as a saudi activists based in seattle washington she joins us via skype right now also the version of events in saudi arabia is saying first first said knowledge that he was killed in the consulate but saying that it happened as a result of a fistfight how do you see that happening process that information. and there has got to. hurt in the story firstly her he got out and we're in our last. it's a difference. to me about this point that were very. it's pretty much as i don't believe it it's not really credible and i've seen an international investigation. to determine the true. cost and present. us president said that he does find it credible and if he is in that particular place. how difficult do you see it being to actually get a different type of investigation. i don't think it's really difficult at all actually congress has already demanded it or it most of all senators already signed magnitsky act and wanted to activate it in case anything does come out and them from asia is not credible and i don't think that the president's trying to word it is enough especially with this glob

saudi officials clear on is executor executive director of the arab center of washington and joins us via skype from fairfax virginia we appreciate your time very much so. what are you hearing now when you hear the president from finally acknowledging that jamal khashoggi is likely dead what do you what are you getting out of that. well i think we're approaching the point of maybe sanity in the u.s. reaction to this crisis we've seen the u.s. position change just like that whether in london i mean you know one day we have. worries some administration showing concern about some serious developments news coming from istanbul the next day we have a production as an end of the united states turning into a lawyer. but then show a traitor's of very in a crime now all of a sudden there seems to be a kind of little tone of reality in the statements that we've heard today that are that is definitely. i think basically first of all the case itself has moved so quickly it has sort of passed this unnecessary caution on the part of the administration the whole world community seems to be pointing its finger

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joins us via skype from the new york city restaurant to which the device was addressed welcome abbi what more can you tell us. well that's right i'm standing outside the tribe back our girl here in lower manhattan this is the restaurant that's colin by actor robert de niro and i was up for eight am one of the ploy here found the package that was delivered and he recognized the package based on what he'd seen on television yesterday with all the packages that were being shown that were delivered to see and the obama's and the clintons and immediately call the new york police department and when that was done of course the authorities were deployed they also sends a containment vehicle to take the package to the bronx where a rule being examined at a facility now this could be potentially a rudimentary but functional pipe bomb just of authorities were expecting yesterday and separate incident all together new castle delaware. mail posting still it. was intercepted that was addressed to for a vice president joe biden so there are multiple packages yesterday and already today phil one might

who joins us via skype from there facts for john yes so the. at the saudis are saying happened is that sixty one year all jamal khashoggi got into a fight in a row or he was outnumbered by fifteen perhaps sixteen people does that sound plausible to you. absolutely not it doesn't make sense. it's just mind boggling that after all this preparation and revisiting the issue that they will come up with a story like that. there are tapes frankly and i hope that the authorities government soon would release those states and they are both and video even though they deny the existence of that video at least one of the agencies in turkey does have that and has shared only a small segment of it where the u.s. counterparts just the last twenty four hours that video shows exactly what happened as your man was entered the building he met for a few minutes with the consul general to discuss his papers that he needed and he was immediately attacked by. you know of killers that were sent specifically to stumble to to actually liquidate him it wasn't an accident

declan walsh joins us now via skype from cairo. >> economic, income famine was that is preventable you use one of the characters in here to help tell the story. tell us. >> we met mr. hajagiy standing his three-year-old son who was very seriously ill and his son had actually died just three weeks earlier. the collapse of the economy really pushepeople like him over the edge. >> sreenivasan:, encapsulate why this war is taking place in the first place. t four war started abou years ago, when this group called the houthi seized control of the capital in late 2014, that was a very alarming development for neing y udi arabia, which viewed the houthis effectiv a proxy for iran, and from march 2015 you had thehen defense minister of saudi arabia who sent saudi warplanes to start bombing houthi targe and that was starting gun for the war. th sreenivasan: when you talk aboue air strikes, there is such significant damage to the infrastructure, that means that goods and services can't go back across that road, including food. >> that's right. so one of the great impacts of the airp strike caign

joining us now via skype from saint petersburg florida is idevor aaronson, executive director of the flcenter for investigative reporting and a contributing writer for "the intercept." me, what do we know 24 hours have passed since the arrest bthis individual? >> what we kw cesar sayoc is he was born in new york and ended up moving to south florida when he was a teenager, graduating from a local high school here. early in his life, he aspired to be a profes.sional wrestl at one point he had traveled with a male review show as a male stripper. but what the family attorney tells us is that basically, you know, this is a man who tried and failed at many things in his life and just never had mu success in life. but, also, really kind of had trouble finding a place to fit in, this world. and, you know, after trump started running for president in 2015, that's when siac began to get engaged in politics for the first time. and starting earlier this year is when he became very active on social media, started sharing, you know, memes about hillary clinton and george soros, and variousing peop

professor at the pontifical catholic university of south paolo and that is where he is joining us from via skype thanks for speaking to us so on the eve of the presidential runoff there was one poll that football so no are at a fifty four percent approval rating versus had died at forty six percent also nor is a man that's been accused of making racist as well as sexist comments how do you explain his popularity. well it seems that nothing that he say that really matters if you are looking for a strong man and he has built rhetoric around this idea that he's a strong man and he's a new face in politics that he can turn things around and particularly that he's not he's not he's not little silver the former president so he has built this image of fighting corruption being a strong man and i mean it doesn't matter how many polemics things he. doesn't stick to him so how much of his success that is down to what many say are the failure is off the left us workers party well there's something to that. the presidency of doom a recession. was a hard time in brazil the economy. had to turn down and of co

he's an associate professor of middle eastern politics at the university of oklahoma who joins us via skype from norman in oklahoma we've seen some strong comments from both president trump and the vice president mike pence how significant are these comments from the u.s. administration in a way of trump and pence responded now. well i think they've had to respond i mean this has been something that the international community has spoken about now for several days mr arrington wine and the turkish government have made some strong claims and there is a great deal of concern about mr fyshe okies whereabouts this would be you know an incredibly obscene outrageous act if it really had occurred that he was killed in the consulate and i think they felt pressured to respond as have many american senators and congress people so i think they needed to respond and mr pence did so in a tweet and mr trump did so in response to a question on how of the saudis then locked into view what trump and various us some sense of responded i mean as a slot to put strain on the on the relationship between washingt

and founder of global security group he joins us via skype from new york david it's been over a week now since disappearance we still have had no official statement from turkey and they say the saudis being unhelpful so how difficult is it going to be to gather all the forensic evidence and piece a list together. well when you say parenthetically forensics. things. around the government would require investigation inside the consulate which is not going to happen but what i would suggest what i would suggest in to your producer earlier is that there is clearly tension between the saudis and the turkish government so that suggests that turkey is going to be directing their very considerable intelligence apparatus at everything to do with the saudi government in turkey for sure so it's very possible but they do in fact have or you know and video recordings of the things that are going on inside the consulate whether it was point whether there were bombs planted or they were and you know electronic intercepts so you wouldn't really need. six if you have evidence of that nature and if if

crowley who's joining us live from alexandra in virginia that's via skype thanks very much for speaking to us so as we've been hearing we have many senior republicans and democrats who are proposing sanctions on saudi arabia they expunge the expulsion of the saudi ambassador some even calling for the cutting off arms sales do you think that this incident is going to re-examine relations between saudi arabia and the u.s. . oh i certainly think they'll be a reexamination of the nature of a relationship there will be an effort to try to determine to the extent that our intelligence services can you know what we understand to be the events that occurred at the turkish consulate obviously turkey itself will be will play a role in this so i do think that this issue house you know some long seventy and will and will be introduced into a wide range of discussions going forward the nature for us saudi cooperation how that translates into some sort of you know punitive action if any that remains to be seen. and the president himself initially wanted a quick resolution he has earlier comments sugg

unit at the international federation of red cross and west krebs red crescent societies he joins us via skype now from kuala lumpur thanks very much for being with us so here we are a few days on now from this tsunami what is the most urgent need of people right now and what is how does that fit in what with what you organization is doing you know the. cause of this plane. needs of these planes we're we're looking at. rescue operations continue at this moment they are not of we also continue to provide relief yes pointing continuing to provide food and water we are continuing to provide need every need the people need at this time cycle social support they need because of the the trauma that has to be posed by these events and of course their most pressing is also to make sure that some of them who have been displaced that this point because homes i've been damaged roofs over their heads a daytime at least because most of them and at nighttime they're covered from the elements those are the basic needs at this moment and it's cause we're hoping to get relief teams on the ground in areas which

special agent who worked on the unabomber case he joins us via skype from new haven connecticut and we appreciate your time in that report kimberly referenced some of what some of the remarks of president donald trump had made you know denouncing this saying it was evil but he's also at a rally tonight used the word globalist repeatedly which is a dog whistle an anti-semitic term he made a joke about having a bad hair day what would you like to hear a u.s. president say in a time like this. like you were in politics so i really you know i would you know what are you do have opinions about. this crime. really want to move the ball oh ok fair enough president this you wouldn't believe that things like this still happen but the anti-defamation league says that hate crimes against jews are a fifty seven percent what do you think is contributing to that. so you know. who can say exactly what is causing this increase in hate crimes against jews is that just here in the united states or around the world i don't know but in this particular case the shooter in this one particular instance teleg

some other dude is the middle east director of campaigns it amnesty international she's joining us via skype from beirut thank you very much indeed for joining us what are your concerns about the possible outcomes of this case. well given saudi arabia's direct involvement in the coordination and killing of christian b.c. we believe that any investigation led by them lacks credibility and would be untrustworthy this is why we are meddling for an independent investigation into the execution harsh of them it's only through a un led independent investigation that the world can finally know the full truth and grasp the details around his killing through this investigation we would be able to understand the coordination of the perpetrators who are responsible for his killing. the investigation the end hounds led by the saudi arabian in the florida keys is just an attempt to cover up the details surrounding his killing and an attempt to whitewash any sort of truth. and cover up those who are ultimately responsible for his death therefore what we need now than ever is this actually general of the u.

sylvia mclean is a lecturer in by a physics at st peters college at oxford university and she joins us via skype now from sussex here in the u.k. thanks very much for joining us and so do issue first of all fifty five years since a female scientist has won this prize why has it taken so long. you might want to ask the nobel prize committee that because they come up with names so maybe they can have a better answer than i can there's also not as many women obviously in physics as there are men because women have been excluded for a long time and there's just not many as many women yet but i think it's getting a bit better but it did feel a bit like divine justice after just a day before this italian physicist turned around in a lecture and said that physics was invented by man and built by man i mean it's almost like the nobel prize was given for this very reason just to show well actually that's not true well i think you know we have to remember that we've done really well with this historical demographic that we have in science but how much better could we do if we actually opened it up so it w

diplomat and former deputy chief of mission in yemen he joins us via skype from washington d.c. bill we've seen u.s. president donald trump secretary of state mike. even national security adviser john bolton old say they've spoken to the saudi leadership how much is this case putting increasing pressure on trump who of course has a very cozy relationship with the sounds. yes i think the pressure or at first didn't come on too much the first few hours or days of this news but the pressure is building our work quickly and i think it will continue building up until the said ministration takes some action. i know that this is very shocking news but at the same time it is rather expected by the also was more known this regime a regime which has jailed women activists as flarm a young poet for writing something on facebook and as exit cute it she our clerics who are being opposition to the one arche this regime has also devastated yemen and well sir and this administration have been totally insensitive to the suffering of millions of yemenis so frankly it doesn't surprise me that ther

institute school of contemporary chinese at the school of contemporary chinese studies he joins us via skype thank you very much for being with us so all is menc home way and why are chinese authorities so tight lipped about his disappearance. well first of all let me clarify i'm the director of the show was china in situ not the china policy institute now mongoloid was a fool ministerial rang official in china even though he held the rank of lice minister before he was appointed to the interpol so he was a very senior figure he was also until earlier this year a member a member of the central committee of the common his party so again that put him in the top two hundred fifty most powerful people in china so for somebody in his standing for him to be detained the order would have to come from pretty much the very top so do you think he is being detained well the complete silence all of the chinese media when the rest of the world is making a big fuss of it and him being a chinese citizen and will negate practically a confirmation that the chinese government has now got him under detention t

executive director of the arab center of washington he was a friend of jamal khashoggi he joins us via skype and if i could just start by asking you about this statement that king solomon of saudi arabia has ordered the restructuring of the kamandi of the general intelligence agency and that restructuring is to be done under the supervision of the crown prince mohammed bin some on the message appears to be quite clear from riyadh the way absolve him completely of playing any role in the killing of khashoggi. i don't believe this is acceptable i mean i do not necessarily blame the saudis for trying to put a good face on this crisis it's a major crisis it's an existential crisis for saudi arabia the fact that they have come to terms with the fact that our friend. has been killed at the saudi consulate . in istanbul although they say. during a struggle whatever that struggle means when a killing squad fifteen people attacked one person i wouldn't call that a struggle or a fight that was an attempt to assassinate him to start with but at any rate you know it's good that the saudi government is.

research center in malaysia he's also a former political secretary in office and he's joining us via skype from singapore very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so what do you make of the wife now being charged and you surprised. really i think a lot of malaysians are not surprised because they think most malaysian voters at least those who vote that four months ago they thought that it indeed did say it's sort of this collaboration between husband and why there's various other shady figures who think their way. a lot of money from this one in the big end there was what taking prompted them primarily to vote for that then opposition so given all of this how strong would you say the prosecution's case is against rules against and. you mentioned shady figures there's also the other man joe no. well the act under which above mr noah and mrs rose. were charged and were eighty days it is an act which can be used to convict rather easily and that is because for example it is the sum of money which goes into a bank account and your can't explain that properly and legally away then you're ver

ricardo gonzalez he said tunis based journalist who lives near the site of the attack is joining us via skype so as we're saying you live near the area when you heard the explosion and went to the site what did you see. so the explosion happened and you do. not have an explosion so i have. already. went down to many people. so when i arrived. do you. mean i saw they were. going. on. and some of them were receiving medical attention. and then all the. men are right on the. so a side attack was carried out by a woman that we have learnt what more are you finding out about her. thirty years old unless you are or you. don't know that she was unknown. any. year or so she was completely out of iraq. whatever being safe to assume that the police were the target of this attack because we know that eight of them were injured. yes yes. i grew. up here. every year. if you only one. year. so i know out. there well it's. ok we thank you very much for speaking to us from tunis. antony's in rescuers have given up hope of finding any survivors after a plane plunged into the sea lion air flight had one hundre

to syria let's speak to jason stearns he's the director of the congo research group is joining us via skype from new york thanks for being with us so. benny and particular has been the scene of some of the country's worst massacre is what is at the heart of the conflict there that's a very difficult question to answer your reports what about the this ugandan rebel group that indeed is present but there are many other groups that we have found to be able in the violence including the congolese army forces it's so and so this is a very. complex dynamic that's been going on since two thousand and fourteen at least around any so it's very difficult first of all even so it should be you who choose the people around the little ones who know why they're doing it so as you are saying with several armed groups that are there in beni that are active in the northeast to to what extent does that really complicate the situation. it's an extremely complicated situation i think probably the most complicated or it was the two ation is the lack of political will but the congolese government itself as manife

greenberg director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law she joins us via skype from westchester in new york state and you've had a little bit of time to digest some of the some of this admission as it's come out in the last few hours just first of all your reaction to this. yeah my reaction is that they knew they had to come up with a story and this is what they think is the best story for their purposes that they can come up with and i think the response to that has to be whether it's from the white house or from the media or from the expert community is that that's not good enough the story that has to meet a with the facts and be has to be part of an investigation the more than the person accused of leading this effort and this murder is it has to be an investigation by somebody other than him and his forces and so it's at the very least insufficient but it's also insulting it's really a question of saying what you saw what you heard what billy the few facts that we do know you can push those aside because here's our story and worst keep sticking to it and i

he joins us via skype. and sean walsh, a republican strategist with wilson walsh consulting. welcome to you all. let's start with the saudi crisis. president trump now says he believes that the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi isde but is not holding yet the saudi crown prince responsible. yesterday we aso saw treasury secretary steve mnuchin after much pressure saying he willnow pull out of the investment conference coming up. sean, what kinds of challenges does thiscase president for the trump administration? >> they're huge. huge. they're our largest arms purchaser. california is actuallynt depen on saudi oil coming here because we're a bit of a fuel lad. the economy and the stock market can be very spooked. so right now the economy's thriving. is is all coming right before he midterm election, to huge implications. >> this story's been going on for more than a week. intelligence sources say today that is inconceivable that the saudi prince did not know what was going on that consulate. at this point there are ripples incalifornia. when you have $6 billion in saudi investm

well let's bring in our guests now to talk more about this joining us via skype from london is dr saad a saudi dissident who heads up the opposition group movement for islamic reform in arabia in vienna we have a director of advocacy with the international press institute and in london also on skype david hurst editor in chief of middle east i could to have you all with us david hurst if i could start with you as far as the latest we're hearing on the investigation in as much as. there is any sort of information because the turks are certainly keeping their cards close to the vest on this what do you met what do you make of of the latest developments on what they found inside the the saudi consulate and in the consul general home and what direction is this going in. move it's going. to stumble to belgrade forest and the woodland in garcia neighborhood. the c.c.t.v. has traced the movements of a one of the vans that was registered to the consulate on diplomatic plates the wooden itself is a bit of a c.c.t.v. blackspot but they call the van the same that are coming out of the area and th

jake williams now who's a cyber security expert and founder of rendition info second he's joining us via skype from all. in georgia thank you very much indeed for joining us does it surprise you these revelations that the new york times have published about saudi arabia's activity online in trying to silence people who are raising critical voices. it doesn't surprise me at all that they would try to identify those people or also spy on those folks doesn't surprise me at all either that they would try to get an insider who could provide them with more detailed information such as ip addresses or email addresses used to register the accounts stuff they could use a practiced people down in real life indeed and ledges the bad and of responsibility lie when it comes to twitter for instance having an employee on its books who is actually freelancing i'm not sure if it is free so not but looking for a government in which goes against all of the values that it being promulgated by the station media at the chiquita sure yet this is actually a really interesting case here in the us a lot of people don't

i'm speaking out to henri barkey who joins us via skype from chevy chase maryland he's a professor at lehigh university in specializes in turkey and the middle east a professor good to have you with us what's your take on this what do you think has happened to jamal khashoggi. listen this is a sixty four thousand dollars question as they say here i have no idea. and at this stage i think i would take everything that's going so different large again. because look. you know her present that i don't say we're investigating but he did not say that mr kushner he had been murdered and i think the concerts he was kind of care for all. summer she is deputies and some of his allies are being. calling mr kushner you know he was really good guy but he was his buddy i didn't destroy that ship jobs so these are heating costs legations and it's hard to take any of these things very seriously at this stage because the turkish officials don't have much credibility and the saudis when they say they don't have it and they are over the don't have much credibility either so we are in a situation where we

twitter is a associate professor of middle east politics at the university of oklahoma he joins us via skype from norman oklahoma thank you so much for your time so to be clear what we're talking about are or bots which are basically fake accounts was this tactic to be expected. unfortunately i think it was to be expected now this is a standard practice by some states in international politics of course the best known case is the russian case in terms of their attempted influence on american public opinion including the elections but this is also quite common in the gulf in the arab world as you know the g.c.c. cuts are a crisis of a year and a half ago or so also had many pots a trying to sew this information and misinformation with regard to public opinion about that as well so yes it is unfortunately to be expected how effective is this tactic well we don't know that accurately we do know that it is somewhat effective i mean it can do a number of things one it can frame a conversation or it can actually get certain topics to be in the public discussion as opposed to other topics and to it

specializes in arab and islamic affairs at the new america foundation he joins us via skype from los angeles so there are still so many unresolved issues what is the major one as you see it. well today the main one of the major issues is the constitution the u.n. special representative stefan the mistura was empowered by the un to set up our panel of experts drop the constitution and recently the for the form of the syrian foreign minister told him that that's not going to happen when i can accept these people so about something as basic as is writing a new constitution the syrian government has ruled out there's really not much for the world powers to do if the syrian government is going to accept any type of peace negotiation and and honestly what what reason would bashar assad have to agree to that he actually has no and sense of security so why he won the war when the russians got involved in september two thousand fifty the bombing campaign they have effectively rolled up the rebels on the one pocket math and give them their president good government control of most of the count

executive director of the arab center of washington he was a friend of jamal khashoggi he joins us via skype and if i could just start by asking you about this statement that king solomon of saudi arabia has ordered the restructuring of the come on of the general intelligence agency and that restructuring is to be done under the supervision of the crown prince mohammed bin some on the message appears to be quite clear from riyadh the way absolve him completely of playing any role in the killing of khashoggi. i don't believe this is acceptable i mean i do not necessarily blame the saudis for trying to put a good face on this crisis it's a major crisis it's an existential crisis for saudi arabia the fact that they have come to terms with the fact that our friend. has been killed at the saudi consulate . in istanbul although they say. during a struggle whatever that struggle means when a killing squad fifteen people attacked one person i wouldn't call that a struggle or a fight that was an attempt to assassinate him to start with but at any rate you know it's good that the saudi government. fin

he's a research fellow with the new america foundation and joins us via skype from denver colorado we appreciate your time very much so. in the past few days or i guess ten days or so donald trump has been and it seems right assent to be overly critical of saudi arabia pointing out repeatedly that they are an ally talking a lot about financial ties eccentrics are what do you see as the strongest ties in this this alliance between the u.s. and saudi arabia. well it's a very very deep alliance that united states has are starting to revere it's really built right now from the trunk perspective on containing and growing back iran has influence in the region as you know the saudis were very upset with the obama administration concerning the iran nuclear accord trump called it the worst jewish century he she put the united states out of the geo the saudis are very happy now the united states has to find a way of making up the. iran truces on the world markets if they're going to reimpose or say the sanctions and the saudis are and they're going to step up and bring to produce those barrels

schneider he's a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university joins us via skype from washington d.c. bill so how significant are president trump and mike pence his comments i mean they could have right concerned about what may have happened to be so why are they talking now why is trump talking now. because they're under pressure from members of congress and from the press which is deeply concerned about the fate of this journalist that was of congress are talking about investigation because a lot of members of congress have been critical of the close relationship that president trump has been trying to build with this saudi government and so the result is that there's some there or there is some pressure coming to that sickly in the united states to look into this matter. and and bill how will the saudis be viewing what trump has said given the cozy nature of the relationship between riyadh and washington how will they be doing what how will the saudis be viewing what trump has said given the nature of the relationship between riyadh and washington that you poin

he joins us via skype from there thank you so much for your time so the crown prince finally made some public comments how would you characterize the tone and the words but i suppose in particular the tone of what i'm getting at is there were moments where he made jokes alluding to the the shot of not having been kidnapped because apparently he was a few months ago from what i know just how do you characterize the tone. i think in general particularly in terms of the substance of the crown prince's remarks they were kind of too little too late yes he did acknowledge that this crime that ended up costing jamal khashoggi his life. is a heinous crime as he described it and he cannot be justified according to his words the claim that most if not all saudis went upset by the news. and that most people around the world. upset. by that but there was nothing new really in his remarks the tone yes i would say that one was was different like i said the denial the first two weeks of this crisis it was not visible in his statement today he pretended to be putting a positive face relaxed pace well

for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and editor of syria comment block he joins us via skype from norman oklahoma and thank you so much for your time so their timing and this resignation what does it signify to you. well the war is coming to an end and the u.s. and it has very little role to play in it you know we saw de mistura do really our roic work trying to bring together the different sides but the it's a problem here was that the sides did not want a peace agreement and the united states and russia cut off it's in a secure and a council which which really paralyzed the u.n. because the united states the west what assad to step down and regime in shipping and russia and iran wired aside to stay so there was really very little grounds for dialogue and for some cut i mean a peace agreement and yet he kept it together for these four years trying to play for time trying to make a little agreements that would hopefully bring the two sides closer together it never happened this was settled on the battlefield so the idea of a constitution realistically can that be draft dead b

the same professor of international business affairs at george washington university who joins us via skype from assets in virginia thank you very much for your time so this talk about it about extraditing saudi suspects is that realistic to you absolutely not anyone who knows anything about saudi arabia would tell you that in saudi arabia this is has not happened without the approval and the direct involvement of prince n.b.s. as he's called all the king and resolve these who send these eighteen men or fifteen men or whatever number outside of saudi arabia they would be losing control of this whole affair because if they keep it in saudi arabia it will have some kind of concocted trial it would not be open it never is open and this will be the end of it and they will come up with something to try to satisfy the world where if they send them to tell you he moves total control and they will be up a creek so right now who does have the upper hand is it is it turkey or is it the u.s. that's still in the position to put some pressure on to get some answers who really is in control. i think in c

scott lucas as professor of american studies at the university of birmingham and joins us via skype from birmingham scott we were speaking yesterday as the senate was gearing up for this vote it's now been confirmed brett kavanaugh is the newest supreme court justice and that means a lot of people in the u.s. rather unhappy. well of course of the many people in the u.s. who will be happy starting with donald trump and the republican leadership in the senate let's start with the us this was not a process to preserve the integrity of the supreme court or to maintain it as a independent third branch this was a political mission to get a conservative on to the court to ensure a five four majority irrespective of the doubts over his legal opinions irrespective of the sexual assault claims now trump and the g.o.p. leadership have succeeded in that but that's just the first stage we of course will be looking at as to how this might affect whether people are happy or unhappy of the november elections for congress but beyond that i think we're looking at a change in american politics which is bey

ambassador to iraq and joins us via skype from the university of chapel hill in north carolina how significant is the appointment of bought him sally as president i mean he's a veteran politician in iraq you know him well so what does he bring to the table first of all he's very comfortable feeling a lot of different people he does it come from the inside of structures he's been on top structures for some time he's obviously the sort of. true successor of talabani so it fits into the key u.k. that is that kurdish party or base civil but yes he has very good relations however with the other kurdish parties and most significantly i think if you asked it what he is he would he would certainly go also occur but he also calls himself or joaquin understands modern economy and i think for americans that many foreigners it's a pleasure to deal with someone who frankly speaks english better than many of many of us on the new president his name the ship politician. the as prime minister and tossed him with forming a new government in your estimation mr hill how challenging is that likely to be to get th

from istanbul and we have mammoth cheli has a political editor with the daily newspaper joining us via skype in amman is adam google he's the middle east researcher with human rights watch and finally joining us here in studio three a is the director of gulf studies center of the university welcome to you all mr chala nothing is conclusive so far we've heard different accounts about the fate of the saudi journalist and critic jim. what we know for sure is that he's found saying that he went into the consulate but never showed up the saudis said he left from a different date the turks say they still believe is inside the building was the situation the while yes it is it is confirmed that he went on october second to the saudi consulate and he never came out. there has been reports suggesting that he was he's fair that he is it's fair that he was killed however earlier today president president spoke on the issue saying that he still hopes that there will be a positive outcome instead and the investigation is continuing saw there has been conflict it conflicting reports and we hope that this s

. >> reporter: the a's president spoke to us via skype from new york. >> i think the team is ready to go. they want to showcase their talent level and excitement around making october baseball a reality in oakland. >> found it. >> reporter: and while the contest is 3,000 miles away, fans here are gearing up ready to show up for a game many believe will go their way. >> we have a very good rivalry against the yankees and i'm hoping that today will be the time and we're ready for it. what do going to do it. with everybody rooting for them, they're going to win. that's a quad that's beaten the odds especially on the roads so who is to say they won't do it again. >> and it sure did, k. >> wre going to win. >> how is it going to happen? >> quick. >> they've been doing really well in the eighth inning. they're going to take it on home. >> reporter: you can hear quite a bit of optimism. hear handing out the rally towels that says win one for hero town. expecting more than 1,000 before the night is through. they have the tree house open. they're going to have some of the outdoor seating avail

now with cnn legal analyst michael sell den, michael also a former federal prosecutor joining us via skypehour. thank you so much for your time, michael. >> thank you. >> let's start with what we're hearing from rachel mitchell. rachel mitchell conducted the questioning for republicans during the hearing of brett kavanaugh and in a memorandum to republican senators, she says a, quote, reasonable prosecutor would not bring a case against brett kavanaugh based on christine blasey ford's sexual assault allegation given the evidence presented to the judiciary committee. again, she also questioned blasey ford as well. given her thoughts here, what's your assessment? >> well, you have to understand who she is in relation to this case, which is to say that she was hired by the republican majority on the senate judiciary committee for the purpose of conducting inquiry on their behalf. so she is essentially not an independent neutral, but a hired gun for the republicans. so one would expect that. that said, her assessment may be correct in that most of these cases look for some form of corroborativ

. >> reporter: a's president spoke to us via skype from new york. >> i think the team is ready to go. they want to showcase their high-talent level and their excitement around making october baseball a reality in oakland. >> found it. >> reporter: and while the contest is 3,000 miles away, fans here are gearing up, ready to show up for a game many believe will go their way. >> we have a very good rivalry against the yankees, and i'm hoping that today, you know, it is going to be the time and we're ready for it. >> reporter: so what do you think? can they do it? >> of course they can do it. you can't say no. of course they're going to do it. with everybody rooting for them, yeah, they're gonna win. >> there's a shot to center. >> reporter: after all, this is a squad that's already beaten the odds, especially on the road. so who's to say they won't do it again? >> oakland! >> reporter: you think they is one more tonight? >> yes! we're going to go to playoffs. we're going to go against the red sox. we're going to go! >> reporter: and we're back live here at the treehouse at the oakland c

strategy officer for rest newson global and form a policy director of planning for nato he joins us via skype from santander in spain thanks for being with us so first of all what do you make of the comments by kay bailey hutchinson. i think it means that the u.s. is going to pressure the iran the breach of by russia of the nuclear forces treaty is not new the u.s.'s come forward already years ago which the nato allies with some intelligence saying that the russia was in breach of that and one nine hundred eighty seven treaty but there was no food endorsement by dia lions and the allies as a whole so i think we are seeing here a kind of a scale ation at least in the rhetoric we have to see out of this defense minister if the other allies who where usually more cautious on the issue of going to endorse the u.s. position and are going to have the food through lage nato official position on recovered a single russian breech of the treaty so i think days clearly some consent on the u.s. side we have to know that cruise me size are really the worst friend of strategic stability because they are ha

is a visiting fellow and not immune averse sense of a conflict security and terrorism joins us via skype now from nottingham thanks very much for being with us so how much of a threat does isaw remain while it operates in these desert areas. well it's a it's ironic it's the drought it isn't. concentrated in territories like it was in the past and certainly not. thirty miles from baghdad as it was and in twenty forty or so what it's doing really is reverting to its reaps if you call i salute i wish to mouth wrong what was known as of iraq by people like us and the whole muslim ones or. and during that time it conducted with terrorist operations attacking those living or ones in cities and that is what is reverting to now it is just continual. and bomb attacks against soft target civilian targets there was an attack just or only twenty four hours ago needs a huge number of people were killed a total of seventy people have been killed in september and early july hundred injured so it's reverting to type converting to its roots and how long should you the u.s. troops who are training iraqi f

it's called griffin is deputy director of the international press institute he joins us via skype now from vienna thanks very much for being with us now there's clearly a lot about this story that that we simply don't know. at this point but how how concerned are you about the the well for it welfare of mr shows me at this point and where he may be. said it's a developing story we don't know what the facts yet but we are concerned obviously hasn't been seen in his lasting injury in the saudi consulate we don't know how he was doing we don't know how it was being treated he's a critic of the current saudi regime we know that we also know that the saddam regime is going after its critics and this is a particularly in my dishes example of someone who went to the consulate according to reports and took a documents he needed to get married and has not been able to leave so this is this is an audacious move and what they're concerned about as well if they're so how concerned are you about the the public's right to know about what is happening inside saudi arabia because of course mr shafiq

well let's bring in our guests now to talk more about this joining us via skype from london is dr saad a saudi dissident who heads up the opposition group movement for islamic reform in arabia in vienna we have a director of advocacy with the international press institute and in london also on skype david hurst editor in chief of middle east i could to have you all with us david hurst if i could start with you as far as the latest we're hearing on the investigation in as much as. there is any sort of information because the turks are certainly keeping their cards close to the vest on this what do you met what do you make of of the latest developments on what they found inside the the saudi consulate and in the consul general home and what direction is this going in. move it's going. to stumble to belgrade forest and the woodland in garcia neighborhood. the c.c.t.v. has traced the movements of a one of the vans that was registered to the consulate on diplomatic plates the wooden itself is a bit of a c.c.t.v. blackspot but they call the van the same that coming out of the area and then o

from istanbul and we have mammoth cheli has a political editor with the daily newspaper joining us via skype in amman is google he's the middle east researcher with human rights watch and finally joining us here in studio three he's director of gulf studies center of the thai university welcome to you all mr chala nothing is conclusive so far we've heard different accounts about the fate of the saudi journalist and critic jim. what we know for sure is that he's found saying that he went into the consulate but never showed up the saudis said he left from a different date the turks say they still believe his inside the building was the situation the while yes it is it is confirmed that he went on october second to the saudi consulate and he never came out. there has been reports suggesting that he was his fear that he is it's fair that he is killed however earlier today president don spoke on the issue saying that he still hopes that there will be a positive outcome instead and the investigation is continuing saw there has been conflict it conflicting reports and we hope that this situation is

joining us via skype is all my. in america muslim scholars civil-rights activist, and speaker. he is the founder and president of the key the ukena institute for islamic research. is the best epidemic studies in southern methodist university. we wanted to delvin into the panel to make sure have enough time at the end for q&a from you. what i'm going to do is i will ask three questions of our co- panelists, and the first question that i wanted to ask you if you could talk a little bit about the ways you have been organizing in your community, specifically during this administration where our community has constantly been under attack, and ways that you think or believe that it has been different than traditional organizing effort that you have been doing. >> i can get started. thank you for being here. muslim arc we follow a different modern-day method in terms of actually being founded on twitter. when we started out with hashtag being black and muslim had been planning for a few weeks. went viral turning global 7.5 hours practice with back in february 2014 under a bomb a admin

bureau's failure to look at evidence of plots before the september eleventh attacks she joins us via skype from minneapolis appreciate your time very much so. the packages so far thank goodness none of them have actually worked but the fact that they have that work what does that say to you. well it it says one of two things either the bomb makers were very inept or they were not intending to actually kill the recipients and this would be very different from both the unabomber case that when the f.b.i. had a lot of trouble solving eighteen years and they had no idea who the unabomber was he was very sophisticated and made bombs that went off and then the other case would be the anthrax killer who used weaponized anthrax and definitely his motivation and he was very effective at killing the recipients so this case is very different than those other two the fact that this one a pair sic clearly not be as sophisticated does that say to you that it's more likely to be solved. you know it does it makes here's the deal if it was simply inept then the fact that these intact packages the f.b.i. ca