key member of the senate foreign relations committee ben carbon. nator, very good to have you. >> neil, it's good to be with you, thanks. >> neil: what should we do in the saudis have this big investment conference next week as you know. treasury secretary mnuchin is still tentatively set to go. a number of others are not. ford and uber, jp morgan chase, virtually a whose who in the financial community who have bowed out. should the treasury secretary bow out? >> until we know more, yes. he should not be participating. the story in saudi arabia is change. first had a complete denial. now they are saying prance it was an interrogation that went wrong. we know that very few things happen in the kingdom of saudi arabia without the royal family knowing about it. so, we need to get all the facts. but it's becoming more clear that the saudi family has some accountability here. >> neil: that's a big family as you know, senator, a lot of finger pointing has been at the crowned prince mohammed bin salman now his father king salman has not indicated which way

senate foreign relations committee jeff flake says arms sales to saudi arabia should end if the kingdom is involved in crucial g.'s mota with the apparent brutal murder murder of journalist jamal khashoggi some of the some of the real enemies of the people and enemies of freedom seem to have taken license to eliminate a man that their regime viewed as a threat mr president we need to know exactly what happened in that saudi consulate in turkey earlier this month put bluntly we cannot do business with the saudi government if they directed or were complicit in the murder of jamal khashoggi john hendren joins us live now from washington d.c. john so there's a news report just hours ago that suggests that turkey actually has the audio and video evidence to prove saudi involvement what does it say. that's right there and we might now understand why those turkish officials and those u.s. senators are so certain that because shoji is dead and that the saudi arabian government is responsible we've known for a while that there were closed circuit television cameras outside of that consulate and

senate foreign relations committee jeff flake says arms sales to saudi arabia should end if the kingdom is involved in. with the apparent brutal murder of the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi some of the some of the real enemies of the people and enemies of freedom seem to have taken license to eliminate a man that their regime viewed as a threat mr president we need to know exactly what happened in that saudi consulate in turkey earlier this month put bluntly we cannot do business with the saudi government if they directed or were complicit in the murder of jamal khashoggi or john hendren joins us live now from washington d.c. johns as we've seen that president trump seems reluctant at this stage to condemn saudi arabia but congress has been much more critical is that now a rift of the. well to some extent daryn there's a wake up call going on on capitol hill and it's not going well for the saudis for decades american administrations have worked to forge close relationships with saudi arabia ones that have been lucrative for american businesses well now that is being called into qu

senator bob corker who you saw in that story was the rip is the republican head of the senate foreign relations committee he was among twenty two senators who signed a letter to president trump invoking the magnitsky act now that was originally targeted at russia and it starts a one hundred twenty day clock and in that time president trumpet his administration are required to investigate what happened here and if it finds that there was a human rights abuse in this case in the form of an extrajudicial killing it is required to name who is responsible and initiate sanctions against those people so members on capitol hill republicans and democrats are very concerned and they're talking about killing the one hundred ten billion dollar arms deal between the u.s. and saudi arabia that president trump personally forged in his first trip outside of the united states to saudi arabia with king salmon there so we have members of the u.s. senate who are of the president's own party now who are challenging him here you heard president trump in that story. with concerns about the economic impact of revoking that deal

two people leading the effort are the top republican and democrat on the senate foreign relations committee. senators bob corker and bob menendez. they have both been briefed on the administration's classified intelligence and they are using a relatively new law, the global mag knitsky act, to force trump to investigate and consider sanctions. 22 senators in total have signed on. senator bob corker says he thinks khashoggi is dead. the saudis are responsible and his action with menendez will hold the white house's feet to the fire. just listen. >> i think it puts intense pressure upon the administration to go about this in a diligent way and then sanction -- and we made sure we had language in fl -- to make sure we look at the highest levels of the saudi government. >> now, his colleague bob menendez is the most senior democrat on the senate foreign releases committee and joins me now from the capitol. senator, welcome to the program. >> good to be with you christiane. >> so i mentioned the senators have been briefed on some of what the administration and the intelligence knows. you've just

republicans retain control next year and bob menendez was a co-signor. >> every member of the senate foreign relations committeeh the exception of rand paul. >> and the likelihood that rand paul will be heading up the senate foreign relations committee, that's not going to happen and this is not going to go away and one thing that the mid-terms won't be solved. >> maybe we should have, you know, get serious about not coddling to dictators of very kinds and stand you go up for human rights, especially in this case, a man who is a permanent resident, legal resident of the united states. i think his children are u.s. citizens who was living here, who goes to the -- an embassy and nato ally in turkey and the saudis decide to abduct him or whatever they decide to do and they end up killing him apparently. i mean, that's pretty terrible. >> we can't continue to outsource power to places like turkey, for example, which has its own extreme records of violations against journalism. at the height of erdogan taking control more than 150 media outlets were shut down and many more detained. we can't have a country like that

on that point, manu raju on the hill caught up with republican senator of tennessee, bob corker, who chairs the foreign relations committeeand asked him about the letter that corker and the entire senate relations committee sent to the president with the exception of rand paul calling for an investigation and potential sanctions on saudi arabia. here's what he said. >> he'll be under intense pressure, if they find they were involved in this, the killing of an american citizen, to sanction heavily, even the highest officials within the regime. my instincts say that there's no question the saudi government did this. and my instincts say they murdered him. >> that is a gop senator, senate foreign relations committee stalwart saying he believes a u.s. ally, saudi arabia, murdered a "washington post" journalist, u.s. resident, well known in the region, jamal khashoggi. i want to bring in john kirby, cnn mic nrx ncnn military and diplomati analyst. it strikes me, john kirby, you would not have john corker say that and he's seen the intelligence, if the intelligence didn't show this. tell me how disturbing a situation this would

senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker said any sales to saudi would not pass congress and in fact he has more now from bob corker the u.s. senate foreign relations committee chairman. everything went indicate that that he's perished but look maybe it's a rendition and he'll show up someplace down the road i hope that's the case but right now it feels like. it feels like he is not a lot human everything points to saudi arabia and it would appear that he's not a law of i would think that if it were saudi arabia and he was alive. with all that's happening right now they would produce him i mean renditions do occur and so . i mean governments all over the world are involved in renditions and and so i mean if they have him sequestered someplace. then you would think they would produce him but. so that makes me feel i mean again it might not i'm in saudi arabia everything points to that this is a real murky world and when you start dealing with these kinds of things. we've got more now from laura burton manley who's looking at what we know so far about this investigation. sa

this is at odds with members of congress the powerful republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee accusing the crown prince of complicity using his initials m b s if you look at the rocky mistake he made and carter where without even talking to us they put in place the blockade he also has made some mistakes and obvious they've gone forth and murdered this journalist he's now crossed the line and there has to be a punishment and a price paid for that in and again i'm not rushing to judgment do i think he did it yes i think he did it and a bipartisan call for punitive sanctions we are expel formally expel the saudi ambassador from the united states until there is a completion of a third party investigation into this kidnap murder and god knows what followed that occurred in istanbul this ought to be a relationship altering event for the u.s. and saudi arabia that we ought to suspend military sales we have to suspend certain security assistance and we ought to impose sanctions on any of those that were directly involved in this murder this really ought to be something that causes to

we need to have better rules about anybody on the senate foreign relations committee able to take political contributions from people lobbying for foreign governments. >> mr. menendez, 30 seconds. senator menendez: invoking magnitsky for the first time in u.s. history, stopping saudi arms sales, doesn't sound like anybody is convincing me of anything the saudis want. >> turning to the environment. reporter: deadly heat waves, more intense and frequent droughts. a dire prediction from you when panel on climate change. more than 60,000 new jersey homes are at risk of chronic flooding caused by sealevel rise by 2040 five, according to a june report by the union of concerned scientists. scientists at rutgers say by the end of the century, sees along the jersey shore could rise three feet, and that is if carbon emissions are kept low. the threat of massive coastal flooding has led to wide ranging protection programs, protective dunes and bulkheads as well as plans for floodwalls. building codes have been modified and many communities we built elevated structures. to head off more catastrophes, t

possibly does. >> senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker says the administration has clamped down on intelligence about the case saying quote i suppose they don't want us to see the intel. >> turkey's justice minister says the khashoggi investigation will be done soon. authorities in haz-mat suits have finished searching the consul general's residence. they learned a fresh coat of paint had been applied before they arrived. the special agent josh campbell is joining us live. a senior law enforcement anal t analyst. josh, great to have you. josh, talk about the growing mountain of evidence if this were an fbi investigation, would it be over? >> it's a good question. a lot of information collected thus far. there is a way to go. we had reporting in turkish media. the report is close to being wrapped up. they mentioned saudi officials are asked for an arrest warrant and if they can't find them to go through interpol channels. there is evidence collected here, but subjects at large that were responsible. we talk about the mounting evidence. let's talk about what we have s

marco rubio, a member of the senate foreign relations committee, spelled out what's at stake in the case of missing journalist. >> there's not enough money in the world for us to buy back our credibility on human rights if we do not move forward and take swift action on this. in fact, if and when it's proven to be true. >> reporter: a contributor for "the washington post" has been missing since entering the consulate near ly two weeks ago. today the foreign ministers from the uk, france and germany released a joint statement calling for a credible investigation. if relevant to identify those baring responsibility and ensure that they are held to account. turkish officials say there's evidence he was killed by a saudi hit squad 37. >> they deny it every way you . >> reporter: president trump told request"60 minutes" there beerer purr cushions. >> what i don't want to do is boeing, lockheed, i don't want to hurt jobs. there are other ways of punishing, to use a harsh word, but it's true. >> reporter: the stock market plunge after the president promised tough action. saudi officials have ca

a member of both the senate intelligence and foreign relations committees joins us now from miami, florida republican marco rubio, welcome, senator, i want to start with hurricane michael. panama city, other places, absolutely devastated. what can you tell us aboutlabvi, panama -- i've gotten to panama city and met with and seen the drone images from the emergency operation center. it's deaf devastation. i've lived through a bunch going back to andrew and here in south florida. and what i saw in panama city reminds me of andrew. literally i think the whole power grid has been shredded. that's very important, mexico beach is just wiped out all of that, i want to remember one thing there are inland areas away from mexico beach, away from panama city not on the coast, these are rural areas, a lot have holder residents, poo poorer residents, people that could not evacuate, many living in manufactured housing and mobile homes, large mobile hom homes, but nonetheless mobile homes, multi-acre properties off of dirt roads who are completely isolated at this very moment. crews are working hard to g

wires here about news from the republican senate foreign relations chairman can you take us through that . yeah we knew that the senate foreign relations committee was meeting on capitol hill and there's been some pretty strong statements as the senators have gone in and out we should note bipartisan the latest statement coming from the chair of that committee senator bob corker a republican the president's republican party saying that significant sanctions should be imposed at the highest level of the saudi government if the missing journalist. is in fact found to have been a victim of state sponsored murder now one other thing that we should note in all of this is that u.s. saudi relations at least at the level of the congressional level had already been fragile given the fact that there have been longstanding concerns about the ongoing saudi led coalition in those efforts in yemen the concern about the humanitarian crisis there this seems to the words of bob corker they were already low this situation referring to the missing journalist could cause it to go off a cliff is what he said so really not mincing any words there and that's really be

all it took was the chairman and the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee coming together. it triggered an investigation and if the investigation finds what we all believe to be true, which was that mr. khashoggi was in fact murdered it, would put really strict sanctions on the saudi government, which would really up end the president's goal of sort of forming a partnership with saudi arabia toward his goal of middle east peace and other things. we're seeing a growing rift between capitol hill and the white house over this issue of arms deals, which we saw the president address also in the oval office. >> saying, hey, when it comes to this arms deal, it's $110 billion. let's put this on hold. jordan, when it comes to saudi arabia and their take on all of this, they released a new statement today reading in part this "what has been circulating in terms of supposed orders to kill jamal are outright lies and baseless allegations against the kingdom's government, which is committed to its principles, rules and is in compliance with the international laws and conventio

. >> reporter: one democrat the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob menendez said it was critical and yet another sign of the trumps and minutes -- trump administration's chaotic administration and the vacuum she will leave. >> reporter: nikki haley has long been seen as having political aspirations. she seemed to back it away to some degree saying at least in the nerd -- near term it won't happen and she plans on supporting president trump in 2020. back to you guys. >>> doug luzader live in washington d.c. the november midterm election is less than one month away and there are indications that female voters may play a critical role and women calling women calling a democratic phone bank and storm -- and stations were full and women seem to be energized after the controversy over the sexual assault allegations against now sucourt justice brett kavanaugh. >> don't agonize, organize. women are coming in anxious, angry, frustrated and we are saying get on the phones and call voters and get them to vote. >> i don't like what i am seeing and how the democratic women are

today, senator bob corker, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, saying the evidence is strong. >> everything i've seen does point to the saudis. >> reporter: president trump who has made his relations with saudi arabia key to his foreign policy arrived in ohio today. >> nobody knows quite yet, nobody has been able to put it all together. >> reporter: the president adding he will call the king of sa saudi arabia pretty soon. >> we want to bring this to you. andrew brunson a court convicting him to aiding terror groups and senn sensing him to time served. a medical evaluation will happen in germany and a plane will fly him back to the u.s. you're getting reaction tonight from the white house? >> that's right. the white house is elated. president prump brought a lot of pressure to bring him. and it was important to evangelical christians here too. he is coming here after a stop in germany. there will be an oval office welcome for you. >> terry, thank you. >>> we turn tonight to the abc news exclusive. a rare interview with first lady melania trump. the first lady speaking

think this will be received in washington past the white house, particularly in the senate foreign relations committee among congressional republicans and democrats. >> not well, chris. we've already seen statements on twitter and actual written statements from folks like senator lindsey graham, elliott engle, the top democrat on the house foreign affairs committee, saying this does not seem like credible, that people do not buy this explanation in congress. and elsewhere in the foreign policy community. whether the white house is going to say that they accept this is another story. and i think the big unanswered question here is how much intelligence is already out there within the u.s. government about what happened? because if there's intelligence that contradicts the public line which was that the saudis didn't send people to kill him, they sent him there to have a discussion with him, something went wrong, and there was some type of a fistfight and he died, if that is contradicted by intelligence that's out there, it's going to be very difficult for the white house to try to ignore all of that. >

relations with senator chris murphy, a democrat eiom connecticut. he sits on the f relations committee. senator, thank you so much for joining us today. the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, the ranking member, and you have en working on a letter that has just been released. what does that letter say? what kind of pressure are you trying to put on the administration? >> so under existing global human rights law passed by the congress and signed by the president, the rking democrat and the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee have the ability to ask theti administ to come to a finding on a potential gross violatioof human rights abroad, and that's what this letter asks, for the president to make a determination as to whether jamal khashoggi was indeed executed by the saudis, egedas been all now, i think you have to take this letter with a grain of salt because it is asking the administration that has shown very little interest in getting to the bottom of thistory, to come up with a definitive finding, whichhey may be unlikely to do, but at least it requires the administration toh now go throa process by which they will have to medo so fac

but that again will be true of anyone who comes before the senate foreign relations committee.e going to probe very, very deeply. >> let's switch and talk about now justice kavanaugh who had his first day on the bench questions the plaintiffs at the supreme court, litigants at the supreme court. what is your view on the impact this fight has had on the midterm elections going forward, do you think this will have the effect of damaging democrats' chances of potentially taking back the senate? >> i think just the opposite. we just lost. women across the country saw a truncated process in the united states senate in terms of conducting a full investigation of the allegations of dr. blasey ford. they heard the president make a joke about dr. blasey ford, calling all of her allegations a hoax. so i think what's about to happen is that everyone, but especially particularly women in this country are now ready to mobilize, to be galvanized, i think we're about to see an election that becomes a referendum not just on donald trump but also on his successful nomination pushing brett kavan

joining me now is the top republican on the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob corker, of tennessee, who said he thinks the saudis likely murdered murdered khashoggi. >> thank you, jake. >> i don't know of anyone that has seen video evidence that the turkish government says it has. do you believe the turks have this evidence, and is the senate demanding to see it? >> well, sure. typically, what happens, jake, is when we get raw data like that, when the intelligence agencies and the u.s. get that, it takes them a day or two to go through it and try to validate that it's real. we have a staffer in washington, you know i'm in tennessee today, who is obviously checking periodically throughout the day to see if we've received anything. to our knowledge, we don't know that we have. but typically, again, it takes a little while for the intel agencies to go through it and make sure it's a valid input. >> the "washington post" reports that the u.s. picked up intercepts of saudis talking about capturing khashoggi ahead of time. do you know anything about this? did the u.s. try to wa

cardin: if we had some republican members of the senate foreign relations committee i think they wouldgree with what i said before. that is that we need to stand up and get results before there is another meeting. we have worked together, bipartisan, senator corker and i have worked together on north korea. we passed strong legislation that imposed sanctions against north korea. that is what we need. we need to work with our allies. i can tell you that i have been engaged with our allies and engaged with all the members of the senate foreign relations committee. we know the threat from north korea. jennifer: mr. simon? mr. simon: i think our first path should be diplomacy before we advance to anything else. president trump did the right thing to engage diplomatically. there was a time just a few months ago when many of us were afraid what would might end up at war with north korea. it seemed to have descalated. we have to focus on our own country and focus on the people of maryland and helping them get ahead, as well as foreign policy issues. jennifer: mr. campbell, your rebuttal? mr.

this is smart bob corker, the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. he said in part, quote, they murdered him, talking about the saudi government, the senator saying his instincts tell him, quote, they murdered him. if they're murdering american citizens, then it doesn't matter what our relationship has been. the senator added it does appear that they murdered -- he said, an american citizen, khashoggi is not an american citizen. the white house says that john bolton and jared kushner called the crown prince, later we're told that mike pompeo called him as well. what should they be saying to the crown prince of saudi arabia? >> they should be talking about a magnitsky act investigation, which would bring in sanctions against somebody who ordered an killing in another country. they should be talking about an end to arms sales. they should be pressing saudi arabia to explain what happened. you know, there are cameras inside the consulate that the saudis control that could indicate what happened. they could talk about these 15 people who flew from saudi

. >> on "face the nation" republican senator marco rubio, a member of the senate foreign relations committeelled out what is at stake in the case of missing journalist jamal khashoggi with. >> there is the no enough money to buy back our cred ability on human rights if we do not move forward and take swift action on this, if and when it is proven to be true. >> khashoggiing a contributedder for "the washington post" has been missing since entering the saudi consulate in inis stand beul nearly ta weeks ago. today the foreign ministers from the u.k., france and germany released a jint statement calling for a credible investigation. and if relevant, to identify those bearing spobilityd and ensure that they are health to account. turkish officials say there is evidence khashoggi was killed by a saudi hit quad scwa thns dedeny it every way you can imagine. >> president trump told "60 minutes" in will be severe punishment if saudi arabia is implicated. but he's arguing to preserve a 110 billion dollar arms sale to the conditioning dom. >> well, i tell you what i don't want to do. boeing, lockheed,

comments coming out of republican senators like the ranking member bob corker of the senate foreign relations committee saying that already saudi u.s. relations were fragile but now in his words they may be going off a cliff because the intelligence that the senators believe they have had access to seems to conclusively in their mind show that the saudis have been involved in the disappearance of jim. and they believe that if he died in the saudis were behind it this would be a reason to to sever the strong economic ties that have been in place for some time particularly with respect to military support and arms deal so this is certainly something that is under consideration at least by prominent members of the u.s. congress and whether donald trump likes it or not his hand may be forced can really help get at the white house can really sink you. well the un committee for child rights has added to the pressure on saudi arabia urging the country to immediately stop its bombing campaign against civilian targets in yemen it also wants those responsible for unlawful airstrikes during the three year war to

on face the nation, republican senator marco rubio a member of the senate foreign relations committee spelled out what's at stake. >> there's not enough money in the world for to us buy biback our credibility on human rights if we do not move forward and take swift action on this if and when it's proven to be true. >> khashoggi, a contributor for the "washington post," has been missing since he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly two weeks ago. the foreign ministers from the uk, france, and germany release ed a joint statement was released calling for a credible investigation and, if relevant, to identify those bearing responsibility and ensure they are held to account. turkish officials say there is evidence that khashoggi was killed by a saudi hit squad. >> well, writing for "the washington post," khashoggi had been highly critical of the war in yemen, it's diplomatic issues in canada and the women's right activists. arrests. during a wide-ranging 60 minutes interview that aired last night, president trump talked about his nearly two years in office. he told lesley stahl

senator menendez: i invoked as the senior democrat on this senate foreign relations committee, working with bob corker, the magnitsky law, which is when the chairman and ranking member send a letter to the president of the united states about human rights violations around the world, the president must underlie investigate and -- under law investigate and come back to congress within 120 days. the first time it has been used. secondly, i am holding up as the ranking democrat on the senate foreign relations committee arms sales to saudi arabia. before this, because of their indiscriminate use of it in yemen, which is creating a humanitarian disaster. now, based on this, it is certainly's not something i can see myself lifting the hold. we need -- whether you are an ally or not, we need to get to the truth. if you can send a global message that you can kill someone, particularly a member of the press, and have no consequences, there is a global down flight at the end of the day. mr. hugin: senator menendez is so conflicted, and has trouble seeing right from wrong. he receives contributio

the senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker i said any sales to saudi arabia would not pass congress donald trump told reporters there's no need to block saudi arabia investments in the u.s. and that he's helping both countries in the investigation. well look you know adverse strongly we'll be having a report soon we're working with turkey we're working with saudi arabia what happened is a terrible thing assuming that happened i mean maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised but somehow i tend to doubt it and we take it very seriously it's not our country it's in turkey and it's not a citizen as i understand it but a thing like that should happen it is a reporter with the washington post and it's something like that should not be allowed to happen something like that should not happen and we intend to get to the bottom of it reporting for us on the story right now kimberly how good of course suzanne white house correspondent will come to her shortly starting with stephanie deca at the saudi consulate in istanbul i've run through those latest developments stephanie how about y

senate foreign relations committee jeff flake says arms sales to saudi arabia should end and if the kingdom is involved. with the apparent brutal murder or murder of journalist jamal khashoggi some of the some of the real enemies of the people and enemies of freedom seem to have taken license to eliminate a man that their regime viewed as a threat mr president we need to know exactly what happened in that saudi consulate in turkey earlier this month put bluntly we cannot do business with the saudi government if they directed or were complicit in the murder of jamal khashoggi. jeffrey stacey as a former state department official who served in the obama administration he says the u.s. saudi relationship is on thin ice. they're in a really tough position back at the state department because they have a president administration that has really moved into a special relationship with riyadh and this puts it all in the balance at the very least we're looking at a mild downgrading of the relationship holding at arm's length sort of scenario but because these allegations are so serious and if this w

very conflicted on these issues, we need to have better rules about anybody in the senate foreign relations committee able to take contributions for people who are lobbying for foreign governments. >> is tremendous, we will give you a reply. >> invoking global magnet ski for the 1st time in us history by the senate foreign relations committee, stopping saudi arms salesdoesn't sound like anybody condensing me of anything thesaudi's want . >> let's turn to the environment, we have background from rebecca of wnyc . >> deadly heat waves, heavy rain storms and more intense droughts. a dire prediction for the next 2 decades from the united nations by an civic panel on climate change. even if global warming is limited to what 7 degrees fahrenheit above preindustrial levels. more than 60,000 new jersey homes are at risk of chronic flooding caused by sealevel rise by 2045, according to a june report by the union of concerned scientists. scientists at rutgers finance institute say by the end of the century, sees along the jersey shore rise up 3 feet and that if carbon emissions are kept low. in the aftermath o

a member of the us senate foreign relations committee jeff flake says saudi arabia should end if the kingdom is involved. with the apparent brutal murder or murder of journalist jamal khashoggi some of the some of the real enemies of the people and enemies of freedom seemed to have taken license to eliminate a man that their regime viewed as a threat mr president we need to know exactly what happened in that saudi consulate in turkey earlier this month put bluntly we cannot do business with the saudi government if they directed or were complicit in the murder of jamal khashoggi to free stacey is a former state department official who served in the obama administration he says the u.s. relationship is on thin ice. they're in a really tough position back at the state department because they have a president administration that has really moved into a special relationship with riyadh and this puts it all in the balance at the very least we're looking at a mild downgrading of the relationship holding at arm's length sort of scenario but because these allegations are so serious and if thi

is at odds with members of congress weren't the powerful republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee accusing the crown prince of complicity using his initials and b s if you look at the rocky mistake he made and carter where without even talking to us they put in place the blockade he also as mates in the states and obvious they've gone forth and murdered this journalist he's now crossed the line and there has to be a punishment and a price paid for that in and again i'm not rushing to judgment do i think he did it yes i think he did it and a bipartisan coal full punitive sanctions we don't expel formally expel the saudi ambassador from the united states until there is a completion of a third party investigation into this kidnap murder and god knows what followed that occurred in istanbul this ought to be a relationship altering event for the u.s. and saudi arabia that we ought to suspend military sales we have to suspend certain security assistance and we ought to impose sanctions on any of those that were directly involved in this murder this really ought to be something that caus

today, senator bob corker, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, saying the evidence is strong. >> everything i've seen does point to the saudis. >> reporter: president trump who has made closer relations with saudi arabia key to his foreign policy arrived in ohio tonight and backed away from drawing any conclusions. >> nobody knows quite yet, nobody has been able to put it all together. >> reporter: the president adding he will call the king of saudi arabia pretty soon. >> terry moran with us from the white house. there is another story that we are following as well. we want to bring our viewers up to speed on this. american pastor andrew brunson flying out of turkey after detained there nearly two years, a turkish court convicting him of aiding terror groups and now sentencing him to time served. he and the u.s. denied the charges. we understand that a medical evaluation will happen in germany and a plane will fly him back to the u.s. you're getting reaction tonight from the white house? >> that's right. the white house is elated. president trump brought a lot of press

statements coming from congressional members including the ranking republican on the senate foreign relations committee senator bob corker saying that he has also raised this issue with the saudi ambassador and the united states will respond accordingly very much calibrating the response based on the findings and that is something that senator graham is also saying that he is interested in seeing going a little bit further though saying if there are any truth to some of the very serious allegations it would be devastating to the united states saudi relationship and there would be a heavy price paid economically and otherwise so growing concern in washington pressing for answers and in turn possibly even calibrating response based on the findings of that investigation and how significant is this in terms of u.s. saudi relations move more generally. well certainly this the diplomatic relations between the united states and saudi arabia really date back to nine hundred thirty three and since then there has been a bit of an overlooking of some of the concerning aspects of saudi arabia the kingdom specifica

of the aisle and very strong words from bob quarter extremely powerful cheer of the senate foreign relations committee he's saying absolutely clearly he believes that the saudi crown prince is responsible for this killing he calls on an immediate deportation of the saudi ambassador calls for all forms of extreme sanction to be taken this very significant particularly as it comes a day after he was briefed by the secretary the secretary pompei or so what sort of pressure is the president facing at home over this with those midterm elections coming up in just a few weeks now. yes you mentioned those midterms elections and those are looming and very clearly the president's handling of this whole affair is becoming an election issue we heard strong criticism of the president's position from former vice president joe biden we've heard those calls coming out of congress president trump has for the nearly two years of he's been in office has relied actually on the support of his republican alliance both in the house of representatives and the senate on this particular issue though he can no longer rely on th

of a rift between congress and the president bob corker the republican head of the senate foreign relations committee said that relations between the u.s. and saudi arabia have never been lower and he said this situation could cause it to in his words go off a cliff and it's very interesting wording the air let's talk a little bit about the state department briefing that happened in the past few hours what came out of that. that's right heather nauert the state department spokesman was asked about this and she didn't have a lot of information but the saudi ambassador has good return to saudi arabia and she has said we have communicated with the saudi ambassador to the united states we expect information upon his return to the u.s. she goes on to say that we are all concerned about the whereabouts of jamal khashoggi and we have no idea what happened to him she said they will hold back until they get more information but it's very unlikely if the saudi government did this or they're going to come back and fess up to having done so we know that the united states government the trumpet ministration and m

congress have expressed outrage at the fact one member chris murphy who's a member of the senate foreign relations committee issued a tweet saying it's absolutely extraordinary to in lists the president of the united states as there are agent now that is a very strong statement indeed coming from a u.s. congressman so president trump coming under a lot of attack from members of congress for what they believe is pushing what is essentially a saudi media narrative that some kind of rogue elements were involved president trump also attempting to stay head off the ongoing narrative but facing this intense criticism from congress criticism too in particular against the saudi crown prince who was once the darling of diplomatic circles in washington. president trump arrived in florida to view hurrican damage and at the same time reports began to pull to route to power to solve the admission but the journalist was killed by mistake in an unsanctioned abduction attempt has the president tech knowledge hearing about the reports we were getting very close with saudi arabia and with germany and they were being together

vietnam war and was getting almost hourly criticism from the majority leader from the senate foreign relations committee who turned up some documents i found privately by 1968 they said maybe we should even think of impeachment but the point is presidents in wartime and in general you get the best leadership when you have congress to be critical of president but the problem with england is the king gets no criticism therefore he never gets better we want a system where the president is criticized by members of congress and citizens of the united states. they are at their most patriotic when they are criticizing and protesting those in power that was true in 1787 and it's true now. [applause] . >> how do you see a presidents character manifests itself. >> james polk was pretty important to the state of texas. anybody disagree? [laughter] he was a liar and a cheat and a scoundrel otherwise a wonderful leader. [laughter] but with the war with mexico it secured the state of texas. [applause] and some new territories from the atlantic to the pacific that's a good thing but by a total lie and fakery if you kn

common decency and we saw a great example of it a few months ago, it was a vote in the senate foreign relations committee for mike pompeo and it was a tight vote and it was mostly partisan. johnny isaacson was home delivering a eulogy for his best friend and johnny had health issues and was tough for him in the middle of the night travel back for one vote and have to pull everybody in. it used to be something in the congress and senate in particular called pairing if one democrat had to be gone for some reason unavoidable and the republican friend would say i'll vote the other way or i won't vote to not upset the ballots, just as a measure of courtesy if it wasn't something that would change a huge outcome but just as something courteous. and johnny called chris and asked if he would do that. and chris did. and it was the first example of that i've seen in years and years and years. and it moved bob corker to tears, our chairman because it's just so infrequent. and you know, it's not as much friendships developed or whatever else but it's just common decency that you just these days it's punished. rememb

the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee says nikki haley's resignation is another administration's chaotic foreign policy. deeplyendez says he is concerned about the leadership vacuum that will created by haley's departure. the bank of england is resting up the pressure on the european union. the bow we