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It wasnt just political views he was exchanging but plans to hold the saudi state accountable by creating a so-called electronic army on social media. cash by pledging money to help with that project. secretary of state mike pompeo said the administration would not address "the wall street journal" report. the saudi government has denied bin salmans involvement in khashoggis death. i want to bring in our cnn global affairs analyst and a senior fell on the council of foreign relations and david r...

Relationship completely, so its sort of a false argument that the administration is making that they can simply not condemn them for murder, and if they do in any way criticize this murder the entire relationship falls apart. thats simply not true. i dont understand why the white house is being so cautious in this case. >> we learned that the president did exchange some pleasantries with the crown prince at the g20, not a full-on conversation. he just returned back to the white house early this ...

If you back me up, ill pardon you. again, there is no evidence that i know of yet of collusion. why is the president so afraid of robert mueller? let this play out. thats what so many people, jeff flake, and others are saying. if you have done nothing wrong, let it play out. he is overreacting. he may be innocent of collusion, but reating -- creating more problems. >> what does your smart gut say about the breakthrough with china? >> i think there is a bre breakthrough. he wants to be the disrup...

>> senators were frustrated. as your past role, you would be here on issues this sensitive. why isnt the cia director? >> i was asked to be here and im here. >> in the end, 14 annoyed republicans crossed the aisle to advance the resolution. 63-37. >> pretty significant push back from senators. joining us to talk about this is david rhode. a global affairs analyst. he was asked to be here and here you are. lets start with the g20. the president is wheels up in a few hours. being he said over 24 h...

At this stage, not just here but obviously with lebanon, whether theres any levers to isolate. the challenge he has internally is he told a bunch of people youre authorized to kill someone. he brings them back to saudi arabia. 11 of them are arrested or however many are arrested. some of them may end up dead. thats a challenge, right? in terms of the allegiance he may want. this happens -- not infrequent. we dont know how this unfolds. most important thing is the takeaway is the only reason why ...

Some kind of success, hes going to jump at it when it comes to protecting relationships or projects that matter to him. in this case he can now say, well, they said theyre doing an investigation. it doesnt matter if it flies in the face of standard operating procedure for law enforcement and intelligence. its worth noting it doesnt matter if its completely at odds with what his own intelligence community is probably telling him. we have no indication our intelligence community or members of the ...

Report on what they claim happened. the committee charged with putting together that report headed by crown prince mohammed bin salman. the very same prince who u.s. officials have told cnn had to have known about the operation that ended in khashoggis death. the saudis first claim he left their consulate in istanbul even though there was only video of him entering and none of him leaving. the governments explanation for his death is mind-boggling right now. heres what they say. the journalist g...

Juliette kayyem. good evening to all of you. its just unbelievable the nuv explanations and the absurdity of especially this last one. all of them have been pretty absurd. david, originally they said he left the consulate alive. now they say he died in a fistfight. do they really expect people to believe this? >> they want one person to believe that. its donald trump. and so far the white house is indicating this is what theyve wanted to hear. they are going to i think accept this explanation an...

>> the thing about missile testing, you could test missiles in a whole host of places, right? north korea has a whole host of mobile launchers. you could destroy this one facility and not, david rhode, impede your ability to test missiles. >> it seems that the president is being played by north korea and by kim. you need unhindered inspector access across north korea and, to be blunt, president trump needs a better deal than the iran deal. he has criticized inspections in iran as too weak and so...

This better economic package for north korea and greater economic benefit for all koreans, but were not at that stage yet. >> essentially you look at that agreement -- listen, punitive agreement, it looks like a peace agreement between those two countries than denuclearization involving the u.s. >> thats a success for kim and north korea. they dont want to talk about the nuclear weapons and want to play this out and keep them. thats the danger. white house aides fear the president will be too op...