MBS Confident Candid and Direct

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00:00What was the first impression you started to draw of the Crown Prince in that first meeting?

00:07Well, as I said, I was struck by several things.

00:14His informality, he wasn't sort of puffed up on me, important to you down there.

00:22He just talked. You ask a question, he gave an answer.

00:26He seemed to be, I do regard him as a marketer, someone who is constantly, if you will, selling Saudi Arabia.

00:38He clearly has the pride in his country, and he explains a little history, but then he answers whatever question you're asking.

00:49He went through a lot of things. I mean, he was saying at that time, a lot of people were calling him Mr. Everything, and he kept insisting,

01:05I'm not a one-man show. I'm part of a group that is trying to advance the interest of Saudi Arabia.

01:14But mostly it was just, I was struck by how easy it was to talk to him.

01:21He spoke the first time in Arabic, but he constantly corrected the translator, so he clearly, his English was good.

01:31He mostly corrected him on numbers. And, you know, he just, he, he was very comfortable in his own skin, as we Americans say.

01:44And then, you know, he used to think about sage-cómo, but maybe beautifulographer, but maybe wyntnis?

01:48They were like, or maybe island, but you probably saw there when he was at the beginning of a man.

01:51And he said, you know, thanks, I was lucky to speak.