conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> it's friday morning and here on c-span two, as arab journalli journalis journalists, and mohammed bin salman, according to british newspapers, king salman will step down next week and name his son as his heir. the 32-year-old prince recently arrested more than 40 senior ministers and more than 150 others on charges of alleged corruption. the discussion getting underway soon. live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen, i'm an executive director of arab center washington d.c. and i would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing, focusing on the shake-up in riyadh regional and international implications. over the past 12, 13 days, since, i guess, the fourth or the fifth of

journalli journalis journalists, and mohammed bin salman, according to british newspapers, king salman will step down next week and name his son as his heir. the 32-year-old prince recently arrested more than 40 senior ministers and more than 150 others on charges of alleged corruption. the discussion getting underway soon. live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen, i'm an executive director of arab center washington d.c. and i would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing, focusing on the shake-up in riyadh regional and international implications. over the past 12, 13 days, since, i guess, the fourth or the fifth of november, some serious and very significant changes and steps have been taken in the kingdom of saudi arabia that attracted the attention of media and political analysts all over the world, as a matter of fact, and as all of you know, there has been hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of articles and interviews conducted, written, about the significance of these events in terms o

certainly his financial ability to influence american journalis journalism. >> absolutely.der what happened here. you have a reporter who was assigned to cover president trump strategizing with these progressives and leftists. "the washington post" tells us we don't know anything about it. instead of being horrified and embarrassed at the fact that one of their reporters was demonstrating a clear bias by attending that meeting. >> kimberly: seemingly no repercussions whatsoever. looking the other way at the situation instead of actually engaging in journalistic ethics and following through and providing some kind of accountability. >> could you imagine what would happen if some fox news reporter or "wall street journal" reporter had ties? this would be at the top of 60 minutes and on the top page of "the new york times" ." the silence on the left is deafening with this conspiracy. there is one thing that i'm hoping that the next 3-7 years of president trump's administration, that he cleans out the cobwebs of this international network. it's not just george soros. it's other

. >> we've all worked in journali journalism. >> he's read it though. >> if judge roy moore believes for him. sue "the washington post." sue them. say that you've been defamed. except at that point a little thing called disclosure comes into play and if there are these four women, you think there are not more? >> margaret, there's a turn here, to go to your column. you wrote about tuesday's results and a particular race in nassau county. there's been a lot of focus on whip and how important women were to what happened in virginia and a lot of other places. we'll talk about that in general, but tieing it to this, it seems this roy moore thing is the exact thing that could cause a problem for republicans in suburban districts all next year. you remember todd akin and how republicans had an answer for todd akin. they'll be talking about roy moore. for a lot of suburban women, this is a thing that's not so good. >> they'll have to get a little more human about it, like a normal person's reaction, not a politici politician's reaction. nassau county by population is the size of new hampshi

journal reports began on day one of trump's candida candidacy. with me here at the table, jim o'brien, msnbc contribute. and msnbc national affairs journali journalist. and a former aid in the george w. bush white house and phillip bump political reporter for "the washington post" is here. ken delaney, let me start with you and talk about the potential ripple effects from the revelations that cart page, did tell hope hicks, cory lewandowski, the then campaign manager and jeff sessions, the sitting attorney general who's already wrapped around the axle of his own corrected testimony before the committees that oversee the justice department. >> nicole, i just think it makes it very difficult for the trump campaign, now the trump administration to argue that they were not aware that there were these russians circling around these people, they're calling them low level figures, i mean carter page popadopoul popadopoulos, carter page said i was just clearing it this with these just to avoid anywhere misunderstanding, but we heard that jamey gordon said he tried to block carter page from going to russia, because he realized it was a bad idea, i