department and that is stumble let's start with the white house and speak of correspondent there kimberly halkett. has now been missing for over a week and even though the president had mentioned it perhaps not in a strong terms as some people would have liked are we seeing a different a different attitude to the situation now from the president. we're seeing this white house essentially yield to public pressure the fact that this has registered high on the radar of ordinary americans we've had protests here in washington and later in new york city this is something that has been covered in the news media domestically for almost a week now intensely and we're seeing these continued questions about what the trumpet ministration intends to do about it given it is known that this white house has an established relationship with the saudi kingdom so we know that according to the white house press secretary sara sanders the president has in fact gotten involved he has had his telephone calls being made to high level saudi officials including the crown prince mohammed bin solomon made by the national s

about finding out what happened to her fiance let's go live now to white house correspondent kimberly halkett for reaction from washington d.c. can believe you were listening in as we all were what did you make of what the president was saying. it appears that the president has at least on the face of it use some of his personal leverage given that he has close ties with the kingdom of saudi arabia and that he has utilized that to make a call but notice he was very he offered no details about who he spoke with specifically so it's unclear if he when he says he made that call if it was actually through diplomatic channels we haven't had a readout of the call so we're left wondering if it was actually somebody from the state department on his behalf or if the president himself picked up the telephone that is a little bit vague what we can tell from this is well is that given the close ties between the united states and saudi arabia whether it's arms whether it's oil they are extensive and the president seems to be at least using some of that leverage to exert influence to try and get to the bot

back to a couple of minutes i suspect let's go to washington and our white house correspondent kimberly halkett so kimberly we've now been getting via the leaks again from the turkish authorities five distinct areas that they say in effect this is evidence that's what they're saying they are saying we have interpreted these audiotapes we know who did it when it was done how it was done and they put it together from those audiotapes just this increase the pressure on donald trump to go further than he went or he's gone in the past eighteen hours. if likely does from an international standpoint but domestically we heard very deliberate words coming from the u.s. secretary of state that in fact it is waiting for the results of the turkish investigation and the saudi investigation for that matter and then the united states will make its own determination on how to react i think that's really important to note in all of that is also important to note is that we heard earlier in the week donald trump asking in requesting for the united states intelligence to be able to independently look at not only

well let's get more on this now from our white house correspondent kimberly halkett i'm kimberly we've been hearing some comments from president trump about this in the past few minutes . yeah the president speaking as he's on the road in indianapolis saying and making clear to reporters asking for more details about this that he wanted to make clear that in fact this individual in the words of the president is not one of my supporters now the president did receive some pushback for the fact that he continued on his campaign rallies earlier he had said in fact that he believes because of this kind of violence it is important to send the message that lives will not be altered and that's why he was here into his schedule but we now understand that the president has a modified his schedule and has indicated that he will be traveling to pittsburgh to as presidents often do in the united states act as consoler in chief if you will we should also point out marianne that we are getting other details about this in fact. there is some new information from bystanders also being given by police t

tree of life synagogue in the city of pittsburgh if convicted he could face the death penalty kimberly halkett joins us from washington d.c. with the latest so kimberly these charges just officially being filed a very recently in the last hour or so yeah that's right the f.b.i. and now and saying that it has now filed federal charges against the suspect in this shooting one that we should point out is being called the deadliest attack on jews in u.s. history the counts twenty nine of them in total federal crimes of using a firearm violating civil rights as well as hate crimes and certainly we knew from the u.s. attorney general that in fact this would be a hate crime in terms of the prosecution attack that the u.s. department of justice would be taking given the motive that the suspect seemed to be saying when in fact he said as he opened fire in the pittsburgh synagogue that he wanted to see all jews die. around the country evening vigils to remember the victims of the pittsburgh synagogue shooting gunned down in an act of hate audio from the first responders captured the horror as police arr

rejecting the allegations saying pence's committed malicious his own white house correspondent kimberly halkett. in the very early days of the trumpet ministration the us president rolled out the red carpet to host chinese president xi at his mar-a lago resort. more than eighteen months later that warmth has been replaced by a trade war between beijing and washington and a strong warning by the u.s. vice president mike pence our message to china's rulers is this this president will not back down. in a fiery speech pence escalated u.s. rhetoric. broadly blaming china for everything from military aggression in the south china sea to intellectual property theft to advance its global interests chinese security agencies have masterminded the wholesale theft of american technology including cutting edge military blueprints and using their stolen technology the chinese communist party is turning plowshares into swords on a massive scale u.s. media is reporting that includes inserting microchips into servers used by apple and amazon to spy on u.s. companies. pence also accused china of religious persec

s is tainted your country and tainted him so well white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us live now from washington d.c. emily i'm not sure of saudi arabia was listening to that but that fox and friends is certainly president trump's allegedly favorite news program so he was probably listening in that's quite a message from someone like lindsey graham who as he says himself has always supported the saudis do we think that donald trump is going to align himself with that line of thinking it'll. certainly we saw briefly the president saying that there would be severe consequences if the allegations regarding the missing journalists are true but since that statement we've seen the president this white house kind of dialing back trying to play both sides if you will and also some sensitivity from the president with regard to accusations insinuations that this white house is particularly cozy with the kingdom in saudi arabia for example not only did donald trump host the crown prince a very warm reception in the oval office earlier this year of course he took his first foreign t

saudi arabia about his disappearance which he has called concerning a white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more. the u.s. president saying as he spoke in the oval office in the last couple of hours that he is concerned and he is raising this issue with the saudis this echoes some of the statements coming from his state department u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe releasing a statement saying that they are concerned about the disappear as they have spoken with the kingdom of saudi arabia through diplomatic channels and the united states is calling for a thorough and transparent investigation the vice president mike pence saying that the free world deserves answers. outgoing u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has ruled out running against donald trump in the twenty twenty presidential election after announcing her short resignation on tuesday she says she wants time out of public office i don't have anything set on where i'm going to go i think that the main thing was i was governor for six years and we dealt with a hurricane a thousand year flood a church shooting a school shoo

has called for video and audio evidence to be made available by taki white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us live from washington so interesting slightly different approach now from from trying from what we see in the last twenty four hours or so. yeah it seems in the last twenty four hours lauren that he has been dabbling back his comments from the severe punishment that we heard a few days ago there is some tape that should be coming very shortly of the president from the oval office speaking as he was there speaking before pool reporters at an event involving american workers essentially what the president is saying is that the trumpet mr ation is giving turkey space to do this investigation and this comes on the heels of the visit by the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh what they are saying according to donald trump is that it's likely that we will know what happened by the end of the week he's also as you pointed out asking for the audio intelligence as well as visual intelligence but he adds this caviar if it exists and certainly we have been reporting here in al jazeera

pull out of a major investor conference in the saudi kingdom so lots to discuss we have got kimberly halkett in washington d.c. and we'll be coming to her shortly but first jamal who is outside that saudi embassy and the clamor of photographers behind you jamal. indeed suddenly there has been a lot of press and journalists that have descended on to the consulates in the past couple of hours after that announcement was made. the turkish prosecutor general's office here in istanbul said that they would finally be sending in their investigators into the consulate some two weeks softer from out of her should she went missing that they would be entering together with the saudi officials there has been a bit of extra movement in the past half an hour or so vehicles leaving more than they have been answering to be honest come out there was a cleaning company that arrived earlier today as well which was a bit strange just from a from a from an objective perspective looking at the fact that these are investigators who are meant to be coming they're coming two weeks later obviously so much time has pa