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Going to be serious issues in congress with the saudis for quite a while and on a bipartisan level. you have republicans saying, look, we dont really buy this story and lets not forget that the saudis were basically kind of lying the last couple of weeks. they last saturday that khashoggi left the consulate alive. i think youre going to see movement to come up with holds on arms sales or maybe sanctions. i think youre going to see pressure for that if the trump administration doesnt act to punis...

Human rights are to the united states and how important it is to have a credible investigation. none of that was mentioned but the difference here is, to your point, david, if the president doesnt act, congress still can. the global investigation was triggered. congress can block armed sells while the president may respond, this is bipartisan consensus this wont go unpunished. as was the case in russia. >> he said severe punishment, the president did but said he wouldnt rule out arm sells. what ...

And his regimes brutality. he believed that. what does it say about the president and his world of view? >> it says that when the president hears somebody flatter him and tell him something that he wants to hear, he repeats it. the president today was a mouth piece for the king of saudi arabia. the readout of the call is what the king said to him. what we did not hear from the president is what he said to the king. what he said about how important human rights are to the united states and how im...

Lunch meating with the foreign minister of affairs, who you saw there, and later tonight dinner with the crown prince. we were told from a spokesperson that the state will continue to ask for a thorough investigation into what happened to jamal khashoggi. the family issued a statement that they are following the news. the family is traumatized. if audi arabia turns out to be responsible for khashoggis death, president trump promised a severe punishment that prompted saudi officials to warn of $2...

Prince. we were told the u.s. will continue to ask for a thorough investigation into what happened to jamal khashoggi. the devastated family issuing a statement saying we are following the conflicted news regarding the fate of our father after losing contact with him two weeks ago after he disappeared. our family is trauma tized and yearns to be together during this painful time. if saudi arabia turns out to be responsible for his death, the president has promised punishmenpunishment. even if th...

These men and women that signed up for this, they are not staying at the hilton, they are staying in tents, air-conditioned tents in the parking lot of a local mall, and its not glamorous. for lot of the local firefighters, well, they are doing this work while also dealing with damage to their own homes. >> scott, thank you for the work you are doing down there. thank you. appreciate it. and trump said he will take action against saudi arabia, but what? he also noted it didnt happen in the uni...

Of his time on his own properties. a third of the days of his presidency. >> let me read you a statement is maybe theyre growing weary. the official statement, they feel he has done a good job, but these things matter to the president as well. he is looking into those. the president has the authority here, can congress step in if the president doesnt act? could they theoretically and say you to do something? >> yes, but first those are crocodile tears. we heard the expressions about truth before...

This is a leak about something that was said, it was horrific, and yet we are still talking about it. >> i think one thing that the trump administration has shown and the president showed on the campaign trail was the ability to keep things festering for a while. >> bret: do you think he wants to keep it festering? >> i dont think he wants to come up they also dont want to apologize. he was talking about the mentality behind that that, but most politicians would very quickly jump on this and try...

>> we have public courtrooms, and she has the right to be there, certainly has a relationship with him. he apparently pedestrian her $130,000 on his own, because trump said he didnt even know about it. your lawyer doesnt act without you knowing about it. >> yes, yes, i dont feel a lot to the cameras, but its moving the country in a good direction in terms of showing if we are paying people not to say thing about the president, thats wrong. >> period.

United states doesnt act here. they are especially worrisome because they are easy to produce and devastation is it beyond comprehension as we showed videos earlier. and mike tobin is in jerusalem. >> reporter: we are getting through the wire reports of loud explosions in the city of damascus. that is it from third party information as well. associated press is talking about bright flashes in the city of damascus and smoke over the city. smoke over the eastern part of the city there. we are hear...