the murder of jamal khashoggi was an egregious crime. it was a violation of our laws. the people behind it were arrested and prosecuted and are doing long prison sentences. it is important to keep in mind that if you look at our history , we've never had anything like that happen because it's not how we resolve our differences and it is not who we are. we taken additional measures to make sure it does not happen again. but it was an aberration and should not define us as a nation. it is not who we are. >> there's a new york times article with the headline that saudis overwhelmingly oppose ties with israel. the results reveal hurdles to the administration's push for saudi arabia to establish diplomatic relations with israel. i want to ask about the public's desire or lack of desire for ties with israel and how much support hamas has among your population? >> right. i have not seen the results of that. we have a clear vision for saudi arabia. it's called vision 2030. division is to empower our youth and are women and entrepreneurs. it does seek to transform saudi arabia

he then defended the deal in the wake of the saudi government 's murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. while this may all just be a coincidence, there are many questions like, was any of this money passed along to trump? was a saudi money a thank you for a job well done in the white house? was he given this money in exchange for anything else? or did someone with no experience just have a lucky payday? these are questions we should have answers to. the oversight committee should look into a. >> add another question. what was the role that jared kushner played in covering up the assassination and dismemberment of jamal khashoggi? >> we should absolutely asked that question. thank you. i want to know, if hunter biden had accepted $2 billion from the saudi government, i am sure we would look into that today. mr. chairman, i believe we can agree there should not be undue influence in the white house. i believe we should be able to agree that we should look into these questions about mr. kushner. in fact, you are on cnn and said "i have been a vocal, i have been very vocal that i think wha

foreign policy focused on the murder of jamal khashoggi in 2018 as saudi citizen killed on saudi soilfriends and moved closer to iran and that allowed china to come then and now china is making the argument that we are the only ones who can bring peace to the middle east because we disrupted in the first place. this is how bad biden policy has been in that part of the world. maria: you never hear joe biden attack coming to china, you never hear joe biden talk about china as a national enemy or as an adversary he only calls china a competitor. the wall street journal is reporting that blacklisted chinese companies trying to buffer themselves to washington anti-china policies are rebranding in creating business to sell their wares as the biden administration claims to expand the government entity list that restricts the business dealings in the u.s., lawyers say chinese rooms with subsidiaries with new names as american our legal creating a headache for regulators house select committee john molnar said in a statement even if chinese companies change their name on paper, they remained t

there was also an uproar on capitol hill about the murder of jamal khashoggi, the journalist killed by the saudis. republicans voted to condemn that. that was seen as a sort of slap against trump given that trump hadn't come out and been critical of that at all. the mueller investigation was swirling. this was a president who spent a lot of time in that executive dining room watching the news, reacting to the news. the news at that time was not good. there was a lot of stress that the president was feeling. he was looking to defend himself. he was looking to other people to defend himself as was often the case, and a sense of isolation at that time. it was one of several lower points of this presidency when it felt like at least in that moment that the walls were closing in just a bit. >> you talk about the isolation and the walls closing in. what was michael cohen's, i guess, access to that inner sanctum and that isolation? was he part of the inside or the outside? >> well, after he made the deal with prosecutors and was being sentenced he was clearly on the outside. for a long time,

will not lead us to where we need; to ask you about the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi and turkey. u.s. intelligence included is your on his and approved operation. what is the response that? >> we have rejected that assessment and it was an egregious front values and they were arrested. they were ossicular and drink long prison sentences. keep in mind history, with never how about happen it is not, we have additional so it doesn't happen again but it really was an aberration and shouldn't define us as a nation. >> new york times article with this headline he overwhelmingly opposed ties with israel. the results revealed portals to be administration's push for a saudi arabia to push with israel. want to ask you about your public desire or lack of desire and how much support hamas has haven't seen the results we have a clear vision and it was unveiled he. women to empower entrepreneurs, it does transform saudi arabia tourism destination so we have a vision on our way terms of impairment think back. we duplicate our neighboring countries and put resources on which is for p