i guess very much to the same extent that mohammed bin salman had the ability within which to lock up all of his relatives and other members of the royal family for money, right? trump is keen on this power and whether it's putin, mohammed bin salman, the kim jong-uns, maduros. it's the power he's so involved with and so in search of that this is exactly what he believes. he believes that putin controls all of russia and all of its wealth, and anything like the purchase of this home had to have been through or with the permission of vladimir putin. >> john heilemann, your reaction to that. >> so when you hear a story like that, lawrence, it just adds one more of the already very long list of reasons why we all now look back and wish fervently that bob mueller had been empowered by rod rosenstein to actually look into the matters related to donald trump's financial entanglements with russia when he was doing his investigation instead of being politicked from doing that kind of work when the mueller investigation was taking place. it's the kind of thing that with subpoena power and a te

i guess very much to the same extent that mohammed bin salman had the ability within which to lock upyal family for money, right? trump is keen on this power. and whether it's putin, mohammed bin salman, the kim jong-uns, the moderos, it's the power that he's so involved with and so in search of that this is exactly what he believes. he believes that putin controls all of russia. and all of its wealth. and anything like the purchase of this -- of this home had to have been through or with the permission of vladimir putin. >> joining me now is ambassador wendy sherman. served as under-secretary of state for political affairs under president obama. now a professor at the harvard kennedy school. it's great to have you, ambassador. i guess i would first start with, i mean, i have always thought this story was so nuts, right? it's sort of hanging out there. you can't sell this property. in comes a russian oligarch, who not just buys it, takes it off your hands for asking, for no reason pays you $50 million above what you're trying to get for it, right? i guess the first question to ask is

i guess very much to the same extent that mohammed bin salman had the ability within which to lock up all of his relatives and other members of the royal family for money, right? trump is keen on this power, and whether it's putin, mohammed bin salman, the kim jong-uns, the maderos, it's the power that he's so involved with and so in search of that this is exactly what he believes. he believes that putin controls all of russia and all of its wealth, and anything like the purchase of this -- of this home had to have been through or with the permission of vladimir putin. >> and he -- you elaborate on that idea some when you talk about what you think was trump's sort of orientation toward putin and russia during the campaign. you say, when trump lost the election, he expected to lose the election, he wanted to do all he could to enable him to be able to borrow money from people in putin's circle, and that meant sucking up to the russians. a large part of the posturing and praising of putin was a way to keep the trump organization's options open with the russian leader. so was he -- he wa

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lauren: trump made a comment about the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. tell us about that.s one not a big surprise given his actions, promising to hold the highest labels -- levels of the saudi government responsible for the journalist jamal khashoggi -- the saudi crown prince likely with somee killing, luck -- definitely ordered. this is something the trump administration has ignored. now the u.s. president seems to be boasting about it. one of the quotes is he surveyed -- he saved the journalist and bragged about it, he protected him from congressional scrutiny and these ongoing concerns about the issue is more fake news. , inu.s. president seemed his conversation, to downplay the gruesome murder saying iran is allegedly murdering 30 plus people a day. the u.s. president, his statements are consistent with what we have seen him do at the executive level. any effort to rein in the saudi's weather with arms sales or the u.s. support for the saudi conflicts have all been vetoed by this president. it is not a big surprise but certainly shocking given the fact the president is

access to an early copy of the book said president trump boasted he protected saudi brings mohammed bin salman after khashoggi's brutal murder. cia said mbs had something to do with khashoggi's murder. he said he protected the prince from any actions from congress. >> you will be busy fact checking a lot of things in that book. thanks, scott. >>> a coronavirus relief bill doesn't pass the procedural vote in congress. it only received 52 yes votes. house democrats say it falls short and none vote for it. the $300 billion proposal included adding unemployment, funding for schools and liability protection for businesses and health care facilities. >>> san francisco hair salon at the center of the nancy pelosi backlash is closing its doors. the footage went viral. the salon owner says she's done. the owner was on tucker carlson's fox news show last night. she says she initially release thad video to the contradiction of how pelosi the salon for a blowout but it's considered dangerous for others to visit. now the salon owner says after spending a decade and a half in the city, she's closing the sal

such actions have grown more critical under current prince mohammed bin salman. cooperation, saudi relationships have become a one-way street. the kingdom acts with impunity and the united states looks the other way while dismissing saudi atrocities. in the realm of terrorism, the united states has had numerous tactical successes. however, while we have managed to counter the terrorism threat from al qaeda and isis, we have strategically failed to counter the ultimate drivers of transform the appeal of these messages globally. in portly, saudi arabia has directly contribute it to these drivers. proliferation of wahhabi teachings is still out in a countries, funded by saudi arabia. sectarianism has become huge political currency to advance political goals in the middle east and the struggle for regional hegemony between saudi arabia and iran pits sunni against she is. .- against shia sectarianism to recruitment and the justification of violence and murder. third, political conflicts like the wars in yemen and syria provide oxygen for terrorist organizations to ope

should the world be congratulating mohammed bin salman for fighting corruption in his country or should they be condemning him for getting rid of his rivals once more what do you think. i don't think it's either or. maybe if i had been turkey is corrupt but the biggest corrupt official saudi arabia is mohamed bin sentiment himself so this is not about fighting corruption this is about. the challenge opposition contenders within the ruling family have also it has nothing to do with corruption but if you're going to rule a country that at some point which is likely to be will the crown prince is going to do you know going to need allies he's arrested 300 people so far government officials military security officials he's arrested several senior princes is you know anybody left in his corner i think he still has some some in his corner however mohammed bin solomon is he likes to be a one man and one man show type of person he does not want any contenders and the people who race questions about any policy that's his personality so he does not like any anything anywhere any anybody who would

in istanbul two years ago has cast a shadow over the country‘s defacto leader, crown prince mohammed bin salmanlanding is one of the biggest such arrivals in years by the persecuted muslim minority, who originally fled myanmar. the refugees say they set sail from southern bangladesh in march, with no supplies other than what they could fit onto their boat. 0ur reporter resto woro yuniar, from bbc indonesia has more. it was in this confined space that almost 300 rohingya refugees spent nearly seven months at sea. eventually landing here in the indonesian province of aceh, where locals helped the boat come ashore. translation: most of them are women and children, and their conditions are not too good. we are going to check on them again once we arrive at the shelter. we are going to relocate them so they don‘t stay here. among those who came ashore were 181 women and 1a small children. one person was rushed to hospital. officials say the passengers are being sheltered at a refugee centre where they will be tested for coronavirus. translation: from the red cross, we are going to help in the name o

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two years ago has cast a shadow over the man who effectively leads the country, crown prince mohammed bin salman from china after a diplomatic stand—off. both men were advised by australian officials to leave for their own safety. chinese police had demanded interviews with michael smith, from the australian financial review, and bill birtles, china correspondent for the broadcaster, abc. they took refuge at separate australian missions as negotiations over their departure went on. 0ur sydney correspondent, shaimaa khalil, joins us live. give us more on the background here. this has been a really tense time line for the two journalists. we know this started last week when australian diplomats warned bill birtles that he should live diner, a similar warning was given to the abc's management by the department of foreign affairs and trade, and after the second warning, the abc has decided to evacuate bill birtles and bring him back. it was due to be on a flight back. it was due to be on a flight last thursday, but on the eve of his departure, at midnight, he was holding a gathering, a farewell gathe

jailed 8 people for up to 20 years ashaji was a prominent critic of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018. next week pakistan's supreme court will hear an appeal challenging the acquittal of a man in the case of the murdered u.s. journalist daniel pearl i met omar saeed shaykh was convicted in 2002 of luring polter meeting in karate where he was kidnapped and later beheaded. this is al jazeera and these are your top stories coronavirus were they to death have surpassed 1000000 johns hopkins university try to confirm the figure in the last few hours old and 33000000 people have been infected worldwide. the us brazil india account for nearly half of the world's coronavirus deaths about.

8 people for up to 20 years is because he was a prominent critic of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul in 28 he. france's president has. to form a government within 6 weeks. that differences led to the resignation of the prime minister designate. and reports from. beginning to wane. it was a month ago. there was an opportunity. it was here where she met french president. who visited neighborhoods damaged by the devastating explosion at port. of the oceans her anger frustration and a little bit of feel. it's all together. before . it's clear. here it's the youth who are making the change and hopefully it's not for the kids. accused of betrayal for failing to form a nonpartisan government to deal with the deep economic crisis. we'll soon. see. lebanon is in desperate need of financial assistance to rebuild what was damaged by the poor. the collapsing economy france and other international powers have refused to provide. are made those who want. to bring about. protest action that is why many were putting their hopes on the international

the president unabashedly saying exactly that, that he protected saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmanved to have orchestrated the shocking murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. the president says this was done because the saudis were providing america with billions of dollars in weapons sales. that sends a very chilling message, wolf. >> woodward also reports that the president reflected on his relationships with various authoritarian leaders around the world including turkish president erdogan, saying he gets along best with the tough, mean leaders. what do american allies in europe and elsewhere make of the president's relationships with these so-called tough, mean leaders? >> it's no secret that the president has a lot of respect for these authoritarian leaders. we know president erdogan has quashed public discourse, arrested political opponents. but still, for leaders here in europe who are facing some of the greatest challenges in recent history, wolf, two liberal democracies seeing this tidal wave of populism spreading across the continent, of course there is v

the decision earlier this year to remove an episode >> it was critical of the crown prince, mohammed bin salmanhat was at the bet of the saudi government saying it violated their laws. can you explain why and if you would make the same decision today, or was that a mistake given your support of the free speech and first andment? >> you know, it was actually a couple years ago, and it was a very difficult decision. we ended up being able to keep the episode up in saudi arabia on youtube, strangely not on netflix, and with that we were able to have all of our other content, like "queer eye" and "sex education requested and "orange is the new black" available in saudi arabia. it is a troubling compromise, not something that we approached easily or lightly, but on balance we think it's a good move. >> reed hastings, appreciate your time. the book is fascinating. thanks so much. >> great pleasure, pope. thank you. >> all right. we'll be right back. with sofi, i was able to condense all of my loans under one account. i was able to lower my monthly payments and feel like i'm well on my way to becoming

only does he not want the power to go away, he wants to be just like putin or kim jong-un or mohammed bin salmanr maduro. he wants to be a dictator. he wants to be an autocrat. i've been saying this forever. final people are repeating this on television again and again. i laid it out at the house oversight committee before the late, great elijah cummings, and i said, rest assured, i do not believe there will be a peaceful transition of power. and what's he doing now? now let's got lou dejoy, they're taking away sorting machines, they're taking away mailboxes. he's got the attorney general on the payroll. the guy sent me back to prison because i wouldn't waive my constitutional right. i could be the first political prisoner in this country. i couldn't understand why members of the democratic caucus and the inspector general aren't opening up an investigation on the attorney general who singlehandedly decided to send me back to prison because i wouldn't sign a document relinquishing my constitutional right. >> you used to be the fixer. you're saying the attorney general is the fixer now. >> oh, 10

. >> or mohammed bin salman, he bragged, i got him out of trouble when he killed an american, had anan american resident journalist. the idea of him being the beta dog to the alpha dog, that goes along with what the fbi agent who helped launch the russian investigation said. and this is mr. strzok who donald trump is obsessed with, one of the people he's obsessed with. he said donald trump lied about his business dealings. and putin knew he lied, trump knew that putin knew. a shared understanding that provided the framework for a coercive relationship. looking back over the investigation that you all did, do you think it -- looking back on it, do you think it should have also included donald trump's potentially compromised positions when it comes to russia? do you think that should have been included looking back? >> that was a decision that made by the acting attorney general rod rosenstein. he gave us an explicit authorization that gave us authority to do certain things and not authority to do others. so we were only allowed to look at three specific types of things that did not in

a lot of the blame has been directed at the kingdom's de facto ruler — crown prince mohamed bin salmans death. i have been in saudi arabia and the last year or two, and there is definitely reform under way, there isa definitely reform under way, there is a different mood in saudi arabia. rights given to women, and even on the level of business, entrepreneurship and business are being encouraged in ways that were not happening before. we are also seeing, as with the uae last week, it has normalised time was —— ties with israel. there is no doubt that mohammad bin salman, the crown prince, combines that reform with a very authoritarian manner. jamal khashoggi was the most savage of these acts and he is denied any involvement, but the figure has been pointed at him by western intelligence agencies, notjust supporters of mr khashoggi, but there were other incidents. women's rights campaigners still in prison to fight the fact those rates have been given. many others on the other side, the very conservative islamic clerics, have been imprisoned, so it has been a huge crackdown on any dissen

the fact is at the moment it doesn't look like there is any serious challenge to mohammed bin salman ring the single market, if a brexit agreement can't be reached before the end of the year. the government says it will only make "minor clarifications in extremely specific areas" and denied that it would "tear up" what has already been agreed. our political correspondent iain watson reports. get brexit done, that was the successful slogan employed by boris johnson at last year's general election. the uk left the eu at the end ofjanuary but getting a trade deal with brussels has been much more challenging. talks resume tomorrow. but the prime minister has been bullish about britain's prospects if no deal is reached. the government has said this is not a threat, it is a reality. the prime minister has been absolutely clear, since he was elected with a very clear mandate to leave, that we would leave at the end of the transition period with or without a further negotiated settlement, but that we would work absolutely night and day to try to get that ca nada—style free trade agreement tha

mohammed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia and other things coming to light as more details come out. >> bill: thanks. we're on stand by mode for that. thank you. team fox coverage continues. jacqui heinrich reports live in womilmington delaware. what's going on with the biden team? >> joe biden has criticized president trump for his mishandling of the virus. he issued warnings himself. biden and other democrats are being reminded that even their messaging in the early days of the pandemic was sometimes muddled. biden held rallies until march when the world health organization declare add pandemic. today they shifted the blame on the president saying they were making decisions without information the president was withholding. >> these are decisions that look differently in hindsight. maybe if the president of the united states wasn't lying about the extent of the crisis, we would have had different information. president trump was holding five megarallies between the conversations that he had with bob woodward and the beginning of march. >> yesterday after a stop in michiga

and not at all surprised by this they say this is the latest in a strategy put in place by mohamed bin salman they're not at all surprised that this is taking place now isoflurane techie is under arrest not not on the tennis courts in the sense that he ever done that by security forces they say he was receiving orders from iraq and ferry out to launch an attack attack me and i so might have attacked her freshly 9 people through there and a bomb attack in istanbul killed 12 people turn to a fixed. well the french the terrible weekly charlie hebdo is to republic controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad it's marking a trial due to start on wednesday of 14 alleged accomplices to an attack on the magazine's headquarters back and 201512 people were killed then including some of france's most celebrated cartoonists the cartoons of the prophet muhammad were 1st printed by the magazine in 2006 and caused anger across the muslim world. britain's m.p.'s are being welcomed back from their summer holidays by climate change protesters the campaign group extinction rebellion wants emergency government

ranging interview with bloomberg news agency just a day after disappearance of crown prince mohammed bin salman said my understanding is he entered and he got out after a few minutes or an hour the crown prince also stated that he was not inside the consulate and he added if he were in saudi arabia i would know that. all of our we kept going to the consulate for the 1st 3 days. we waste it from morning to evening because we thought your mail was inside. your wife then saudi arabia released a statement saying that jamal had left a while after entering. this was during the 1st week. then i stopped going there as i believe that jamal was no longer in the concert and i thought they'd taken him to saudi arabia or somewhere else the other was. the very 1st beginning more the iran has been happen. or when the senate on earth. clearly showed that he has left the course late all the responsibilities belong to the authorities and. you know that. and their social made the. army started to program. because this is a very detailed. plan and action off the intelligence agencies they are trying to save. the o

in istanbul two years ago has cast a shadow over the country's defacto leader, crown prince mohammed bin salmanrian capital — budapest — last year goes on trial today. he faces charges of criminal responsibility for the disaster, which he denies. 28 people died when the viking sigyn passenger ship tried to overtake the smaller vessel during bad weather in high water. the poisoned russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, has been taken out of his medically—induced coma. doctors treating him in berlin say his condition is improving. he was flown to germany after falling ill on a flight in siberia in august. doctors say he was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok. his team believe that was on the orders of russian president vladimir putin. he has denied any involvement. donald trump has demanded a reporter remove his face mask during a press briefing on monday. the journalist from the news agency reuters was trying to ask a question — but the president was having difficulty understanding. you're going to have to take that off, please. you are many feet away. if you don't take it off, you are v

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he sat with mohammed bin salman and pointing to -- like he was pointing to a dessert menu, the various pieces of military equipment that we sold the saudis. troop levels have stayed at basically the same. we have increased our bombing in civilian areas. there is no record here of actual resistance to, you know, to ending endless war as he talks about it. >> i think what you're seeing is the depth of desperation that some people around him and maybe even he, himfself, are reaching. this, i think, was quite a blow to his base as you pointed out in your opening remarks, the military times series of newspapers has shown polling that he's falling or remarkably in terms of favorability, and his disfavorability is rising jump as markedly. i think he's desperate and looking for things. he says, oh, the military industrial complex. ah, i can rail against that, and i'll get some of them back. i'll do this, i'll do that. i'll be against war, and i'll get the rank and file back. well, as you pointed out also in your opening remarks, none of this washes. the military's not stupid. when the military

andrea, bahrain probably wouldn't have done it without saudi permission the saudi leader's son, mohammed bin salman, is much more open to peaceful relations with israel so it's a big moment, it's a big moment for president trump who hasn't had a lot of great foreign policy victories to celebrate on the south lawn like this he's making the most of it i don't know that it makes much of a difference in an election context, jimmy carter still lost in 1980 after camp david but it allows him to say that, you know, he's doing something of importance, and it allows him to, you know, be a global figure at a time when other attention is focused on the coronavirus and issues here at home that are of more damage to him politically. >> and jeffrey goldberg, the other downside of this, potentially, some people even in israel are worried that this is going to open a real arms race, because there is a separate track where the uae has long been trying to get the f-35 stealth bombers and other weapons systems, advanced weapons systems. we've already seen how mike pence got a weapons deal through with saudi arabia la

are not at all surprised by this they say this is the latest in a strategy put in place by mohamed bin salman they're not at all surprised that this is taking place. israel has reopened its only border crossing with gaza after reaching an agreement for him asked to enter weeks of hostilities and on the border the cease fire broke out by cattle well after critical supplies including phil to cross into the besieged entourage of how forth has moved from asterisks. israel it brings an end to the in century balloons and rocket fire that have been coming out from the gaza strip at a time when they don't really want to be focusing on a military confrontation they'd rather be focusing on the normalization deal with the united arab emirates and of course for hamas they are dealing with a major covert outbreak the 1st community level covert outbreak inside the gaza strip since the start of the pandemic trying to do so under the current situation or the previous situation with these very restrictive punitive measures imposed by israel in terms of reducing the fishing area down to 0 not allowing any dies

he wants to be just like putin, just like kim jong-un, just like maduro, just like mohammed bin salmannt to run for president. that's why he says, what about 12 more years? he's not joking. understand donald trump doesn't have a sense of humor. he doesn't laugh, he doesn't tell jokes he doesn't have a sense of humor. he means it when he says it. >> eli, say what you will about michael cohen, but he was on the inside >> he hayes spent years at donald trump's side listening to the phone calls and in the private office of the trump tower. he knows this man very well, better than most i would just also, you know, point out that the president, again, has made some of the they points openly. when he was talking with president xi jinping of china, trump marveled, said, wow, that's a pretty good arrangement you have there throughout his presidency, he's been in the that will of autocrats and respectful of somehow the power this was come to hold and been inveryius envious what he does after this election, especially if he doesn't become the victor, that's a scary thing a couple things to rememb

wants to be president of the country for life, just like putin, just like maduro, just like mohammed bin salman doesn't have a sensitive humsense of humor. he doesn't laugh, he doesn't tell jokes. he means it when he says it. >> masha, how realistic is it for donald trump to follow through on what michael cohen just said in that clip? >> first of all, we don't need michael cohen to tell us this. donald trump tells us this over and over again. and we need to listen to him. when he ran for president, he actually ran for [ inaudible ]. he has been talking about not recognizing the results of the election since he got the elected, right? we know this. we don't need to have arguments about whether or not he's serious. of course he's serious, right? he generally has had a pretty good track record of following through with what he says and meaning what he says. i want to get back to accident that anne said, which is, yes, it is never too late, and we do see amazing democratic protests in a country like belarus, sustainable, beautiful, peaceful. but what we also see is that the people of belarus have b