this said ted cruz tough as texas. i mean, come on, if somebody called my wife a dog and said my daddy was in on the kennedy assassination, i wouldn t be kissing their ass. joining us from mcallen, texas, chief political correspondent and the moderator of the town hall tonight with beto o rourke. dana bash. cnn invaded ted cruz multiple times to appear but he declined. let s get to the question. while the race is getting nasty, is it too little too late for beto o rourke. well, you know, it s an open question. o rourke certainly has been outperforming any democrat in terms of the polls for a quarter of a century. that s how long it has been since a democrat representing texas in longer than that.
how can they be constitutioned to conduct a fair investigation? here s what the secretary of state had to say about that. reporter: why should saudi arabia be trusted to conduct a fair and impartial investigation when they re accused of the disappearance and apparent murder of jamal khashoggi? we re all going to get to see the work product and the response the kingdom of saudi arabia takes with us. when we see that, we ll get a chance to determine all of us will get a chance to make a determination with the respect to the credibility and the work that went into that, whether it s truly accurate, fair, transparent in a way that they made a personal commitment to me and the crown prince made a personal commitment to the president when he spoke to him night before last. pompeo went on to say turkey is conducting an investigation so between the two we will see a complete picture but that raises the question given the trained relationship between the two countries, what if the inves
light on him and people have been gravitating on a national level for sure because he wasn t doing things like that and that changed and the question is whether or not that will backfire or that s the find of fire that the liberals who are part of his base are looking. still two and a half weeks to do. let s see what happens. dana, thank you very much. be sure to tune in. dana moderates the texas town hall with beto o rourke live at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn immediately after the situation room. coming up, from washington to the indigenous nucommunity, senator elizabeth warren s dna has caused a surge of criticism but our next guest says what you ve heard so far is wrong. plus, robert mueller s quiet period hasn t been very quiet. cnn is learning of nine meetings with paul manafort over the last
that his european counterparts, particularly in france as well as the uk decided to pull out. so the decision was made between the president, secretary pompeo and mnuchin that it would be best for him to no long ergo to this conference but they were engaged in a wait-and-see approach. they wanted to see what other countries would do, what other business leaders would do. i can tell you steve mnuchin spoke on the phone to business leaders who decided to pull out and they were encouraging him not to go but the president wanted them to wait to see what other countries did and now that it s clear what is happening, other countries pulling out, they made det decisithe decisio shouldn t go. but this after hearing from mike pompeo that they want to bide time for saudi arabia to conduct an investigation into what happened to jamal khashoggi. of course this raises the question if saudi arabia is responsible for his disappearance and apparent death as mounding evidence suggests,
it did not happen in rakhine state? the question is very simple. do you believe that genocide happened here or not? translator: i d say genocide didn t happen. reporter: myanmar ea s civil leader also denies genocide. her government said it s ready to bring back rohingya refugees like this, not allowed across the border into bangladesh. they re staying put because in part because security forces that would oversee their return are some of the same people accused of carrying out the killing in the first place. the conditions inside that camp are obviously horrific. there s no access to education, no health care, no electricity, food is scarce. yet still, they d rather be on that side of the fence than this one because they re too afraid to come back. myanmar might continue to de