interests in the middle east. as a matter of fact, the geographic central command is the only geographic command that still can you going major combat operations and still losing lives in the middle east. today's national defense strategy, as dated january of this year, still calls on the pentagon to compete, deter, and win. it is very simple. we have to continue the same alignment. it calls also for promoting regional stability. and part of the middle east is one of those regions that we want to promote stability, and security, and denying safe havens for terrorists and enduring freedom for access to common domained. how does defense cooperation help the economy of the united states? start with the defense transfer -- i need all defense transfers, whether transfers of services, articles, support the u.s. defense industrial base, and reduces -- or reduce the costs of procure men of our own military. that's one. the u.s. defense industry directly employs almost 2 million people across the united states, and most of

around the middle east, through lebanon. in some strange way, are on's compliance with the iran nuclear deal, which is admittedly a lobar, compliance with that deal became a seal of approval, but when you look across the threat matrix of ron presents, it has done nothing to diminish their missile launch . >> let's talk a little about ally cooperation, in particular , if you could touch a little bit on allied cooperation and what they see in view, feeling the effects of the missile proliferation if you could touch on a little about where we are with european allies and their understanding of the problem . >> when you look at the number of missiles that have been launched from yemen inside of saudi arabia, especially when one lands in the riata airport. this is truly a threat to international peace and security. as i said earlier, imagine if one of the missiles was launched at an airport. this is dangerous work they are doing. the proliferation of our missiles, they are trying to 11 eyes the middle east and they were able to r

is russia replacing or is it becoming a key player in the middle east as the u.s. somehow in some way withdraws yes but in a very different way to the to the united states and also you know i think that because i was in afghanistan in the early period i know that russians have no intention of getting over overreaching in the middle east because they're getting their food put prince in syria was very very small so i don't think there's any question of any sort of you know that they are going to fill a vacuum and maybe play the roles of whoever they exactly they are doing you know they are becoming the diplomatic center of that everyone comes to the russians are playing this very cleverly they have relations with everybody and everyone comes and sees them and it's true that the only diplomatic service that exists in the classic sense of having a diplomatic service that actually does diplomacy no one else does all roads lead in this sort of these roads lead leads but i think it's more than those. i think this would probably be a surprise some of your russian view is b

let me say this about the middle east.ean any disrespect but with the exception of israel, there are no democracies there. they don't share western values. not turkey, not saudi arabia, now iran. i trust the countries of the middle east with the exception of israel about as much as i trust gas station sushi. you can't trust them but that doesn't mean we don't have to deal with them to mine taintaind order and keep the middle oois fr -- east from blowing up. that's political reality. >> i agree it's got to be one of the hardest jobs as a president to deal with leaders who don't value the same things we do but deal with them in order to keep peace around the world. i understand that. i want to know why you're so confident the president had no financial interest here. he lied about it. he lied about it just yesterday on twitter when he said i have no financial interest in saudi arabia. that's just not true. in 2015 he got on the stage and bragged about how much money saudi arabians gave him and there's evidence of all the thi

in the middle east the u.s. is committed to helping meet the leave towards higher living standards. middle eastern countries compete in the same global market that requires undertaking maskt driven reforms, eliminating obstacles to upstream high crow carbon development. in 20 is the, the u.s. will provide more than $2.8 billion in foreign assistance to arab countries. this assistance is really an investment in the well-being of both the middle eastern and american people because helping parters in ultimately leads to -- partners ultimately leads to enhanced profitability for all of us. in my bureau we have technical assistance programs that specifically try to help partners create legal and regulatory frameworks. these are helpful to facilitate investment in energy inf infrastructure and liberalizing energy markets. specifically by bureau is helping build the governance and, the knickcal capacity they need. we also engage in numerous technical bilateral exchanges with many of our partners. in addition to promoting market based fossil fuel sectors, we also provide technical assistance

the islamic republic maintains the largest underground facility program in the middle east. it is underground to protect and conceal many aspects of its missile program. in 2016, iran unveiled two new short-range ballistic missiles, which it claims are capable of striking targets between 500 and 700 kilometers. iran also claims it is pursuing long range precision guided missiles, cruise missiles, which will present an increased threat to our allies in the region. iran is also in the business of supplying missiles to its proxies in the middle east, as i'm sure you have seen, recent media reports suggest that iran is transferring ballistic missiles to shia malitias in iraq. these claims are all the more serious when you take into account the life-threatening and provocative attacks on u.s. facilities recently in baghdad which iran did nothing to stop. as the president has said, the united states will hold the regime in tehran accountable for any attack that results in injury to our personnel or damage to united states government facilities. america will respond swiftly and dec

middle east minister is grilled over arms sales to saudi.

so what has it done to our friends in the middle east? to our friends in the middle east, it has not been beneficial. if we hill still had to import additional oil, prices would be a lot higher than today. so it's not recognized usually by the consumers of the world, but what has it been achieved by our industry has been of major benefit to the entire world of consumers. the chinese, the europeans, the japanese all benefitted from what was achieved here by the united states in that decade. but i do not agree with the excellency when he welcomed this production because if i had been sitting in. as chair, i would say look what these guys are doing. they are now our main competitors. they are taking 8 million barrels a day out of the opec market share. and this year, again, the call of opec oil is lower than 2017. next year opec's old production, so a further decline in the demand for opec oil made 900,000 barrels a day. these numbers are going to work out or not, but what it shows we are a big competitor. and between us and canada, somewher

is relative position in the middle east but again going to back to the photo op in mr. the russians have come back in and i would say to a relatively big way here i mean when we look at the relationship the russia has with obviously with syria but with iran in implicitly does relationships with everybody virtually everyone else in the middle east is russia replacing or is becoming a key player in the middle east as the us somehow in some way withdraws yes but in a very different way to the to the united states and also you know i think that because i was in afghanistan in the early period i know that russians have no intention of getting over overreaching in the middle east because they're getting their food put through print is syria was very very small so i don't think there's any question of any sort of you know that they're going to fill a vacuum and maybe play the roles of whoever they exactly they are doing you know they are becoming the diplomatic center of that everyone comes to the russians are playing this very cleverly they have we're vacations everybody and

apparently the trump administration would have the whole middle east be just like israel if they had their way israel is everything we want the entire middle east to look like going forward it is democratic and prosperous it desires peace and is a home to a free press and a thriving free market economy so let's just take a moment and picture that the entire middle east would look at donald trump to the same eyes as ben human. everyone in the region would hate iran with the same fiery passion threat posed by iran whose chief exports are violence bloodshed and chaos iran large iran's power through the ball aggression danger that you're wrong you're wrong not be rewarded for russians in the region and what countries do to those they don't see eye to eye with follow the israeli example and throw up a fence it will be. the muslim in our neighborhood we need to protect ourselves from wild beasts at the end of the day as i see it there will be a fence like this one surrounding israel in its entirety now in that scenario all of israel's neighbors would likely be blocking them in and of cours

and of the bush doctrine was all about spreading democracy in the middle east iraq was just the firststop on the railroad line. and of course that was a catastrophic failure. the amount of blood we head on her hands our hands and given what has happened in the middle east is just hard to describe. the second great failure is nato expansion in the eu expansion. and our efforts to take those two institutions and create a giant zoned piece i don't believe that for one second. the united states and the west european allies are responsible for the allies. we were thinking like liberals like not like did they actually march in alliance. and then the third grade policy failure is engagement with china. they thought to that engaging china would turn into a democracy. it was now admitting. what we did was help in creating that. before i get to questioning the elements about this. one reason i think that it's often given for why this strategy might work is that it worked after world war ii. ellet every element that you described how do you distinguish what they did just after world war ii seems

imagine what our dictators in the middle east, what will they think?if you tell them something to say in the west they are doing this, of course in the west they might do something little like this but in the middle east it would be killing, etc. , etc . >> so, this is very important. how can we deal with that threat. no institution in the world, no media institution or organization that defends the press and the freedom of the press can do it themselves. we need to work together. we need to work together in al jazeera has done so many things in order to work together. we have tons of partnerships with media organizations, especially with human rights organizations and defenders of the media. we work together in order to have confidence where we can tell people about the threats and tell people about how to deal with them. how to deal with them. honestly it's not an easy answer. >> they're afraid because they like people to be aware of what's going on in their own countries. what do you do with them. they have the police and the army and the justice de

middle east peace. security and stability of the world economy. statement of oil prices and markets, confronting forces of radicalism and terrorism. regionally and internationally. on many occasions during those long years, saudi arabia paid a high price for its image in the arab world by cooperating with american policy. we bore that cost because we believed in the value of our friendship with you. today, however, the world is changing and transforming. the pillars that held up our strategic relationship are challenged. but the importance of saudi arabia has not changed. the kingdom is the center of the islamic world towards which 1.5 billion worshipers turn to pray five times a day. regionally and internationally, the kingdom plays a strategically important role to achieve peace and prosperity by working with the united states and other allies to end conflicts all over the middle east. the kingdom provides more than 4% per capita in aid to developing and poor countries. only yesterday the kingdom forgave $6 billion worth in debt to those poor co

in the middle east, it would be killing, jailing, et cetera, et cetera. so this is very important. that threat, how can we deal with the threat? no institution in the world, no media institution, no organization that defends the press and the freedom of the press can do it by itself and we have done so many things in order to work together. we have tons of partnerships with media organizations, especially with the human rights organizations with defenders of media. and we work together in order to have conferences where we can tell people about those threats and tell people about how to deal with them. well, how to deal with them, it's not an easy answer. there is no easy answer. one government issed a mound about punishing the messengers. one government is adamant about punishing those that they don't want to be revealed, because they are afraid. one, they don't like people to be aware of what's going on in their own countries. what do you do with them? they have the police and the army and they have the justice department, because in the middle east, for example, the judges most

there was much more of a balance of the middle east at that time.if you look at military spending, the saudi's and the allies spend eight times more than iran. there is an arms race, but when we supply arms to saudi arabia, iran response. will we complain about the iranians having ballistic missiles that they are developing, they are doing that in response to the arming of the saudi's. it's a bilateral arms race that goes onn and on. i wouldn't continue it. i don't think we need the saudi crude we have incredible leverage. the air force is entirely american planes. they can't last months without parts and mechanics to help them run their airports. we train their pilots. they are dependent on us and we need to tell them to behave. behave, not going to that includes cutting off the funding to all the schools that teach hatred of christians, jews andg hindus. >> were running out of time, i want to get to one final subject. it appears president trump is about tot pull out, to tell the russians were about to pull out of the imf medium-range missile treat

israel is everything we want the entire middle east to look for going forward. it is democratic and prosperous, it desires peace and is home to a free press in a thriving economy. compare that to iran where they threaten their own people. rarely in world affairs is the contrast between two sides so stark. under president trump's leadership, the united states is standing where it should firmly be, on the side of israel. [ applause ] >> i want to close by, again, thanking you all for being here. to get an award that was named after scoop jackson is truly meaningful to me as an amateur historian, and i think important for the department of state to recognize the good work that it is doing. i will have the opportunity tomorrow to share this with each and every one of the folks who works for me. thank you all so very much. i look forward to a few questions. [ applause ] >> everybody hear me all right? i want to thank you very much again, secretary pompeo, and as we said earlier this evening, the efforts of yourself, the president and the rest of the administration ha

carol: things change very slowly in the middle east.usiness relationships do not come undone that easily. has much really changed despite the headlines? >> there are risks here. everyone is walking on eggshells. there are political risks. those kinds of things, once they begin, they may take a long time but they can complicate life for all sides for a long time to come. u.s. should be responding to the crisis in saudi arabia, certainly an issue for the upcoming mid terms. carol: with only a week to go before the midterms, there are a host of hot button topics. we talked with josh green in d.c. josh: earlier on in the late summer, it looked like there would be a big wave that put the senate and play. the strategists i have been talking to in the last week or so say that the republicans may pick up a couple of seats. the real ballgame is the house of representatives. if democrats can eke out a 27 seat gain, they can take control and have subpoena power. it will change the entire nation of washington and the trump presidency. however, as t

and what does this do to an already unstable middle east. also, how did "the washington post" turn the story of one man into an international cause? i will talk to the post's editorial editor fred hyatt. >>> and do you drive a pickup or a prius? your answers to those questions and more tell researchers a lot about your politics. how do you score? find out. >>> but first, here's my stake. the barbaric murder of jamal khashoggie tells us something important about saudi arabia, but it also tells us something important about saudi arabia. khashoggie used to be a member of the saudi establishment. i met him first 14 years ago, he was one of the people who assisted me when i spent a week in riyadh. the long time head of saudi intelligence who then became ambassador to britain and would later become ambassador to the united hashoggie was in those d moderate and a reform. her worried that too much reform wou would -- a mix of authoritarianism and real reforms. khashoggie became more critical, but he was never a radical? why he was seen as so threate

they have intercepted wonderful people for the middle east. and they have intercepted bad ones. they have intercepted wonderful people from south america. and from other parts further south. they have intercepted a lot of different people. but among the people they have intercepted, very recently, are people from the middle east. okay? so you can't be surprised when you hear it. you've heard that before. it happens all of the time. and i spoke to them -- literally last night, and another one this morning. very good relationship with border patrol and i.c.e. and they say it happens all of the time from the middle east. it's not even saying bad or good. but some real bad ones. but they intercept -- >> they're in the caravan now. >> they could very well be. >> but there's no proof. >> there's no proof of anything. there's no proof of anything. but they could very well be. if you look at what that was building -- they were talking about 5 or 6,000 people. i'm pretty good at estimating crowd size as you probably have figured out. you tend to get a little bit off the real number. last

and saudis it it's about the whole of the middle east the main be friending saudi in such a way really meant in a way. to shape the rest of the middle eastern policy how would it affect all the of the relations of all the other countries both saudi and the u.s. well it's showing how very brittle that particular relationship is turning out to be because trump has put all of his cards or his eggs into one basket and that is the saudi basket. his only other real ally israel who is not a major player in the arab world and the background story of course is that russia has very cleverly taken over the great heartland. of the middle east and east the united states out of the united states doesn't have a long game on this it has become a very short game and this means that for it it's a lose lose on that score because if saudi arabia turns out to be led by someone who cannot anticipate the implications of his actions which we've seen countless times now and seems to feel that it is an element of foreign policy that he can adopt. major players including the prime minister of lebanon and perhaps

this is almost like the fort sumter on the middle east side of things to come. i hope his killing has not come in vain and will not be forgotten before this affair is really investigated, and i do believe that the international investigation is probably the best thing that will happen. this killing comes when saudi arabia is undergoing a lot of change, especially a lot of change domestically. this is a society where the ruling bargain between the ruling and the ruled is depending on the services and largesse in exchange for loyalty. sometimes we wonder if this loyalty is going to be always forthcoming. the social contract of saudi arabia, we do know it is under tremendous pressure, but will the social contract survive further the more repression and intimidation of any opposition, however mild it is? as far as i'm concerned, yes it is a sad incident, and a sad affair. at the same time, the political scientist in me tells me that this can be looked at in the form of what is the future of the social contract for saudi arabia. are saudi arabians going to remain the

. >> it is dire time for christians in the middle east. worked on this for the last 20 years, the charge has to do with alleged ties with the leader of the opposition against mr. erdogan who is a political -- eric: who is in pennsylvania who erdogan wants back. >> he calls them terrorist. they consider movement as terrorist. any american or other citizen that works with this movement or is charged that, you know, they are part of this movement are accused of being supporters to terrorism. eric: how does that fit in to disappearance of jamal khashoggi and the stunning possibility that it was a 15-member hit squad, kind of like the mafia sent in to apparently kill jamal khashoggi in cold blood because he was a critic to have saudi regime? >> look, before going into the details of the jamal khashoggi issue because we don't have any material evidence of anything at this point in time but it's certainly the responsibility of two governments, the government that own it is consulate which is a sovereign saudi land to give us answers, to give the

this region the future of the middle east. so. i believe that. which. we are in the middle east can do a lot of hummable russia can do a lot we all can do a lot. of them that way he has introduced us our own model in dubai and the people in the middle east can imitate can do the same for us yeah the ceiling is hard and the ceiling is high in saudi arabia and it must be like this every where and we can see later. we have seen let's abu dhabi has made a lot of improvements bahrain also has in that sense a nineteen ninety nine the achievements are big and enormous in bahrain and regardless what we are going to happen in the few five years you will see a lot and kuwait also has a grade people suzanne financial resources and will achieve a lot. today in egypt the last year age it has achieved fire percent growth in a kaname this year more than five percent unemployment rates are the grazing rapidly in aid of housing properties infrastructure projects in egypt are increasing to the extent that i cannot even believe that i visited some place in egypt and i hav

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we tried to remake the middle east. it's become more authoritarian.xpel some of their diplomats. we could use sanctions, curtail the arms sales. we could do a un resolution. but what we shouldn't do, in my judgment, unlike some of my colleagues, we shouldn't just say, that's it. no more. we're going to cut the saudis off like a dead skunk. >> okay. >> we can't do that. >> understood. one of the reasons that we always enjoy having you on is because you always give us a sort of unfiltered view of your mindset. so i'm just wondering what went through your mind when you looked at the president's tweet yesterday that brought up stormy daniels and compared her physical appearance to an animal? >> i wish he wouldn't have done it. we've all done something like that before. >> have you? have you, senator? >> i wouldn't tweet it. but we all have. >> no, we all haven't. most of us actually resist insulting people publically. or we used to. >> let me make my point. and that's a fair point. i think most people have. they made fun of somebody else and the way they

that will create a giant zone of peace in the middle east. it would take the terrorism problem and the proliferation problem off the table. it is a liberal solution to some very nasty problems. a good realist like me, flew concerned about the balance of power. we start talking about invading countries like iraq, i say to myself, you're really asking for big trouble. this is like going into vietnam, the soviets going to afghanistan. i used to argue during the cold war that the soviets wanted to afghanistan in 1979. virtually everyone in the national security establishment was aghast. if that was the end of the world. soviets were on the march. i said this is dead wrong. soviets just don't -- you actually want to invite the soviets to invade afghanistan. just that they should have been very happy about the fact that we went into vietnam. as i said to the chinese when i first started going to china in the early 2000. we should be very thankful the americans have invaded afghanistan and iraq and he should tell the americans that they should stay

the senior reporter for europe and middle east wrote about it.e joins us to talk. >> it was the president of turkey. this is a country that has more journalists in jail than any other. it was not as expected, the president of the united states, the white house, the statement made about the washington post columnist that was killed and rather grim circumstances. carol: what are people saying about the u.s. not speaking up for human rights and then to have turkey leading the conversation? >> there are all sorts of reasons why president erdogan would want to do this. his own interests. it helps him to dispel some of the anger that has been turned at him by western countries, liberal countries and liberal governments about his treatment of journalists. he has obtained leverage in a rivalry he has with saudi arabia. more broadly, it is symbolic of a way in which our expectations about what happens in the middle east has changed. >> this is largely about the personal relationship between this administration in the united states and the crown prince. if

gains in the middle east and yet it's a great question when will the kurds finally decide the u.s. is not reliable partner that is hard to say. the russian military source also said that after this strike and this sounds perfectly. leave a bowl he's on the stage managing to gain some ground amid the the confusion in his or also hearing that they've got human hostages how big of a worry is they set a time when it looked like islamics they were all but done opportunities for them to just make a bit of progress. look it's a big it's a big concern i mean syrian peace in the stability in islam is you know the islamic state is out there it's going to prevent that from happening so i think everyone should be concerned about that but of course the problem is is that the u.s. is the is playing both sides of that conflict i'm supporting. the islamic state and then other times fighting you know and so that is you know one of the problems that syrian people face. we live in strange times journalists disappear. you get people killing people on their own side in war will there be repercussions i

policy in the middle east.hen there are 16 days until the midterm elections and the republican control of congress is on the line.we will look at one of this year's competitive senate races in arizona and we will talk with congresswoman tran a only on "fox news sunday". - - martha mcsally only on "fox news sunday". >> this will be an election of brett kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order and common sense. >>chris: we will ask our sunday panel about president trump's closing message for the midterms. and, after disaster strikes, our "power player of the week". world famous chefs jose andres steps in. >> people are always in need of a hot meal and that's what we do. >>chris: all right now on "fox news sunday". and hello again from fox news in washington. 17 days after the disappearance of jamal khashoggi the saudi government is finally offering its account of what happened to him. much of the world is not buying it. the saudis say jamal khashoggi was killed in a fist via their consulate in istanbul. they've arre

over usually has a concern that much of the middle east is dependent upon oil. not so much on coal and coal is the first in the line of fire the biggest sin in terms of climate change if you like. but one issue for many in the middle east is what is the future look like if we do have to curtail oil demand. that's probably going to affect some other regions like oil shales first because they're actually a bit more expensive than and a bit more carbon intensive but still we're talking about rather than the past century largely fuel an expansion of coal in oil this century being about that contraction in the rise of solar wind other renewable sources so that's the first thing we need to think what's the energy economy of countries in this case middle east countries traditionally heavy dependence on oil significant on gas that's kind of both good and bad it's clipped much cleaner than coal. burning we've have to missions in the power sector partly by using gas instead of coal is investing in new technology then the way to go and as far as all technologies are concer

maybe in europe, but not in the middle east. with saudi arabia, lebanon and jordan. mary mbela, the maid who was burned while working in jordan, died of her injuries a month after she was returned to kenya. her family was never compensated, while the fight against the trade in domestic servants continues. translation: the girls going to the middle east are our daughters! i'm not leaving here until we sit down together and organise as women. thanks to africa— bring that story to our attention. facebook has removed 68 pages and 43 accounts that were alleged to be part of a socialmedia propaganda campaign for presidential candidate jair bolsonaro. this is the article which exposed the activity, from the newspaper o estado de sao paulo, saying a marketing group called rfa were behind the social campaign, and they are the main supporter network for mr bolsonaro. this is not the only recent allegation. just last week, another newspaper, folha de sao paulo, exposed what they said was a whatsapp messaging campaign financed by brazilian

wnd that the being said, saudi arabia has been a very important ally of ours in the middle east. we are stopping iran, and not trying to stop, but we are stopping iran and we had a big step when we took away that the previous administration and the iran deal for $150 billion and $1.8 billion in cash, and what is that all about? they are an ally, and we have very good allies in the middle east, but if you are looking at saudi arabia, they are an ally and tremendous purchaser of military equipment and other things. when i went there they committed to purchase $450 billion of thing, and $110 billion of military and those are the biggest orders in the history of this country, and probably the his troif world. i don't think that there has ever been an order for $450 billion, and you remember that day in saudi arabia where that commitment was made. so they are an important ally, but i want to find out what happened, where is the fault, and we will probably know that by the end of the week, but mike pompeo is coming back, and we will have are a long talk. >> what about across the river

the great in the middle east. dr ahmad by c president of the federal national council of the united arab emirates welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us i hope you are enjoying your stay in st peter's work so let's start with your personal experience you are they highest ranking female politician in the arab world first woman to have a national assembly of an arab state i mean obviously that means that this world is very male centric how does that complicate your work how do you make men listen to you. thank you for hosting me i think. using our talent as women. being able to face challenges and at the same time to transcend to all of our potential it makes possible for us to be able to fulfill all what's required for us to fill any seat whether being a mother or being even a speaker and i think we've been fortunate also by the respect and the support of the men especially when it comes to my country and the u.a.e. from the leadership to the community they all believe in the role of women and th

and what does this do to an already unstable middle east? also, how did "the washington post" turn the story of one man into an international cause? i will talk to the post's editorial editor. and do you drive a pickup or a prius? eat iceberg or kale? drink light beer or chardonnay? well, your answers to those questions and more tell researchers a lot about your politics. how do you score? find out. but first, here's my take. the barbaric murder of jamal khashoggi tells us something important about saudi arabia. but it also tells us something important about america. first saudi. as has often been noted khashoggi used to be part of the saudi establishment. although not a member of the house, he was well born and well connected. i met him first 14 years ago. he was one of the people who assisted me when i spent a week in riyadh. he was working for prince turkey el faisal who became ambassador to britain and would become ambassador to the united states. yet khashoggi was even in those days a liberal and a reformer. though always moderate and i

the great game in the middle east. dr ahmad by say president of the federal national council of the united arab emirates welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us i hope you are enjoying your stay in st peter's work so let's start with your personal experience you are the highest ranking female politician in the arab world first woman to head a national assembly of an arab state i mean obviously that means that this world is very male centric how does that complicate your work how do you make men listen to you. thank you for hosting me i think. using our term don't as women. being able to face chat in terms of women is looked at or even sometimes seen is the new products and right it doesn't it's not only related to religion there are many regions that are not the sum of creatures but woman is deprived from even her simplest rights i think also that it is related to education more it's related more to her to sometimes it's more to society it's a related to some traditions that have not advanced to relig

gentleman, aays a keen analyst on middle east and islamic affairs, articulate early interested in u.s.-saudi bilateral relations, which we discussed almost every time we met. and, equally important, if not more important, a consistent advocate are basic freedoms and human rights, not only in saudi arabia, but throughout the arab world. podiume from this very on the 17th of november, 2017 when we hosted him after arrival to disk country, seeking refuge from threats back home -- arrival to this country, seeking refuge from threats back home. ironically, that briefing was held right next door in the room called first amendment room. on october 2, as all of you know, jamaal entered the saudi consulate building to create -- to collect personal legal documents in preparation for his upcoming wedding in turkey. as we all know, he went missing and never came out from the consulate alive. the words tweeted last friday by the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york resonated with readers worldwide, particularly with those who knew jamaal. he treated "the murder of jamal khash