it is a must-read book about the death of sergei magnitsky for whom the global magnitsky act is named moments away from the closing bell, another bad day on wall street, another triple-digit loss for the dow driven by tech stocks and disappointing earnings from target nasdaq and s&p doing fairly poorly as well all right. that wraps it up for me this hour i'm going to see you right back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern for "the last word" and tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern and 3:00 p.m thanks for watching. "deadline white house with nicolle wallace" starts now. >>> hi, everyone it's 4:00 in the new york. midnight in riyadh, saudi arabia, where donald trump has now effectively turned over u.s. national security considerations that's according to one former senior national security official this former official described the president's statement today, in which he ignores and denies the intelligence community's assessment that the crown prince of saudi arabia was responsible for the murder of a permanent resident of the u.s. and a "washington post" columnist, as displaying an ignorance of how

and that was the genesis of the magnitsky act. >> browder's theory is that the magnitsky act affectsy. >> vladimir putin doesn't keep any money in his own name. he keeps money in the name of many russian oligarchs. and this piece of legislation can and will freeze the assets of those oligarchs. i believe that putin is the richest man in the world. i believe he's worth $200 billion. and this piece of legislation puts that money at risk. >> interest in putin's wealth spiked when legal documents indicating offshore bank accounts were leaked to the press and became known as the panama papers. they pointed to a money trail of approximately $100 million that reportedly led to putin but was held in the name of a musician friend, sergei roldugin. quite a large sum for an orchestra cellist. >> there was big confusion and a big scandal, and putin took it very personally when panama papers are released because his personal fraud was exposed. >> putin is corrupt. he created a corruption system in russia. and this system with all his friends is taking the money out of russian economy. >> vladimir

finance you may have ordered the fatal poisoning of his former lawyer said again magnitsky russian prosecutors shed new light on a debt global attention and its decade go. read low notes at the asia pacific summit where leaders have failed to wrap up a joint declaration of trade what would between the u.s. and china is like. tokyo tops a poll of women backing female only public transport to tackle sexual assault in the global safety said. the popular russian cartoons be accused of being a credible a propaganda tool designed to implement children's minds around the world. by good afternoon to pay a month of the nineteenth of november welcome to out international live with me kevin i would in the headlines first and today there's a fresh development in the investigation over the death of the anti corruption lawyer someday magnitsky ten years ago russian prosecutors are looking into whether or not his killing was organized by his former boss the british based finance see it william browder. expose. post-mortem tests showed that there were symptoms of poisoning with the toxic school water soluble

financed him may have awarded the fatal poisoning of his former lawyer said the magnitsky as russian prosecutors shed new light on a death which proved global attention nearly a decade ago. a rare low note at the age of pacific summit leaders failed to wrap up with a joint declaration as the trade rivalry between the u.s. and china is laid bare. and a popular russian cartoon is accused of being a crime then propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around the world. and you're watching altie international life with meaning to you today welcome to the program. there's a fresh development in the investigation of the death of corruption lawyer magnitsky nearly ten years ago russian prosecutors are looking into whether his killing was organized by his former boss the british based financier william browder. expose. post-mortem tests showed that there were symptoms of gromek poisoning with the toxic water soluble oh you mean incompetence taken orally there has never been full scale research of such substances in russia but over dozens of years texaco logical research of these

for nancy of may have ordered the fatal poisoning of his former lawyer magnitsky as russian prosecutor should new light on a death that drew global attention nearly a decade ago. no to the asia pacific summit where leaders failed to wrap up with a joint declaration was the trade rivalry between the u.s. and china. tops a poll of women backing female only public transport to tackle sexual assault in the global safety survey. we do this nineteenth of november welcome to the program international with the headlines first this for you a fresh development the investigation over the death of corruption lawyer magnitsky ten years ago prosecutors are looking into whether or not his killing was organized by his former boss the british based finance ia william browder. expect. post-mortem tests showed that there were symptoms of quantock poisoning with the toxic water soluble oh you mean income pumps taken orally there has never been full scale research of such substances in russia but over dozens of years looks like a logical research of these compounds have been conducted especially by the us

financier may have ordered the fatal poisoning of his former lawyer sergei magnitsky as russian prosecutors shed new light on a death which drew global attention nearly a decade ago. also this hour censorship policies put facebook back in the spotlight after a heinous bidding page sees a teenage bride from south sudan auctioned off for cattle and cash. and a popular russian cartoon is accused of being a kremlin propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around the world. this is our international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now there's a fresh development in the investigation over the death of anti-corruption lawyer sergei magnitsky nearly ten years ago prosecutors are looking into whether his killing was organized by his former boss the british based financier william browder. expose. post-mortem tests showed that there were symptoms of quantock poisoning with the toxic water soluble aluminum compounds taken orally there has never been full scale research of such substances in russia but over dozens of years texaco logical research of these compounds have been cond

financier may have ordered the fatal poisoning of his former lawyer said kate magnitsky as russian prosecutors shed new light on a death wish but attention nearly a decade ago. also this hour censorship policies put facebook back in the spotlight after a heinous page sees a teenage bride from south sudan auctioned off for cattle and cash. and a popular russian cartoonist accused of being a kremlin a propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around the world. it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching our international live with mina to tutor welcome to the program and we start with some breaking news from the u.s. city of chicago reports are emerging that multiple people have been injured in a shooting at a hospital the shooter is said to be active and police are on their way to the scene and we will of course keep you updated as that story develops. there's a fresh development in the investigation of the death of anti corruption lawyer so again magnitsky nearly ten years ago russian prosecutors are looking into whether his killing was organized by his former boss the bri

magnitsky russian prosecutors shed new light on the death of a group global attention they only a decade ago. no to the asia pacific summit where leaders failed to wrap up with a joint declaration to trade rivalry between the u.s. and china is. a popular russian cartoons accused of being a kremlin propaganda tool no less designed to include children's minds around. november this is out international law. to talk about over the next thirty minutes you can stay with me for it first fresh developments in the investigation over the death of corruption lawyer magnitsky nearly ten years ago prosecutors are looking into whether or not his killing was organized by his former boss the british based from william browder. expect. to deal more time tests showed that there were symptoms of poisoning with the toxic water soluble oh you mean in compounds taken orally there has never been full scale research of such substances in russia but over dozens of years texaco logical research of these compounds have been conducted especially by the us and. we have to understand who is mr mckinney and who is mr

financier may have ordered the fatal poisoning of his former lawyer sergei magnitsky as russian prosecutors shed new light on a death which drew global attention nearly a decade ago. also this hour censorship policies put facebook back in the spotlight after a heinous bitting page sees a teenage bride from south sudan auctioned off for cattle and cash. and its popular russian cartoon is accused of being a kremlin propaganda tool designed to influence the children's minds around the world. are broadcasting live from moscow this is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start though with breaking news this hour from the united states reports emerging from chicago suggest that multiple people have been injured in a shooting at a hospital in the south of the city you're looking at live pictures right now of the scene you can see that there are evacuations taking place and of course emergency equipment around the area to cordon off the area and there is a heavy police presence at the scene as you can see one officer has been wounded and is said to be in critical condition

and it was called the magnitsky act. >> the magnitsky act allows the u.s.t to sanction russian officials and businesspeople believed to be human rights offenders. >> the magnitsky act really sticks in vladimir putin's craw. because it goes after his wealthy friends. it freezes their bank accounts and ability to travel. >> to retaliate the government government stopped americans from adopting russian children. at trump tower, vesilnintskaya was there with three russian spies. >> there was a russian-american lobbyist, a former soviet military officer who has been in the united states for many years and he had been working with veselinskaya. to lobby against the magnitsky act. >> and also there, a translator and business representative for the agalarov family. at about 4:00 p.m., goldstone and his companions boarded the trump tower elevator to the 25th floor conference room. in the meeting where donald trump jr., his brother-in-law, jared kushner, and trump campaign chair paul manafort. >> don came out and saw these people. they went in and i said, thank you v

there's a fresh development in the investigation of the death of the anti corruption lawyer so good magnitsky nearly ten years ago russian prosecutors are looking into whether or not his killing was organized by his former boss the british based financier william browder. expose. post-mortem tests showed that there were symptoms of quantock poisoning with the toxic water soluble oh you mean incompetence taken orally there has never been full scale research of such substances in russia but over dozens of years texaco logical research of these compounds have been conducted especially by the us france and italy we have to understand who is mr mckinney and who is mr browder the latin america born u.k. hedge fund manager had a huge business in moscow in the ninety's and early two thousand russia believes not very clean he was charged with nine years in prison in absentia for tax fraud so game admits he was his lawyer and top tax advisor and obviously russia considered him to be involved in mr browder criminal activity and he was arrested hand died in a pretrial detention under controversial circum

financier may have ordered the poisoning all of his former lawyer magnitsky as russian prosecutors shed new light on death which global attention nearly a decade ago. policies put facebook back in the spotlight after he sees a teenage bride from south sudan capital. and a popular russian cartoon is accused of being a kremlin propaganda tool designed to influence children's minds around the world. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching all the death of corruption. ten years ago prosecutors are looking into whether his killing was organized by his former boss the british based. expert. post-mortem tests showed that there were symptoms of poisoning with the toxic water soluble aluminum compounds taken orally there has never been full scale research of such substances in russia but over dozens of years a logical research of these compounds have been conducted especially by the u.s. . we have to understand who is mr mckinney and who is mr browder the latin america born u.k. hedge fund manager had a huge business in moscow in the ninety's and early two thousand russia believes not v

browder known for his decade long campaign against russian corruption accused russia of killing magnitsky who had testified against the country's tax authorities and police he used this case to lobby the so-called magnitsky act to sanctioning russian officials implicated in corruption and now prosecutor general office here in moscow ease practically forward mirror accusations saying that the death of such a game of means he was in fact in the interest of william browder covering his dirty financial schemes and adding that they are opening an investigation into that it has been in the news for year is that russia is accusing william browder of money laundering and basle mint and now prosecutor general office opened a criminal case into organizing at trans national and criminal networks for these purposes let's take a listen. for a long time russia's prosecutor general together with the investigative authorities have been seeking to prosecute. william browder and other members of an international criminal network organized by him this network was created in russia in one thousand nine hundr

well the sanctions were imposed by the global magnitsky act which was established by a letter from the senate to president trump about a month ago asking that the global minutes be be invoked in this particular case what that is is an act that provides for global to come to billet for any human rights atrocities so now what you have is these sanctions imposed on the seventeen individuals in terms of the global magnitsky act it means that any funds that they might have in the u.s. will be frozen that means to that no u.s. citizen will be allowed to do any financial dealings with these men and republican senator rand paul has said the saudi crown prince at least knew about the killing if not ordered it what can you tell us about that well indeed yes he reiterated those comments in an interview with a u.s. network saying that at the very least the crown prince knew about it and probably ordered it but significant that senator rand paul is not alone in contending this we've also heard in the course of the day from senator bob corker corker who says the journalist was assassinated in my opi

congress feels much differently that's why they have sent this letter triggering the global magnitsky act once again we've seen this before the u.s. congress did send a similar letter to the white house on october tenth that resulted in seventeen sanctions against saudi nationals but notably none of the members of the royal family listed in those seventeen individual sanctions so this is something that congress is pressing for because there is this belief that the saudi crown prince did in fact ordered the killing played an instrumental role even as the united states in the form of the letter from donald trump is saying that saudi arabia is a great ally and friend of the united states significant and prominent senior members of both the president's republican party and the democratic party believes otherwise what will creasing the approach really devalue the u.s. do with a turkish attempt the possibility of a turkish to turn this into an international investigation involving the u.n. . well you know. this is certainly going to put the united states in an uncomfortable position but at

government before magnitsky. magnitsky. it's just very hard to do.i was on a panel of bill bratton, and expo of the magnitsky act. we're doing a q&a and someone who worked in russia for long time with a very rich people, that's what he is so effective because it's almost one of them. he's a whistleblower. he looked at the skripal several to quickly insert all you need to do is freeze this apartment. i can think of what it is right near the kremlin, like everybody out of the come some glamorous apartment and that drives them crazy. these guys are like him i don't know what they are, they want to be in a gilded bentley at the prompt whatever. lofton out the south of france whatever, they go crazy. these are not people with much gravitas. they are not the ideologues of the soviet union who have ideals. they just want to take their mistresses to the south of france and if you don't do that, they cry in the corner. >> i was asked by a senator just before the election if you could do one thing with u.s. intelligence community to punish them, what would it

of state recently saying that to individuals will be looked at in terms of the global magnitsky act now this act provides for sanctions to be imposed against individuals found guilty of human rights abuses wherever they be within the globe where it is at the moment it's under consideration by president trump he's got to make a decision in terms of the act and then decide what sanctions should be applied in terms of that particular act president trump has said repeatedly he is considering it most recently he said in the past twenty four hours he will be taking a decision and announcing that decision in the next week and might saudi arabia is now confirmed the u.s. will stop refueling its warplanes operating over yemen what's behind the move. well the issue of refueling has been under discussion for a long period of time the u.s. has contended that the saudis are getting better at the refueling process in the last week the secretary of defense james mattis said that the whole issue of refueling was a small one he said it was far more important for us cooperation to center on issues li

i think this is exactly what the magnitsky act is for. this is what we wrote the magnitsky act and there's more four. to do on that front. and the administration, i think, should do more on that front. so, yes, we have lots of strategic interests alignment with the saudis, no two ways about it, for the gulf, for iran, for israel, for everything. and those aren't going to go away, and those will persist. still, we can speak with moral clarity. we can make, we can take actions that address these issues so that we're really clear to the world what we believe and to dictators, you can't do this. mr. kane: who speaks, who has -- [speaking simultaneously] i know, that's why i think magnitsky is the way to go. mr. ryan: and i think it is a smart tool to use, and is what we designed the tool for. and i think congress can play a very constructive role on that. mr. kane: ok. and that falls to your successors? because -- mr. ryan: yeah. we've got like two weeks left. mr. kane: ok. margaret from twitter asks about the trump ban, back when he was bann

signal to mr trump that he's a he's got a presidency that's now been weakened with regard to the magnitsky act it authorizes the key congressional committee members to tell the president he needs to consider listing those who are implicated in violations of fundamental internationally recognized human rights and he's listed seventeen under the magnitsky act that means no visas to travel here no business in the united states all assets are frozen it's a big state but now he's already already put seventeen on that list omitting the crown prince it's hard to imagine if the crown prince is responsible for what they did he needs to be on that list. israel's prime minister says he hopes his coalition partners will show responsibility and not bring down the government and human nescio has been holding last ditch talks to try to save his coalition. which carney has a one seat majority in parliament as you know his government was started a crisis when hardline defense minister of big don't even resigned on wednesday over cease fire agreement with armed groups and gaza stephanie deca is in west jeru

has sent another letter to president trump reminding him that it had already invoked the global magnitsky act which accounts for accountability for human rights abuses anywhere in the world the good relations committee says in this letter to the president that they want him to continue and conclude the simplistic ation and they add in the wake of the recent events they want him to make a definite finding on whether or not the crown prince mohammed bin selman was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi so certainly pressure is ramping up from congress and any thoughts that president trump might have that the matter is now settled that's been denied completely by both republicans and democrats meanwhile turkey says it may seek a formal u.n. inquiry into her death foreign minister. says he's not satisfied with the level of cooperation from riyadh attorney berkeley's outside the saudi consulate force in istanbul so tony how much of a setback is the trumpet ministrations position to turkey. i think turkey was hoping for firmer action but i suppose also there's no great surprise here givin

that congressional joint congressional white house mechanism that's actually already in play the magnitsky act where there's been an investigation and then some people who have been found to have some responsibility of attack will have some sort of sanctions imposed against them but we've also been hearing that all these deliberations that was sort of being kicked around the white house like for example trying to get king solomon to reduce mom had been solomon's role the crown prince as role these they will been discarded they just think it's impossible it's an absolute is moloch a and b s isn't going to go anywhere saudi arabia's just too important for their geo strategic aims particularly as the iranian sanctions are going into play particularly when the u.s. is isolated from its western allies over those iranian sanctions so basically we'll look for those congressional sanctions from the magnitsky act but then it will probably then that all blow over there might be some movement on the war in yemen there is some congressional energy to do something about about yemen if the democrats do

senator corker the senate in washington is considering some sanctions there is no talk about the magnitsky act also the just the act going to be pulled back from the shelf so there are the several conduits of own team had been some man pressure coming from turkey coming from the united states let alone the european governments all of those elements now out of pushing the course so that they would be convincing version of what happened so far isn't convincing to you from the perspective of conflict management that's how realists think don't show much do try to play their coats card safety is always a high. truth going there but on the moral side of politics i don't think that the management decided the management of this crisis has been well informed and i think the model t. narratives we have heard over six weeks indicate that there is some weakness and it is i think there are several teams working trying to work together this is why we are getting mixed signals at the end of the day the creation will remain in place and. will be losing his legitimacy in the long run and king solomon is th

the death of jamal khashoggi now this does have legal ramifications because in terms of the global magnitsky act the president has one hundred twenty days to complete his investigation and importantly to report back to the senate foreign relations committee on his findings that is still a long way obviously the countdown started on october the tenth but just another a bit of the pressure that is being placed on the president by his congress and mikey's finding himself i would imagine in the difficult position because if he does not hold an investigation people will read something into that if he does hold an investigation he's going to be under pressure to make that investigation as transparent as possible it's a very difficult situation for the white house at the moment isn't it. well one in which the president has put himself were he has decided to place economic interests and trance sectional necessities above any form of human rights or moral accountability he is certainly creating a position for himself in which he is going to face this type of dye lemma he has said since the murder of

signal to mr trump that he's a he's got a presidency that's now been weakened with regard to the magnitsky act it authorizes they key congressional committee members to tell the president he needs to consider listing those who are implicated in violations of fundamental internationally recognized human rights and he's listed seventeen under the magnitsky act that means no visas to travel here no business in the united states all assets are frozen it's a big state but now he's already already put seventeen on that list omitting the crown prince it's hard to imagine if the crown prince is responsible for what they did he needs to be on that list a last thing that saudi arabia needs to fears that if congress is sufficiently aroused they could list by statute saudi arabia as a state sponsor of terrorism because the killing of his show he was terrorism an attempt to intimidate and cow any dissidents in saudi arabian crown prince from speaking out and once they would be on that list of state sponsors there would be complete. embargo on doing any business with saudi arabia and that's what really

this is something that was triggered out of the global magnitsky act by the u.s. congress now the truck administration is compelled to report back in one hundred twenty days what we saw last time when this was triggered was the seventeen sanctions put on saudi nationals but of course none of those individuals sanctioned were included the saudi royal family what about kimberly turkey's relationship with the united states right now where does that statement leave that especially given that president trump made that statement when the turkish foreign minister was in washington turkey wants to turn this into an international investigation what would that mean for relations with washington. well certainly there have been complicated relations with the united states and turkey for some time this only intent intensifies that we know that the cia director jean haskell went over to meet with her counterparts in turkey donald trump requested not only the audio but video intelligence be shared with the united states and that was a request that was not honored so this is sort

gender today it was very much on the minds of senators it was the senate that invoked the global magnitsky act in terms of which the sanctions have been imposed and while the move has been welcomed senators on both sides of the aisle insist it does not go far enough. senator rand paul is one of those who insist the saudi crown prince should be among those sanctioned maintaining muhammad bin solomon at least knew of the murder and probably ordered it he said in a tweet the united states needs to project strength when dealing with saudi arabia putting sanctions on people who are already in jail means nothing these individuals might lose their heads you think they care they are pretending to do something and doing nothing of you echoed by senator bob corker the administration today sent out notice that they were sanctioning seventeen of individuals that were involved hopefully additional steps were made up asked for a briefing with matters peo and you have asked for the come in as soon as we get back to share with us what is happening with saudi arabia on both fronts both yemen and what is ha

agenda today it was very much on the minds of senators it was the senate that invoked the global magnitsky act in terms of which the sanctions have been imposed and while the move has been welcomed senators on both sides of the aisle insist it does not go far enough senator rand paul is one of those who insist the saudi crown prince should be among those sanctioned maintaining muhammad in selman at least knew of the murder and probably ordered it he said in a tweet the united states needs to project strength when dealing with saudi arabia putting sanctions on people who are already in jail means nothing these individuals might lose their heads you think they care they are pretending to do something and doing nothing. a view echoed by senator bob corker the administration today sent out notice that they were sanctioning seventeen of individuals that were involved hopefully additional steps were made up asked for a lot more briefing with matters peo and you asked for the comment as soon as we get back to share with us what is happening with saudi arabia on both fronts both yemen and what is

inputk action, including -- including revoking visas and invoking the global magnitsky act. pompeo said that we continue to view as achievable that twin imperatives of protecting america and holding accountable those responsible for the killing of mr. khashoggi. political shared objectives is to improvement -- impose maximum pressure on the iranian regime until it changes its malign behavior and threats. iran remains the most significant threat to individual stability. secretaryeks ago, pompeo outlines iran's behavior, ongoing assistance to approximately chefs who stoke conflict, support of terrorist organizations, and threatening partners. we also remain deeply concerned with the regime's serious human rights abuses against the iranian people. these abuses include iran's continued arbitrary arrest of individuals solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, opinion, believe, association and peaceful assembly as well as its detention of foreigners and a dual nationals. we think our international support of efforts to change will include support for the iranian

but about what the use of the m magnitsky act?>> that is one of the most important ways that we can get some kind of reconciliation here. my colleagues from the foreign relations committee have sent a letter on a bipartisan basis, it is important to emphasis bipartisan basis, to the president to ask, demand in fact under the law, that he indicate the nelevel of partiecipation o the crown prince in this situation. in that case, if there is conclusive evidence that we should take steps under the magnitsky act to impose sanctions on the crown prince and others. >> you are the top democrat on the armed services committee going forward. what do you make of the call, president's call with the military on thanksgiving day? you have been a tough critic of the president about his decision not to visit troops to date. but why is that so important? >> well, it's important because you're there. you're physically there. for a moment at least, not for a long time, for a moment you are sharing the dangers, sharing the tensions, the difficulties.

in october the senate foreign relations committee sent the president a letter invoking the global magnitsky act now that provides accountability for human rights abuses the committee has just followed up with another letter to the president saying that in the light of recent developments it wants him to concentrate his investigation into the death on one very important thing did the crown prince mohammed bin solomon kill jamal khashoggi and if so what sanctions are going to be exercised so the committee asking the president to narrow it down there is a legal obligation on the president to do what the committee asked in this particular case though he has one hundred twenty days which would be from october the tenth to do so but lots of moves by congress likely in the week ahead michaela with the latest there on u.s. reaction to this case mike thank you what about reaction from the country where the murder actually took place well there has been no official reaction out of turkey to trump's use they statement for example but many politicians are angry the deputy chairman of the ruling ak part

which will get the global magnitsky act on the way again they've already sent one letter to the white house asking for the white house to investigate anyone and come to a conclusion on who was responsible for the killing of the shoji and then they have to come back to congress and sanctions have to be worked out as to have a against whoever is found to have been responsible that already happened in october yesterday on tuesday another letter was sent specifically asking that the white house investigate whether mohamed bin solomon was personally culpable for the killing of the show so again and both of these the white house is one hundred twenty days to come up with their investigation the results of their investigation so that first investigation they have until february now they have until march to find out whether moment when someone is personally culpable for the killing of the show in which case sanctions against him personally may be in the offing thirdly we're hearing more and more suggestions that they'll be pressure in congress for the intelligence agencies to release everythi

strong action in response including revoking visas and revoking the a mrib applicability under the magnitsky act. our relations remain strong. as secretary pompeo said, we continue to see achievable, holding accountable those responsible for the killing of mr. khashoggi. one of our most critical shared objective is to impose maximum pressure on the iranian regime until it changes its maligned behavior and threats. iran remains most significant threat to regional stability. in new york, secretary pompeo had ongoing assistance to proxy militia. support for terrorist organizations and the development and proliferation of ballistic missiles and destabilized the region and threaten our partners. we also remain deeply concerned with the iranian regime's serious human rights abuses against the iranian people. they continue arbitrary arrests of individuals solely exercising their rights to fred om of expression, belief, association and peaceful assembly as well as its detention of foreigners and dual nationals. we seek international support to change the iranian bev hafior for effort and support for

the united states has sanctioned some under the magnitsky act. some have been accused.n prince so far. arm sales could be on the table but the challenge here is because of the challenges we face internationally in this world that seems to be in such tumult that we have to also look at our national security interests as we go forward on this, at the same time looking at us as a beacon of human rights and democracy in the world. >> jon: they said saudi arabia is a bull wark and iran and its interests. >> it's a mean, nasty world out there. the middle east in particular. there are important american interests to keep the american people safe. the united states will continue to have a relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia. they are important partner of ours. we have will do that with the kingdom of saudi arabia, its people. that is the commitment that the president has made today. it's that straight forward. >> jon: it sounds as though you essentially agree with the secretary of state's point. >> yes, i think so. i didn't see everything. i saw your clip there. i did

act and sanctions under the magnitsky act to be enforced.here do you think they will get with that demand from the white house? >> well, you know, the statement by the president yesterday, i think, indicates that this white house is not going to be very cooperative with that kind of effort. now, maybe that will change. i don't know. if they recognize that the congress may very well take action on its own, it would seem to me that the president would want to cooperate with the congress in that effort. but i think it's important for congress to move forward, to get all of the evidence that has been gathered by our intelligence agencies as well as others, to conduct whatever additional investigation they feel is necessary. but in the end, to take action here. we cannot just walk away from this. we have to take action to make clear to the world that the united states stands by its values and by its abhorrence to this kind of brutal murder that took place. >> before i ask you to think about what kind of action and what kind of precedents there ar

you mentioned the magnitsky.hat's the first most obvious one, sanctioning individuals for human rights violations. we have legislation by corker and chris murphy and a couple others obviously, specifically focused on yemen because that's such a brutal war, the human rights -- well, the human catastrophe there is horrendous, and we have determined, at least congress has determined that it's not in the u.s. national interest to be supporting that conflict. again, it's another example, as ned said, of the saudi government actually making things in the middle east worse for themselves and certainly for the united states. so congress, congress is going to push back. >> corker tweeted something interested to me. i never thought i'd see a day the white house would moonlight as a public relations firm for the crown prince of saudi arabia. ned, what's behind this? we saw the numbers, the job creation numbers the president said are not as big, money we're getting is not as big as the president said. saudi arabia needs amer

be accountable there's already been a letter from the senate to the president invoking the global magnitsky act which insists that sanctions be imposed against those held responsible for human rights abuses or in the specific case the death of course argy so pressure coming to bear from congress president trump himself says their teams forming a very strong opinion on the matter and are signs of hardening within the administration the secretary of state my phone peo phoned the crown prince of saudi arabia over the weekend and reportedly told him in very strong terms that the u.s. would hold those accountable when they were found when they were identified as being involved in the murder of the journalist. investigators in the northern california in town of paradise have been searching for human remains and what's now the deadliest wildfire in the u.s. state's history at least forty two people have died in the town and surrounding area and a huge fire swept through on day a mobile d.n.a. lab is being used to identify victims is out as home to twenty seven thousand people and it's been largely

congress also the administration to investigate under the magnitsky act it has three months to do so that investigation is underway and congress will impose sanctions on whomever is just decided is accountable for this but what we've been hearing in recent days is yes there was anger and a wish to hold people responsible at the highest levels of the saudi administration to account in the white house and the administration various theories various ideas were tossed around getting king solomon to dilute the powers of the crown prince for example all of these are now been pretty much discarded it just unworkable in an absolute monarchy to try and get rid of m.p.'s especially the time on when someone especially at a time when as. we did to you not all the iran sanctions are going through and the u.s. is as isolated as ever in the middle in the middle east and amongst its own allies so what we're the sense we're getting is we'll see those sanctions from congress some point in the next several months now there's some excitement perhaps that will perhaps means that m.p.'s we have more lever