yet an idea with the aggressive rise of mohammed bin salman, the aggressive policies of mohammed bin salman, and the hypocrisy to buy into this concept that mohammed bin salman was a reformer when in fact activists have been calling for it being arrested while the world was upholding them for somehow allowing women to drive as being some sort of emancipation of women that some of the u.s. media were calling it. it is those things that maybe put him on the radar. so it seems going after him that the saudi regime and the saudi current system under the rulership of mohammed bin salman is not even willing to have principal voices or even independent voices from within that are loan opposition voices. if you are to consider there are some genuine activists who are in the united kingdom and the united states, australia, and other countries, imagine what kind of fate could default them. as you mentioned, you have these pictures of mike pompeo smiling and laughing with crown prince mohammed bin salman, knowing full well that was intelligence is aware of the information turkish intelligence ag

and if it is proven that mohammed bin salman is responsible, there are two things that could save saudirabia at this moment. find ang salman must alternative crown prince. he should go -- sink into oblivion because his name associated with this murder. if there is evidence to prove that. the second thing, i believe, just replacing mohammed bin salman with another prince is not enough. there has to be a political change in saudi arabia to mitigate against the murders of a new mbs, an absolute monarchy. we can't simply wait and hope the future king will be better than the previous one. there is no mechanism in saudi arabia to mitigate against the murders of somebody like mbs or previous kings. we focus on mbs as if saudi arabia had enjoyed a certain kind of openness or democracy war the elements -- or the elements of free speech. it is never been a free country. , if herore, king salman wants to save saudi arabia from future upheaval, civil wars, etc., he needs to start thinking and making a pledge that saudi arabia will become a constitutional monarchy inhich it will become symbolic figu

america isanybody in calling for pressure on mohammed bin salman? [indiscernible] i am sure the americans are not going to apply pressure to mohammed bin salman. amy: so that is jamal khashoggi talking to our guest rula jebreal, saying who is putting pressure on mohammed bin salman. do you see anybody in america, except for bernie sanders who was called for putting pressure on mbs? i'll the cell bernie sanders, but no one else, he said. was. say when this and your decision at the time not to release this interview, but why you have changed your mind. >> exactly like i wrote in the cover for newsweek in september, it was only bernie sanders who really believed in humanity, legality, morality, and combining our policies with all of these values that america, you know, has been calling for around the world. it was clear while the crown prince of saudi arabia was decimating his neighboring country yemen, was bombing people to oblivion, was throwing bombs on school buses where children were being torn and killed, he was starving an entire nation to death

skilled all without knowledge of the ground in an there will be that focus on the crown prince mohammed bin salman of the officials that has been sacked was a very, very close adviser of crown prince mohammed bin salman. we will come back to you if there is any more development out of the united states. we're joined from new york byjoel simon of the council for the protection of journalists. thank you for being with us. i would like to kind of reiterate again because we talk about the geopolitical effects and they are significant, at the heart of these, isa man significant, at the heart of these, is a man who has lost his life and thoughts are with those who knew him and his family. that is exactly right. what has resonated across the world is the human dimension of this crime. this was an individual who was well—known to journalists and people who follow saudi arabia. the manner in which he was killed is so brutal. to hear the saudis now claim, first, after lying and saying he was alive and the now claimed that he was killed in a fight is simply not credible. it is a really evidence of a cover—up

in part because of a visit from saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. r obtained by the "washington post" that is. the general manager wrote bin salman didn't say there himself but due to our close industry relationships we were able to accommodate many of the accompanying travelers. of course, the public doesn't know the full extent of trump's business ties to the kingdom because he has not released his tax returns or other financial information. >> it would certainly be very easy for foreign officials to drop a whole lot of money without us knowing about it unless or until we see the business records and conceivably tax returns as well. >> reporter: we do know from his 2016 financial disclosure trump had 144 registered companies with dealings in more than two dozen countries. 8 of them were saudi related companies. all of those companies have since been dissolved. >> the terrible situation -- >> reporter: as the cries for the president to take action grow louder americans are left to wonder what is driving trump's decisions? >> now of course the larger

there are questions for trump to answer, because it seems clear, and you look at how mohammed bin salmanample, very disrespectfully towards president obama in the oval office, and he was enabled by trump to forge this great bond with him. it would not be surprising if mohammed bin salman felt enabled all liberated in terms of taking on journalists by some of the rhetoric coming from trump, describing journalist as enemies of the people and setting up the media as a target. but this is not only going on because of trump does. of course. . . on because of trump does. of course... always cracking down on dissent, saudi arabia... but taking the decision to do something so transgressive as killing a journalist on foreign soil and expecting to get away with it, then someone expecting to get away with it, then someone has given mbs the impression that he can do whatever he likes, and that seems to have been the president of the united states.|j agree 100% with iain. i was shocked to listen to president trump on fox news saying that the crime did not ta ke news saying that the crime did not take

this conference was the baby of mohammed bin salman and at the time president erdowan was speaking somef the big donors were pledging billions of dollars, the political pressure discontinuing against the saudis and in particular mohammed bin salman but they are toughing it out. what is thought to be the uk's biggest ever strike about equal pay is under way in glasgow. thousands of council workers are striking for 48 hours, resulting in the closure of hundreds of schools, and affecting some care services. scotland's highest court last year ruled that women at the council had been discriminated against since 2006 and that some had lost thousands of pounds a year in pay. 0ur scotland editor sarah smith reports from glasgow. francis is a social care worker who said she did not want to go on strike but feels she has no choice. francis and her colleagues say they are paid up to £3 an hour less than men doing similar work because of pay structures that penalise those who work irregular hours, the vast majority of whom are women. there are cleaners and carers and dinner school ladies getting a

adele ajuber added crown prince mohammed bin salman was not aware beforehand. he called the eldest son to express condolences. >>> our nick robinson joins us now from istanbul with more on all of this. nick, how likely is it that jamal khashoggi's body will ever be located? >> reporter: well, what we are hearing, the latest if you like, from the foreign minister in saudi arabia, is that they don't know where his body is. and as they have the men that turkish investigators would most like to question, the 15 minute turkish investigators say were the hit squad that came from saudi arabia the day jamal khashoggi disappeared, it would seem the preponderance of information should still be with those people in riyadh back in saudi arabia. but it's not clear if those are among those 15 people or among the 18 that the saudis have detained. but the trail here on the ground does seem to be running somewhat cold now. >>> the trail for jamal khashoggi's body is going cold. video released the turkish media over the weekend reveal the hours before his death. this is saudi's

been pushed aside by the same king and there are people in the family who, you know, look at mohamed bin salmanerhaps the way some people in the united states look at jared kushner, as someone a little too young, a little too inexperienced. in mohamed bin salman's case shown a degree of recklessness. didn't know for sure what was going on. i suspect this was -- i have no way of knowing, this was the case, let's arrest him but talk to him but bring him back to saudi arabia. let's harass him and clearly i think that went wrong. now, you know, fp it turns out that he was killed as soon as he walked into the consulate, that's really a different question, too. so i just don't see how mohamed bin salman escapes, you know, general responsibility though they would clearly blame it on underlings who went too far. >> steven erlinger live from us in brussels, belgium. thank you. >> thanks. >>> one of the key moments in the cold war was the signing of the inf treaty back in 1987 which greatly reduced the number of missiles that the u.s. and russia had. >> but u.s. president donald trump says russia isn't h

office of mohammed bin salman me out. e clear given the nature of the saudi government that authorisation could only have come from a very, very senior position. —— mohammed bin salman. from a very, very senior position. -- mohammed bin salman. you are right, that of course is very serious allegation. are you disputing any of what i have just said? there's no doubt about who did it because the faces a placemat, there is no doubt about the proximity to the government in the way you and so any further accusation has to be proven. they have just found the body parts, it is said. there is talk of there being tape recordings, or recordings of conversations, which if they were to be revealed could be absolutely conclusive, but we have not heard yet, so president erdogan has made a statement today and i think it is quite clear that there is more information to come out and i think we have to wait for it to come out for perhaps countries collectively react to this, rather than ministers sitting in a studio, speculating about the l

it also does weekend mohammed bin salman, a competitor inle ership of the muslim world. weakens the saudis in a confrontation with the qataris. once again erdogan can , demonstrate that the qatariou narrative mohammed bin salman being reckless is y tually the case, rather than what the saudis out their -- about the qataris. finally there must be a , financial situation under discussion. that is how the saudi's have always conducted their foreign-policy, spreading around money to make problems go away. laura: president erdogan's speech has had the effect of keeping up the pressure on saudi arabia. enresident trump is saying this is the worst cover-up in the history of coverups. there is some impact from keeping it in the spotlight. stephen: there is no doubt that is the turkish intention. eping it in the spotlight they , are benefiting from it. iaand this negon is going on. the more the saudi's drag theirh feet i negotiation, the more the turks are going to leak. laura: the u.s. treasury secretary has been in the kingdom. he did not go to the glitzy investment conference.

someone close to the inner circle of mohammed bin salman, the crown prince. that's really the crucial point here, anderson. the person who ordered this operation is close to the inner circle of the crown prince. therefore, it becomes much more difficult to believe that this kind of an operation, which is bold and brazen even by saudi arabian standards, could be carried out without at least a sort of tacit nod of approval from the top. now, we're also hearing from these sources that the operation went wrong. one source saying that apparently, the operatives tried to tranquilize mr. khashoggi. they gave him an injection with a tranquilizer. the presumption being there was some kind of a reaction or it went wrong. mr. khashoggi died. they then made the determination the best course of action was to carve his body into pieces, though we do not yet know what happened to those pieces. and we're also hearing from our sources that the leader of the operation then made the determination that the best course of action was to try to cover it up. we heard that substantia

and how will this affect crown prince mohammed bin salman?n wondering. based on initial statements, there does not seem any probability at all that the fault will be placed on him. that was kevin sullivan speaking to us that was kevin sullivan speaking to us earlierfrom that was kevin sullivan speaking to us earlier from riyadh. that is —— with bring you up—to—date, which is saudi arabia saying jamal khashoggi died in the consulate in istanbul after a fight broke out. riyadh also says that 18 saudis have been arrested and that they had sacked two senior officials, and that crown prince mohammed bin salman is to head a ministerial committee into restructuring the intelligence agency. we will stick with this over the next few hours, and a little later in the programme we will have some more analysis from the united states. at least 60 people have been killed after a train smashed into a crowd celebrating the religious festival of dusshera in northern india. hundreds of people had spilt on to the tracks near the town of amritsar. this report by

mohammed bin salman may in some ways be tarnished goods.ity the people in this detail who did this bungled operation, some of them may lose their lives, certainly lose their livelihoods. they have a grudge, as well. he's going to have to be extremely careful. the sadness is that the country is modernising. that is something that khashoggi was celebrating. the problem is, people there are stepping on their own story. instead of letting this come out as emancipation for women and diversification of the economy away from oil and the employment of a huge cadres of people notjust in public servicejobs, huge cadres of people notjust in public service jobs, instead huge cadres of people notjust in public servicejobs, instead of huge cadres of people notjust in public service jobs, instead of that it is about the war in yemen and the crazy fight with qatar. this was about a saudi national who wanted to write positive things about modernisation in saudi arabia. your collea g u es modernisation in saudi arabia. your colleagues knew this man very well

he's a well—known critic of the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman.rriage. that isn't for me from now. you can get in touch with me on twitter. i'm @samanthatvnews. it's very are coming up shortly. best headlines are coming up shortly. thing. this weekend we always promised you a tale of two parts and thatis promised you a tale of two parts and that is exactly what happened. what a difference a day max. plenty of cloud and rain into scotland and northern ireland in comparison to yesterday, a pretty miserable day. further south after a chilly start we have seen some sunshine. it has been a much better afternoon in parts of an richer in comparison to yesterday, temperatures into the mid—teens. cambridgeshire. further north and west we have kept the cloud and rain and also noticeable gusts of wind in excess of 40, 50 miles an hourat gusts of wind in excess of 40, 50 miles an hour at times. that rain is here to stay, not only through the night but also into monday and potentially tuesday as well. they could bring a potentialfor some localised flooding. a

saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman at a business forum in the saudi arabian capital.he murder of khashoggi, he said that the incident was a painful one for his country and he vowed to punish the culprits. it's this been three weeks since the journalist disappeared after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. after saying they were not involved, the saudis are admitted mr khashoggi was killed inside the building but blamed it on rogue agents operating without the knowledge of the country ‘s leadership. for one exiled dissidents, he says many inside the country do not believe that. people feel betrayed. even the minority who used to trust this government or trust mohammed bin salman, there are many people on twitter who can see that there is a lot that has changed after this incident and especially when the saudi government said yes, we did it, that was the tipping point for many people. the us president donald trump has called the whole affair a fiasco and said the whole affair a fiasco and said the cover—up was terrible. he also reiterated the saudi arabian positio

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i think mohammed bin salman is responsible. but even if he wasn't, he's at responsible by being a lousy leader and being in a place that he doesn't know how to run. someone was killed in the saudi arabia and he said for 1h days in his country that he wanted to out... evenif his country that he wanted to out... even if he wasn't a killer, which i believe the years, he's not fit to rule saudi arabia, he's not fit to be in that situation. does your network of contacts spread to people still living in saudi arabia, and if so, what information are you hearing from them? do they believe the official line? i think people in saudi arabia are afraid. if you are... let's say, a journalist, for example for the washington post and you're living outside saudi arabia because you say you're afraid of the regime, you could be killed, like mr jamal. could you imagine anyone living like this in saudi arabia? but, yes, people do believe that. people feel betrayed, even the minority who used to trust this government or mohammed bill simon, you can

mohammed bin salman try to consolidate power in his own hands. tinctions between the saudi kings and monarchs and figures like saddam hussein or gaddafi. so whoever is coming after mohammed bin salman is not going to be anti—saudi. if anything, they will be much more effort to build relationships with the west. thirdly, i cannot imagine any time soon any western thirdly, i cannot imagine any time soon any western leader would be willing to shake hands with the crown prince. and this is a very major thing for saudi arabia, because as i said, it was previously different from iraq, syria. they very much relied on a cosy relationship with western political leadership. this will essentially create, i think, leadership. this will essentially create, ithink, a leadership. this will essentially create, i think, a crisis within. create, i think, a crisis if leadership. this will essentially create, i think, a crisis if the us indicated is willing to look for an alternative, i think we will hear more and more new voices from the al saud family that will exp

people gave mohammed bin salman the benefit of the doubt. he was doing things he thought were good things in terms of the economy in saudi arabia, in terms of the social liberalization, bringing women into society so people were willing to overlook an awful lot of these things . jamaal i think as a particular residence in washington and elsewhere, london and new york for so many people knew him personally because he was somebody that was well regarded and well-liked in many corners in this town. >> host: did you meet him? >> guest: i knew jamaal. he came to the middle east institute and did roundtables and he was a very well-known figure around town , participated in many activities, conferences and other things so jamaal was a well-known person and i think this personalizes the issue for many people but your color is right, it's been a king relation ofthings. >> host: germantown maryland, john, independent .>> caller: it's not just one thing, but as gerald feierstein point pointed out, this is an american legal resident. i think they may ev

he told journalists he'd spoken to the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman, but expressed his doubtsbout riyadh‘s version of events. saudi arabia claims mr khashoggi was killed in a fight. president trump's comments came as turkey promised it will, tomorrow, reveal everything about the death of mr khashoggi, who was murdered in istanbul at the beginning of the month. our diplomatic correspondent james robbins has the latest. these are the latest pictures to emerge of jamal khashoggi, emerge ofjamal khashoggi, arriving at his flat in istanbul with his fiancee shortly before the visit to the saudi consulate where he was murdered. now look at this picture, turkish investigators believe this is one of the saudi hit squad, chosen as body double, wearing very similar clothes. later the double was apparently seen safe on the streets of istanbul after the murder. could this be part of a huge saudi cover—up? significantly, president trump is now suggesting he doesn't buy changing saudi stories. after speaking again to the crown prince and also hearing from his own american investigators. in s

i think mohammed bin salman is responsible.'t, he's at least responsible by being a lousy leader and being in a place that he doesn't know how to run. so, somebody killed in a saudi embassy, and he said in his country for 1h days, saying that he went out from the other door. even if he wasn't a killer, which i really believe he is, at least he's not fit to rule saudi arabia, he's not fit to be in that position. does your network of contacts spread to people still living in saudi arabia, and if so, what information are you hearing from them? do they believe the official line? i think people in saudi arabia are afraid. so, if you are... let's say, a journalist, for example, in the washington post, and you're living outside saudi arabia because you say you're afraid from the regime, you could be killed like mrjamal. so could you imagine a person living inside saudi arabia? but, yes, people don't believe that. people feel betrayed. even the minority who used to trust this government or mohammed bin salman have — you can see the fee

the high-level intelligence official close to crown prince mohammed bin salman in saudi arabia who several sources believe was behind organizing this operation, whether it turns out to have been a botched or sanctioned operation. what happens happening on the ground reveals an awful lot which goes to the precise point of what secretary of state mike pompeo is here to talk about, what has been said, the utmost importance that the saudis give a transparent and clear investigation. we've heard this from the foreign ministers from the g7 already today and overnight. what is happening here on the ground is key to that. when the turkish investigators went into the consulate, the saudis had painted over everything. not only had cleaners gone in, but things had been painted over. the consul general, a key witness to everything here, disappeared yesterday. left the country, went back to saudi arabia. just before his house and his vehicles were about to be searched by turkish officials who believe that there are clues to khashoggi's disappearance there and the whereabouts of his body. from a turkish

absolutely something that should be pursued but, again, this does not absolve crown prince mohammed bin salman. jamal once told me that nothing, especially of this magnitude, nothing happens without the knowledge of the crown prince. that mohammed bin salman is absolute. so we still demand answers. but at the very least, there's plenty that we can do about al qahtani. >> you all really paid homage to jamal by printing, you know, his last write and, you know, in his article, he talked about how important it is, you know, to uphold, to preserve, you know, the discipline, you know, the vocation of journalism, you know, of crafting journalism. in your way, was this, you know, jamal getting the last word or, you know, what was the impetus behind why you felt it was important to print his final thoughts. >> i think of my year of knowing him and working with him. this was the thing, free expression, having a platform for free air voices was the one thing he felt the most passionate about. and it's striking to me that for whatever headaches that he may have caused in life, writing for us, for "the pos

mohammed bin salman is a complicated figure. he has moved saudi arabia forward in some areas while moving it toward greater repression in others. the larger issue for washington is that american's foreign policy should not be based on personalities. donald trump's world view seems utterly rooted in his likes and dislikes of others. in the middle east, this has led to the blind subcontracting of american foreign policy to saudi arabia. washington has watched and endorsed the kingdom as it ramped up its bloody war in yemen. and essentially kidnapped the prime minister of lebanon. all these moves have in large part failed. america's middle east policy should be based on its interests and values in the region and beyond. and these will never be perfectly aligned with any one country. historically this has meant being an honest broker, respected by all major powers in the region. this requires nuance, sophisticati sophistication, and ceaseless high quality diplomacy. but that is the price of being the leader of the free world. a job

the accusation is that he was killed on the order of crown prince mohamed bin salman.o ruler of saudi arabia. he has tried to reassure the americans and other allies, but it is looking thin. this appalling killing in istanbul seems to be all the evidence points to it being ordered and carried out by people close to mohammed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia. i don't think he would have done this if he had not thought he had licence from the us administration to frankly behave as he wished to do so. the allegations facing prince mohammed bin salman are based on circumstantial evidence and leaks from turkish security, but there is also hard evidence that he is reckless. for three years, he's been fighting a war in yemen, disastrous for civilians and the international standing of saudi arabia. his blockade of qatar, saudi arabia's tiny neighbour, was ill thought out and ineffective and while he gave saudi women more rights, he has locked up women who have campaigned for the right to drive. the prince has shown himself to be a young man in a hurry, intolerant of

the accusation is that he was killed on the order of crown prince mohamed bin salman.e facto ruler of saudi arabia. he has tried to reassure the americans and other allies, but it is looking thin. this appalling killing in istanbul seems to be all the evidence points to it being ordered and carried out by people close to mohammed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia. i don't think he would have done this if he had not thought he had licence from the us administration to frankly behave as he wished to do so. the allegations facing prince mohammed bin salman are based on circumstantial evidence and leaks from turkish security, but there is also hard evidence that he is reckless. for three years, he's been fighting a war in yemen, disastrous for civilians and the international standing of saudi arabia. his blockade of qatar, saudi arabia's tiny neighbour, was ill thought out and ineffective and while he gave saudi women more rights, he has locked up women who have campaigned for the right to drive. the prince has shown himself to be a young man in a hurry, intoler

who is also a courtesan of prince mohammed bin salman. john brennan is right in his assessment that this story is not going to go away if it turns out it happened on the explicit orders of mohammed bin salman. but that is going to be problematic. i've sat in their diwan with these guys, which is sort of their courtesan world, where they sit around, drink tea, they discuss things, and orders are never explicitly given. it's sort of along the lines of, who will rid me of this troublesome priest? they'll say things like, we have a critic. i don't like what he says. and the other will say "khalas," which is arabic for it's finished, it will be taken care of. and it will be taken care of. and the problem goes away. whether we can pin this on a direct order from mohammed bin salman will come from intelligence. and no one knows better than john brennan. as you said, he was cia station chief in saudi arabia. and the things that were not said to him in front of him he collected in intelligence behind their backs. >> sounds like it's arabic for paul

but today at an investment conference in riyadh, crown prince mohammed bin salman seemed unphased when questioned by my colleague, tim willcox. that was tim willcox catch up with crown prince. this is a picture of jamal khashoggi's son salah shaking hands with crown prince mohammed bin salman, released by the saudi foreign office. the image has received a great deal of criticism on social media. sahrif, author of daring to drive: a saudi woman's awakening, says "salah is banned from travel. they brought him to the royal court to accept condolences. the look on his face." in that photo has received an awful lot of criticism. and raf sanchez, the telegraph's middle east correspondent, describes it as "a picture for the ages. salah has to shake hands with the man accused of ordering his father's murder". the saudis have admitted jamal khashoggi was killed in istanbul, but says it was a rogue group of killers acting on their own authority. and they stress that the crown prince had no knowledge of it. turkey's president, recep tayyip erdogan, says it was premeditated murder. translation: al

where mohammed bin salman had millions to lobby, to spread propaganda, and we see it in the media. 18 months ago bin salman was the great reformer. he was the young prince who was going to rebuild saudi arabia, to fight terrorism, to create moderate islam. suddenly the mood changed in d.c., and jamal khashoggi was writing critical pieces. and, therefore, the saudi regime worried about jamal going too far. >> well, let me ask you, mr. ozhan, you knew jamal well. you've written an op-ed. you say in about two weeks' time, or a week now, you would have been on a panel together. what will happen given that people did look at prince mohammed bin salman as a reformer and maybe they still do? what will happen to turkish/saudi relations or saudi/u.s. relations if it is laid at the saudis' door? >> yeah, you're write. >> yeah, you're right. i was supposed to be with him two weeks from now, actually, just one week from now as of today. he was a humble guy. i should say something about him. he was not only humble, he was not a threat to the saudi regime at any extent. he was critical but he worke

-saudi relations -- mohammed bin salman, and the future of u.s.-saudi relations. i want to welcome you all. i want to thank my colleagues at the hoover institution that direct the washington office, michael frank, the director of external relations, russell wold. also, under half of the hoover institution, i want to extend our profound condolences to the family and friends of jamal remarkableto the news organization that had provided his sadly final home as ais extraordinary work columnist and a public intellectual. "the washington post." i want to say a few words to offer my own initial framing thoughts on where we are at and why we are here. i have thought a lot about why there has been such an emotional this isng, and why likely to be -- i think it will be -- it is part of what we will be debating, whether it will be a watershed event, maybe in global affairs. i think certainly for the future of saudi arabia. i do want to say, and i will have my own column in "the american interest" tomorrow that will spell this out -- it is worth your mining ourselves that jam

mohammed bin salman, perhaps ironically, has now been put in charge of a committee to reform saudi arabia'selligence agency. there's still no official word on what the saudis did with jamal khashoggi's body. reena. >> ninan: holly williams in istanbul. thank you, holly. president trump in nevada today said he's considering sanctions against saudi arabia, but remains reluctant to cancel a u.s. arms deal with the saudis. here's errol barnett. >> i'm not satisfied until we find the answer but it was a big first step. it was a good first step. >> reporter: before bordering air force one in nevada today, president trump responded to saudi arabia's confirmation of jamal khashoggi's death, expressing hesitation to terminate a new $110 billion arms deal. >> i think it's over one million jobs. that's not helpful for to us cancel an order like that. that hurts us far more than it hurts them. >> reporter: the president says he would like to speak to crown prince mohammed bin salman, a man republican senator lindsey graham said was "toxic" and a "wcking ball." congress will be involved in crafting a re

during the photo op, crown prince mohammed bin salman stressing the strong ties between the two countries. >> uneventful. >> i hope you didn't have jet lag. >> so far so good. >> thank you for hosting me. >> you are -- so we face our

he was attended also by the saudi foreign minister who went with him where he met mbs, mohammed bin salman, the real power in the land. that went on for about 40 minutes. on the way in, erica, i think there was a telling exchange, perhaps, when mohammed bin salman, who is speaking first, he says we're really strong and old allies, so we face our challenges together. the past, the day of, tomorrow. and pompeo answers, absolutely. now, of course, america's top diplomat could not really have said, well, hmm, we'll wait and see. but nonetheless, we do hear from sources inside the meeting on the american side that there was a candid exchange of views, which is diplomatic speak for some fairly firm remarks. but how firmly they went beyond saying what they're saying in public, which is they want to see a transparent and timely resolution to the investigation into what happened to "the washington post" columnist, remains to be seen, but nonetheless, just in the last few moments, the agency, the semi-official news agency in turkey, has reported that the saudi console has left istanbul and flying ba

of his son-in-law jared depends a bit on mohamed bin salman because jared put a lot of debt on nbs, tried to get further palestinian understanding to line up with the arab and iran. there's a lot at stake here. so trump is trying to be careful. he says he hasn't heard about any intelligence or any body. cnn has heard them but it's probably just as twhael trump doesn't hear them because i think that would make things very, very difficult. >> one of the biggest questions remaining in this whole mystery is where is khashoggi's body. the saudi explanation provides no information that a source close to the saudi royal palace is saying, the saudis don't know where it is. how key is this question for -- >> well, i don't think it's very key actually myself because it's quite clear that, you know, even the saudis admit that they killed him inside this

i don't understand. >> mohammed bin salman, the crown prince, runs all the security services.nomy. he's an autocrat. it is known to be particularly cruel, and this could be a message to the rank and file. this is what happens to you. you know, it's psychopathic, no question about it. and there's a big question of whether this had been filmed and sent back to the kingdom for mohammed bin salman. that's something else the turks could answer. >> well, again, no definitive answers yet, but a lot of mounting evidence all pointing one direction and not inother at the moment. bob, thank you. i appreciate it. >>> coming up for us, the new battle brewing for democrats in a historically blue state. how one heated senate fight could dash any hopes of a blue wave. that's next. for a single dad, and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. warning, california. a handful of billionaires have spent over $70 million on campaigns to

speaking at a high-profile business conference today, mohammed bin salman calls khashoggi's death a heinous crime. he also says that riyadh will cooperate with turkish investigators. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. u.s. president donald trump has promised to get toto the bottomf explosive devices sent to top democrats and their offices today, just days ahead of crucial midterm elections. the presidents of the perpetrators will be punished to the full extent of the law. in an unusual move, trump's wife melania was the first to deliver her condemnation at the white house. >> we cannot tolerate those attacks and strongly condemn all who choose violence. i am grateful to the secret service as well as the local and federal law-enforcement for all they do on a daily basis to keep us safe, and encourage people across the country to choose kindness over hatred. >> i just want to tell you that in these times we have to unify, we have to come together, and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message, that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in

very, very close to mohammed bin salman. indeed our source says that matrabe was ciconded as part of a brigade, siconded to provide personal security around bin salman. what the turkish officials here are leaking because they are not getting the cooperation from saudi arabia is the information that they want to expose to, if you will, force saudi arabia's hand to come clean on this. they essentially are saying the longer they leave it, the saudis, any narrative, explanation, holds less and less water. doesn't pass the sniff test. christine? >> all right, nic robertson. certainly disturbing, disturbing details there. thank you. >> to say the least. >>> a senior adviser to the president telling cnn mr. trump's handling of the crisis with saudi arabia may be the most consequential decision of his presidency. the president once again defending the saudi regime tweeting, they totally denied any knowledge, then offered this talking point -- you see here, answers will be forthcoming shortly. here's what he told "fox busine business"

by the crown prince mohammed bin salman. these reports certainly go along with the reports in turkish media over the last couple of weeks. they firmly have believed he died in the consulate. that appears to have been backed up today. absolutely. and, you know, the saudi side of the story in the last few weeks, especially right after the disappearance, was insistently confirming that jamal khashoggi entered the consulate and left the consulate after he finished paperwork. now today this story is completely different. it remains to be seen really whether there are recordings or videos of what happened inside the consulate, as the turkish side has been saying over the last two weeks, that they have evidence and proof of what happened inside and they have the backing of this story. but now that the saudis admit that it seems there is a backing

this could not have happened without the knowledge or the direction of mbs, the crown prince mohammed bin salman. by calling this explanation credible, the president defies or reject the u.s. assessment again. why? >> i don't think he's going to get a lot of support on saying it was potentially a credible explanation. i think that's why he followed up with the notion that it is early in the u.s. investigation.

have close ties to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. republican senators, meanwhile, are lining up to hold saudi arabia accountable with lindsey graham threatening to, quote, sanction the hell out of the kingdom, and marco rubio telling cnn that the united states will lose its credibility on human rights if it fails to act. republican senator ben sasse says the saudis have a lot they need to explain. sasse is a frequent critic of president trump and he's just published a new book "them -- why we hate each other and how to heal." in it senator sasse wrestles with the anger kicked up by america's deeply divided political scene. he's joining me now from washington. senator, welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> your book comes at a very opportune time because this tribalism is sucking up all the oxygen, and it also comes at a time when some of that tribalism seems to be spilling out into this current case. i want to know first and