we, in a bipartisan way, worked successfully to ensure that the senate foreign relations committee and the senate armed services committee passed versions of our legislation. we then worked in a bipartisan way to ensure it was included in the national defense authorization act, section 1290, which the president of the united states signed into law. in september , pursuant to section 1290, secretary of state pompeo sent to congress the required submission requiring saudi actions in yemen. now, secretary pompeo chose not to use the national security waiver and instead certified that saudi arabia was indeed taking urgent steps to end the civil war in yemen, to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, and to reduce risk to civilians. now, there were numerous problems with the secretary of state's certifications. number one, the secretary certified that saudi arabia was undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure resulting from military operations in yemen. that was not a credible certification because we saw in the preceding months a drama

support within congress to get this legislation through very quickly in addition the senate foreign relations committee has sent another letter to president trump reminding him that it had already invoked the global magnitsky act which accounts for accountability for human rights abuses anywhere in the world good relations committee says in this letter to the president that they want him to continue and conclude this investigation and they add in the wake of the recent events they want him to make a definite finding on whether or not the crown prince mohammed bin selman was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi so certainly pressure is ramping up from congress and any thought that president trump might have that the matter is now settled that's been denied completely by both republicans and democrats turkey says it may seek a formal u.n. inquiry into which of g.'s death foreign minister move luto shaul who says it's not satisfied with the level of cooperation from riyadh to any birth lee is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul so they're not satisfied with the level of cooperation from we are

countries that have things thinks we need republican and democratic leaders of the senate foreign relations committee are demanding a second investigation they wanted to focus specifically on the crown prince to determine whether these carried out gross violations of human rights mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. . president trump's comments appear to have infuriated congress his implication that the investigation is now over as far as he is concerned that it's business as usual with saudi arabia has certainly inflamed feelings among both democrats and republicans on the hill it's been made very clear that congress is going to take whatever steps it can to get to the bottom of the matter to find out once and for all with one hundred insolvent the crown prince was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi to get this done they are intent on introducing legislation within congress republican senator lindsey graham says there is a enough bipartisan support within congress to get this legislation through very quickly in addition the senate foreign relations committee has sent another lett

the senate foreign relations committee has asked for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the murder turkey says it may push for an international inquiry its foreign minister says they shouldn't be a cover up to maintain trade ties with riyadh chapter ten c. reports now from washington d.c. . i hear by the way you. are the white house thanksgiving tradition of the president pardoning a turkey took on a grim significance this year a short time earlier donald trump made it clear he was giving the saudi crown prince a pass in the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in an eight paragraph statement filled with the rhetorical flourishes the exclamation marks and slogans characteristic of the president's tweets don't trump made his argument king solomon and crown prince mohammed bin simon vigorously denying any knowledge of the planning and execution of the murder of mr khashoggi our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information but it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic events maybe he did and maybe he didn't

joined a majority of my colleagues to table this resolution with the understanding the senate foreign relations committee would hold hearings to weigh our options in yemen to hope the administration would strategically m leverage our limited support for the saudi coalition to lessen civilian casualties to influencee a potentialua political situation but at the time i also made clear to this body and the president and the saudi government our relationship and limited military support was not and is not a blank check. i had hoped the administration would provide convincing evidence that our military support was reducing civilian casualties a goal be heard repeatedly emphasized by us officials. i had hoped the administration would use this foreign policy tool to advocate for a meaningful political but unfortunately they have inadequately failed to address either problem they havede not given any more confidence in their operations despite being reassured our engagement with the saudi's was decreasing civilian casualties the facts on the ground speak far more powerfully against those work on a broader scale

arabia but said nothing about the values that we have the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker of tennessee with a democratic ranking member on that same committee so republican and democrat they propose that that that the united states consider again the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia for what's happened it's not enough to sanction the seventeen saudi individuals who were in the saudi consulate in istanbul who participated in the murder of jamal khashoggi it's also important to go right to the top of the saudi government. u.s. defense secretary james madison's says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have ceased an offensive around yemen's vital port city. and it comes after the u.n. special envoy to yemen met hooty leaders in the capital sanaa lathan griffiths is expected to travel to her data on thursday the port is crucial for food and aid supplies yemen is already suffering the worst world's worst humanitarian crisis and the u.n. is warning that millions of people could die of hunger if fighting closes the embattled hard data port save the c

of my colleagues in voting to table this resolution with the understanding that the senate foreign relations committee would hold hearings on to how fully to weigh our options in yemen, and the hope that the administration would strategically leverage our limited military support for the saudi coalition to lessen civilian casualties, to influence a potential political settlement, or at the very least prevent the situation from getting worse. at the time i also made clear to this body, to the president, and to the saudi government that our relationship and our limited military support was not and is not a blank check. i had hoped the administration would provide convincing evidence that our military support was in fact reducing civilian casualties, a goal we heard repeatedly emphasized by u.s. officials. i had hoped the administration would use this foreign policy tool to advocate for a meaningful political process. unfortunately, this administration has failed to adequately address either problem. the saudi coalition has not provided any more confidence in its operations, despite being reassured that

we, in a bipartisan way, worked successfully to ensure that the senate foreign relations committee and the senate armed services committee passed versions of our legislation. we then worked in a bipartisan way to ensure it was included in the national defense authorization act, section 1290, which the president of the united states signed into law. in september , pursuant to section 1290, secretary of state pompeo sent to congress the required submission requiring saudi actions in yemen. now, secretary pompeo chose not to use the national security waiver and instead certified that saudi arabia was indeed taking urgent steps to end the civil war in yemen, to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, and to reduce risk to civilians. now, there were numerous problems with the secretary of state's certifications. number one, the secretary certified that saudi arabia was undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure resulting from military operations in yemen. that was not a credible certification because we saw in the preceding months a drama

the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. we appreciate your time. senator corker: thank you. announcer: when the new congress starts in january, there will be more than 100 house and senate members. the democrats will control the house, the republicans the senate. someone new leaders. watch the process unfold on c-span. tonight on the communicators, nyu professor and author scott galloway talks about the power of the largest tech companies in the u.s. with his book "the four: the hidden dna of amazon, apple, face it, and google." >> when you think about who really knows you, is it your wife, your kids, your therapist, your friends? i would argue the entity that knows the real you is google. google knows if you are about to get divorced. have,ws what ailments you what ailments you are worried about having exposed yourself to. google is the real you. if there is a modern man god, it is google that sees all your intentions and how those intentions will likely translate into actions. these organizations know where we are, who we are connected with, no ou

president's response has provoked strong responses from both sides of the aisle the senate foreign relations committee as for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the matter and turkey says it may push for an international inquiry its foreign minister says there shouldn't be a cover up in order to maintain trade ties with riyadh she have returns he begins our coverage now from washington d.c. . i hear by the way you and i are the white house thanksgiving tradition of the president pardoning a turkey took on a grim significance this year a short time donald trump made it clear he was giving the saudi crown prince a pass in the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in an eight paragraph statement filled with the rhetorical flourishes the exclamation marks and slogans characteristic of the president's tweeds don't trump made his argument king solomon crown prince mohammed bin salman vigorously denying any knowledge of the planning and execution of the murder of mr khashoggi our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information but it could very well be that the

lawmakers we've already seen it last evening the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker of tennessee with a democratic ranking member on that same committee so republican democrat they propose that that that the united states consider again the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia for once happened it's not enough to sanction the seventeen saudi individuals who were in the saudi consulate in istanbul who participated in the murder of jamal khashoggi it's also important to go right to the top of the saudi government no one wants to end our relationship with saudi arabia that would be foolish but we have to make sure that the saudis understand how do you are going to make sure in our own country a journalist is it's how do you tell if that is the writing traffic if i thought a journalist should be pretty should be. i just like to say that it's very important the saudis understand that a journalist living in the united states is not fair game for a murder or for any kind of torture or any kind of retribution that's an important principle that we have to

the preside the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee tweeted "i never thought i'd see the house would moonlight as a public relations firm for the crown prince of saudi arabia. >> it's not too much to ask an ally not to butcher a guy in the consulate. it was an opportunity to tell the people in the mideast there's a new sheriff in town and if you diss us, you're going to play a political price. >> since trump isn't doing anything, what can congress actually do? >> let's start with what congress has done so far. just yesterday the chairman and ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker, who you just played and bob menendez followed up and demanded a specific determination from the president about whether the crown prince is responsible for that killing. in order, they're not satisfied with the president's remark. maybe he did, maybe he didn't. they want an answer. from they'll make a determination. lindsey graham said the united states should pursue sanctions, said there would be strong bipartisan support for sanctions that would specifically targe

we have already seen that day chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker a republican from tennessee and this counterpart from the democratic party bob menendez have now requested that. the senate should pass legislation that would. incorporate that would require require president trump to come forth on whether or not mom had been some on was responsible for ordering desex accused and so that's the first step the second step that is coming in that because this cia assessment will be used as the lunch pin if you will for for the congress to determine who is responsible for disk killing. this this will help lawmakers provide a sanctions regime on the saudi leadership and potentially on the prince and self all of that could. could essentially cripple the saudi economy us it will be illegal for american businesses to invest into saudi economy so that's one aspect the second aspect is that what we have seen from the russia investigation after russia interfered in the u.s. presidential elections is that even though president trump provided the rhetorical coverage for his rel

prince directly but there's another avenue of approach as well way back in october the senate foreign relations committee sent the president a letter invoking the global magnitsky act now that provides accountability for human rights abuses the committee has just followed up with another letter to the president saying that in the light of recent developments it wants him to concentrate his investigation into the death on one very important thing did the crown prince mohammed bin solomon kill jamal khashoggi and if so what sanctions are going to be exercised so the committee asking the president to narrow it down there is a legal obligation on the president to do what the committee asked in this particular case though he has one hundred twenty days which would be from october the tenth to do so but lots of moves by congress likely in the week ahead michaela with the latest there on u.s. reaction to this case mike thank you what about reaction from the country where the murder actually took place well there has been no official reaction out of turkey to trump's use they statement for example but many polit

but the president is facing pressure from republican and democratic leaders on the senate foreign relations committeethey're demanding a second investigation to focus specifically on the crown prince's role in cars shows his death a white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more what we've got here now essentially is an effort and it's a bipartisan effort that is notable in a divided congress were congress is ordered the trumpet ministration to investigate mohammed been summoned the saudi crown prince as role in the death of jim even as the president in his statement that he released is casting doubt on his role saying we may never know the facts in fact the u.s. congress feels much differently that's why they have sent this letter triggering the global magnitsky act the u.n. envoy for yemen has arrived in the capital sanaa to meet who feel leaders in the latest push for talks between the warring sides griffith's wants to stop an all out conflict in the pool city of a data which is crucial for supply of aid into the country afghanistan has to create a day of national mourning after at least fift

senate foreign relations committee is demanding donald trump clarified whether or not the saudi crownents was fine and murder of reporter jamal khashoggi. the papergton post, the journalist worked for reported the cia concluded crown prince mohammed bin salman did order the assassination. madeesday, president trump no single he would pursue strong action against the saudi prince, tsonga benefits of having good relations with the oil-rich nation outweigh the rest. more analysis from our international peers analysis. there is a practical difference between russia and this case. with russia, u.s. intelligence agencies made on the record statements about their assessment. cia the khashoggi case, the has not made his findings public. when trump says about the crown prince maybe he knew about it, maybe he didn't, congress wants to know what exactly he has been told word for word by the cia. a former director of the agency, john brennan, says it is now up to members of congress to obtain and declassify the cia findings on jamal khashoggi's death. there is a parallel with russia in the sense

arabia but said nothing about the values that we have the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker of tennessee with a democratic ranking member on that same committee so republican and democrat they propose that that that the united states consider again the possibility of sanctions against saudi arabia for what's happened it's not enough to sanction the seventeen saudi individuals who were in the saudi consulate in istanbul who participated in the murder of jamal khashoggi it's also important to go right to the top of the saudi government. u.s. defense secretary james mattis says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have ceased an offensive around the yemen's vital port city of. earlier the u.n. special envoy to yemen met hooty leaders in the capital sanaa martin griffiths is expected to travel to her day on thursday the port is crucial for food and aid supplies colorado has this update from neighboring djibouti. visit to yemen is all about getting a commitment from the to not only a cease fire but also the peace talks planned for before the end of the in sweden h

graham the south carolina senator who is in line to become the ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee excuse me the chairperson of the senate foreign relations committee when it reconvenes in january he has been in recent months a vocal defender of the u.s. president but in this case he is very much fear eous frankly with the saudi government over the murder of jamal khashoggi and he believes that the crown prince had something to do with it and that he should be held accountable he was quite animated in his view but given that the president just told fox news well at least on friday he told fox news you know we don't know that see it's really not clear that he's going to have enough persuasive power over the president because there does seem to be this ongoing split over how to resolve this situation given that the saudi government appears to have been very intimately involved in the murder of mr kushner ok thank you for bringing us up to date rosalynn jordan's in washington d.c. we are heading to manassas virginia now and scottrade a policy founder and president of the national iran

democratic senator bob mendoza respectively the chairman and ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee sent a letter to president trump demanding he make a determination as to the saudi crown prince's role in the murder. laura podesta, cbs news. >> a former senior u.s. official who has been meeting with saudi officials and businessmen in ryadh told cbs news the president's statement was perceived there as reassuring and helpful. >>> time check 4:41. >> mark zuckerberg stands his ground. coming up, why the facebook ceo defends his company's handling of russian election meddling. >> and let's take another live look outside in san francisco. it is 55 degrees. definitely clear conditions this morning. mary lee of course will give you the aqi numbers and the air quality index numbers when we come back. it's 4:41. >>> breaking news from new are live pictures from the brooklyn bridge where firefighters are battling a car fire involving multiple vehicles. the crews are trying to put it out. multiple cars involved in this. we just saw what the effect was, that traffic is backed up on the brookl

known walk trance response has ruled strong responses from both sides of the aisle the senate foreign relations committee has asked for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the matter turkey meanwhile says it may push for an international inquiry it's one minister says they shouldn't be a cover up to maintain trade ties with riyadh. now the saudi foreign minister has reiterated that the crown prince was not involved in. we have made it very clear the. government is not involved in this case for hundreds of companies not important to us at all i think it's very strange that people hundred pinions without having access to the evidence of these opinions were rendered from day one hundred b. it was declared guilty without people seeing evidence without people knowing the facts then we have the official spokesperson of the state department saying the reports of the cia report are accurate and we have the president of the united states saying the reports of the cia report are not accurate the leadership of surgery represented in the king and the problems is a red line for every sa

you're on the senate foreign relations committee. are you going to try to block the appointment of the appointed ambassador? >> realize the saudis have told us a lot of things that were untrue. they told us it was a fistfight that went bad. they told us he was alive. they had a body double there to trick people into believing he was still alive. the saudis were due bliss us to since the very beginning. at the very least we need to quit selling arms. >> brennan: the president says that's exactly why, those arm sales are why the relationship is important and he's not going to hurt the economic benefit. >> here's my point: the arms sales don't make us safer. they make us less safe. when we sell arms to a foreign country, it should not ever be for jobs. it should be for our national security. the saudis involving us in their war in yemen is a disaster. 17 million people live on the edge of starvation. if we get involved in another civil war in the middle east, that's not good for our national security. that just drains our natural resour

stance has drawn criticism from politicians of both parties in washington, including the senate foreign relations committeeckler reports. the cia now believes it has a detailed picture of what happened when jamal khashoggi entered the saudi consulate. the names of the so—called saudi execution team who flew into istanbul to carry out the murder, and an audio recording of the killing inside the consulate, which president trump says he has refused to listen to because it was, in his words, "so violent, vicious and terrible." it's been claimed that the intelligence agency believes that, despite his denials, the crown prince mohammad bin salman ordered the murder. today, in a statement, president trump seemed to dismiss that, saying: i'm not going to destroy the world economy, and i'm not going to destroy the economy for our country by being foolish with saudi arabia. what many people will find shocking is that in this statement, president trump at one stage refers to the fact that some in saudi arabia regarded jamal khashoggi as an enemy of the state. he does go on to say that this was a terrible and indefens

have drawn criticism from politicians of both parties in washington, including the senate foreign relations committees it has a detailed picture of what happened when jamal khashoggi entered the saudi consulate. the names of the so—called saudi execution team who flew into istanbul to carry out the murder, and an audio recording of the killing inside the consulate, which president trump says he has refused to listen to because it was, in his words, "so violent, vicious and terrible." it's been claimed that the intelligence agency believes that, despite his denials, the crown prince mohammad bin salman ordered the murder. today, in a statement, president trump seemed to simply dismiss that, saying: i'm not going to destroy the world economy, and i'm not going to destroy the economy for our country by being foolish with saudi arabia. what many people will find shocking is that in this statement, president trump at one stage refers to the fact that some in saudi arabia regarded jamal khashoggi as an enemy of the state. he does go on to say that this was a terrible and indefensible crime. but nonetheless

we have already seen death day chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker a republican from tennessee and this counterpart from the democratic party bob menendez have now requested that. the senate should pass legislation that would. would require require president trump to come forth for on whether or not mom had been summoned was responsible for ordering desex accused and so that's the first step the second step that is coming in is that because the cia assessment will be used as the lunch bin if you will for for the congress to determine who is responsible for disk killing. this this will help lawmakers provide a sanctions regime on the saudi leadership and potentially on the prince and self all of that could. could essentially cripple the saudi economy us it will be illegal for american businesses to invest in the saudi economy so that's one aspect the second aspect is that what we have seen from the russia investigation after russia interfered in the u.s. presidential elections is that even though president trump provided the rhetorical coverage for his relationshi

the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. we appreciate your time. senator corker: thank you. thank you so much. i have enjoyed working with you over the years. steve: thank you so much. quakes when the new congress starts in january, there will be more than 100 new house and senate members. the democrats will control the house. the republicans, the senate. you congress, new leaders. watch the process unfold, on c-span. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, a bloomberg reporter and in pr white house correspondent, at the white house. and the center for strategic and will talknal studies about the pentagon's failing its first-ever comprehensive audit. be sure to watch live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion. representative niki tsongas of massachusetts set down for an interview reflecting her life and career in politics. she talked about her time in congress and her plans for when she leaves office at the end of this year. this is 30 minutes. steve: represe

on the one element on the other element what has happened way back in november the senate foreign relations committee sent president trump a letter demanding that he investigate the murder and that he imposed sanctions in terms of what is called the global magnitsky act which provides for accountability for human rights abuses now the same committee the states and the president yet another letter reminding him that this investigation is still ongoing and getting very specific to saying it once seemed to include in its is investigation to find out who killed jamal khashoggi was it the crown prince hama been summoned so congress a using every measure that it can to put pressure to bear on president trump and we're very likely to see legislation introduced republican senator lindsey graham making quite clear that there is so much bipartisan support within the senate to get further details about the death of jamal khashoggi that it's certainly something that is going to happen and it could happen very soon mike thank you very much for that for now that is mike hanna live in washington d.c. thank you. now

we have already seen death the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker a republican from tennessee and his counterpart from the democratic party bob menendez have now requested that. the senate should pass legislation that would. would require require president trump to come forth on whether or not mom had been summoned was responsible for ordering desex accused and so that's the first step the second step that is coming in that because this cia assessment will be used as the lunch pin if you will for for the congress to determine who is responsible for disk killing. this this will help lawmakers provide a sanctions regime on the saudi leadership and potentially on the prince of self all of that could. could essentially cripple the saudi economy us it will be illegal for american businesses to invest in the saudi economy so that's one aspect the second aspect is that what we have seen from the russia investigation after russia interfered in the u.s. presidential elections is that even though president trump provided the rhetorical coverage for his relationship with p

did it that's his implication but there has been a development in recent hours of the senate foreign relations committee has sent another letter to president trump really invoking the global magnitsky act now this was invoked originally on october the tenth it provides for sanctions to be exercised against proven human rights abuses it any part of the world now in the letter to president trump the senators the republican and the ranking democrat senator say that in the light of the recent developments then they ask him to make a determination specifically on whether the crown prince mohammed bin solomon was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi so they are now asking him to specifically look into that they have given him one hundred twenty days from the date of the initial letter which is october tenth as i mentioned but clearly this is a sign that congress is not going to stop attempting to ramp up pressure on president trump to take some form of sanction and to make his position far more clear on whether or not the crown prince was responsible for the murder of a journalist that was mike hanna

support within congress to get this legislation through very quickly in addition the senate foreign relations committee has sent another letter to president trump reminding him that it had already invoked the global magnitsky act which accounts for accountability for human rights abuses anywhere in the world the good relations committee says in this letter to the president that they want him to continue and conclude the simplist occasion and they add in the wake of the recent events they want him to make a definite finding on whether or not the crown prince mohammed bin solomon was responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi so certainly pressure is ramping up from congress and any thought that president trump might have that the matter is now settled that's been denied completely by both republicans and democrats now howling josh on is the executive director of the arab center in washington d.c. he was also a friend of jamal khashoggi and he says trump has effectively ignored the intelligence community and pardoned the crown prince. i think it was somewhat of a strange event on the one hand this is t

act that has been in the form of a letter sent by not just the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee but also the top republican a member of the president's own party so that gives one hundred twenty days for the trumpet ministration to come back to congress with reports and this time it is looking specifically the request is then to the role that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon played in jim on his show she's killing this could result in sanctions we've seen this before there was a triggering of this act back on october tenth that resulted in the treasury department issuing sanctions against seventeen saudi nationals we should point out though that none of them included members of the royal family and that is what is the sort of focus now of the u.s. congress so there's that effort underway there are also two pieces of legislation in the senate that are moving forward as early as next week to limit potentially the u.s. is role in terms of refueling support which is on pas but permanently halting that for the saudi led coalition in yemen and also potentially blocking arms

be fully known response has provoked strong responses from both sides of the i the senate foreign relations committee has asked for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the matter turkey meanwhile says it may push for an international inquiry it's one minister says they shouldn't be a cover up to maintain trade ties with riyadh's. now saudi arabia's foreign minister has reiterated that the crown prince was not involved in the show g.'s matter we have made it very clear that the government is not involved in this case one hundred succumb puts is not important to us at all i think it's very strange that people hundred pinions without having access to the evidence in these opinions were rendered from day one hundred be it was declared guilty without people seeing evidence without people knowing the facts then we have the official spokesperson of the state department saying the reports of the cia report are accurate and we have the president of the united states saying the reports of the cia report are not accurate the leadership of surgery represented in the king in the pro

this senate foreign relations committee is huge and then to go into the administration to try your best to do three or four things and one of which succeeded with the alien deal. and the paris climate agreement. . >> so to switch into this. the last chapter of the book is called protecting the planet not just with climate change but the journey in paris and how we got there and got the chinese to get off of their opposition not doing anything until finally they cooperated that cooperation of the two biggest economies on the planet allowed us to go to paris to get it done. as we sit here today not only are we close to holding the earth of what we were aiming for to go 4 degrees centigrade in this century. we are looking kids one and a half and three and five now so you just have to stop in question how a president of the united states could willfully decide to pull out of the paris agreement without any facts or science or knowledge simply because he made a campaign promise with the orthodoxy on his side of the fence with the agreement how humans contribute to this. it is crazy. so the f

but mr trump's responses provoked strong responses from both sides of the aisle the senate foreign relations committee has asked for an inquiry that specifically looks into the crown prince's role in the merger turkey says it may push for an international inquiry its foreign minister saying there shouldn't be a cover up to maintain trade ties with riyadh hartmann go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly haokip she's in washington d.c. and kimberly so it sounds very much as a this whole process is now being driven by members of congress. it certainly is being driven by members of congress who have the power to hold the white house in check as part of the u.s. constitution the president for his part is now on his thanksgiving holiday the american holiday he has heading towards the golf course we're told but was tweeting just before he left in fact saying that the oil prices are getting lower thank you to saudi arabia let's go lower so doubling down on his posture the saudi arabia is a friend an ally of the united states even as the u.s. congress is questioning that relationship what we have

the top senators on the senate foreign relations committee have triggered a formal review of into whether the crown prince is behind this killing, which could also end up triggering sanctions. senator lindsey -- lindsey graham, often a trump defender, has the crown prince is beyond toxic and there is strong bipartisan support in the senate first wrong sanctions against the kingdom. clearly at odds with the president over that. the president, again, doubling down, almost daring congress to go ahead with sanctions. mexico and canada are expected to sign a new nafta. we are hearing that gop senators want to pass it through congress this year during the lame-duck congress. how's that going? >> for months and months, we would not meetrs a deadline this year. negotiators did reach an agreement at the g 20. some congressional republicans time.ook, there is still they are expressing concern that in a new congress, democrats will control the house and could look for concessions on the deal . leading republicans say no way, there is no time left on the legislative agenda and it would really risk ru

assistant attorney general and former justice department counsel and chief counsel to senate foreign relations committee. i want to start with you, harry. the assumption that the president would have had to sit for a multi-our videotape deposition when this started. is this a victory he is submitting written answers to questions that one would assume his lawyers looks at very carefully? >> if it stops here it is a big victory for him. they are written. they are wordsmiths. there is no immediate risk of perjury. i do think in any other situation the prosecutor would have in mind follow-up questions and there is also the suggestion there may be an executive privilege fight. you can take giuliani's statements to suggest they might go that round. to personally answer mueller's questions he has gotten away with a real victory. ed: i have seen other legal experts say there could be a perjury trap because if you say something, written or oral testimony, if it conflicts with what other witnesses said. >> it would mean a subpoena that would take months to deal with. seems like robert mueller is running out of ti

a republican on the senate foreign relations committee and also on the senate homeland committee.the saudi stories were an insult to the united states and we saw that the treasury department sanctioned these 17 individuals involved in jamal khashoggi's murder. is that enough or is the president being soft on saudi arabia? >> i think it's doubtful that in an authoritarian regime like saudi arabia that anything happened without the crown prince's.. he likely did know of this and directed it. i am morn concerned not just about the killing, but the bombing in yemen and our participation supporting saudi arabia. i have been pushing forward to say we should quit selling arms to saudi arabia. sanctioning people already in jail is pretending to do something. if you sanction them, do you think they really care if they are on death row? saudi arabia cares about the weapons and i also think saudi arabia's air force would not fly and training for the pilots for the united states. you stop that and you stop the war in yemen. >> saudi arabia in the war in yemen, you have legislation and this is

tuesday evening by not only a ranking democrat on the house or rather the senate intelligence committee but our foreign relations committee i should point out but also republican and if it sounds like we've been here before it's because we have to remember that the global magnitsky act was triggered in october tenth by a similar letter sent to the trumpet ministration asking this time specifically if in fact the white house can investigate whether or not the crown prince was involved in ordering the killing of a high shows but this letter has been issued before and it resulted in the seventeen sanctions put in place by the treasury department but what frustrated many members of congress with that investigations conducted by the trumpet ministration was that those seventeen individuals were already in jail and none of those seventeen vigils clip included any member of the saudi royal family so we see this effort happening once again but that's not the only effort martine there's also an effort again in the senate two pieces of legislation under way one that could be looked at as early as next week that would limi

the heads of the senate foreign relations committee have sent a letter to the white house to force antigation into mohammed bin salman's involvement. the chairman of that committee, bob corker. >> we have a crown prince that i believe directed the killing of a journalist and i just -- the language that was used. it was as if they were writing a press release for the saudi arabia and not for the united states. >> under the global magnitsky act the administration has 120 days to provide answers to congress and the white house could decide to sanction the crown prince. the president hasn't suggested he is willing to do. more likely congress could decide to enact sanctions on its own since there has been a lot of bipartisan support to make that happen. >> sandra: thank you. meanwhile president trump firing back at a federal judge's ruling blocking the president's order for immigrants who cross the border illegally from seeking asylum. >> president trump: i'll put in a major complaint. you cannot win if you're us a case in the ninth circuit and i think it's a disgrace when every person fil

let's bring in republican senator rand paul right now of kentucky, a key member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for your patience. thanks very much for joining us. lots of news, as you can see, unfolding right now. let me get your reaction to the breaking news. the president now says he's not taking the prospect of a pardon for paul manafort off the table. what's your reaction to that? >> you know, i don't have any particular insight into the president, whether he'll offer pardons or not offer pardons to people. i do think in general, though, the idea of special prosecutors is a bad one. and the reason i say this is that typically in our justice system, someone commits a crime and we go after a crime and find out who committed a crime, what a special prosecutor does is go after a approximate earn aprose a crime. and troll back through a person's history. and it's too much power. gives the government too much power to prosecute people. and i think we could prosecute tens of thousands of people if we appoint special prosecutors. i'm not a fan of this and i think it's a distortion

reporter: the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker, says it was ttendance in this briefing that the crown prince mohammed bill salman is ultimately responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi and the crown prince is out of control. some senators also question why the president failed to include cia director gina haspel in the briefing. they want to provide details on the khashoggi's killing. cia said members of the senate intelligence committee were briefed on all this. the notion anyone told director haspel not to attend the brief something false. a bipartisan group of senators are pushing u.s. to to with support of the coalition fighting in yemen. mattis said pulling back our military support, weapons sales to partners and protect of the population would be misguided on eve of promising initial negotiations. negotiators are trying to establish discussions with warring parties in yemen set for sweden next month. connell: thank you. melissa: former deputy assistant defense secretary. are is a lot of buzz behind the scenes, punishment for saudi ara

. >> the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker said it was apparent to the senators in the room today that the saudi count prince mohammed bin salman was responsible for the death of khaishoggi and the crown prince is out of control. there's the bipartisan group of senators pushing for the united states to end its support of the saudi coalition fighting in yemen. to that, james mattis said in his opening statement said pulling back our limited u.s. military support, weapons sales to partners and protection of the saudi populations would be misguided on the eve of the promising initial negotiations. secretary pompeo said hopefully they'll reach some type of cease fire there. the saudi coalition is fighting iran in yemen. the united nations has called this the worst manmade humanitarian crisis of our time with 3/4s of the population in yemen needing humanitarian assistance. shep? >> shepard: thanks, rich. president trump is slamming his own federal reserve chairman for recent troubles in the economy, including market losses and lay-offs at general motor

>> reporter: now i also spoke to senate foreign relations committee chair bob corker who expects actionhappen as soon as this week and this month. going after saudi arabia. one, a vote this week on a resolution calling for the end of u.s. involvement in saudi-led effort that bar in yemen. he's calling for gina haspel to brief leaders along with mattis, mike pompeo. he's wants haspel to detail what the cia has learned about the jamal khashoggi murder. in addition, expect for more push and talk about sanctions against the crown prince mohammed bin salman. this as the president himself has stepped away from talk about going after the kingdom. and it's clear congress wants to push on this matter even if the trump administration does not. >> you're absolutely right. all right, thank you very much. >>> coming up, so what's ahead in the russia investigation? we have more on jerome corsi, he won't make a plea deal with robert mueller's prosecutors. >>> and with president trump's angry public condemnation, will they per spade general motors to back ---er with spade general motors -- persuade gen

the ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee, thank you for taking the time to be withmorning. >> let me begin with the absence of the director of the cia. you had said this is a problem for the briefing because she has listened to that audiotape, which is the key evidence of not only the nature of this murder, but who is behind this murder. what is your reaction to her not being there today? >> to me, the fact that the director of the cia who has made, as i understand from all published reports, a determination that the crown prince of saudi arabia was involved in the assassination of jamal khashoggi is a critical element and a cover up not to have her there. i don't want to hear a kra characterization by the secretary of state. i want to hear evidence by the person that went to turkey and heard the audio versions of what happened and other evidence that the cia has deduced. it is an affront to the senate who has important decisions to make on foreign policy not to have her there. >> you would think she would want to be there. a u.s. official told us she is not going b

. >> shawn, let me ask you about what the, at least for now, chair of the senate foreign relations committeeay. yes, he is outgoing, but, you know, he still holds that powerful position. he says that congress will respond with full pressure if president trump does not include the crown prince in these sanctions after he gets this report. what additional pressure would actually change action in saudi arabia in meaning, is it just about sanctioning these people? is it about curtaining or stopping that arms agreement? what is it? >> it is a bipartisan piece of legislation right now that would not only impose sanctions on an individual but also would impact the u.s. practice of, for example, refuelling saudi arabia, saudi flames that are flying in the war in yemen. there are a number of things the administration could do that would hold saudi arabia accountable and would still to some degree maintain a relationship there that would be in the best interest of u.s. national security. look, we have to be eyes wide open here. in the past presidents have turned a blind eye to bad behavior on the part

cosponsors is one is lindsey graham the republican and another bob graham in position on the senate foreign relations committeethey don't have any teeth and targeting 17 people charged by saudi arabia itself. so these are 17 people who are not going to travel to the united states or have assets in america going forward. they want this to be wider, perhaps complimenting the crown prince also banning arm sales and suggesting we should try to bring the war in yemen, wind it down and apply president to president trump who only talks about jobs and military contracts. >> john defterios, emerging markets editor for cnn business, thank you. good to have you this morning. >> nice to see you. >> thanks, john. >> you too. >>> facebook is under fire again. this time over its response to russia's medaling in the 2016 election. new damaging allegations about facebook's efforts to discredit its critics now. sprint's nationwide lte advanced network is now up to 2x faster than when i switched. and their total lte coverage is 30% larger. that's big news!! don't forget unlimited. sprint's unlimited can save you nearly $1000 in

congress said the senate foreign relations committee already invoked the comiskey act, and the trumpion has 120 days to impose sanctions on the crown prince or to explain why they are not doing so and after that congress can act on its own. >> let's just look at the president's position a little more closely. it sounds like, if i can paraphrase him accurately, basically the administration feels there's a lot of human rights abuses all over the world, and this is a hideous murder, and this is one man, not a u.s. citizen, a resident, so is it -- is it that important to blow up the alliance between the u.s. and saudi arabia where saudi arabia can help the u.s. in other venues over this? >> oh, my goodness. first of all, it's not just a human rights abuse. this is something that happens rarely. saudi arabia reached out across its borders and murdered somebody that was lured from the united states to go into one of its embouassies in turkey. this is something we cannot allow to become the new norm. dictateships killing their critics on foreign soil. the u.s. has thousands of refugees who