christie: elise: jim, was your boss. -- elise: hjim comey was your boss. you are familiar with robert mueller. mr. christie: i worked with him. elise: should the investigation findings be disclosed to congress? mr. christie: it is interesting because the law is different now. the law used to be that everything had to be disclosed to congress, and then the law changed after the clinton investigations into whitewater. congress killed that law and now has it that the report goes to the attorney general, and the attorney general decides what should be revealed publicly or not. i think in today's world it is possible -- it is impossible to believe that robert mueller's report won't become public whether it is supposed to be or , isn't, it's going to become public. people will leak it or the attorney general, whoever it is at that time, will decide to release it. one or the other, or both. so -- but i tell you a few things, i have a similar opinion to the president. i'm one of those folks that has a different opinion than the other. comey.d with jim he was in ma

kahn and to elise stefanik as well. i am tedra cobb and the 21st congressional district is not some area on the map for me. it has made me who i am. i came here 30 years ago and went to sydney potsdam, i got married and raised a family. i started my own business and i served in the same lawrence county legislature. -- st. lawrence county legislature. as a mom, a volunteer firefighter, and educator and a health-care activist, i know and i love the people of northern new york because i share our hopes and challenges. we stand at a fork in the road. will we stick with the incumbent who has voted in ways that harmed us or will we choose a new path and be an active voice in our own future? i say we act. elise stefanik has voted to harm us because of corporate donors and outside interests in washington. this is the time that we have a voice. i want you to know that i will be accountable to you and only you and i will be beholden to the north country. thank you so much. thom hallock: now, let us get to our questions from our p

elise lob elise labott is monitoring developments as well.hat are you learning. >> in addition to al asiri, who as clarissa said, is one of the senior adviser to mohammad bin salman, he was the coalition spokesman, but mohammad bin salman had taken a liking to al siri. he sotook him over as deputy he of intelligence and senior adviser. in addition to that another, senior adviser who is not as senior as al asiri, but a top adviser in the inner circle. why is he important? because saad al katadi was someone who had been speaking with japmal khashoggi over the last year, trying to get him back into the fold. there was, as we were discussing, a lot of ko consternation about his criticism of mohammad bin salman. he was saying, stop your criticism, stop your criticism of donald trump, come back into the fold and we will give you a think tank. he has gone along with five top intelligence officers. of course, the main question with so many of mohammad bin salman, the crown prince's advisers in the inner circle fingered in the killing of jamal, the qu

national security analyst sam vinograd, and elise labott. sam, i want to start with you. the president saying he takes the saudi king at his word. should anyone take the saudi king at his word? >> putting the president on the phone with the king was a massive mistake. typically, you do these calls so the president of the united states can deliver a message. in this case, it sounds like the president was in listening mode. he kept repeating talking points that king salman gave him. that it was not saudi arabia that perpetrated this crime, that he firmly denied it. what was the president's message to the king about human rights, about freedom of the press, and about the need to have a credible investigation? we didn't hear that. of course, the king of saudi arabia is going to deny this, just like the kingdom has done in other instances historically, just like vladimir putin does on election meddling and other issues. i would like to know what president trump's message was to king salman and what secretary pompeo's message is going to be when he visits the kingdom i believe

. >>> joining us now, elise jordan and nbcsn political analyst.aiting for 5:00, if that's when the debate ends. anything that you're hear, anything that you think might change what is the foregone conclusion that brett kavanaugh will now join the highest court? >> at this point republican sources that i'm talking to are confident that this is the count, this is the vote, that judge brett kavanaugh will become justice brett kavanaugh and they don't foresee any disruptions to the plan. however, it's the trump era. i won't say never, but it seems like it is going to happen. >> do you believe that there is this possibility of bait and switch as critics are saying regarding roe versus wade here in that you heard what susan collins was saying, she felt comfortable. critics are saying, no, he's saying one thing but will do something else. >> i don't understand necessarily where critics are getting that analysis from that he says one thing and then does another because from his legal history of, you know, 12 years sitting as a judge in the court of appeal

but -- sorry, elise is not there. mark preston, if you're still there, how does this change the president's national security team to lose a voice like this? >> well, i mean, externally, it's a big, big blow. in many ways, because we're alluding to this earlier, you have the likes of your defense secretary and your secretary of state now and your u.n. ambassador who is constantly having to go overseas and to talk our allies off the ledge after comments that have been made by president trump. and we have seen this time and time again. so you know, not only is she having to worry about this whole new approach to government that donald trump has taken to washington in a way that we have never seen before, but she's also having to fix these problems, these self-inflicted wounds that the administration does to itself and the president does to himself. >> okay. mark, stick with us. nic robertson is joining us as well. our international diplomatic editor. because she's such a face for the united states on the world stage, ar

but let's bring in cnn elise live in washington. this is obviously a big diplomatic win for the president. >> reporter: very much, anna, and to this administration's credit, president trump, others have brought a lot of americans home, and president trump certainly did that victory lap, talking about them, talking about, from egypt, from turkey, from others, obviously, otto warmbier from north korea didn't come back alive but certainly others from north korea and he went on to praise andrew brunson. a lot of people putting pressure on this white house to get him released. and that's really, it was so unusual, anna, that the administration would jeopardize a relationship with a key nato ally, such as turkey, over one america. and i think the pressure of evangelicals had a lot to do with it. you saw a lot of evangelical leaders in the room, senator james langford, an evangelical, and that prayer certainly shows how much these evangelicals are in president trump's base. but clearly, today, a good moment for the president, and it does,

. >> elise, you broke the story about the intelligence.ntext 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. we don't know the timing of them, of saudi officials discussing a plan to lure jamal back to saudi arabia and detain him. was this a plot to detain him, torture him, question him? nobody really knows. nobody knows the timing. we know when jamal started criticizing the saudi government earlier this year, saudi officials started tosay, hey, t back into the fold, offering him jobs and opportunities. he denied all that, turned it down. things got worse in september when he started writing to "the washington post," translated into arabic. that's when it seems it seems these intercepts were from this period. >> there are so many factors here to weigh, max, including of course the relat

elise jordan. now co-host of the fabulous must-listen podcast, "words matter." presidential historian and author doris kearns goodwin. leadership in push leapt timetu. and david jolly, no longer affiliated with the republican party. let me start with you, phil rucker, what brought the president back to twitter, why did he go there with horse face, does it have anything to do with the insults stormy daniels had for him? >> well, it just may, nicolle. excerpts from stormy daniels' book came out a week or two ago. she apparently describes the president's manhood in pretty graphic detail in that book. i'm sure the president's aware of that and it may have gotten under his skin. but, look, he had a lot of time this morning, free time, there's not a single meeting on the president's public schedule today, no daily intelligence briefing. no public events, no meetings that have been publicly announced. we know he spent a chunk of the morning up at the residence of the white house watching fox news. he had a number of tweets this morning. after a real stretch here where

elise, conan, aishia and jake. the u.n.ire about wher dire about where things stand in terms of getting carbon dioxide levels to an acceptable point, and emissions to an acceptable moment to make sure we don't get the globe to warm past 1.5 degrees celsius by 2040. it's an issue here in california like no other states. why is that? >> governor brown has called this a definitive issue for the party and the legislature has acted in a way that puts the state in the leadership role worldwide. this is a state that wants to abolish the fossil fuel engine by 2050. it's set goals to co-2 reduction to 50% of 1990 levels. that's a lot of wind and solar. so there's consensus in california. yet the last republican governor was arnold schwarzenegger. he's on the cover of "time" magazine being the green governor. when donald trump backed away from leadership on climate change, jerry brown was happy to have the climate summit in san francisco go overseas. >> are republicans forced to embrace the issue here? there are moves to campaign aga

saratoga springs, new yorkw house speaker paul ryan and the congresswoman who represents that district, elise stefanik as she campaigns for reelection. our conversation about budgets and taxes ran on cbs this morning but we also talked about the increasing polarizatihat nes organizations don't cover congressman's bipartisan achievements. why do you think there's not much talk about bipartisanship? >> i don't think it sells, for you guys, for the media. we take a look at the bills we pass out of the house, about a thousand bills, one of the most productive sessions of congress in a generation. and of those roughly thousand bills, over 80% of them are b bipartisan bills. we've tackled the opioids, we've tackled human trafficking, all of those are bipartisan but they don't get reported. it doesn't sell. i honestly think it's the ratings chase that's on display in america today that says when they're fighting each other that's when you cover it. >> dickerson: so if we accept some portion of responsibility for that, you've seen some president trump's rallies, do they accentuate the things that uni

elise: but you raised a lot of money. mr.hristie: some stuff in michael lewis's book is right and some of it is wrong. the whole scene when the president burst in and screamed at me about raising money never happened. it never happened. another steve bannon-created fiction. why do i know it was steve bannon? there were only three people in the room, me, the president, steve bannon. i know michael lewis didn't interview the president and he didn't interview me, so who did he interview? that's it. it never happened. the present read a story on labor day weekend 2016 that we were having fund-raising problems with the transition. he calls from air force one and said, what are you raising, how much money? i said donald, remain calm, it is $1 million. $1 million. that's it. it's not a lot of money, and most of it is coming from my fundraising list, not even yours. i went to the apartment the next and and steve bannon was there for half the meeting. he walked in in the middle of it. all the president said to me was are you going to

bush white house and state departments elise jordan. nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson, former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquaid and former assistant director of the fbi's counterintelligence division frank figlusi. mika has this morning off. john heilemann, let's start with you. there's so much that happened this weekend. we could talk about, of course, the fbi investigation, the debate over how wide that fbi investigation is going to be. democrats complaining the president saying you do whatever you want to do, of course, kanye wearing a make america great again cap on "saturday night live" and actually my favorite moment of the weekend -- i kind of got moved. you know i'm a romantic guy. donald trump saying we fell in love. >> yeah. >> not of kanye, not of kanye, but of kim jong-un. please, everybody, this morning at 6:01 a.m., please just try to imagine what would happen if bra rack hussein obama had said the same thing while president of the united states. but i digress. talk about what happe

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. >> elise, thanks so much. >>> u.s. treasury secretary steve mnuchin is still planning to go to the conference in saudi arabia. listen to trump's economic adviser explain why. >> it's actually a conference about terrorist financing and how to stop it. it's an important subject. regarding secretary mnuchin, i spoke to him last evening and at the moment he is spending to go because of the importance of the issue of ending terrorist financing. but again, along with the president and the general investigation, mr. mnuchin will make up his mind as the week progresses. >> cnn's white house correspondent is joining us live. what's the reaction you are hearing from washington, particularly as that conference many are thinking it's really about the building of economic enterprise and technology. >> that's right. there is a bit of a disagreement between the white house and congress as to how the disappearance of jamal khashoggi should be handled. the president has not explicitly blamed saudi arabia. he hasn't pointed the finger i

on the campaign trail earlier this month with house speaker paul ryan and republican congresswoman elise steffan in this case. you'll hear from them about anger and politics with nine days left until the mid term elections we'll get an update on three toss-up races in the senate, arizona, florida and indiana. plus, womb have analysis on all the news that is all coming up on "face the nation." good morning welcome to "face the nation." it's been a grim week in america as hate has led to fear and deadly violence in two separate but horrifying cases. a law enforcement source tells cbs news that casar sayoc accused of sending mail bombs to prominent critics of president trump told law enforcement that he didn't intend to hurt in that that's why they believe the bombs were not connected to go off. he will be arraigned in federal court in florida. in pittsburgh officials have just conclude add briefing wrong the case against robert bowers who they say killed 11. we begin today with cbs news correspondent who is outside the tree of life synagogue and filed this report. >> authorities just revea

let's bring in our global affairs correspondent elise labott. was the vice president's message to china? >> the vice president accused china of focused meddling in american democracy more so than russia, alleging an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion, the midterm elections, and the climate leading into the 2020 election. saying that china wants a different president and is trying to make it happen. take a listen. >> beijing is mobilized covert actors, front groups and propaganda outlets to shift americans' perception of chinese policy. as a senior career member of our intelligence community told me just this week, what the russians are doing pales in comparison to what china is doing across this country. and the american people deserve to know it. >> president trump made similar claims about chinese election interference at the u.n. last week, which is part of an effort, of course, to dilute the case against russia meddling, which we know the president does not like to talk about, because he feels that questions his own le

let's go to global affairs correspondent elise labott with the straight facts.what this is, who these people are, who's organizing them, and what their intention is when they get to the border? >> guys, these are basically some, up to about 4,000 immigrants, migrants. most from honduras. some from guatemala. coming up through mexico to the united states. you heard president trump in the last few days threaten to cut off aid to these central american countries and mexico if mexico allowed them to enter the united states. a lot of concern about this. the mexican government in the last 24 hours has asked the united nations high commissioner for refugees to help with these migrants. the ones that are coming in legally, to process them for possible asylum in the united states and somewhere else. president trump is saying that this is a deal between mexico and the united states. but the mexican ambassador to the u.s. told fox news that's not the case. take a listen. >> the mexican government announced that we have requested the intervention of the u.n., the office of

straw that breaks the camel's back in terms of trying to think of some kind of shift. >> and then, elise, donald trump jr. retweeted a tweet from a reporter from a conservative blog, which is getting a lot of attention. the writer referred to khashoggi as a terror sympathizer. what can you tell us about this material being retweeted, a, and that, you know, that is a point of view being expressed about khashoggi? >> well, i mean, you know, as we've been discuss, there are a lot of conspiracy theories going around and it's popular to blame the victim but nothing could be further from the truth about jamal and for donald trump to be kind of perpetuating that. we heard what president trump said. if, in fact, he was killed by the saudis, what would be disgusting. you know, president trump has been no fan of the press but even he said to do that to a reporter is unacceptable. so i don't understand what donald trump thinks he's getting -- jr. thinks he's g getting by tweeting some of those. nothing could be further from the truth and i'm surprised he hasn't taken it down yet. >> khashoggi had,

bush white house, elise jordan. we have jeremy bash.editor of the "washington post" eugene robinson. let's start with you, eugene. let's keep the discussion on the mid-terms going here. your latest in "the washington post" is a pep talk for democrats. and you write in part, dear democrats, you can do this. stop fretting and second guessing. get out of your own way. concentrate on turning out the vote. and remember you have everything to gain in this mid-term election and nothing to lose. i say you have nothing to lose because that is literally true. republicans control both chambers of congress. most governorships. most state legislatures. and, of course, the white house which isn't up for grabs at this time. the great blues artist muddy waters put it best, your can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you never had. so stop worrying democrats that your house majority might be slipping away. you don't have a house majority. but the odds of you winning one look excellent if you step up and grab it. so, gene, continue with the

why is that, elise? >> for the moment, it has gotten republicans excited because they saw donald trump fighting, brett kavanagh seen as an establishment republican, a bush guy. it had a unifying effect on the party as a lot of republicans recalled from what they perceived as a nominee being treated unfairly. for the moment, enthusiasm might be up, but we have 29 days and you know how a day in this political landscape is a lifetime. so i just don't know if i see that enthusiasm holding through elections the way the democrats, who feel so angry about this nomination, and the way the process happened, i see that anger sustaining. >> republicans might forget about it and it might not be an issue for them in a month, but democrats and women who are angry about it, bill, could hold onto that anger and use it against the republicans in november. >> that's right. i think democrats were already very engaged as elise was saying, and republicans are now coming to play the way they weren't before. the thing that i a

i've got our state department correspondent, elise labott standing by with, you know, the news that thedis are preparing to acknowledge -- this is all very carefully couched. preparing to acknowledge that khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation gone wrong. is this finally the saudis saying "yeyes, we did this? >> brooke, i think they realize at this point, and just from talking to sources, that they're not going to come out of this looking like a rose. jamal walked into the consulate, he did not walk out. everyone know hs somethi-- some happened. and the narrative that's been taking shape is that he wasn't, you know, wasn't an assassination attempt. that is really what the saudis kind of stuck to all along. they did say that they didn't know what happened to him. but you kind of heard over the weekend, the president, trump leaning into the idea that jamal was killed. today, he's talking about coming killers and our understanding now is that the saudi are going to say, listen, this was a botched, kind of kidnapping attempt. we call it a rendition, when somebody is extra terr

elise, who served as an aide in the bush administration. what's your take on where we are? president trump held that press conference that got a lot of support yesterday. he said let's open this thing up as long as you get it done by friday. >> president trump was saying the right things at his press conference. then he goes to his rally in tennessee and it's like a flip switches and he becomes the rally donald trump. he becomes the insult comedian donald trump. and he's just talking about this in a way that if you're one of kavanaugh's closest associates, you don't want that rally last night in tennessee. >> switching the focus from sexual misconduct to perjury, and if they are, the perjury issue is brett kavanaugh's own fault. >> i think what the democrats are doing is focusing on what they ought to be focusing on. does this man have the fitness to serve on the supreme court? it looks like are there allegations of sexual assault? what does that look like? is there perjury? a variety of different things. i think that's what the democrats are doing. what they're doing is en

elise jordan, former aide in the george w. bush white house and state department and co-host of the podcast "words matter." peter baker, frank figliuzzi and nbc's garrett haake is standing by on capitol hill. garrett, you just brought us that new sound from lisa murkowski. take us through the state of play for these swing senate voters. >> it's really all about this fbi report. these three really key, i think, key republican votes on here. no democrat wants to be the vote that puts kavanaugh over the top and they're all waiting on this report. susan collins has been the most open about her decision-making process. she's very interested in hearing what mark judge has to say. jeff flake is the point man on this. he pushed for this one week-long investigation in the first place. and lisa murkowski is almost famous on capitol hill for keeping her decision-making process incredibly close to the vest. she said in that interview that she is frustrated by the way the white house has handled it but wouldn't go so far as to say it's goi

our global affairs correspondent elise labott is joining us.ou were all over the story of these intercepts. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. u.s. has intercepts of saudi officials in recent months talking about a plan to try and lure jamal back to the -- to saudi arabia, perhaps to detain him, perhaps to kill him. it's really unclear what the plans were, but certainly this is all very concerning in light of what might have happened to him at the consulate and as our colleague, barbara starr, is reporting, u.s. officials do believe now the working assumption is that jamal was killed in the embassy, and so those intercepts are part of a larger issue. look, saudi officials have been very concerned, wolf, on jamal's writings, very critical of the kingdom for the last year, they were trying to bring him back into the fold, talking about giving him a job in the government, perhaps setting him up in a think tank. he really could write his own ticket. he said, no, i really feel this is my calling. i need to continue to speak out. really, he was seen mo

aaron, ben, and elise are still here.tart with you, take me through what this says about the trump campaign at the highest levels of campaign leadership, what was their mindset about colluding, coordinating or receiving really material benefits in terms of a campaign strategic imper tiativ to take down their opponents in the primary? it would have been ted cruz. in the general election, would have been hillary clinton. from a foreign firm. >> so my answer may be a little bit disappointing, but based on what we know right now, we just don't know enough to call this one. it looks, however, very interesting and we know that bob mueller is spending a lot of time interviewing many employees of side group which would seem to signal there really is some fire here along with the smoke. here's what people need to know. the illegality that we've talked about in the trump campaign's interaction with russia involved illegally receiving donations or contributions from a foreign entity. federal law prohibits that. but it might not nece

unlike elise stefanik i will be able to vote for the policies that truly help us and our environment. >> this is an important issue for the region we feel the impact right here whether it is the tourism sector or the increase of evasive species i have a strong record of independence when it comes to standing up for the environment. i challenged the presiden presin he proposed to cut to the epa. i've been deleting voice when it ensures they of climate friendly solutions" to climate change as one of the national security problems i don't think it is the largest problems but its counterterrorism arising but it should be focusing on winning, solar as well as hydropower and biomass that's a growth opportunity for the region and additionally, i am proud of my support from the environmental defense fund and the award in the society and nature conservancy because of my pro- environmental record. when you look across this district, people are struggling to make ends meet. >> to get easy young ladies. neither of these people have talked about hydrogen fuel. it's where the world is going. we hav

we asked elise to do recruitment for us. this is the future of the republican party, the future of our country. people like elise. >> congresswoman stefanik, you're not only the kind of person that republicans want to have in office. you're the kind of voter that they're trying to attract. how do you read calling someone horseface, from the president of the united states. >> i think it's unacceptable. i disagree with the rhetoric. i disagreed with the president's rhetoric numerous times when it comes to to how he addresses women. in my district voters are paying attention to male and female voters, the record of results and keeping your promises and growing the economy. >> in our next hour, speaker ryan will tell us why he thinks republicans will keep control of the house. >>> and tomorrow, norah talks with former vice president joe biden about his campaigning to help the democrats win congress and his possible plans for 2020. >>> more heavy rain in central texas this morning could bring a new round of violent flooding, a fo

she knocked out the seventh seed elise mertens in the opening round of the kremlin cup in moscow, winningher retirement, double olympic skeleton champion lizzie yarnold criticised the world anti—doping agency for lifting their three—year ban on russia. she won her first olympic title at sochi, where it emerged russia had carried out the systematic mass doping of its athletes. she would like to stay in sport to help in the fight against drugs cheats. there are boards i could hope to apply to be on and continue to have the voice of the athlete represented and remind people that we have to protect athletes especially when we are talking about anti—doping issues, we have to keep banging the drum and protect clean and fair competition. it is important use the platform i have is an olympic athlete and make sure our voices are heard even though it feels like not being heard, we have to continue the fight. engand face sri lanka in the third odi tomorrow in kandy. the first was a wash out, but they took a 1—0 lead in another rain—affected match in dambulla, with three left to play. the good news f

round of tennis is kremlin cop conto who is ranked number forty four in the world the seventh seed elise martens of belgium in straight sets six three seven five the victor was only contests fifth over a top twenty punit all season long. and that's all your sport for now more later thanks so much for your time my colleague aaron jordan is the next with more of the day's news. journeys of possible discovery more american here and then more air india algis nearest correspondents telling their past and stories that have marked their lives i feel sad that they have to endure a difficult time. here don't like my family status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people. al-jazeera correspondent coming soon. and then to sign on the book on the false image in the country killing jews the founder of the made in the country and it's in. if you go to the lead to mechanic watch all you will see dad soon. to be. my nigeria ivory coast produce first remember one cannot think of. my nigeria women are strong we need. my nigeria on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks the turkish se

tennis now and great britain's yohanna konta beat seventh seed elise mertens of belgium 6—3, 7—5 in theput on an impressive display in front of prospective coach dimitri zavi—arloff. the british number one is working with frenchman on a trial basis at herfinal tournament of the season. the 27—year—old has looked low on confidence for much of 2018, with her ranking tumbling to 44 and she next plays australia's daria gavrilova. roger federer is aiming to reach 100 career titles and still enjoys the challenge of competition despite being "on the older side" he's said. the 37 year old joined the atp tour in 1998 and has since won 98 career titles with 20 of those grand slam events — so how does he see the future? average retirement age, i guess, is 32, 33—year—old, maybe a fat, and i am 37. i understand they call me old in life. i am still young but as a tennis player, i'm definitely on the older side and had to get used to it. on the tour, i was playing the likes of agassi and moya and tim henman and pete sampras and then you have to switch your mind around a little bit and appreciate that

. >>> meantime, bringing in anchor becky anderson, global affairs correspondent, elise labott, and nic robertson. nic, you first. president trump promised severe punishment if khashoggi was murdered and the saudis were found responsible. the world is watching to see what happens. how much pressure is the world putting on the trump administration to respond? >> reporter: the turkish authorities are putting pressure on the trump administration with the drip drip of evidence. they say they have 15 men came from saudi arabia on the day that khashoggi was killed. the information last night that khashoggi may have in fact recorded his own death on his watch doesn't seem to hold water technically, but it is part of a narrative, a drip drip feed from the government that they have audio recordings, have shared them with western intelligence agencies, that they show the brutal torture killing of jamal khashoggi in the consulate. the key to all of it is for turkish forensic investigators to get into the consulate. right now, they're engaged with the negotiations if you will with saudi representat

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elise labott, thank you so much, and the turkish authorities have said they have not had access to the consulate there in istanbul. and joining me now to discuss all of this is the global opinions editor karen atia who is jamal khashoggi's editor, and also jamie rubin, the former secretary of state in the clinton administration, and good to see you both. and karen, what are your thoughts about now, you know, the turkish authorities and the saudi arabiian authorities saying they will be working together close ther week, and does that give you any hope, or change your mind at all about how this is being handled? >> umm, not much. i think that if anything, it just muddies things even further. personally, since a week before saturday, we had just been hearing the worst leaks coming from the turkish officials that jamal had been killed, had been tortured inside of the consulate, and then we are seeing, we saw erdogan saying wait for an investigation. then we heard more details, and so it is quite confusing and intriguing for me to hear that the all of the sudden even in the statement coming

. >> so elise, any word how saudi arabia will react to that?e going to see something coming out of saudi arabia fairly soon. it probably won't be what the u.s. or anybody in the international community wants to hear, it may not necessarily be the most plausible explanation, but i don't think they're going to be able to stand very long, stay silent without giving some explanation as to what happened to jamal. i think that as samantha said, it is not just about the economy, and cnn has some stories online that suggest these armed deals aren't as robust as initially thought and maybe the economic, you know, importance wouldn't be felt as crucially as the president makes it seem. you can find that on cnn.com. look, the administration is really walking a tight rope here not just on that arms deal but also the relationship with saudi arabia is so important to so many conflicts around the world. you have the conflict in yemen, the conflict with iran, you also have the peace plan. all of these are so important and if the united states, and there's grow

with me right now rev rands al sharpton and elise jordan. thank you both. give us a sense of your mood right now, you're going to be preaching tomorrow, back on the air tomorrow. is there a complicated message here? is it one of outrage or one of self-satisfaction and outrage? >> i think it is outrage, but it is toward sustained indignation. you can't just get angry and not drive that anger in a constructive way to vote to protect your interests. i think this is not just about one singular issue, this is about the last 50 or 60 years when this country became at least by law, more inclusive of gender, of race, of lgbtq, and we're talking about now the real possibility of a supreme court reversing many of those things. i think that's why the president came out and why mcconnell came out, starting to go for the political fight attacking certain senators and attacking certain interests that they claim were behind this, rather than deal with what this will mean in the supreme court. we have chris in the pipeline cases that will determine the future of voting rig

. >> cnn global affairs correspondent elise labboth is with us. what would be severe consequences? >> look, the president is obviously loathe to get rid of this arms deal because there's a lot of money involved. not as much money actually when we broke it down and you can find that on cnn.com as he says. but certainly it's a very important deal. but there are other things that the u.s. could do. they could freeze the assets of saudi officials here in the united states. they could freeze a travel ban. but we already see, you know, the u.s. could pull out of this conference, this financial conference, that the saudis are going to be holding later this month. treasury secretary mnuchin said so far he would be attending. but, you know, we'll have to see what happens over the next week. media partners such as cnn, "new york times" and others have also pulled out. i think it would have more effect on the diplomatic and political relationship. there's a lot at stake with the u.s. and saudi arabia. there's certainly arm sales. there's the cooperation in yemen, the u.s. has really given the

. >> cnn global affairs correspondent elise labott joining us now.nged after this meeting? >> well, fred, i can't say that anything has changed in terms of actual specifics that were agreed to or the north koreans have done. obviously we know what was on the agenda. specifically secretary of state pompeo looking for particular steps that the north koreans could take towards denuclearization, giving up their nuclear weapons program. the north koreans have said they would invite weapons inspectors on the test site, u.s. officials to monitor that. the north koreans have also told the south koreans according to the south korean government they would be willing to dismantle one of their missile test sites. and then, of course, the two men, kim jong-un and secretary pompeo were talking about setting up another summit between president trump and kim jong-un. secretary pompeo, heard him there, saying that another step was taken. but he's being very tight lipped about what those actual steps are. so definitely seems what's continuing to change from where we w

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with me right now, reverend al sharpton from politics nation and elise jordan. al, thank you for joining us. give us a sense of your mood right now. you'll be back on the air tomorrow. what's the -- is there a complicated message here? is it one of outrage or one of self-satisfaction? and outrage? i don't know. >> i think it is outrage but it is towards sustained indignation. you can't just get angry and not drive that anger in a constructive way to vote to protect your interests. i think this is not just about one singular issue. this is about the last 50 or 60 years where this country became at least by law more inclusive of gender, of race, of lgbtq. we're talking about now the real possibility of a supreme court reversing many of those things. i think that's why the president came out and why mcconnell came out starting to go for the political fight, attacking certain senators and attacking certain interests that they claim were behind this rather than deal with what this will mean in the supreme court. we have, chris, in the pipeline cases that will determi

trump elise a trade war with china so now china has ramped up their efforts to increase their currency the yuan in the global marketplace as an alternative to the u.s. dollar i suppose it's not the best idea to alienate our biggest creditor whose money we desperately need to keep borrowing just to stay afloat yeah it would be like if i started a trade war with my mom i. i could theoretically put a time tariff on our weekly phone calls when she starts rambling on about new developments in the world of scrabble all. right she would retaliate by no longer bang my cellphone bag. the worst thing that's. what other developments are happening ok all right this one is a really big deal as we all know trump recklessly withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and is in the process of re imposing sanctions on them in response the european union is planning to set up a new payment system bypassing the us dollar allowing you countries to continue your trade with iran including an oil so let me get this straight our historically close ally europe is actively trying to weaken the us petro dollar to stand

. >> elise, thank you very much. elise labott reporting for us. lots more coming up on the breaking news. thanks very much for watching. our breaking news coverage continues right now with "erin continues right now with "erin burnett outfront." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> "outfront" next, breaking news, the saudis making a major announcement tonight, admitting after weeks of denials that the "washington post" contributor is dead. what will president trump do now? >>> and trump doubling down on his praise for republican who body slammed a reporter. his allies say he was just joking. was he? >>> plus, a caravan of thousands of migrants have made their way to mexico tonight. the president says they're headed to the united states next. is it just fear mongering? let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. we have breaking news and a major admission from saudi arabia. after 17 days, state tv finally kwon if i weri confirming what the world already expected. jamal khashoggi is dead. the government, th