nic robertson in turkey and sam kiley in riyadh. thank you both. let's talk more about this with steven erlinger live from brussels, belgium. the u.s. president initially seemed to accept the saudi explanation as credible. now according to the washington post he has expressed some skepticism though still defending that nation as a vital u.s. ally. threading the needle here, can the president have it both ways moving forward? >> well, trump likes that, and it is important. saudi arabia is important. his whole policy depends on saudi arabia and his reputation of his son-in-law jared depends a bit on mohamed bin salman because jared put a lot of debt on nbs, tried to get further