Copyrighted Image? DMCA | NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said on Friday that President Barack Obama's statement on the passing of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud was ironic and just an attempt at being polite because in reality, the late king could not stand President Obama. "This close personal bond between the president and the late Saudi leader, I think, is people being polite at a time of a national funeral," Engel said. |