address that this afternoon, the president could address that this afternoon or tomorrow and possibly legislation might be necessary. >>. [inaudible question] >> after senators attended today's briefing ãb good morning everyone. secretary mattis and myself just had the opportunity to brief all the senators who wanted to hear from us. we talked about u.s. policy in yemen and civic policy with respect to the king in saudi arabia. we obviously spoke about the heinous murder of jamal khashoggi. and we made clear they are considering making a resolution on the senate floor which we think is just poorly timed. we are on the cusp of allowing u.s. martin griffith to in

december gathered the parties together and hopefully get a cease-fire. it's something we been dramatically striving for for months. we think we are right on the cusp of that. it's the view of the administration secretary mattis and myself that passing a resolution at this point undermines that. it would encourage the uzis, it would encourage iranian, it would undermine the fragile agreement for everyone to go to sweden and have this discussion. we hope that they will consider that. we are happy to give them further and more information if they so showed should so choose. >> booktv@cspan.org three. >> i was asked to be here and here i am. >> the senators were very frustrated, normally you would be here briefing the senators on an issue this sensitive. why isn't the cia director ã >> i was asked to be here and i'm here.

>>. [inaudible question] >>. [inaudible speaking] [multiple speakers] >> i don't have anything to add. the sequence of events on the north korea. we are hopeful we will have meetings before too long. >>. [inaudible question] >> all of trumps public statements indicate iran is very far from coming to ã >> the parties that will be there will be those who are

engaged in the civil war in yemen.they will be representative from the yemen government, from the uzis, all those interested parties.we hope the irradiance won't upset the apple cart. they been funding, arming, providing assistance to the uzis which is allowed the uzis to fight well beyond what have made any sense at all and we hope the irradiance won't upset this opportunity to resolve the silverware and give everyone the opportunity to resolve a massive humanitarian crisis in yemen today. >> i'm glad we had it but it was inadequate because the cia was not there. the question for me is whether or not the cia supports the conclusion with a high degree of confidence that the crown prince was complicit in the murder of