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our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the latest from istanbul. richard? >> reporter: did jamal khashoggi solve his own murder? saudi arabia has denied killing the journalist. but it's yet to provide any evidence that he left the saudi consulate here in istanbul alive. turkey says it has graphic recordings that prove 15 saudi agents murdered journalist jamal khashoggi inside t saudi consulate in istanbul. recordings president trump addressed the first time today. >> we've all heard a lot about the audio yet, no one's seen it yet. we'll be seeing it soon. >> reporter: president trump made it clear what he doesn't want to happen, regardless of what the tapes may show. losing a multibillion dollar saudi arms deal. >> i think we'd be punishing ourselves if we did that. there are other things we can do that are very powerful, very strong. and we'll do it. >> reporter: turkish officials insist the recordings are specific and damning. and they're convinced the saudi hit team flew into istanbul, abused, killed and dismembered khashoggi, then headed back to the air

richard engel, what's the latest?er: you can see there's a great deal of interest in this story. reporters are surrounding the building. for the last 24 hours, saudi diplomats and staff have been coming and going. they out, they don't taunt to recorderet between ter yes and sau saudi. turkey, which has been suffering from serious economic hardships in the last month or so wants this problem to go away. it doesn't seem to be going away. in terms of khashoggi's state of mind when he went into the consulate, that's very interesting that the fiancee said she was not nervous. that's not what she was saying a few days ago. a few days ago she said khashoggi told her to stay outside and aall right authorities should he not come out. she waited many hours outside. the fact she's softening her story now could suggest that turkey -- because she's been in contact with turkish authorities, that they're trying to find a way out, smoothing over some of the feathers that have been ruffled recently. there's also another new twist in t

our chief foreign expert richard engel is in istanbul with breaking details. richard, what can you tell us? >> reporter: lester, this is what we had been waiting for, this is what the u.s. has been demanding. an explanation from the saudi government. jamal khashoggi over two weeks ago went into the consulate in this city, istanbul, and never emerged. turkish officials say once inside, he was killed, tortured and dismembered. now saudi arabia has finally put forth its own version of events. according to saudi television quoting a state prosecutor, they say that khashoggi went into the consulate, and a fight broke out, a fistfight as it was described that resulted in his death. that 18 people, all saudi nationals have been arrested and that this deputy intelligence director has been fired. that's all they said, and they said, god bless his soul. >> richard, some might think this explanation too convenient. will it fly? >> reporter: very few people around the world are going to believe this. it doesn't explain why the turks say there were 15 assassins waiting for

>> richard engel tonight, thank you. >>> former movie mogul harvey weinstein appeared today in court where a judge through out one of the six sex assault charges against him. this after prosecutors revealed that a witness contradicts one accuser's account of her alleged attack. weinstein's attorney says he will also seek to dismiss the remaining charges. weinstein has denied any wrongdoing. weinstein, of course, is one of the highest profile men caught up in the me too movement and today we heard different messages about just that from the current and former first ladies melania trump and michelle obama, and mrs. trump also revealing why she's taking on cyber bullying. here is nbc's kate snow. >> reporter: in the midst of her ry tour of africa last week melania trump was asked about the me too movement. >> i support the women, and they need to be heard. >> reporter: but men need support, too, she added. an accusers should have hard evidence. >> we need to show the evidence. you cannot just say to somebody i was, you know, sexual assaulted or you did that to me because sometimes the m

>> richard engel tonight, thanks. >>> tonight, investigators say they found another apparent mail bombin directed to cnn, and officials are scrambling to warn dozens of people on the accused serial bomber's list of potential targets. the suspect, cesar sayoc, choosing to remain silent. investigators still don't know how many package bombs may be out there. here's nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: package bomb number 15 discovered today in an atlanta post office. in an image shared by cnn, it's similar to the 14 other devices the fbi says. in miami federal court today, 56-year-old suspect caesar sayoc was surrounded by his three defense attorneys. he charges, including mailing explosives, but his defense tea him was preliminary, and the other evidence just possible dna association. >> nothing else in that complaint ties mr. sayoc to anything else in these allegations. >> reporter: federal law enforcement officials tell nbc news they've uncovered a list of more than 100 people researched by sayoc. each person on that list now being contacted by the fbi. lester? >> all right, kerry sander

richard engel, nbc news. >>> much more ahead as we continue from houston. dozens of children stricken with paralysis from a mysterious illness. we'll tell you how to protect your child. plus, a dire warning today. scientists say we're running out of time to avoid a planet catastrophe. >>> and one of the best parts about our trip here to houston, the food. visit the birthplace of a true tex-mex original. be right back. >>> next tonight, a child health warning every parent needs to hear. 16 states have reported cases of a mysterious illness that can cause partial paralysis in children. nbc's kristen dahlgren now on what families can do to prevent it. >> reporter: within a week, quinton hill went from being an active 7-year-old to a hospital bed, diagnosed with a rare poliolike illness that least fivether kids in minnesota now also have. >> doctors are telling you this is something that we don't know about, there's no known cure. that's when the bottom really seemed to drop out. >> reporter: it's called acute flaccid miloitis, doctors believe caused by viruses

our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has details. >> reporter: saudi arabia denies it ordered journalist jamal khashoggi to be killed, officials say a fight broke out and he ended up dead but tonight reports an advisor to the saudi crown prince was on skype with the killers giving orders. the advisor was fired last week. turkey says saudi arabia brutally murdered khashoggi and then bungled the cover-up, including the unconvincing use of a body double. turkish officials leaked security footage of this man walking around istanbul after khashoggi was dead dressed in his clothing and glasses and tonight a pro rn here aired thing there is saudi officials burning documents at their consulate after khashoggi's murder. armaturish killers left a clear trail of evidence. they arrive at this underground parking lot an abandoned vehicle with saudi diplomatic plates. turkey has been revealing damning information about the old regional rivals saudi arabia day by day but the white house says it still needs more time to examine the facts and today, treasury security steven munchin met with th

richard engel is in turkey for us tonight. what is the latest? >> reporter: late tonight president trump is demanding answers and said he'll call the king of saudi arabia as evidence is growing that this consulate was the scene of a gruesome murder. turkish officials say when journalist jamal khashoggi walked into the saudi consulate here he was walking right into a deadly trap. officials tell nbc news the turks have recordings proving khashoggi was killed inside. according to "washington post" on the recordings you can hear khashoggi was detained when he entered, killed and dismembered, one official saying you can hear how he was interrogated, tortured and murdered. and now, a pro-government turkish newspaper said he recorded the events on his apple watch. saudi officials insist they know nothing about the disappearance but turkish authorities remain unconvinced to say the least and find it highly suspect that the security cameras here at the consulate weren't recording at the time. khashoggi, a columnist for "the washington post"" criticized th

richard engel now with new details onhe investigation. >> reporter: this is the last time saudi journalist and washington post columnisal khashoggi was seen alive, entering the saudi consulate in istanbul last week. what happened next is a mystery. and now secretary of state mike pompeo is calling on saudi arabia to support a thorough investigion. khashoggi, a vocal critic of saudi arabia's crown prince, told the bbc three days before he went missing he knew he had made poweremies. >> when do you think m yoht be able to go home today? >> i don't think i'll tee able to go home. >> rep turkish officials have two working theorys, that khashoggi was kidnapped from the consulate, or that he was killed and dismembered inside. turkish security forces are now hunting for a black van that may he carried khashoggi's body, and two saudi chartered jets that arrived and left istanbul airport. khashoggi had gone to the consulate to get papeo marry his turkish fiance. police escort.as a richard engel, nbc news. >>> back here in montgomery, a new national memorial is confronting racial terrorism. the deca

richard engel, nbc news. ra>> to the growing sea of deson, those twin disasters, the earthquake and tsunami killed 1500 people in fears of hundreds more buried. nbc's bill neely made his way to the hardest hit eas. r >>eporter: someone was alive in this debris overnight rescue dogs and sensors finding signs of le. this morning, nothing, the heart beat they had detected in this rubble had stopped. waiting for the bodies of her mother, father and husband. they had all posed for os phinutes after the quake but not for her mother. pulled out today. among those digging in the rubble, dean, a firefighter from los angele >> we' pulled out five bodies. >> reporter: just toy. >> just today alone. >> reporter: he's seen a dozen disasters but none like this. >> the earthquakes and dasters i've been to around the tworld, this is one that says the most to me. atthis is the one th will keep me awake at night. >> reporter: so many more still waiting in agony. the hope in a world turned upside down is fading fast. bill neely

there has been some speculation [ inaudible ] -- >> i think we may have lost richard engel there. so, peter alexander, i want to go back to you at the white house, if i could. >> reporter: yeah. >> richard was talking there a little bit about the turkish investigation here. what's the political pressure like on the white house right now to kind of accelerate their response in the face of this? because this really has been kind of a wait-and-see game, and you know, these days are stretching longer. >> reporter: cakasie, you're right, but it's clear as evidenced by what we heard from the secretary of state earlier today that they are going to try to wait and see a little bit longer, hoping if they add a few more days to this whole situation, that may relieve some of the pressure. not sure that that's going to be the case. we have heard from some members of the senate, including republicans, like bob corker, expressing real frustration that they are not receiving the information they want to receive, in terms of intelligence, what the u.s. knows, to try to get more details about this.

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> breaking news overnight. a helicopter has crashed on board the aircraft carrier "uss ronald reagan" in the philippine sea. a statement from the navy says several people were injured when the mh-60 seahawk crashed on the flight deck. none of those injuries we're told would be life-threatening. the navy says the "uss ronald reagan" remains missiumed fligh operations. the cause is under investigation. >>> there is word this morning that south korea's president has met with pope francis in private. and moon's office says that the pontiff has kaltd a willingness to visit north korea. according to the "new york times," president moon passed along the verbal invitation directly from kim jong un. while the pope has previously expressed the desire for peace on the peninsula, the vatican is remaining silent on their reaction to the offer. despite the invitation, no pope has ever visited north korea, whose government has historically suppressed religious activity. >>> well, there will be no back-to-back titles for the h

nbc news foreign correspondent richard engel on how police finally recaptured him. >> reporter: frenchce tonight put out this photo to prove they finally had their man. redoine faid. france's most wanted and most elusive criminal, taken down inside this disheveled fifth floor apartment in his hometown outside paris. the challenge now, how to keep him in custody. the bank robber is a houdini of jailbreaks. three months ago accomplices kidnapped a helicopter pilot, forcing him to fly into a prison yard. men in black using power tools to brake faid out. fellow inmates cheering as the chopper whisked him away to a nearby getaway car, later found torched. it was his second escape. faid has said he's a fan of american gangster movies. >> we're here for the bank's money, not your money. >> reporter: he's watched the robbery scenes in "heat" a hundred times for ideas. french police say in his hideout they found multiple cellphones, wigs, and burqas to disguise his identity. tonight he's locked up again, under what police say is extremely tight surveillance. richard engel, nbc news. >>> coming

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> tonight, an outpouring of support for sandra day o'connor, the first woman on the u.s. supreme court, who revealed she suffering from dementia. she made the disclosure in a letterxplaining why she's withdrawn from public life. we get details from nbc's pete williams. >> repor more than a year since sandra day o'connor appeared in public. pushing for more civics education. now 88, she explains why. in a letter, she reveals thatoctors sometime ago diagnosed the beginning stages of dementia. probably alzheimer's disease. the condition has e progressed, writes. she added, i'm no longer ability to participate in public life, but wants to be open about it while i am still able. m she stepped down f the supreme court 12 years ago to take care of her husband, john, when he was suffering from >> he's had it for a iong time now, and he's nvery good shape. >> reporter: her son, jay, says she's having ho trouble with term memory and because of hip problems is often in a wheelchair. ug>> she's been th it, so she knows the tremendous challenges. she served as

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel visited with dr. mukwege at his clinic in one of the most dangerous places. >> reporter: dr. mukwege won the nobel prize for his work at this clinic in congo. which we visited in 2016. all of these women have been raped. >> i see you have a still nursing little boy. how old is your son? >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> the child is sick and myself i'm sick. >> reporter: her name is letitia. the rapist gave her and her baby hiv. doesn't it overwhelm you? >> it is sometimes just breaking my heart, but i feel that i'm powerless. >> reporter: but dr. mukwege is far from powerless. over two decades, he's operated on more than 45,000 rape survivors. militants in congo use rape as a weapon to frighten villagers off their land. especially if the land is rich with minerals. dr. mukwege has to ng tried to kill him. d >> i can see how women are strong to fight. this is something really pushing me to go on and say it's not the end. but you have to fight. >> reporter: dr. mukwege was here performing surgery wh

here is richard engel. >> reporte tonight president trump suggesting saudi journalist jamal khashoggi still missing after entering nbhe saudi consulate in istaul may no longer be alive. >> what happened is a assuming that . happened. maybe wel be pleasantly surprised but somehow i tend to doubt it. >> reporter: khashoggi's communications can only encourage that doubt. as soon as khashgi a itic of the saudi crowned prince entered the consulate, text messages sent to his cell phone went unanswered. tour kirk oc-- turkish officials sayurkish officials y the reason why is simple, because saudi arabia sent this alleged 15-man hit team to kill him. now "the washington post" rerts u.s. intelligence intercepts show the saudi royal family had previously tried to lure khashoggi back to saudi arabia to be arrested. this accorng to u.s. officials. >> my instincts say that the is no question saudi government did this, and my instincts say they murdered him. ep >>ter: the saudi government denies any involvement. it says khashoggi left the consulate alive but provided no proof of that. lester? >> ri

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> tonight we are just getting new video of a daring rescue in the arizona desert. it started with a man who was looking for gold fell ten stories down a mine shaft and had no way to call for help. a friend found him nearly three days later clinging to life. our national correspondent miguel almaguer has details on the race to save him. >> i want you to hook this to the head. >> reporter: tonight, our first view from first responders. this is the harrowing rescue of john waddel, the 60-year-old who fell while hunting for gold 90 miles outside phoenix. trapped for nearly three days, emergency crews were running out of time and light when they finally reached him ten stories down. >> he has been down there since monday. >> reporter: breaking both his legs but in good condition, he was searching for a treasure but almost lost something even more precious. >> i could hear him hollering, help, help. you know? >> reporter: friend terry schrader went looking for waddell when he never returned home monday. he says it wasn't just the fall that nearly killed h

joining us for more on this is msnbc's correspondent richard engel and anne guerin reporting on this from the "washington post" team, and also, ned price, former cia analyst, and the former cia national security analyst, and msnbc analyst. and is so a number of titles there, and lot to talk about. and richard, what do you know about this situation right now, and how much we can trust turkey's reporting of it? >> so let's start with the disappearance of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. and turkey is laying out a compelling case and most ly through the media and leaks and saying that there was a 15-member saudi team that they arrived on chartered aircraft. they came into the city, and they stopped off at in front of the consulate here sh, the conss residence a few blocks away. they waited. khashoggi entered the consulate around 1:00 p.m., and they believe he was killed between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m., and the vehicles left from here and went back to the residence, and then some of them disappeared, but then the planes took the off, and they lost track of the vehicles and the planes too

richard engel, as always brilliant. josh lederman, again for you, simple. eli stoke whole is good on everything. jackie speier. they need some pressure put on these people. i think they felt the friday night pressure. somebody told the saudis, come out with something by friday night, and they have. i don't think it's going to hold the weekend. >>> coming up, more breaking news tonight on the russia front. another huge story tonight. the russian national with ties to vladimir putin. one of them was charged today with attempting to meddle in the 2018 elections, not the 2016. they were going after us. they're doing all the dirty stuff they did. that means they're still at it. >>> plus, trump's closing message to voting in his own words, kavanaugh and the caravan. he is also peddling conspiracy theorys to his base. what are democrats offering in response? there is a bigger question. >>> also, we're to have more on the breaking news in saudi arabia and the epic west wing blowup between senior advisers bolton and kelly. >>> finally, let me finish tonight with the

richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, is able to join us live from istanbul.hard, the latest on your end? >> well, this is something we have all been waiting for for a long time. this is something that the u.s. government, president trump, has demanded an explanation from the saudis. what happened to jamal khashoggi? over two weeks ago, the saudi journalist walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul where i am right now and was never seen to emerge. even though his fiancee was waiting for him outside. turkish officials have said time and time again that they believe he was murdered inside the consulate, that he was interrogated, tortured, his body dismembered. the saudis until now have been saying they don't know what happened to him, until now. a short while ago, the saudi state television quoting a state prosecutor said that khashoggi did in fact go into the consulate. we all know that. but they say that he got into a fight once he was inside. a fist fight that resulted in his death. they also said that 18 saudi nationals have been arrested in association w

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richard engel, nbc news. >> "the new york times" reports tonight that turkish officials say khashoggi was assassinated inside the consulate. the report says it remains unclear how the turkish government determined how he had been killed. serious business to end our broadcast. and that is our tuesday night broadcast. thanks to you for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> bracing for the storm. hurricane michael is expected to make land fall along florida's pan handle today. >>> president trump is stepping up his travel by hitting key states around the country. >>> and nikki haley catches administration officials off guard after resigning as ambassador to the un. now the question is who will replace her? ♪ >>> good morning everyone. it's wednesday, october 10th.

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >> there are the facts. here to talk about it greg miller and jerry bash. jeremy, it's those two posts that explain starting with you tonight. cia director has been sent over to turkey. how conventional a move is that? what does it say to you about this case? >> well, it's pretty typical to send a cia director overseas. it's pretty atypically to do so in a public fashion in the middle of a malstrom. it's clear that the trump administration has not been able to keep up with the pace the torrent of leaks about the facts of the matter that the turkish intelligence are putting out through the media. i think what happened is washington has become flat flooded. we're not understanding the actual facts of the matter and then we get caught by these revelations in the press and the president is scrambling to keep up. they're looking to cover up and it's not going over well with each passing day the story gets worse and worse. gina has gone to sit with the turks to try to understand what they know and what they intend

nbc's richard engel has new details on this "washington post" columnist allegedly killed inside the saudin turkey. richard, tell us your reporting. >> so these are stunning new details. they put a whole new twist on this story about what happened to jamal khashoggi when he went into the consulate behind me. we've been reporting for all day now that there are these recordings that turkish officials have recordings of khashoggi inside the embassy, inside the consulate being tortured, being beaten, being interrogated and ultimately being murdered. but there has been a big question. where did these recordings come from. tonight a pro government turkish newspaper al sabah is saying khashoggi recorded these messages himself, that he went into the consulate very suspicious. he thought something bad might happen to him. he asked his fiancee to wait outside. he gave her his cell phones, but according to this newspaper, he went in to the consulate wearing an apple watch which he synced up with one of those cell phones outside so that the information would be transmitting, so whatever happened to hi

richard engel, nbc news. >> "the new york times" reports tonight that turkish officials say khashoggi inside the consulate. the report says it remains unclear how the turkish government determined how he had been killed. serious business to end our broadcast. and that is our tuesday night broadcast. thanks to you for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> very happy to have you with us. even as the carolinas are not yet totally over the lingering effects of hurricane florence, which, of course, was a major flooding event in that part of the country, now hurricane michael is expected to hit tomorrow. with florence, you may remember that was a very slow-moving storm, and we had a whole bunch of days of advanced notice as to when that one was going to come ashore and at what strength and to what likely effect. in contrast, this new storm michael has come on fast. it is a fast-moving storm and a fast expanding threat. it's been more than a decade since a storm this big has hit the part of florida where hurricane michael is expected to come ashore t

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul >>> elsewhere, japanese prime minister shinzo abe is in brussels talking free trade agreement with the eu. makiko utsuda has more >> yes, abe is visiting brussels and on the side of the asia-europe summit he met with german chancellor merkel and jean-claude juncker. they all agreed to gear up for an early launch of the economic partnership agreement between japan and the eu the agreement coming into effect would eliminate tariffs from over 90% of products from both si sides and the free trade zone would cover an area around 30% of gdp efforts are fueled by economic concerns due to the escalating trade war between the u.s. and china. with the eu and japan joining forces hopes are that it will serve as a building block to maintain multilateral trade and a rules-based international order as the trump administration engages in protectionist trade policies that's all from the nikkei back to you. >> thank you for the latest there. that's something we've been watching closely, that of the trading relationship between the eu and other counterparties. >>> if you wa

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> there are the facts. and as promised here to talk about all of it greg miller, pulitzer prize-winning national security correspondent for the "washington post" and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia and the pentagon. and jeremy, it's those two posts i'd like to explain starting with you tonight. cia director has been sent over to turkey. how conventional a move is that? what does it say to you about this case? >> it's pretty typical to send the cia director overseas to talk to other intelligence counterparts. it's pretty atypical, brian, to do so in such a public fashion kind of in the middle of a maelstrom, and it's clear the trump administration has not been able to keep up with the pace, the torrent of leaks about the facts of this matter, that the turkish intelligence and turkish security services are putting out through their media. and what i think has happened is washington has become flat-footed. we're reactive. we're not actually understanding the actual facts of the matter. and then we ge

. >> joining me from istanbul is richard engel and ruth marcus. how is the world looking at this disconnect between the evidence coming from the turkish government, which is gruesome, apparently an audiotape of this killing, and our president's refusal to accept it, the fact? >> well, i think a lot of the world reaction has been similar to the way the world looks at president trump from the beginning, that he is someone who values strongmen. he is someone who values money, values trade relations, and tries not to cast any moral judgments and does not want morals to get in front of business interests. i think that is the way people look at it. some are scratching their heads. some think it's pragmatic, but they are not looking at it as they have traditionally seen the united states which tries to present itself as a champion of human rights, not always very successfully. but we're learning tonight and "the washington post" guest can elaborate more on this, is really a new take on what happened inside the saudi consulate behind me. we know that jama

. >> i'm joined now by nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel who is in istanbul. chard, thanks for being here. i'm hoping that you can walk us through, to start with, why wit was that the saudi government was so focused on khashoggi. we have a sample of some of his "washington post" columns. saudi arabia was not always this representative. now it is unbearable. saudi arabia's crown prince wants to crush extremists but he is punishing the wrong people. saudi arabia's crown prince is acting like putin. these are in some ways very personal criticisms. can you kind of give us some background about how the crown prince interacted with mr. khashoggi? >> reporter: well, it is hard to know exactly what may have motivated the saudi crown prince and why he, according to turkish authorities, would have organized and ordered this assassination. saudi arabia of course denies that it did any such thing. but it seems like a massive overreaction. and something that has totally back-fired on saudi arabia. experts we have spoken to are asking themselves, and many people in this regi

richard engel is back with me outside the consulate. this story gets more horrific by the hour. does it stand now? >> reporter: we understand there are two saudi delegations here, one a group of investigators and we have seen them coming in and out of the consulate which is companied by police barricade. they wouldn't speak to reporters. and another delegation specifically trying to work out a way out of this crisis with turkish authorities. they are trying to work out a way in which turkish investigators will be allowed inside. because when this first happened, khashoggi went inside, his fiance was waiting for him outside, he said should i not come out, call the authorities. he never came out. the saudis immediately afterwards the next day said there is naugahyde, no issue here, and they invited a small group of reporters inside to tour the building to basically show, look, khashoggi is not here. but they have not allowed turkish forensic teams, people looking for samples an fingerprints and detailed analysis. and the turks have said unless you cooperate more and give us access

chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins us to take a closer look at this. for making time for this. several democratic members of congress have already tweeted and drawn attention to this case. connecticut senator chris murphy, if this is true that the saudis lured a u.s. resident into their consulate and murdered him, it should represent a fundamental break in our relationship with saudi arabia. a couple others from tim kaine and adam schiff. my question for you is, how serious is what has happened here and should it really result in a fundamental breach in relations between the united states and saudi arabia if it turns out to be true? >> if it turns out to be true, it's very serious. you have someone who was living in the united states, was writing a column in "the washington post" who was a prominent journalist who apparently, according to turkish officials at least, went to the consulate to fill out paperwork. was nervous about doing it because he told his fiance to keep his cell phone, to wait there and he said should anything happen, call the authori

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joining me now, richard engel, and nbc news national political recorder josh letterman. richard, can you give us the latest from the ground there in istanbul? try to explain for some of our viewers why it is that turkey is motivated to take such a strong stand against saudi arabia here. >> reporter: all right. let me start with the second part because they're completely related. turkey has long seen itself as a regional rival to saudi arabia. saudi arabia, home of mecca medina. saudi arabia likes to present itself as not just a country, but the leader of the islamic world. that's also the way that turkey, which has a long ottoman past, likes to present itself, as a leading, shining light of the islamic world and of political islam. these two countries have long been rivals. the rivalry between the crown prince, mohammed bin salman, and president erdogan is even sharper than this historic division between the countries. erdogan sees himself as an advocate between moderate political islam and salman as this different kind of project, pushing a more secular agenda, pushing m

richard engel, nbc news. >> and late tonight "the new york times" reports turkish officials say they've concluded that khashoggi was assassinated inside the saudi consulate there. the report adds it remains unclear how the turkish government determined that he had been killed. as we said, some serious business to end our broadcast. and that is our tuesday night broadcast. thanks to you for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> tonight on "all in". >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. >> drawing the battle lines. >> you don't give power to an angry left wing mob. and that's what they've become. >> tonight as the party of trump paints the majority of americans as an angry mob, new evidence their campaign is not working. >>> plus -- >> ted cruz, tough as texas. >> why today could be decisive for beto o'rourke's quest to unseat ted cruz. >> you stick a finger in their chest and give the

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in turkey.ow this came about. >> reporter: well, this is a long and fascinating story, really. so pastor brunson, who had been a long-time resident in turkey was arrested about two years ago, and he was accused of being in contact with what turkey considers terrorists, cukurdish militants group and people who turkey believes is responsible for launching a failed coup against the president. he was charged with supporting terrorists and supporting coup plotters. he has been in jail and later in house arrest for two years, and there have been efforts to release him. there have been efforts, a lot of pressure put on turkey from the united states to secure his release, and there was an attempt a couple of months ago where the u.s. thought it was pretty close to a deal, and then we're told that the deal went south because, frankly, president trump issued some tweets insulting turkey. the president of turkeyer erdow took that as an insult, and the pastor remained in custody. today a judge just sentence

>> richard engel tonight, thanks. >>> tonight, investigators found another apparent mail bomb again directedo cnn, and officials are scrambling to warn dozens of people on the accused serial bomber's l potential target. the suspect cesar sayoc choosing to remain silent. they don't know how many package bombs may be out there. here is kerry sanders. >> reporter: package bomb number 15 discovered today in la a post office in an image shared by cnn, it's similar to the other devices. in mia federal court, cesar sayoc was surrounded by his three defense attorneys. he faces five federal charges including mailing explosives but his defense team says the fingerprint used to identify him was preliminary and the other evidence just possible dna association. >> nothing else in the complaint ties mr. sayoc to anything else in the allegations. er >> reporter: f law enforcement says they uncovered a list of more than 100 people researched by sayoc. each person on the list being contacted by the fbi.er le >> kerry sanders, thanks. >>> also ahead, mr. rogers, real-life neighborhood. his message to the pitt

here is nbc news chief fortunate correspondent richard engel with more. >> reporter: he's one of the world's top law enforcement officials. meng hongwei, the president of interpol. and he's gone missing. meng, a senior chinese official, lives in france where interpol is based. tonight french authorities have opened an investigation but insist he did not disappear on french soil. meng's wife first reported she hadn't heard from him since he left late last month on a trip to china. tonight, chinese media report that meng is a was he landed in the country. it's unclear where he is now. it's not the first time a prominent chinese national has disappeared. china's most famous actress, fan bingbing, was missing for three months, then emerged earlier this week, sounding apologetic, ordered to pay $130 million for alleged tax evasion. in a statement, interpol said meng's disappearance is a matter for authorities in both france and china. security agencies in china have not commented. richardening eningel, nbc news. >>> those twin disasters, the earthquake and tsunami, killed 1,500 people and

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here's our chief correspondent nbc's richard engel. >> reporter: the mystery deepens tonight over the fate of jamal khashoggi. did the saudi royal family have him rdered? khashoggi was already living in self-imposed exile, afraid he'd be arrested in the saudi kingdom because of his erce criticism of the country's de facto ruler, crown prince mohammed bin salman. from abroad his attacks continued. he wrote articles in hington post" with headlines about a reprifs regime now unbearable. up headline comparing the crown prince with vladimir putin, but l tht week khashoggi walked right into saudi hands. he went to the saudi consulate in istanbul. he needed paperwork to marry a turkish woman. she stayed outside on alert. >> he gaveis featuresee his own toal phone and he said quote, unquote, if i don't get out, if i don't come out in four or five house, call, you know, the office of the president of turkey. >> reporter: she sounded the alarm when he never emerged and protesters soon gathered. up named oicials reportedly claimed more than a dozen saudi agents flew in, murdered khashoggi in the

we get the latest from our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: protesters today er cod on saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul demanding answers after the mysterious disappearancof jamal khashoggi. late today president trump weighing in. >> am concern about it. >> khashoggi had been living in the u.s. often critical of the powerful srown prince. last tuesday, khashoggi walked right into the saudi consulate. he needed paperwork to marry his turkish fiancee. outside, turkish officials say he was either drugged or murdered. one turkish official suggesting he could have been taken out in pieces. turkey ease president todaypresident tod presidentky todays presint today demanding saudi officials prove khashoggi left the building alive. the saudi government says it wasn't involved and is working to locate rim. chard engel, nbc news. >>> much more ahead as we continue from houston. dozens of children ck st with paralysis by a mysterious illness and a dire warning, scientists say we're running out of time to avoid a planet catastrophe. and one of the best part of houston, th

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