jamie dimon, bill ford, david petronius, all backing out of participation in that. so as the business community decide that they don't want to participate in saudi arabia, and that's going to be a huge blowra to saudi arabia economic conditions. >> with us this morning taking your calls, talking abouts. u.s. saudi relations in the disappearance of journalist jamal khashoggi. (202)748-8001. democrats to a 27488002. you mentioned a minute ago that one ofnt the options is to suspd arms sales. why do we sail so many arms to saudi arabia? >> the unitedd states of close security relationship going all the way back to the immediate post-world war ii era. the united states has a sickly help saudi arabia built its entire military and security infrastructure. it is heavily dependent on u.s. arms coming u.s. security, architecture. and this has been a tradition that's gone back because we recognize that the u.s. and saudi arabia share important object is not only in the region, but globally. we share a desire to ensure a stable energy market for the world. we share a commitmen

it the day that poetry as scandal was breaking and i remember from my reporting in iraq that david petroniusis so admired by his troops, men and women, they called him king david and then of course he undoes his career to a certain extent because of an adulterous relationship. host: about the pond, you write that he felt he was quote no more than a tool in hand of an unseen crescent. guest: i was trying to learn about the hebrew prophet and joshua wrote a beautiful work of scholarship on the prophet and he talks about them as-- i love he says they are some of the most irritating men who ever lived because they are always telling people what they don't want to hear, but for many of the hebrew prophets it was able that they assumed unwillingly like jonah particularly because every time god calls jonah to tell an unwelcome troop to a corrupt nation jonah just wants to go and take a nap and i think we all feel like sometimes when we are confronted by the duty we have to perform. christine blaze forward would have rather taken a nap and give testimony she was doing what she thought she thought it