not here are richard blum and senator feinstein, and others, all whom made substantial financial events. can we give them a round of applause, please, for their leadership on that. [applause] >> the next phase of this, the architect, we have lots of fund raising, as you can imagine. financing makes it all happen, and this was a tricky project to finance. hey, we're this conservatory of 400 students, and we want to build this $90 million building on vanness. think about this. this happened because jim herbert decided it would happen. jim, on behalf of myself, thank you to you and all of your team. it's 3.9 prs fixed over 30 years because jim thought it was important to put up this building. jim and cecelia, i just want to thank you for that. it was incredible. early folks who were in, carol and lyman casey. carol's family has been supporting the art ms. this city in so many ways with affection and tremendous investment. carol was one of the first people who walked in my office and we were talking about this, and she said this needs to happen, and she continued the investment and continue

for example, senator richard blum tall claiming this -- blumenthal claiming this is an attempt to by time. and lindsey graham, a top republican ally of the president's, said, "i am skeptical of the new saudi narrative of what happened to mr. khashoggi is an understatement. mr. trump is likely to come under increasing pressure from capitol hill to impose the severe punishments he a week ago threatened to slap on saudi arabia if it turns out that khashoggi was, in fact, murdered. leyla and victor. >> sarah westwood, a lot of back and forth. thank you very much. >>> let's talk with cnn contributor walter schwab and cnn political analyst, congressional reporter for the "washington post." good to have you back. walter, let me start here with the tweet from karen tia, she is -- was jamal khashoggi's editor there at the "washington post." she tweeted out after the saudis leased their statement -- released their statement, khashoggi was a 60-year-old man. what sort of equal fight would he have had against 15 other men, and who brings a bone saw to a discussion? the stupid of the saudi explan