but the claim not to and again but by his by his people that mr kushner he has been rather then this is elevated to the international level i mean this is not something that is just going to be between turkey and saudi arabia this as you also heard from mr kay this is going to be taken up at the. u.n. and other other international bodies and he's going to make relationships were sort of use the and. but the sides are going to be the ones who are going to lose procedure wise a great deal here but again we don't know maybe question really what we don't know where he is. there's no question that this is a very bizarre situation when really you know. we are maybe being played by somebody we don't know that somebody is. but we all we have to set the stage is that we have to be patient and find out what really what's really happened always happening professor really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us. professor henri barkey that professor of international relations at lehigh university. from out zero still to come on the program results come again in. presidential ele

think of the soul the journalist and al spoken critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon mr kushner we entered the consulate almost two weeks ago and he has not been seen since this. morning i want to bring in our correspondent julia hawn she's on the story for us tonight in istanbul good needs you julie i mean turkish investigators they entered the saudi consulate and we weren't sure when we saw people going in and if it were if they were indeed turkish investigators we know now that that's been confirmed that they were one of these investigators border they looking for. well brian and this is really the day turkish investigators have been waiting for they have been waiting for the saudis to finally give them permission to enter and search the saudi consulate here in istanbul which is technically saudi territory according to international law so the condition was that this is going to be a joint saudi turkish investigation two teams have been a riving here we know the turkish team reportedly includes a forensics expert we still don't know much about the scope of this investigation

mr. kushner or his company broke the law. so put that together. is that possible? >> why don't i talk about what the documents show. >> okay. >> basically the most interesting takeaway that we reported on today is that for probably five out of the last eight years and possibly the entire period of time jared kushner appears to have paid little to no federal income taxes. in five of those years it's likely he paid no federal income taxes at all. what is driving that is the tax code has enormous benefits for real estate investors, primarily depreciation allowing them to take big deductions corresponding to what they pay for the properties they buy. there is nothing illegal about that, there's enormous flexibility for them to determine their own tax bills, but one of the interesting things in the tax legislation signed by the president last year, several of those benefits for real estate developers were made significantly more generous. this has for both other industries and other individuals were pared back. the precise benefit having jared kushner, that provision wa

a little bit about this last week when we were talking about saudi arabia but where are we with mr kushner disappearance well of course. it was a saudi journalist who was very supportive of the monarchy and then when the prince started rounding people up and putting them under house arrest without due process about a year ago including his cousins and businessmen and intellectuals you name it he started writing negative things about the kingdom he left the country on self-imposed exile and about a couple of weeks ago end of september he went to the saudi embassy in istanbul turkey because he wanted to marry a turkish girl so he wanted to get the proper papers they told him reportedly come back next week and that gave him the day which was last tuesday so he went back and his fiance and best friend said he went and he never came out there are a lot of people now saying this was premeditated the saudis sent a team there to take care of him to kill him they deny that the turkish authorities are saying he's dead and so we're just awaiting word on where we are but it looks like the worst has ha

mr. kushner according to the documents but the losses were only on paper. mr. ner and his company did not appear to actually lose any money. explain how that can be. >> it is confusing, i know. and the thing to clarify up front, that this is legal. the scandal and the tax code is often not what is illegal, but what is legal under the tax code. so basically, there are a lot of tax breaks that are available, not only to rich people, but specifically to wealthy real estate investors. and one of these tax breaks has to do with something called depreciation. basically, it means that the tax code assumes that you get, you have some costs, because the building you own has wear and tear over the years, and that is a cost to you, and you can use those costs to offset your actual income. so in the case of kushner, he is saying i own these enormous properties, but you know, maybe the value is going up maybe i could sell them for a little bit more money, but hey, there is wear and tear on the building, therefore, irs, that is a cost to me, i should be able to use that to of

happened to the poor probably he was already briefed about what's happening in stumble and who's mr kushner his daughters and you know american citizen he is writing down for washington post hundreds of articles are being published in ten days they waited when they waited for what and that's why there's a question mark about it but because of the you know very huge reaction against what's happening here about the diplomatic tradition about the turkey's sovereignity and that's why it won't be easy to cover it and you're shaking your head best you're shaking your head no joins what do you think of what i understand . oh no. the gentleman from makes a very interesting argument though i would disagree with him while saying that you want to look at this interim situation in the within the matter of the last few days or years of the trump administration it's important very important to look at the genesis of the relationship as a pertains to this particular situation and if you look at the u.s. side a relationship or a larger all the other large relationship in the middle east. there is easy to d

life of mr kushner so it is really hard for receiving state a territorial state to keep a balance here well initially this sad eurabia after the second of october they they they stated that they're going to give their consent for the turkish authorities to make a full fledged investigation what to cover up what was happened in side the consulate premises but then they try to delay the investigation and the after for two weeks. it's only now that the turkish authorities has been available and able to make a full fledged investigation inside the premises and unlike the diplomatic immunity as the immunity of the consular stop is functional not an absolute immunity therefore the turkish authorities if they find enough evidence that the. mr karslake just has been abducted been executed by consular staff within the consular premises then the case might be open against the consular stuff and under the article forty one of the vienna convention of the consular relations sixty three this saw the consulate staff are to appear before the court either as vividness or as accused and then they have

mr kushner, who has close ties with the saudi crown prince, mohammad bin salman, says he told the princeassing judgement on the killing, saying only that the white house is still in fact finding mode. turkey has been drip feeding information. president erdogan has said he will reveal the full details tomorrow. the media are pointing the blame at crown prince mohammed bin salman. the bbc‘s james landale has this report. these are the last pictures ofjamal khashoggi and his fiancee just hours before he was murdered. arriving at his flat in istanbul, shortly before his ill—fated visit to the saudi consulate almost three weeks ago. today, the investigation into the journalist's death continued, turkish police finding a car belonging to the saudi consulate abandoned in an underground car park. all eyes now are on president erdogan of turkey. he's promised to reveal the naked truth about the murder tomorrow. today, his spokesman said it was no accident. translation: we are faced with a situation in which a murder has been brutally planned, and a lot of effort has been made to cover it up. when

life of the mr kushner so it is really hard for receiving state a territorial state to keep a balance here well initially this sad eurabia after the second of october they they they stated that they were going to give their consent for the turkish authorities to make a full fledged investigation what to cover up what was happened in side the consulate premises but then they try to delay the investigation and the after for two weeks. it's only now that the turkish authorities has been available and able to make a full fledged investigation inside the premises and unlike the diplomatic immunity is the immunity of the consular stop is functional not an absolute immunity therefore the turkish authorities if they find enough evidence that the. mr karslake just has been abducted been executed by consular staff within the consular premises then the case might be open against the consular stuff and under the article forty one of the vienna convention of the consular relations sixty three this saw the consulate staff are obliged to appear before the court either as vividness or as accused and

other has been committed is implemented with how i mean simple to find out about what happened to mr kushner. it is important that he's a journalist more importantly he's a human we have to solve this issue. also coming up tonight she was a journalist investigating corruption and money laundering in her home country of malta one year after her murder we still don't know the whole story. today it is has been one year since. the most of these journalists will come for the last time before being assassinated just for doing their job. or we begin the day with turkey saying it has evidence that these all the journalists all shoki was murdered inside the salty consulate in istanbul overnight turkish investigators searched the consulate tomorrow they will reportedly search the consul's residence now that's all the consul left turkey today fueling speculation that he fled the country now the journalist. and outspoken critic of the saudi crown prince he hasn't been seen since he entered the consulate two weeks ago now these developments come as u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o held emergency tal

was seen entering the consulate to search for clues just out words later that first report that mr kushner perhaps did indeed die inside the consulate. and of course that is a new development in this story tonight we want to go now to our correspondent you leon she's in istanbul on this story let's pick up we don't know we need more about the report from c.n.n. yulia about saudi arabia possibly preparing to admit that this was an interrogation that went wrong that became deadly for this journalist but let's talk about the consulate inside what are these investigators we assume they're still in the investigating what are they looking for. well brian this is of course a day turkish investigators have been waiting for they have been waiting for the saudis to finally give them for a mission to enter and search the saudi consulate the consul's a residence and to also ask some questions to employees and staff so this is the day this happened the turkish investigators a went inside the condition was that this is a joint turkish saudi probe and we've just heard from one person familiar with the in

well from what i've been reading truly international media mr kushner first went to the saudi embassy in washington d.c. where he lives to get the paperwork so that he could get married then he was told he couldn't then he applied to the saudi embassy in london and he couldn't and he was always sent directed to the saw the consulate in istanbul so there was an attempt to push him towards just them. we don't know what the images were everyone knows that is that is a great hope for different saw the opposition groups they like to stay in istanbul that i like to live in istanbul so they were probably given that message as well that's why turkey is source sensitive because we have been. place of safe haven for centuries for different nationalities religious groups and when something of that sort happens at our land at our country where very much worry even if it's a diplomatic territory is not an embassy so the when it's all mention rules do not apply fully but partially and we need to find out what we had to have the saudi permission to go in and look for evidence look for. clues to give

happened to the poor probably he was already briefed about what's happening in stumble and who's mr kushner his daughters and you know american citizen he is writing down for washington post hundreds of articles are being published and ten days they waited when they waited for what's and that's why there's a question mark about it but because of the you know very huge reaction against what's happening here about the deployment of tradition about the turkeys sovereignity and that's why it won't be easy to cover it and john jones you're shaking your head best you're shaking your head no joins what do you think of what i understand. oh no. the gentleman from makes a very interesting argument though i would disagree with him while saying that you want to look at this interview this situation in the within the matter of the last few days the years of the trump administration it's important very important to look at the genesis of the relationship as a pertains to this particular situation and if you look at the u.s. side to relationship or larger the other large relationship in the middle east.

disappearance after a group of saudi officials apparently flew into istanbul on the very day that mr kushner went missing and that was last tuesday the reuters news agency is now reporting that a source at the saudi arabian consulate has denied reports that because she was killed at the consulate general has more from istanbul. turkish security officials are now dealing with the case of. a murder investigation late on saturday they had said that they had information that fifteen saudi nationals amongst them officials had flown in on tuesday on two separate flights had gone to the consulate the same time that's cultural she was there and then they had left so now there has been no disclosure of the whereabouts of his body however we do understand that a funeral will take place in the coming two or three days or whether that's going to be a funeral with. buddy presence or whether it will be a symbolic one we'll wait and see on sunday president one is expected to address this topic for the first time and we are expecting as one source told me a very strong quote unquote response from turkey wit

provide more substantial answers to the international community on what happened to mr kushner e.g. who were the perpetrators who gave these orders and why was this done is gone mr daunt does not seem to be taking on. light answers from this saudi. kingdom at the moment so these are i think this is this is. i don't know him and demanding answers that will satisfy the international community not just to ease. government or turkish investigators but this is now an international incident that saudi arabia needs to answer to international communities and our don is pushing forward for that not just as simply as a as a an investigation on a on a murder but as you know he always mentions and says that this is. an issue of manatee that needs to be. basically a poem from the change in tone from the president one thing we did learn one piece new piece of information is that saudi arabia's public prosecutor is to travel to istanbul to meet to his counterpart on sunday a correspondent was telling us a few moments ago about this joint investigation and how the turkish side a frustrated by the la

life of mr kushner so it's really hard for receiving state a territorial state to keep a balance here well initially had this sad eurabia after the second noble told were they stated that they're going to give their consent for the turkish authorities to make a full fledged investigation.

type of venture. >> i'm jared kushner, publisher of the "new york observer." >> at the time the "observer" was a very important part of the new york media landscape. >> i mrter has built a newspaper that has incredible reputation. >> the purchase price was $10 million. and when kushner bought the paper, it had major financial problems as well. >> it really needed an injection of money. it wasn't going to be able to keep going as it was. >> kyle pope was named the new editor in 2009 as kushner pushed to make the "observer" profitable. >> i thought that like buying a building, it was an incredible building that hadn't been properly run like a business. >> he's like i'm going to be the person that unlocks the secret of how news can become profitable. it became clear to me that he didn't have a lot of time for journalists or what they do. or how they do it. >> according to pope, kushner had his own ideas about how to use the storied newspaper. the two clashed over a story kushner asked pope to look into. >> jared came to me during one of our weekly meetings and said we need to do a hit job on this banker. he kept asking me about it, i said look, jared, we're

disappearance and a turkish newspaper has named fifteen men allegedly involved in the disappearance of mr kushner according to turkish state owned sabar news one of the individuals as a top forensic expert with the saudi government information was trying to open source internet tools by several online researchers the u.s. vice president mike pence says washington is ready to health in finding out what has happened to the missing journalist in an interview with a u.s. radio station which depends said the free world is demanding answers some other stories for you this hour police in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a bulgarian journalist thirty year old a tory a marine over was raped and killed in the northern bulger in turn of rosie she'd be investigating alleged fraud with e.u. funds involving businessmen and politicians a body was found in a park it showed signs of suffocation and blows to the head. the leader of bangladesh's main opposition party has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime mini

type of venture. >> i'm jared kushner, publisher of the "new york observer." >> at the time the "observer" was a very important part of the new york media landscape. >> i mr built a newspaper that has incredible reputation. >> the purchase price was $10 million. and when kushner bought the paper, it had major financial problems as well. >> it really needed an injection of money. it wasn't going to be able to keep going as it was. >> kyle pope was named the new editor in 2009 as kushner pushed to make the "observer" profitable. >> i thought that like buying a building, it was an incredible building that hadn't been properly run like a business. >> he's like i'm going to be the person that unlocks the secret of how news can become profitable. it became clear to me that he didn't have a lot of time for journalists or what they do. or how they do it. >> according to pope, kushner had his own ideas about how to use the storied newspaper. the two clashed over a story kushner asked pope to look into. >> jared came to me during one of our weekly meetings and said we need to do a hit job on this banker. he kept asking me about it, i said look, jared, we're never g

mr. kushner paid all taxes. help us understand what kind of picture this paints. >> we got a mixed picture here. it is a major loophole and it gets him to real estate. >> one that's gotten wider here. >> what really and i think is problematic is the fact that this administration a year ago puts in a new tax bill that's going to get rid of all these loopholes. one that's left behind is the one that jared kushner had been jumping for year after year to take this deduction. you got to ask yourself was there a real conflict of interest to you and the white house keeping that loophole in the new tax bill? >> just to give you a little bit history here, this is exactly what richard nixon tried to do when congress in 1969 passed the tax reform act. he tried to keep the provision that would allow him to continue to take deductions on gifts of papers to the united states. it would not surprise me if we find president trump and jared kushner lobbied and trying to keep that provision in the tax bill. >> have we seen that? i

mr. kushner, his conspirators. >> that witness was family, charlie's brother-in-law. he sent it to his sister, and she turned it over to authorities. >> so not only was charlie kushner facing possible finance crimes, he was now engaged in possible witness tampering. >> kushner eventually pleaded guilty in 2004 to 18 counts of filing false tax returns and campaign financial reports as well as retaliating against a witness. charlie kushner spent a year in federal prison in alabama leaving jared as the new head of the family business. he was 24 years old at the time, a graduate student in a joint business and law program at nyu. >> he's suddenly the ceo of a gigantic sprawling company. >> you had to feel bad for the kid because here he is being thrust into the limelight. the family is in all the gossip pages, the tabloid, front pages. >> despite the embarrassment and tawdry drama jared stood by his father. >> he basically said while his actions while wrong were justified because his uncle violated the oath to the family. >> while charlie was in jail in alabama jared flew

president donald trump has also been voicing concern about mr kushner who's been living in the united states trump urging the saudis to support a thorough investigation and the un's human rights office is adding its voice to the chorus of concern. arrest has been made over the murder of a bulgarian reporter who was investigating allegations of fraud with e.u. money police say thirty year old victoria martin over was raped and murdered in the northern town of rue say a body showed signs of blows to the head and suffocation the second suspect in the poisoning of the russian double agents in the u.k. has been identified by an investigative website belling katz says the russian military doctor alexander miskin travel to souls pray using a different name the u.k. accuses russia or of being involved in the case but russia has dismissed those accusations brazil's far right candidate is promising to overhaul latin america's biggest nation after leading in the first round of the presidential election joya. to combat corruption and privatized state companies if he wins the top job in round numb

mr. kushner has argued that the crown prince can survive the outrage just as he has weathered past criticism. nbc news reporting tonight u.s. intelligence agencies investigating the killing of jamal khashoggi believe it's inconceivable that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman had no connection to his death. earlier this week "the new york times" published images that show one of the alleged members of the 15-man team that is suspected of murdering jamal khashoggi also frequently traveled with the saudi crown prince. today a turkish newspaper released new surveillance evidence that showed the same man entering the saudi consulate hours before khashoggi disappeared. the images also show him at the saudi consul general's home later that day and then leaving an istanbul hotel and then at the airport to leave turkey that night. in an interview with "the new york times" today donald trump gave up the game of pretending that he was still waiting to find out what happened to jamal khashoggi. he told "the times" this one has caught the imagination of the world, unfortunately, it's not a positive -

mr. kushner properly filed and paid all taxes due under the law and regulations.ng the law was followed here. but average americans may look at this and say that's not quite fair, that law that allows someone making millions, if not billions, to not pay incomes. >> absolutely. if you're a homeowner, more than half of the homeowners in this country do not get to deduct mortgage interest or their property taxes, but if you buy a building with no money down, commercial building and you can do that if you're a well establish established person of real estate. you get to write off the entire building to offset your other income. if your deduction for the year is $25 million and your income is $20 million, you pay no income tax and you get $5 million to use in the future. that's what the times shows that jared kushner did from the documents he had. and there's no reason for this, by the way. we don't have a shortage of real estate in this country. imagine if we applied these rules to manufacturing. maybe we would have a more robust manufacturing industry. >> a new giant

mr. kushner's eyebrows about just what is actually going on in the kingdom, i think when you look at a key moment like this there are a lot of people who would still argue that a bit of that naivete is at play or at least that they have not sort of translated that more complex view of the kingdom into tangible action that a number of people including republican members of congress and the president's own allies like senator lindsey graham would like to see. >> we're going to talk about those republican members of congress later on in our broadcast. tremendous thanks to our big three for starting us off tonight. ashley parker, to jeremy bash and josh lederman. appreciate it, thanks. coming up, rod rosenstein speaking out in this rare interview with the "wall street journal." what he's saying about the mueller investigation and job security. and later, the president says when it comes to college-educated women he'll have their vote. he says he offers them what no democrat can. "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on a wednesday night. deunr way on a wednesday night s skyrocket after a s

mr. kushner sincerely believes them is fine. open question.l congress, and when they get a real trump priority from the trump white house, like tax cuts or judicial appointments or supreme court nominations, they get votes. so it's telling that here, this is the result. now, those are kushner's own stated priorities. we also want to note while he spoke for 43 minutes, he didn't address his own efforts or conduct in the trump tower meeting under investigation or advising on the firing of james comey or his misstatements regarding his security clearance. this list, as you may know if you watch the news, goes on and on and on. so in kushner's own priorities on prison reform and middle east peace, no measurable result. on a bunch of other issues, no chance to discuss and address the public. so here we are looking at this rare set of updates, if you want to call it that from jared kushner. we have to ask, how do you measure that kind of record for management? well, there is a way to do it. we turn back to jared kushner, who offered this tip today.

mr. kushner, they don't allege any criminal wrongdoing. wrongdoing, worth $300 million, doesn't contribute to our defense or education of our kids. democrats, we need to stay on health care, jobs, exactly where stacey abrams was talking to jake a minute ago and in 25 days do the pivot. >> democrats, it seems likely right now, to win the polls in the house. the math is really tough for them in the senate races. i want to take a look at this graphic. really bad midterms. down nine points to ted cruz, o'rourke in texas. and rosen down two points to heller and bredesen down five points to blackburn. >> it's a dead heat race and democrats will have to do their work. that's -- >> why is it so close? why is heller in the lead? >> we're a very narrow divided country and it is a very narrow divided state. they are trending blue. particularly democrats have to focus on latinos in nevada. so fortunately they do have democrats finally for once in their life the resources, money and the people. she's going to have to do her job and get those folks out.

mr. kushner? what's that relationship like? >> so, jared kushner, from the beginning, focused his relations -- focused his energies on cultivating mbs. and i think that that was partly that he recognized that mbs was potentially a rising star there. you know, there is some argument for using those kind of relationships. unfortunately, he did this without really seeming to understand the region and without going through proper channels. the state department was left in the cold. >>> one of the most disturbing elements of this, there has been reporting in british newspapers that the crown prince bragged in saudi arabia this spring, that he had received a list from jared kushner of his enemies, and that he had been able to use this list, presumably a list compiled by american intelligence. and if such a list was handed over, that would be, of course, utterly improper. but i also have to wonder whether jamal khashoggi's name might have been on that list, and whether that might have contributed to what i fear has happened to somebod

mr. kushner and for the record, we've reached out to the white house for an interview and press secretarye'll let me know if the opportunity presents itself. >> i'm sure she will. of course, the secret service agent, errol barnett, said not the time or place so i think he did understand who you were. thank you so much for being with us tonight. >>> "outfront" next, money and lies, new details tonight from an extensive eight-month investigation into the trump organization. i'll talk to one of the reporters about what her team uncovered. >>> plus, michael cohen now threatening to take on president trump on the campaign trail. stay with us. flood, and rain event.to primarily be a wind, ♪ how many people are in the car? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> new tonight, a stunning eight-month investigation revealing that president trump and his family regularly misled and deceived potential investors and buyers to make a profit off their real estate projects. just look at some of the examples. from 2008, ivanka trump told reporters that 60% of the units at its tower in soho, new york, have been s

mr. kushner has cultivated saudi arabia's crown prince, elevating the prince into a key ally in the arabnd the white house's primary interlocutor in the kingdom. >> i met with muhammad bin salman when i was at the state department in midnight in riyadh. they meet very late. >> that isn't like a late meeting. >> it went until about 3:00 a.m. and this kind of co-existence between the two of them, they recognize something in each other. they're both princelings. they understand hour tw the son-in-law also rises. he's colossally ambitious. he did things we applaud. when i was in the meeting he said i'm going to let women drive and reopen movie theeater. that's great. he also kidnapped all the saudi princes without due process and extracted wealth from them. he is this combination of things. one of the things that's great about traditional american diplomacy is we can go, young man, you have great power. you have great ambitions but you have to have tolerance. you have to be more progressive and do these things. that doesn't happen in this administration because jared kushner has formed this

mr. kushner, and the saudi crown prince. that is not the critical relationship.t's the state to state relationship. let me just point out something, chris, that i think your viewers might want to know. muhammad bin salman is the third crown prince in saudi arabia in the last four years. >> right. >> this is not a hereditary position in the sense of direct lineage from the king. it is now, but that's only because of a vote by the royal family. it might be that the only way to stabilize the saudi/american relationship is to distance ourselves from the america, mohammed bin salman relationship. >> that's complicated to see how quickly and how much work they've done reportedly with mbs -- >> chris, but that's -- might be the unforced error that rather than relying on the institutions -- remember, we don't even have an ambassador in saudi arabia. >> fair point. >> rather than relying on the institutions, we've relied on a personal relationship, which, frankly, the president has done on three key foreign policy issues. russia, north korea, and saudi arabia. >> and he h

mr. kushner did, if it was legal and before he was a white house official, that can be fine for mueller.aign discussion for democrats. if they want to look into what trump and his family -- >> what if they -- >> that's different. >> what if they frame it in the way that donald trump rewrote the tax law, passed the tax law and there's some major loopholes that are exaggerated in that tax law to help real estate investors. >> well, exactly. if he and his family have used the white house in order to further financial gain for themselves while in the white house that's legitimate. >> i think it's entirely appropriate for democrats to be subpoenaing his tax records and establish that you cannot sit in the white house without releasing your tax records to the public. that's what -- >> why haven't republicans done that? >> they don't want to see what's in them. based on what we've scene from "the new york times" story we kind of know what's in them and he made up this audit story and wasn't being truthful and republicans will benefit from establishing the precedent that you cannot occupy that d

mr. kushner, president trump's son-in-law and white house adviser, appears to have paid almost no federalthis something that will hurt president trump or has this factored in or have no impact at all? >> he's not on the ballot so we're three weeks before an election, democrats are running their campaigns and on health care and stacey abrams didn't talk about trump's taxes. she's not running against donald trump. when they do, they'll go to trump voters who had been obama voters and win them back with this argument that he lied to you. he cut taxes on wall street and raised taxes on you. he cut taxes for himself and raised it on you. he wants to take away your medicare. that argument i think will allow people to go back into the economy and talk about it. >> you keep seeing these bombshell stories and no one can craft a narrative to critique trump. you pressed a very good case but i don't see democrats doing that but why wait? >> we need to wait because we want to win the midterm election and we won't let people push us into a 2020 conversation. >> but the other side real quickly, the reas

people and you know of any form of dissent at the law meant is simply not being tolerated and as mr kushner it was highlighting is intended not just dissent just speaking independently there is an attempt to crash. to sixty four to prevent to silence any form of independence of mind in the country agnes come out there in new york thank you so much for your time and thanks for joining us here on the news hour ok from new york let's go to washington and talk to our correspondent kimberly helka kimberly to get the sense there that the state department and the trumpet ministration is kind of playing catch up with this. certainly the president was when we saw those the nischelle comments from him on monday but it seems to be on top of the story now particularly not just the state department also on capitol hill of course just expanding on some of the comments from the state department that we've been talking about throughout this program really notable thing in that statement coming from the secretary of state mike pompei o is the fact that the united states is not only calling for a thorough in

mr. kushner, based on conversations with white house officials, more of a side player here. partly because he seems a little bit hot, a little bit hot because of his relationship with mohammed bin salman. >> i know, he may be covering up for this or leading the cover-up. isn't the son-in-law, jared, the one who's supposed to put this grand treaty together, something like the old green line with some changes, but doesn't protect the arab rights in j jerusal jerusalem? aren't they looking for the saudis to underwrite that deal? wasn't that the plan led by the crown prince? >> that was the plan, but actions speak louder than any kind of plan. who went to saudi arabia? who's gone to turkey? the secretary of state. not jared kushner. >> okay. why didn't the secretary of state ask to hear the recordings that the turkish government and its official newspapers have been putting out with all the hard, i mean, really horrifying details about the torture and dismemberment of khashoggi? why didn't he ask if he could listen to that tape while he was there? >> that's why the midterms matt

jared kushner decisions. mr. christie: supposedly. i don't know. it was the president's decisions ultimately, so i mean i don't , want to let the president off the hook. you are the person in charge, you ultimately make the decisions, but i also know as the chief executive of a really big state, you rely heavily on the advice of those around you because there are so many decisions to make, but you cannot possibly dig into the detail of every decision. that's just a fact. there are times when decisions have to be made, and the job of the governor or the president is to decide, ok, which one of these do i really have to dig in justnd which ones can i take the advice what i am getting and execute on because i trust these people? so i think the president has the responsibility for it, but there's no question that the trump campaign reveled in the idea that they had no experience. they wore it as a badge of honor. and politically that was smart because people were sick and tired of washington, dc. i could say my wife and i for instance, we were campaign

possible murder of mr khashoggi in turkey is a looming diplomatic crisis, especially for mr trump's son—in—law, jared kushnercrown prince, mohammad bin salman. 0n the front of the guardian, there are plans to turn a uk motorway in kent into a lorry park to deal with the possible impact of a no—deal brexit. transport companies are warning of the potential for chaos after brexit without a deal, to preserve frictionless trade with the eu. and finally, here is a picture of the happy couple on the front of the telegraph. the queen's grand—daughter princess eugenie is due to marry jack brooksbank later today at st george's chapel in windsor. so let's begin. with me is alpesh patel, who is ceo at praefinium partners. good news story, we don't get many of those offered. well, a tale of two halves, financial recovery in asian trade of the stock markets in the last

kushner may have with u.s. intelligence delivered a hit list an enemies list to saudi arabia and the prince may have acted on that and one of the people he took action against is mr. khashoggi. >> laura: so jared kushner ordered a hit? >> that particular comment is insane. the fact is khashoggi is a public figure. everybody in saudi arabia knew who he was. the idea that an american had to call and say, you may not have noticed this guy, you have to wonder sometimes are these people living in a fantasy world in no connection with reality? >> laura: we're going to dip into president trump's rally in mesa. >> not too good, they're lousy politicians with horrible policy. they do one thing well. they stick together. they really do. they stick together better than the republicans. the one thing they do and they stick day -- they don't want us to have the victory over a wall even though we have more money for the military. but they don't want us to have the wall. they will fight to the death because they don't want us to have the wall but we started the wall anyway and we're going to get that done. we're going to get it done. and now it's at a point -- it's really at a

mr. trump and son-in-law jared kushner, who saw him and the kingdom as a consumer of u.s. weaponry and a strategic counterweight to iran in the region. eespite the mounting evidence, the president said he is not yet ready to blame the saudi royal family for khashoggi's disappearance. >> it depends whether or not the eing or the crown prince knew about it in my opinion. mbmber one, what happened. but whether or not they knew about it. if they knew about it, that would be bad. >> reporter: the trump raministration is facing increasing pressure from congress to respond dggressively. trump ally and south carolina republican lindsey graham said he is finished working with the crown prince. r> this guy is a wrecking ball. he had this guy murdered in a consulate in turkey and to expect me to ignore it, i feel thed and abused. >> glor: so, major, a couple interesting points from the posociated press interview we mentioned. the president said he's not responsible if the republicans lose the house in november. he also made this guilty until proven innocent comment. talk a little bit

mr. trump and son-in-law jared kushner who saw him and the kingdom as a consumer of u.s.weaponry and a strategic counter weight to iran in the region. despite the mounting evidence, the president said he is not yet ready to blame the saudi royal family for khashoggi's disappearance. >> it depends whether or not the king or the crown prince knew about it, in my opinion. number one, what happened, but whether or not they knew about it. if they knew about it, that would be bad. >> reporter: the trump administration is facing increasing pressure from congress to respond aggressively. trump ally and south carolina republican lindsey graham said he is finished working with the crown prince. >> this guy is a wrecking ball. he had this guy murdered in a consulate in turkey. and to expect me to ignore it, i feel used and abused. >> evacuation s have been ordered in texas where torrential rains have touched off flash floods that have washed out roads and zi s.afg r was only matched by the rush of flood waters. boats and trees raced downstream more than 10 feet of the overflowing la