to tax them, he said.

If you were president, would you ignore the Saudis?

"Look, you've got a family that is worth $100 billion, which questions democracy, which treats women as third class citizens, which murders and imprisons its opponents, and which is worth a lot of money," he responded.

"If this country believes in anything, we believe in human rights, we believe in democracy, and I just don't believe that we should be maintaining a warm relationship with a dictatorship like that"