yeah the treasury department putting these forward in just the last couple of hours against seventeen saudi nationals they are certainly very high placed in terms of the fact that at least one of them is an aide to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon as well as the saudi consul general and then a subordinate of the aide to the crown prince but notably the crown prince not one of the seventeen individuals that has been sanctioned by the treasury department now this is under the global magnitsky act and in the press release released by the secretary of the treasury steve and he says that these individuals have been sanctioned for having a role in the killing of jim. they must face consequences for their actions and then he goes a step further to say the saudi arabia must now take steps to ensure the political dissidents and journalists are no longer targeted but many people are not going to be satisfied with this feeling it is not going far enough certainly donald trump at times called this one of the biggest cover ups ever he also as u.s. president has said that he wouldn't rul

not only the crude oil sections but financial sanctions put in place by the treasury department and over 600 designations of individuals and companies will have the intended effect. to alter the iranian regime's behavior. that's our expectation and the reason for president trump's policy. >>chris: specifically sir, do you have a firm commitment from india and china that they will stop all oil purchases in six months?>> we have already taken more crude oil off the market than any time in history. watch the efforts that president trump's policies have achieved. we've done this while making sure american consumers don't suffer. - - that's important for american consumers in the march 2 zero continues. >>chris: you're talking about how effective these the imposition of sanctions are but as you well know, there are some people who are criticizing the sanctions you are imposing and think they're not tough enough. let me put this on the screen. republican senators ted cruz, cotton and rubio claimed to introduce legislation to cut off irani and banks from the global financial network known as sw

. ♪ ♪ >> shepard: the treasury department is reporting new sanctions targeting russia's occupation ofn peninsula. vladimir putin invaded and took over that region from ukraine in 2014, against all law. the u.s. does not recognize russia's claim over it. these new sanctions come just days before president putin and president trump are set to possibly meet face to paris. rich edson reporting live from the state department. >> good afternoon, shep. the treasury department is targeting ukraine officials that they say are responsible for human rights violations and companies that have benefited from russian annexation of crimea. in a statement, the treasury department says that our sanctions are a clear reminder that efforts in investment in normal relationships with those operating in crimea will not be tolerated and are subject to u.s. and e.u. sanctions authorities. this is as the russian government is pushing for the u.s. to pull back on sanctions when it comes to the annexation of crimea when it also comes to sanctions on the 2016 election interference, and also for the poisoning of a

treasury department?> we are still going through the list and we are expecting more details from the treasury department shortly. it targets all of the officials who are believed to be involved killingg to assemble khashoggi and returning to saudi arabia afterwards. it will not include anyone like conference mohammed -- crown prince mohammad bin salman, so the question is whether these sanctions satisfy people who believe that this assassination goes to the very top of the saudi government. it is definitely an effort to address a lot of concerns we have heard in one guest -- in congress. it restricts the movement and the finances of these individuals. but it's so will leave unanswered the question of who ultimately ordered this operation. was it the crown prince or was it more of a rogue operation? a lot of people in congress believe ultimate responsibility lies with the crown prince. vonnie: right, so basically freezes the assets of these 17 individuals, what does it leave open the opportunity for the u.

again, going back to the treasury department, they had this long paragraph about how this is a violation of mesh values and it undermines our credibility abroad. all of these things, i wish the president had read that before he made this statement that said, you know, they're an important ally and therefore we're going the stand with them. he made it sound easy. we do have the make these difficult decisions, but so far what they're doing is giving a pass to this guy, and i think it gives pass to dictators around the world. that's the danger. it undermines our authority and the authority of our values across the planet. >> brennan: senator, thank you very much for being here in studio. always good to talk to you. we'll be back in one minute with vermont senator bernie sanders. vermont senator bernie sanders. so stay with us. these techs in a lab. this builder in a hardhat... ...the welders and electricians who do all of that the dir affed up 'causethey a. wh start with one jobors... spread allround.h. because each job in energy creates many more in this town. energy lives here. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ co

treasury department is sanctioning 17 people for their roles in the killing of jamal khashoggi. significant. peter alexander has jumped back in front of a camera for us. this is all developing in the past couple of minutes. >> reporter: that's right, hallie, the official announcement coming from the treasury department, secretary minneapolis mnuchin adds the government of saudi arabia must take steps to end the targeting of political dissidents or journalists. after six weeks after khashoggi's death, the saudi arabian top prosecutor said he would be seeking the death penalty for five suspects, announced 11 saudis had been indicted. three key points from this news statement we are receiving from the treasury department with a hat tip to my friend ayman mohyeld mohyeldin, reading through this right now. saying he doesn't do anything without the approval of the crown prince directly. this means he is very much in the inner circle. it is interesting to see that the u.s. is willing to draw a firewall between he and mbs. saying so far they don't believe there say connection to mohamme

seventeen people so it's highly unlikely that there are any assets to be taken but still the treasury department was forced to do this because senators bipartisan senators sent a message sent a letter invoking the magnitsky act so that they had to basically investigate and have some response this is the response the white house hopes it's going to be sufficient so far we've heard from senator rand paul in a tweet that basically saying putting sanctions on people who are already in jail means nothing these individuals might lose their heads and think basically you think they care about sanctions so that the white house what action if any has been taken by congress. well you could be possibly see this as a test case although you have to keep in mind there was just a motion basically to stop an arms sale to bahrain because bahrain is part of the coalition in yemen that saudi is leading it felt it failed in the senate to get enough votes to get a full vote in the senate but none of the senators came out and said that they were for this the saudi backed campaign in yemen or that they weren't for saud

the treasury department is announcing sanctions on 17 saud disfor what the treasury department says is murder of the saudi columnist jamal khashoggi. the 17 the treasury department is saying they were directly involved in the murder this is the senior officials involved and the operations team most senior official named here is saud al qatani, saying he's a senior official of the government of saudi arabia who is part of the planning and execution of the operation that led to the killing of mr. khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey, on october 2. they're naming other saudis who the u.s. government is accusing of being involved in the operations team that led to the murder of mr. khashoggi. on on the list is mohammed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia there's been speculation about what his role right have been in that apparently targeted killing. now, though, the united states is sanctions 17 saudis not including him on this list we'll see whether that placates critics on capitol hill who say that mbs, as he's known, is unstable and unreliable as a u.s. partner

i do applaud the treasury's designation. now, the state department must are,w suit for what they foreign terrorist organizations the very least, the affiliation should be enough to meet the criteria to designate them. we look forward to your testimony. thank you, chairman. i just want to thank you for your work. a republican from texas joins a democrat from massachusetts. >> pretty bipartisan, isn't it? >> but in a good way. of these things might have been lost in the news because we work together so smoothly, it has not been long internationally. work together our trying to bring support to countries in georgia, work together. working on the tariff issue. strongly,was noticed particularly by the union countries. as well as keeping saudi arabia's feeds the fire on the issues and promises. we have worked together on those and many other issues together. we're just decided to go another way, that's just the way it is. i thank you for holding this hearing. we returned to discuss the bureau's budget. look forward to your testimony today, now that you are

these actions are in addition to the treasury department actions you have already mentioned. second, the administration is focused on cutting off the flow of money to terrorism. we do not want to stop the bomber, we want to stop the money men who pays for the bomb. we have announced 50 actions terrorist designation authorities. we also building the capacity of our partners to investigate, prosecute, and interject funding to facilitators of terrorism. third, we are working to disrupt terrorist travel. we are leading the charge of information sharing and approving watchlist and around the world. these efforts have received a powerful boost when the security council adopted resolution 2396, which includes a number of new tools which will be mandatory. for the international count in adopt, including the use of passenger name record data. or p.n.r. the resolution takes a number of measures that the united states pioneered after 9/11 and makes them global standards. fourth, we are addressing the threats from terrorist fighters and homegrown terrorist. although foreign terrorists fi

treasury department indeed mike let's talk about democratic senator ben cardin saying i'm just quoting here i remain concerned that the administration is enabling the kingdom of saudi arabia in its effort to protect crown prince mohammed bin salon from accountability exactly what you said how is this playing out in the sort of the domestic audience in the u.s. because some senators are also talking about the fact that saudi arabia wasn't sanctioned after the nine eleven attacks where while the state was implicated in the attacks there was sort of they looted to the fact that some members of the saudi hierarchy might have supported al qaeda these sorts of issues in a reassuring their head seventeen years old. very much so it was the obama administration that to the fury of many in congress struck down attempts to hold saudi arabia responsibility for the deaths in nine eleven attack for the families attempting to take legal action against saudi figures because of those attacks bomber actually ruled that he vetoed any legislation that that was the case now since then there has been disqui

the us treasury department has sanctioned 17 individuals over the alleged roles in the killing ofjournalisthe targets of the sanctions include saudi crown prince ben salman‘s close adviser and blacklisted for gross human rights abuses. yesterday saudi arabia's public prosecutor concluded that an intelligence officer ordered his murder, not the crown prince. let's have a quick look now at the markets before we go. as you can see, the nikkei 225 is down 26 points in early trade. it was up almost 50 points, a reversal of fortune there. the all 0rdinaries index gaining ten and the hang seng opening the new trading day lullaby 67 points despite gains on wall street overnight. a lot of uncertainty, though, for brexit. thank you so much for investing your time with us. i'm rico hizon. goodbye for now. this is bbc news. the top stories this hour: despite stinging criticism, and a string of ministerial resignations, the british prime minister has promised to see her brexit deal through. let's stay with that story: we've been asking people who voted in the referendum what they think of the way brexit

treasury department indeed mike let's talk about democratic senator ben cardin saying i'm just quoting here i remain concerned that the administration is enabling the kingdom of saudi arabia in its effort to protect crown prince mohammed bin salon from accountability exactly what you said how is this playing out in the sort of the domestic audience in the u.s. because some senators are also talking about the fact that saudi arabia was sanctioned after the nine eleven attacks where one of the states was implicated in the attacks but there was sort of eluded to the fact that some members of the saudi hierarchy might have supported al qaeda these sorts of issues in a real ring their head seventeen years old very much so it was the obama administration that to the fear.

i applaud the treasuries designation yesterday for affiliated terrorists in iraq. now state department must follow suit anda finally designate whats likeah and hhn for they are, foreign territory positions that have blood americans -- the blood of americans on their hands. their affiliation with the irgc should make the criteria to designate them. thank you for your important work and being here today and i look forward to your testimony. now i will turn it over to the ranking member, mr. keating from massachusetts for his opening comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. since this will be our last hearing, want to thank you for your work. inshows a great deal congress now where conservative republican from texas joins a progressive democrat from massachusetts. >> that's pretty bipartisan. >> but in a good way. although many of these things might have been lost in the news cycle because we work together so smoothly, it hasn't been lost internationally. i can think of our work together trying to bring support to a country that has great concerns in georgia. working on the tariff issue, som

. >> its interest in the kind of reminds me of a something that to me at the treasury department. we had a major issue at the treasury department, but i wanted to argue this case before the court of appeals and before any general counsel of an agency can do that you have to get the approval of the solicitor general. i went to the justice department and the solicitor was sitting there with all these lawyers around him and this is one-way in fact they keep bad arguments from getting a to the court. but if someone doesn't answer to hugh. i wanted to explain why make this argument and the solicitor general's came to me in when i'm finished he looks to the left and it looks to the right and he says week, but not frivolous. dorothy will to go. i'll ask a member who is fun to do. >> the next question here. have the microphone coming this way. >> thank you. hi, peter. look forward to reading the book. former api cannot outgoing council. quick as i do think there's times when the justice department pushes back when agencies. i'm assuming if you're against chevron are also against the idea

these state department actions are in addition to the treasury department actions that you have already mentioned. second, the administration is focused on cutting off the flow of money to terrorism. we don't just want to stop the bomber, we want to stop the money man who pays for the bomb. so far this year, my bureau has announced 50 terrorist designation actions against groups and individuals under our foreign terrorist organization authorities, as well as under executive order 13-224. we are also building the capacity of our partners to investigate, prosecute, and inter dict funding to, and fast facilitators of terrorism. third we are working to disrupt terrorist travel. we are leading the charge on greater information sharing and promoting greater screening and watch listing around the world. these efforts referred a powerful boost last december when the nufrmt security council adopted resolution 2396. which included a number of new tools that will be mandatory for the international community to adopt. including the use of passenger name record data. the resolution takes a number of

right so the treasury department in the last few hours issued sanctions against seventeen individuals under the global magnitsky act this is an act that allows for action by the treasury the executive branch for human rights abuses for corruption in this case for the death of jamal. the statement coming from the treasury department secretary steve saying that these seventeen individuals which includes the saudi consul general as well as a top aide to the crown prince for having a role in the killing of jim out his show she goes on to say that they must face consequences for this action and also that the government of saudi arabia must take steps to go even further to ensure this doesn't happen again with regard to the targeting of political dissidents and journalists so this means now that these in fact these seventeen individuals are blocked from access to the u.s. global financial system or rather the u.s. financial system that companies or businesses or countries even that want to do business with them the u.s. would penalize and also their property under u.s. jurisdiction would be

treasury department slapped sanctions on to zing on three oil companies and several people involved in selling iranian oil to syria united states today sanctions and international network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime this is in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the g.c. could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas then you sanctions focus on one iranian company and two russia based oil companies while the six individuals targeted are from various countries including iran and russia has condemned washington's latest move claiming it will only strengthen the terrorists' position. the effort to charge others with providing oil to syria which has battled terrorist aggression for seven years looks like a statement of support for terrorists and similar taney asli an effort to hamper the reconstruction of the war torn country much of its population is deprived of electricity and heating does the us really want this. beirut based political anal

these sanctions fall under the global magnitsky act and in the press release issued by the treasury department steve the treasury secretary is very clear about them he says that the seventeen individuals that are named are have had these sanctions leveled against them because they have a role in the killing of. he goes on to say that they must face consequences for their actions and this is the action that the united states is taking he goes on further to say however that the saudi arabian government needs to step up and do more to end the targeting of political dissidents as well as journalists. this is certainly significant because there has been a lot of pressure on this white house to take further action but what seems to be missing from all of this is the highest levels of the saudi government specifically mohammed bin salomon the crown prince this is something that members of congress have been pushing for for him to be sanctioned specifically and in this list well we see people very close to the crown prince including his his top aide his subordinate the consul general what we don't see

the treasury has the lead and the state department has been working with the treasury from the very beginning. we created them and we remain in them to advance the national security interest, our foreign policy interest and our economic interest as well as promoting the well-being of people globally. which is better, multilateral assistance or what. when you build a house what is better the nail gun or power drill. it depends on the task at hand at that very moment. now, we might use the nail gun or bilateral assistance more often. we don't want to leave the job site without the power drill. now that said the tools can always be improved and reformed and under secretary's written statement, we are very supportive of those. one of the advantage of the offer is leveraging resources. there are resources that exceed our own because of other donors as well as access to capital markets. in addition we can leverage the skills of the very talented staff at isi on issues like procurement, fiscal policy, anti corruption and many other issues. i would like to focus on three areas where the if i's advanc

including treasury secretary steve talking tough as well on a conference call with reporters the treasury department will have more than seven hundred names to our list of blocked and today's this includes hundreds of targets previously granted sanction for leave under the j. c.p.o. i as well as more than three hundred new jack nations this is substantially more than we ever have previously done but they are giving waivers to eight countries allowing them to continue to remain oil with the promise they will reduce that amount over time the u.s. is breaking the international deal and the rest of the signatories say they want to stay in it proponents of the nuclear deal say this move will isolate the u.s. russia was abiding by it the chinese were abiding by it the europeans were abiding by it and most importantly the iranians were abiding by it's now the united states that is in breach of that agreement and is now actually going so far as to punish him. trees that are abiding by a u.n. security council resolution you really can't get more pariah than the european union created what they hope will be a

the war there is a growing call for something more to be done i can tell you that when the treasury department saying seventeen people in the u.s. senator put on twitter but these people are already in prison they're worried about losing their heads they're not worried about us saying they basically are saying this doesn't go far enough and they're pledging to do something the question is do they have the numbers to override a veto well we're not going to know that for a little while because the u.s. house and the u.s. senate are in recess they will not be in town this week it is a holiday here in the united states betty going live for us in washington thanks patty i haven't siegfried is a republican strategist and joins us via skype now from new york thanks very much for being with us so we we are seeing creasing lee now this divide between the cia and the whole intelligence community and president trump. what do you make of that. well this is more of the same divide between the president and the intelligence community the president as your reporter just stated has rejected the intelligence c

state department and treasury department have announced that effective five g. on monday november fifth all u.s. sanctions targeting iran's energy and financial sectors will be reimposed and more than seven hundred people are going to be added to the u.s. sanctions list this is part of what washington is calling its maximum pressure strategy in order to convince the government that it needs to change its policies its destabilizing policies in the trumpet ministrations words and terms of supporting the assad government in syria in terms of supporting hooty fighters in yemen civil war and in terms of trying to build a nuclear weapons arsenal the trumpet ministration says that the obama administration was wrong to enter into a deal that would allow iran to experience some financial and some so social relief in exchange for promising to give up its nuclear weapons program donald trump it campaigned that this deal was in effect a giveaway to the iranians to continue its bad behavior the official said on friday to reporters that once the sanctions come into effect ira

treasury department but notably none of those included the highest echelons of the royal family so now we see this being triggered a second time it seems that the u.s. senate is intent on focusing on the saudi crown prince even as the white house is trying to keep open the possibility that he was not involved right kimberly thanks for that kimberly halkett white house correspondent live in washington well as kimberly mentioned saudi arabia's foreign minister has been talking to the media is given a couple of interviews and he says his government was not involved in. victoria gave him be takes a closer look now at the evidence. the u.s. is imposed sanctions on seventeen saudi officials for their suspected involvement in the killing of jamal khashoggi they include a fifteen man hit squad that travelled to turkey to carry out the operation so who made up this team and who did they report to let's start with abdel aziz matric who is believed to have been the coordinator of the operation he's a general in crown prince mohammed bin soundman security team next we have saddam hammett al sabaid

congress when it comes to foreign policy has come out and said this is not acceptable so the treasury department said we're going to sanction seventeen individuals and i can tell you that landed with a giant thud on capitol hill basically saying this isn't enough the other thing that's really driving these senators and these congressman is we saw secretary of state and secretary of defense jim madison come out and secretary of state might come pale and say the yemen war's got to stop thirty days we want to see a ceasefire and we've seen the bombardment of yemen escalate after those debate ends so many senators have said see this shows us that the crown prince is not going to listen to the trump administration they're not going to listen to us unless we send a message and they want that message to be strong so the question remains just how many will vote on any of this legislation because they have to have enough to override a potential presidential veto we're not going to know the answer to that this week the congress the house the senate they're not in session they're gone for the holiday week

those eight countries are an exception even american companies may get special license from the treasury department and do business with iran if needed so it's like sanctions are a same shows but you can always get. this you know is this again from pulling out that in the book for the answer all of his little misses on the bus and his checks and all this it seems to me there we return here yet this is obviously a political move before the elections to a large extent. i'm not so sure how popular sanctions on iran are with the american people or not i don't think american people care about sanctions on iraq i mean i either way i don't think they don't support them i don't think they do support i don't think they really care about that's not what americans vote or care about other other then from the angry comments the people that watch the show you all know that you are not the average americans that you actually are concerned with forget you would be watching this program watching the show if you are right but by and large you know every data shows americans do not vote on foreign policy and they ce

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. >> we really have two us governments at this point those in theng agencies treasury department and state department and elsewhere who are dedicated public servants and understand the rules of law and what happened and also congress that weighed in quite decisively when nobody else was that the russians needed to pay a price for what they did and as a result sanctions were imposed on russia and some of those that were sanctioned since the election are key players in the book. the oligarch coupon in a fort owed all of those millions of dollars to during thehe campaign has been sanctioned with some remarkable details about his dees to russian organized crime and also one of my favorite characters the deputy governor of the russian central bank was the handler for a woman you may have heard of who is now in jail and reportedly cooperating with prosecutors about her own attempts to infiltrate the nra and other conservative political organizations. you have that going on then you have a president who was out there on his own to deny any of this is necessary giving signals to the top guy