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Report said, he will stand by saudi arabia and resist any calls from congress for tougher sanctions that he does not think of appropriate. more directly from the statement in a moment, lets go to the white house and sarah westwood. this is so striking. a lot of exclamation points beginning with the world is a very dangerous place. take us to how this came about. >> reporter: the president is acknowledging what we have been learning about the cia assessment about the crown princes involvement in ...

Consulate in turkey. in his lengthy missive, riddleed with exclamation points, mr. trump wrote, we may never know the facts surrounding the murder of mr. jamal khashoggi. in any case, our relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia, the president said that maybe the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman knew about the murder, or maybe he didnt, yet the c.i.a. has concluded not only that he knew, but that he ordered the brutal killing. lawmakers are putting pressure on the white house to puni...

In order to justify a statement from the president of the united states like this? >> no. and weve never had a president of the united states to issue a statement with six exclamation points. maybe he did and maybe he didnt and cothntradict his own intelligence agencies. though intelligence agencies have gotten it wrong in the past, but this is a case where secretary pompeo, a former cia director, is going along with a president who has famously gone against the intelligence community. >> hes th...

Information but it could very well be the king had knowledge of this event. maybe he did, maybe he didnt. thats in a statement from the white house. the administration has barred 21 saudis. joining me live is yamiche elcindor. this statement is weird. it sounds like a gathering of tweets more than a white house statement. what do you make of it? >> it sounds like its something the president either personally dictated or wrote himself. you look at not only the long-windedness of the statement. th...

Couple of journalists there and then to see the boss doing this at home, its just a complete 180 from what happened to the american values. >> how -- tell me how this -- so i was told by a former intelligence official that this kind of statement is a policy statement. it would not have gone out for interagency review how does a statement like this with eight exclamation points go out? >> well, ive never known john bolton to be a fan of explanation points. >> me, either. >> that statement was dic...

What happened there. the u.s. has taken a striking response, sanctioning 17 individuals in connection with that individual. >> "the washington post" global opinions editor, who edited khashoggis columns, said the statement is full of lies and blatant disregard for his own intelligence agencies. it shows an unforgivable disregard for the lives of saudis who darr criticize the regime. joining us now is white house correspondent geoff bennett. geoff, content aside, it was a weird statement. it was ...

Longer a member of the republican party. three exclamation points on that. and general election great genius mathematical svengali, also network correspondent at this network and maxine. david jolly, i ask you, not a republican any longer, but a man who still knows a lot about florida. what the hell is going on down there in your state right now? >> yeah, to your point in the opener there, what republicans are doing right now is they continue to conflate frustrations of timeliness, questions of ...

Interviews. he also agreed to testify for the government in court and even to participate in undercover activities. a major victory for the mueller team. >> huge. and i would capitalize h-u-g-e and add four exclamation points. >> of interest to prosecutors manaforts tucrump tower meetin in 2016. >> before, during and after, those events could all lead to a conspiracy with the russians to affect our democratic process. thats against the law. >> muellers team may also ask about manaforts attempts ...

Waives a right to counsel in interview and agreed to testify for the government in court, and even to participate in undercover activities, a major victory for the mueller team. >> huge. and i would capitalize h-u-g-e and add four exclamation points. of interest to prosecutors, the recollection of the notorious trump tower meeting in june 2016. >> manafort was there. he can give realtime analysis of that before, during, and after. those events could all lead to a conspiracy with the russians to ...

Thats who he is. >> aaron, i talked about presidents obama and bush because, again, you know, president obama in that moment, i think, spoke for every american. i think newtown was something that was -- everyone felt that pain and he spoke to it for us. i think 9/11, as i said, you know, the policies that ensued were plenty controversial but in that moment, george w. bush seemed to be able to capture the sort of commitment of our country to build ourselves back and stand up to them. donald trump...