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The essence here. but when he was asked by van jones in this interview about some of these varying accounts from the saudis and how they really kind of veer from what we know based on clarissas reporting and others, kushner really declined to criticize the saudis at all, and instead, he emphasized the long-standing relationship with the united states. listen. >> were more in the fact-finding phase, and were obviously getting as many facts as we can from the different places. and then well determ...

Questions over jared kushners relationship with the crowd prince, forcing his role. working on middle east issues of the white house. today kushner was asked what advice he has given the crown prince. >> just to be transparent, to be fully transparent. the world is watching. its a very serious accusation. a very serious situation. i see that right now, as in the mistry, we are in the fact-finding phase. we are getting as many facts as we can from the different place places. >> melissa: ari, is t...

The presidents son in law and senior advisor says the administration is still considering the facts. >> is a demonstration, we are not more in the fact-finding phase and we are obviously getting as many facts as we can the different places and then we will determine which facts are credible. >> he has a relationship with the saudi crown prince, working on a plan for peace between the israelis and palestinians. he called saudi arabia a very strong ally. the president and senior and administration...

Intelligence community to be conducting an investigation with the thank you, to get to the bottom, not asking the saudis. to take more time if theyd like to, to come up with another explanation that is clearly not true. for the first two weeks, the saudis told the world that khashoggi walked out alive at their own consulate in istanbul. not true. they made up another story, clearly not true. as i suspect tomorrow well hear from erdogan in turkey, they have detailed information about this that ma...

Addressed in another piece in the post, quote, the challenge now facing president trump is that his waffling public response could leave a lasting impression of weakness. some of trumps advisers have warned him that if he lets the saudis get away with such a barbaric extrajudicial killing with impunity, the saudis would not respect him as a strong leader. nor would other authoritarian regimes around the world, including north korea and iran. here was jared kushner today on the growing crisis. >...

How sexy are these elbows? get clear skin that can last. ask your dermatologist about cosentyx. president trump now saying he believes saudi arabia lied about the murder of jamal khashoggi, but he stands behind the countrys monarchy. he gave an interview of the washington post saying, quote, obviously theres been deception and lies. he went onto say stories were all over the place. saudi arabia blames the killing of khashoggi on a, quote, rogue operation. lets bring in washington post white ho...

Meanwhile, afghan president hamid karzai is not favoring general petraeus plan to recruit villagers into local defense programs as part of the u.s. military strategy in afghanistan. karzai fears the plans could make the country more vulnerable to out of control militias. still no official confirmation of a second body pulled from the delaware river is that of a missing hungarian male tourist that surfaced while crews worked on removing a sunken duck boat in philadelphia. meanwhile, the first bod...

Spy swap with moscow weeks before it even arrested those 10 russian agents in the u.s. this is according to sources close to u.s. intelligence officials. the agents were swapped in vienna for four russians who were convicted of spying for the west. two of the russians were release by russian and are back in washington, d.c. this morning. as for the children of the convicted russian spies, authorities say they have also left or are in the process of leaving the u.s. we still do not have confirmat...