now there is an uproar on capitol hill and some of those senators say they believe they can do it bob corker who you saw in that story said that saudi u.s. relationships have rarely been lower and they might now in his words fall off a cliff and there was a state department briefing today wasn't that did that clarify anything at all. well the state department briefing really didn't clarify things a lot there and in fact you have to remember that heather nauert the state department spokeswoman who held that briefing works for donald trump donald trump is very concerned about that relationship with the saudi arabian government here a few things that she had to say she said we're concerned about the whereabouts of jamal khashoggi she said we don't know what happened to him that is despite the fact that we know that the administration and on capitol hill that they have access to intelligence that has not been publicly released intelligence from turkey that is it least convince some of those senators that something very seriously wrong happened here you heard bob corker say it is clear the saudis

we should note bipartisan the latest statement coming from the chair of that committee senator bob corker a republican the president's republican party saying that significant sanctions should be imposed at the highest level of the saudi government if the missing journalist. is in fact found to have been a victim of state sponsored murder now one other thing that we should note in all of this is that u.s. saudi relations at least at the level of the congressional level had already been fragile given the fact that there have been longstanding concerns about the ongoing saudi led coalition in those efforts in yemen the concern about the humanitarian crisis there this seems to the words of bob corker they were already low this situation referring to the missing journalist could cause it to go off a cliff is what he said so really not mincing any words there and that's really been echoed by democratic senator also in that committee that has essentially accused if if these accusations are true has accused saudi arabia of potentially committing out committing murder with impunity what i think w

i want you to grade bob corker on his performance over the last 12 years as a senator. "a" is excellent. d, f. rep. blackburn: i would give senator corker an "a." mr. bredesen: i would give him an "a," too. different party, but i would give him that grade. >> why did you give him the grade you did? i have enjoyed working with senator corker on different issues. one of those that we are working on this week is the issue with sex trafficking. i will be working on him with this issue friday. this is something that has affected our communities and our state. the large ingest the largest sex trafficking sting was conducted, and 22 people were arrested in that sting. this is something that so affects our young women. when you hear the stories of how these traffickers prey on children that are in foster care, this is absolutely heartbreaking. and i know senator corker has worked hard on this issue. i appreciate that he has been diligent on this issue. i also know -- [bell] >> governor, you also give the senator an "a." mr. bredesen: he is obviously from a different party and we

bob corker wants that information. this should go to congress.e have should go to congress. this is a basic thing. i said this before. jamal khashoggi was exercising a basic american right. free speech. he was murdered. that's outrageous and totally unacceptable. >> he was a u.s. resident. >> absolutely. >> i hear frequently from trump supporters why should i care about this type of stuff. you have a new perspective? >> i think i was held captive in 2008 and 2009 by the taliban. the several months i was in captivity, they hated the saudis. they talked about them as corrupt and liars. they said the united states were hypocrit hypocrites. we talk about justice and rule of law, but when it comes to saudis and money and oil, they get a pass. i think this stance if we let this pass, it will help recruitment by extremist groups. they will say the united states doesn't care about arab lives. they say one thing and do another when it comes to the saudi royal family. >> is the saudi relationship with the united states so important that the president and t

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please join me in welcoming to the stage, senator bob corker. [applause] >> thank you so much for joining us on what i am sure is a very busy day and hopefully maybe even a relief from some of the other things. so i want to start our conversation today at a place where you and i had an opportunity to spend good time and get to know each other. .. that would make our economy grow stronger and stronger with infrastructure or healthcare or defense. wanted to start in that space and ask you, what he think we are in terms of the nation's economic health? from our physical, the school stand in terms of the budget deficit and those types of topics the things that actually underpin the productivity of our economy. if you had a magic wand, where are we now and if there's something you'd want to fix immediately what would that be? >> the economic peace and the physical piece of very different. before i get into that i just want to say i'm so happy for american that you are there person. i enjoyed so much working with you. economically i think as a nation

senators bob corker and bob menendez. they have both been briefed on the administration's classified intelligence and they are using a relatively new law, the global mag knitsky act, to force trump to investigate and consider sanctions. 22 senators in total have signed on. senator bob corker says he thinks khashoggi is dead. the saudis are responsible and his action with menendez will hold the white house's feet to the fire. just listen. >> i think it puts intense pressure upon the administration to go about this in a diligent way and then sanction -- and we made sure we had language in fl -- to make sure we look at the highest levels of the saudi government. >> now, his colleague bob menendez is the most senior democrat on the senate foreign releases committee and joins me now from the capitol. senator, welcome to the program. >> good to be with you christiane. >> so i mentioned the senators have been briefed on some of what the administration and the intelligence knows. you've just been briefed again. te on specifically

this is senator bob corker who -- let's listen to bob corker talking about how the saudis should be punishedcan say what they wish, but it's just not a credible story for somebody to walk in, 15 other people, and get into a fist fight and lose their life. sanctions are a blunt instrument, okay? they're good but they're not great. we need to think of other ways to deal with this kind of behavior. what we don't want is a ruler that's going to be around for 40 or 50 years going around the world continuing to conduct operations like this. >> okay. so the republicans are sort of saying the things that you should say, right, about what happened? but do we -- is it credible for them to be now saying the saudis should be punished? do we find that credible? >> no. the problem is this continuing disconnect, which is donald trump one day says, oh, yes, i believe the saudis. the republicans are silent. the next moment he says, maybe they were lying. they don't even recognize the shifts. by the way, bob corker has kind of an important job. he could do something. he could think of things to do with the sa

but also by the man, jim risch, who would take bob corker's place should republicans retain control year and bob menendez was a co-signor. >> every member of the senate foreign relations committee with the exception of rand paul. >> and the likelihood that rand paul will be heading up the senate foreign relations committee, that's not going to happen and this is not going to go away and one thing that the mid-terms won't be solved. >> maybe we should have, you know, get serious about not coddling to dictators of very kinds and stand you go up for human rights, especially in this case, a man who is a permanent resident, legal resident of the united states. i think his children are u.s. citizens who was living here, who goes to the -- an embassy and nato ally in turkey and the saudis decide to abduct him or whatever they decide to do and they end up killing him apparently. i mean, that's pretty terrible. >> we can't continue to outsource power to places like turkey, for example, which has its own extreme records of violations against journalism. at the height of erdogan taking control

bob corker and ben sasse in moments. plus, politics of fear. the president going back to what's worked. fear. and the border. claiming democrats are opening the gates for a migrant caravan full of criminals. >> democrats want caravans. they like caravans. >> mayor eric garcetti is here. and sunshine showdown. ground zero for a critical election. who would have thunk it. with millions of dollars pouring in and big names hitting the trail, what can we learn from these key bellwether races? >>> hello. i'm jake tapper in florida where our state of the union is barn storming. we are here in a key midterm battle ground 16 days from an election that will help determine the future of the presidency and the future of the united states with the house, senate, and 36 governors races up for grabs. including right here in florida. this is all happening as the president faces an escalating international crisis in a brand new interview with "the washington post". it's unclear how much he holds top saudi arabia leaders accountable for the lies or for the murde

i understand that you heard or talked to the senator from tennessee, bob corker? >> yeah, that's right, craig. i talked to three republican senators over here who all came out feeling very positive about what they saw in this fbi briefing, feeling like it will help judge kavanaugh's chances and might help people feel more comfortable not only voting for him, but actually seeing him on the bench given what they said was a lack of corroborating evidence. one of those snaenators was bob corker of tennessee who has been a yes vote on kavanaugh. he's someone who said he took the allegations by dr. ford very seriously. he was very interested in seeing what this report came up with, and according to him came up with not very much at all. in 46 pages he said to me several times he found zero corroboration. here's part of bob corker describing what he learned and didn't see in this report. >> reporter: did you hear anything that jumps out as new or anything that would change your opinion on the judge? >> no, you know it was -- they interviewed ten people. there was no corr

thousand and one and that heinous crime was promptly covered up we had the obama administration bob corker lindsey graham all these people howling about they all participated in the attempt to prevent the nine eleven widows and bereaved family members from suing saudi arabia this is a crowd of foreign policy elites who are addicted to the special relationship with saudi arabia and the arms sales and oil sales that come with it so we should expect the worst maxim intel thank you very much. live from washington thanks for having me think of a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including the polls close on for a second day of aging in afghanistan hamid bonnets and technical glitches. show support brazil's far right presidential contenders base rallies in favor. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello welcome to have a look at the international forecast is dry across a good part of eastern china further inland we have seen some rather heavy downpours recently and more of those as we go on through the next couple of days actually t

and in fact he has more now from bob corker the u.s. senate foreign relations committee chairman. everything went indicate that that he's perished but look maybe it's a rendition and he'll show up someplace down the road i hope that's the case but right now it feels like. it feels like he is not a lot human everything points to saudi arabia and it would appear that he's not a law of i would think that if it were saudi arabia and he was alive. with all that's happening right now they would produce him i mean renditions do occur and so . i mean governments all over the world are involved in renditions and and so i mean if they have him sequestered someplace. then you would think they would produce him but. so that makes me feel i mean again it might not i'm in saudi arabia everything points to that this is a real murky world and when you start dealing with these kinds of things. we've got more now from laura burton manley who's looking at what we know so far about this investigation. saudi journalist jamal khashoggi ended his country's co

it moved bob corker to tears, our chairman, because it is so infrequent and -- infrequent. it is common decency that you just, these days, it is punished . i remember when tim kaine was picked to be hillary clinton's running mate. tim and i were collected -- elected together. we don't agree much, but we worked together on a number of things. we disagree a lot, but he is a decent, caring, smart senator. just as a playful jacobite, i tweeted out, now i have to count the ways i hate tim kaine -- playful joke, i tweeted out, now i have to count the ways i hate tim kaine, but he is a good man. there was immediately unhinged fury from tweets, emails, and texts from my side of the aisle asking how i could do that. the next day or two days later in arizona, somebody came up to me and said, what is wrong with you? if you can't say anything bad -- and he stopped. it was like he was reversing the advice he got from his mother. that is the result of a shattered politics. it is where we are. it is going to be tough to reverse because incentives push us that way. chris, is this inspiring

and it moved bob corker to tears, our chairman because it's just so infrequent. and you know, it's not as much friendships developed or whatever else but it's just common decency that you just these days it's punished. remember well when tim cain was picked to be hillary clinton's running mate. we don't agree much but work together on a number of things and we disagree a lot. but he's a decent, caring, smart senator. nd just as kind of a playful jab, i tweeted out, now i have to count the ways i hate tim cain but i'm drawing a blank and he's a good man and good friend, congratulations. there was immediately unhinged fury from tweets and emails and texts from my side of the aisle saying how can you do that? even as a republican event, i kid you not, the next day or two days later in arizona, somebody came up to me and he said, what's wrong with you, if you can't say anything bad don't -- and he stopped. it was like he was reversing the advice he got from his mother, i'm sure, every day of his life. but that's the result of a shattered politics and it's where we ar

republican senator bob corker says he believes crown prince mohammed bin sandman is responsible for the death. a week before a runoff in a presidential election in brazil people are protesting against the far right front runner. there have been regular demonstrations across the country against comments attacking women minorities and the gay community the former military captain is leading in the polls well ahead of his leftist rival for. supporters are now rallying in sao paolo that is where there is joining us from daniel. daniel to set the scene behind you tell us what's going on. one here in the center of power the road here is being closed in the main avenues these are the knob also not of supporters behind me you may be able to see some of them of adopted many of the symbols nationally symbols many of them flying brazilian flags many people wearing the brazilian national football and we just had a rendition of the facility and. behind me so these are people that five or six months ago probably didn't think that counted that had a hope of even making the second round of elections wh

possibly does. >> senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker says the administration has clamped down on intelligence about the case saying quote i suppose they don't want us to see the intel. >> turkey's justice minister says the khashoggi investigation will be done soon. authorities in haz-mat suits have finished searching the consul general's residence. they learned a fresh coat of paint had been applied before they arrived. the special agent josh campbell is joining us live. a senior law enforcement anal t analyst. josh, great to have you. josh, talk about the growing mountain of evidence if this were an fbi investigation, would it be over? >> it's a good question. a lot of information collected thus far. there is a way to go. we had reporting in turkish media. the report is close to being wrapped up. they mentioned saudi officials are asked for an arrest warrant and if they can't find them to go through interpol channels. there is evidence collected here, but subjects at large that were responsible. we talk about the mounting evidence. let's talk about what we have s

the senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker i said any sales to saudi arabia would not pass congress donald trump told reporters there's no need to block saudi arabia investments in the u.s. and that he's helping both countries in the investigation. well look you know adverse strongly we'll be having a report soon we're working with turkey we're working with saudi arabia what happened is a terrible thing assuming that happened i mean maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised but somehow i tend to doubt it and we take it very seriously it's not our country it's in turkey and it's not a citizen as i understand it but a thing like that should happen it is a reporter with the washington post and it's something like that should not be allowed to happen something like that should not happen and we intend to get to the bottom of it reporting for us on the story right now kimberly how good of course suzanne white house correspondent will come to her shortly starting with stephanie deca at the saudi consulate in istanbul i've run through those latest developments stephanie how about y

senator bob corker and lindsey graham saying there will be hell to pay if the saudi's were deemed responsible for this. david: thanks so much. let's go to emma ross thomas over in london. is that going to be a brexit and is it going to have a deal? it looks like there was a bust up last night. this morning, cooler heads have prevailed. prime minister just said she is working towards a deal. and mental macron has been saying he hopes that collective intelligence will prevail. that is important because macron has been one of the hard-liners in the negotiations to date. there was a dinner on wednesday between you leaders. and remains to be seen whether they can make any progress. there are still fundamental differences between the two sides. certainly this morning, we have not had the stern strident rhetoric that may has sometimes resorted to. david: give us a sense of what the real deadlines are. is wednesday really a dropdead deadline or is it really the middle of november? emma: these deadlines shift, don't they? basically, we had been told that there was so much on wednesday, a preliminary d

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obviously bob corker could, and dana powell could, and i think ivanka would have a much harder time andd have to put financial information forward and testify, and i don't think that's real, and everybody's speculation is as good as mine. >> kellyan kay yacht, i think is worth noting what the internal dynamic is on the foreign policy team, with john bolton, he and nikki haley did not get along as well, and he's a strong figure. you have secretary pompeo, and you have two hardliners who are really in line with the president's thinking about america's position in the world. that was not the case with mcpham mcmaster, so perhaps that left nikki haley not feeling like she had as big of of a portfolio on foreign policy. >> glamorous even. >> later he called it prestigious. >> while her departure and the time has all the heralding of somebody getting out in front of something. they do not have as many women in the cabinet -- >> yeah, it's 5 out of 23. >> this is really an optic problem for the trump administration. >> john, david, jen, thank you very much. obviously we have to get back to hur

senator bob corker read the intel report. >> i think they did it and he certainly is deceased.im and change the narrative there. >> in his columns, khashoggi has been a critic of the crowned prince. cnn is learning that the crowned prince reached out to the white house earlier this week, specifically to speak with president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, to deny the accusations. today president trump says he is taking the investigation very seriously. >> i have to find out who did it, but people saw him go out but didn't see him come out, as they understand it. we're going to take a serious look at it. it a terrible thing. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> i'd rather not say, but the answer is yes. >> elise, you broke the story about the intelligence. give us some more context about what your sources are saying that u.s. intelligence officials have learned about what actually went down. >> well, dana, they don't know what happened in istanbul. that's key. u.s. intelligence does not have any hard evidence whether jamal is in fact alive or dead. what they do have are intercepts.

if you are bob corker or rubio, they kidnapped, tortured, killed, dismembered somebody. you have to take a stand. >> right. this is where you hear a totally incoherent message. you can imagine a world where the president was out there saying as forcefully as he does with vladimir putin, i will deal with any opportunistically if it serves my interest and the interest of the united states. that's not what the administration has been saying. they have been all over the map. even the kushner version that was that we heard was timid and hedged. it does underscore the degree to which the course of this over the next few weeks and over the last few weeks has been largely out of the control of the white house and the saudis. every day you hear whether it's a foreign leader like angela merkel or bob corker or rand paul who is not exactly a champion of international human rights or somebody who is a frequent critic of the administration calling to terminate much of the relationship with saudi arabia. this is not something that the white house is even in a position to stage manage

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bob corker is not happy right now. he's seeing the administration clamping down on sharing intelligence which is a remarkable thing. >> i'm surprised how much we'll hear that rhett frick this administration if we get the evidence. in other situations like this, and there have been more m around the world where there's some type of human rights violation from a strategically important country, this president doesn't often get to the point. and i'm not sure you'll see the president take the steps khashoggi was talking about in his final op-ed. >> and the turks are conducting their own investigation, they're not friends of the saudis so secretary pompeo said we'll see these two investigations and see if they're credible, one of the issues will be do they match up at all or do the turks wait for the saudis to put something out and undermine it as they have through selective leaks. >> or do they get whatever it is they want to get out. remember on monday erdogan says only turkey can lead the islamic world. there's an intere

in the tennessee senate race day.a blackburn and they are come seating for the bob corker who is retiring. all eyes on tennessee, a heated race reaches a boiling point. side she conservative is the 800 pound gorilla. >> head to head on one stage. dubbed the most important senate race in the country. paul's show a dead heat. >> this one is too close to call. coming from both sides. tonight, your chance to hear from the candidates in their final debate before election night. your local election headquarters welcomes you to tonight's tennessee debate. we are broadcasting live across the state of tennessee. we welcome viewers from's nations in memphis, jackson, nashville, chattanooga, knoxville and huntsville, alabama. let's meet the panel of journalists who will be asking the tough questions tonight. we have richard ransom, anchor in memphis. kristen, an anchor in knoxville and bob mueller, anchor in nashville. here is a quick rundown of tonight's debate rules. there are no opening statements. candidates will have 30 seconds each for closing. candidates will get 60 seconds to answer main que

press freedom around the world will helplp that trump does act. , lindseyublican senators gram and bob corker, have spoken out against the saudi's on the incident. doubt, if the turkish prosecutors find he has been killed, both senators would urge president trump to take action. now, in the u.s., brett kavanaugh has been sworn into the supreme court after winning the contentious vote marked by sexual misconduct allegations against him. kavanaugh gigantic change -- kavanaugh tried to change the tone. he insisted he would be fair and impartial. trump decided to lash out against the democrats again. >> with the nation watching, brett kavanaugh swore to fatefully and impartially honor his role as associate court justice. he took the opportunity to tell americans he would not let his past dictate his judgment. >> the senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional. that process is over. my focus now is to be the best justice i can be.e. a good just -- a good judge must be an umpire, a neutral and impartial decider. >> his composure stood in stark contrast to his emotional and at times be

corker made an observation that we've got the votes and here's what i would say to bob.have to wait on the fbi report. lisa murkowski and susan collins really want to the fbi to validate the committee's work. they are just about done. i'm confident both of them, if there is no change, if the fbi learns nothing new about the allegation or legitimacy to ramirez, that they will vote for kavanaugh because we've done everything within reason and i hope jeff flake will also -- he voted yes in committee and now he's talking about temperament and yearbook entries. to those who questioned the yearbook entries, just listen to what you are saying. you're going to decide this man's fate based on the yearbook entry. >> sean: ice-throwing. at the senator from hawaii. >> the triangle. if you have a doubt what it really means, go back and talk to judge kavanaugh himself. don't humiliate this man. >> sean: if the fbi -- there's one report that they haven't talked to dr. ford. is there a need to talk to her? >> the last thing dr. ford needs in my view is to go through the ringer again. sh

. >> the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob corker said this, this is going to come to a head in a very short amount of time. this isn't getting better over time. it seems to me in the next week or so people are going to know more about what happened. it can't go on that long. they need to come out and share their views of what happened and share with us. and josh, he's talking about the administration there when he says they need to come out and share their views. and so the trump administration has not been sharing their views with republican senators. >> they have not. they have been trying to keep their comments very limited. until the saudis come out with whatever their new explanation is going to be. and all indications, lawrence, is that the saudis are trying to reverse engineer how much information is already out there. how much does the u.s. intelligence community and other spy agencies already know about what happened, and therefore what can the saudis really get away with in their explanation? so the u.s. is trying not to get ahead of

this was not the man who believed saudi arabia need secularization and rule of law. >> the bob corkerenator lindsey graham was on the show last night and saying, they mean business. do they think -- i really think -- there was an announcement today that saudi arabia and turkey were going to work together. it's a joint investigation and that's like fox's guard the hen house if the united states joins such an investigation. it's likely to be a whitewash. i think we pretty much know what happens, and i don't think that saudi arabia in the end will pay much of a price for this. the caravan will move on. as we say in the middle east, the tension will be distracted by kanye, by the hurricanes, whatever. donald trump thinks that we need to saudi arabia, and i will laugh, i'm not sure that there will ever be justice for jamaal. >> martha: he says he would like his fiancee to come to the white house fairly quickly so we will see if that happens. thanks for being here tonight. a live look at the hurricane matthew as the search and rescue is ongoing tonight. ♪ i'm going to start with some balaya

bob corker is not. he was actually incredibly forceful.aid. >> let's finish this investigation. we have the best in the world at being able to do that. we obviously have intercepts from the past that point to involvement at a very high level. so let's let this play out. my guess is at the end of the day, the united states and the rest of the world will believe fully that he did it. >> yeah. corker said i think he did it. >> right. but what about the pushback from members of congress? do you see it swaying the president and his administration? >> it's a great question. i don't know the answer yet. we see the president reacting to it. and he could just ignore this whole thing if he chose to. so the fact that he is reacting to it -- >> well, could me? you mean ignore questions about it? >> i mean he -- >> it's tough to ignore this gigantic international crisis. >> the president has been surprised by how large is reaction is, and so he is reacting in part to that. but that reaction is not coming from his voters. it is coming from congress to a

tweets from senator lindsey graham and bob corker, critical of saudi arabia in this relationship. one there from senator graham. to say i'm skeptical about mr. khashoggi is an understatement. gabby, how be a pivot point are we at in terms of this relationship? >> i don't understand why our president would have any empathy to any journalist and because this becomes his financial interests and all known and the timing of the $150 million deposited, he's speaking to his base. right? speaking to people that believe exactly what he said and what all of the right wing media, you know, pushes on them all the time. i'm just not surprised by anything he's doing. again, he's undermining our national security, our intelligence officials. and showing his true colors, which are not based on humanity, empathy or justice for freedom of the press. >> dorian, where do we go from here? robin wright, the great journalist on npr. the question she has, where's the body? a big open question looking at preliminary results from the saudis. what happens next as you see it? >> i think we need all of the ev

bob corker, republican from tennessee and chairman of the foreign relations committee. brawl that, quote, resulted in khashoggi's death. the president says he finds that explanation credible. do you? >> no. they've lost all credibility as it relates to explaining what happens happened. i do hope over the next few days we'll actually have the tapes that the turks have, although we haven't received them yet. i don't think anybody believes that story i can understand the president wanting to keep open channels, but i think those of us who want to speak directly to this know it's just not credible. >> the president said it was credible. he's not just keeping open channels. he's lending his authority to their official explanation. >> yeah. well, again, swrak, you know, everybody can say what they wish but it's just not a credible story for somebody who walk in with 15 other people, get into a fist fight and lose their life. we'll have a thorough investigation. i know our agencies will be looking into it. we've invoked the mitnisky act which means a full investigation has to

we had bob corker who heads the foreign relations committee in the united states intelligence saying, i think he's deceased, talking about khashoggi, and he's talking about the deal you want to scrap with the saudis. how does the president manage this? >> reporter: we'll see. i feel like it's deja vu all over again. take away the word saudi arabia and insert the word russia. >> yeah. >> reporter: where you have essentially the entire national security administration condemning saudi arabia saying we've got to make them pay. you've heard -- you quoted bob corker, i mean, i think lindsey graham said there would be hell to pay. we have to define what that is. and if you recall, just like with russia, there would be tough sanctions in the past and the president didn't want to implement them. we know that he and his son had very close ties to the current regime. i feel like we're going to have some sort of showdown here between the trump white house and congress over how to deal with sawed giudi arabia assumino public with the evidence that apparently everybody has. >> congress has been pr

line, though, had to get approved by the senate art virtually -- particularly senator graham and bob corker are calling on this and wanting an investigation. they sate could put in jeopardy the arms deal -- i'm sorry -- the money. the president says he doesn't necessarily like. very quickly i would note this also has to do with the pastor. it also has to do with turkey because turkey has been it for some time. whether or not turkey aligns itself with the u.s. and russia is now in play. >> in a few minutes i'm going to talk to richard engel in turkey about that. he's rallying in a number of states. what is the strategy and is there any evidence that the strategy is working? >>. >> i think it's just to flood the zone on media challenge. he's been hosting rallies all week long all over the united states. he's been calling in on the fox programs. he thinks the more he can be out there spreading the message unfilter, the better it is for him. democrats think that will help them. there are polls showing that voters who dis-like the president are feeling more motivated to vote in the midterms. >>

today, senator bob corker, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, saying the evidence is strong. >> everything i've seen does point to the saudis. >> reporter: president trump who has made his relations with saudi arabia key to his foreign policy arrived in ohio today. >> nobody knows quite yet, nobody has been able to put it all together. >> reporter: the president adding he will call the king of sa saudi arabia pretty soon. >> we want to bring this to you. andrew brunson a court convicting him to aiding terror groups and senn sensing him to time served. a medical evaluation will happen in germany and a plane will fly him back to the u.s. you're getting reaction tonight from the white house? >> that's right. the white house is elated. president prump brought a lot of pressure to bring him. and it was important to evangelical christians here too. he is coming here after a stop in germany. there will be an oval office welcome for you. >> terry, thank you. >>> we turn tonight to the abc news exclusive. a rare interview with first lady melania trump. the first lady speaking

according to your article, bob corker believes based on earlier intelligence, quote, everything points not to just saudi arabia but to mbs specifically. referringing to crown prince mohammed bin salman. this could not have happened without his approval. how does president trump move forward with relations, with the saudis, specifically the crown prince? and i'll say from those who i speak to in the white house, they just keep hoping i feel like that this news cycle passes. when i referenced this or things like it, they keep saying, how about bob woodward's book? and they kind of laugh. >> with mbs, you have a president who wants to protect his relationship with the saudi kingdom. but even the top trump allies like senator lindsey graham who keeps saying publicly that the u.s. can't deal with the crown prince anymore, the young 30-something leader of the country. you don't have the president listening. this is a president who runs foreign policy. runs his entire presidency almost on his own. he has his cabinet, he has his friends in the senate, but when it comes to these crisis moments,

bob corker told "the washington post," quote, i can only surmise that probably the intel is not painting a pretty picture as it relates to saudi arabia. leading off our discussion now tim o'brien, also joining us is richard stengel, former under secretary of state, and evelyn farkas, all are msnbc contributors. and evelyn, let me start with you. it seems as i listen to this administration especially as i listen to the president the choice seems to either be donald trump doesn't care about the saudis murdering a journalist or donald trump approves of the saudis murdering a journalist. i don't see any other option in what i hear him saying so far. >> well, lawrence, i would say he probably doesn't approve. because when you remember when the story first broke he did tell leslie stahl in the "60 minutes" interview that he found it horrendous and particularly horrendous if it was true of the murder of a journalist. so i don't think he approves. but i think you're onto something when you say he doesn't care. because if he cared he would understand very clearly the implications of this on a hum

. >> now to tennessee where incumbent senator bob corker is not seeking reelection. owners know decide between republican marsha blackburn and her opponent. you are watching c-span, your primary source for campaign 2018. >> tonight, all eyes on tennessee. two candidates. from two sides of the aisle. >> i'm a conservative guy and she is the 800 pound gorilla. >> they go head-to-head on one stage. dubbed that most important senate race in the country. polls showing a dead heat. >> this one is too close to call. >> the wrong answer on immigration. >> tonight, your chance to hear from candidates in their final debate before election night. >> your local election headquarters welcomes you to tonight's senate debate. we are broadcasting live from the baker center on the university of tennessee's campus in knoxville. i am the evening anchor and i will be your guide this evening for the next star media group presentation. let's go right ahead and introduce you to the candidates who are running for u.s. senate. senmer governor phil brede and congressman marsha blackburn , rep

you heard the reporter say that bob corker of tennessee said it looks like the turkish intelligence israte. it's the turks that say that he walked into the saudi embassy and consulate and never came out. there's apparently intelligence that heather nauert didn't want to talk about, she snapped at rich edson about obviously. this is a touchy subject. a man is missing. a permanent resident of the united states is missing. it sounds like a foreign government may be responsible for it. as it turns out, that foreign government is a close ally. complicating matters, the crown prince of saudi arabia is very close to president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner. the president said the united states plans to get to the bottom of this. listen. >> we're looking at it very strongly. we'll have a record out soon. we're working with turkey and saudi arabia. what happened is a terrible thing assuming it happened. maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised. somehow i tend to doubt it. we take it very seriously. >> shepard: this morning the president called in to the morning show and said tha

. >> now to tennessee where bob corker is not seeking reelection. he will decide between marsha blackburn. c-span, youring primary source for campaign 2018. your local election headquarters welcomes you to tonight's senate debate. we are broadcasting live from the baker center on the university of tennessee's campus in knoxville. and ihe evening anchor will be your guide this evening media group star presentation. let's go right ahead and introduce you to the candidates who are running for u.s. senate. former governor phil brenna sent, and congressman marsha blackburn representing tennessee's seventh district. we are broadcasting live across the state of tennessee. we welcome viewers from's nations in memphis, jackson, nashville, chattanooga, knoxville and huntsville, alabama. let's meet the panel of journalists who will be asking the tough questions tonight. we have richer, it an anchor in memphis. in knoxvilleanchor and bob mueller, anchor in nashville. here is a quick rundown of tonight's debate rules. no opening statements. candidates will have

joining me is bob corker chairman of the foreign relations joining us.een expressing concern, your committee, with only one dissenting member, bipartisan, call on the white house, under the magnitsky act, which triggered an automatic investigation by the administration, by the president of the united states, to see if a foreign government, to see who may have caused the disappearance of this prominent dissident. critic of the regime. >> yes. >> you said today to the press you think that -- you think he may have been killed. do you have -- what is your reason for that suspicion? >> yes. so first of all, andrea, always good to be with you. look, everything points to that being the case. i hope that i am wrong. i hope that he turns up healthy in some other part of the world. everything i've read intelwise and just that i'm aware of makes me think the likelihood is he's been murdered. and everything points at this juncture to saudi arabia, but, you know, andrea, and the world -- you're very familiar with -- things can be murky, and who knows if this was set

this is smart bob corker, the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. he said in part, quote, they murdered him, talking about the saudi government, the senator saying his instincts tell him, quote, they murdered him. if they're murdering american citizens, then it doesn't matter what our relationship has been. the senator added it does appear that they murdered -- he said, an american citizen, khashoggi is not an american citizen. the white house says that john bolton and jared kushner called the crown prince, later we're told that mike pompeo called him as well. what should they be saying to the crown prince of saudi arabia? >> they should be talking about a magnitsky act investigation, which would bring in sanctions against somebody who ordered an killing in another country. they should be talking about an end to arms sales. they should be pressing saudi arabia to explain what happened. you know, there are cameras inside the consulate that the saudis control that could indicate what happened. they could talk about these 15 people who flew from saudi

we have heard from bob corker, marco rubio, lindsey graham. pretty tough words. lindsey graham, for instance, saying, if this turns out to be true, there will be hell to pay. of course, the senate -- you think about these next couple of weeks, they're going to be out campaigning, so they're not necessarily going to get right on this. but i think the key is to watch them. do they act to block parts of this arms deal, $100 billion or so? and also, american businesses. when the crown prince was here in april, he was talking to jeff bezos, he was talking to bill gates. he really wants to have more investment in that country as he turns away from independents on oil. what do they do? what does the private sector do as kind of public shaming of him, given this situation? >> well, they back out of his conference. >> that's exactly right. >> there is a lot of concern that the president is -- when all is said and done, going to ignore it. >> yeah, i think that's right. as has been said, there is this mercantilistic transactional policy point of view. the united states has

joining me now is the top republican on the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob corker, of tennessee, who said he thinks the saudis likely murdered murdered khashoggi. >> thank you, jake. >> i don't know of anyone that has seen video evidence that the turkish government says it has. do you believe the turks have this evidence, and is the senate demanding to see it? >> well, sure. typically, what happens, jake, is when we get raw data like that, when the intelligence agencies and the u.s. get that, it takes them a day or two to go through it and try to validate that it's real. we have a staffer in washington, you know i'm in tennessee today, who is obviously checking periodically throughout the day to see if we've received anything. to our knowledge, we don't know that we have. but typically, again, it takes a little while for the intel agencies to go through it and make sure it's a valid input. >> the "washington post" reports that the u.s. picked up intercepts of saudis talking about capturing khashoggi ahead of time. do you know anything about this? did the u.s. try to wa

today, we did hear from soon to be retiring bob corker. >> anything anybody says, any of us, that may say something that, you know, accentuates the polarization is just not a good thing and not helpful. >> we also heard from the three republicans at the epicenter of this confirmation fight, the three people who will ultimately decide kavanaugh's fate. and all three sure wish the president hadn't mocked dr. ford. >> the president's comments were just plain wrong. >> just not right. i wish he hadn't have done it. just say it's kind of appalling. >> i don't approve of the comments from last night. i thought that they were wrong and extraordinarily unfortunate. >> so, did the president just make it harder for flake and collins and murkowski to get to yes? we don't know. did he make any other republicans think twice? we don't know. what we do know that one of the biggest impacts of this confirmation fight will be in the gender wars and we do know that this is a president who yesterday called this a, quote, very scary time for young men. a president who earlier this year asked if there's no