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Address this issue? they can force the issue here and force the president to act. the question is, will they actually do that? >> will they have the spine? we had other issues. they pushed him on russia to a degree. >> they did. >> saudi portfolio -- >> by the way, he signed the sanctions against russia. remember that? >> he did. >> and he hated doing it. >> he said so. basically. >> one other interesting wrinkle here, the saudi portfolio belonged to jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law. tru...

After weeks of denials, saudi arabia finally officially acknowledged jamal khashoggis death. now claiming the columnist died after a fist fight with over a dozen men. president trump has long been reluctant to criticize the kingdom but in an interview with "the washington post" last night, he said, quote, obviously, theres been deception and theres been lies. still, the president has yet to place any blame on saudi crown prince muhammohammad bin salman has a close relationship with jared kushner...

Said he was going to bow out of that conference is now an ems r emmisary and in an effort to reinforce ties at a time when the united states is seeking to ratchet up pressure on iran. let me go to you lastly here. we talked about jared kushner going back to this interview in "the washington post," there was a remark between he and the crown prince. theyre two young guys. jared doesnt know him well or anything. theyre just two young people around the same age. they like each other, i believe. i m...

Bin solomons evolving stories and also to review the saudi line on the killing of khashoggi. and now his newest line, and this is from one of my producers, he is describing the leader of saudi arabia this way and also talking about his son-in-law. he says theyre two young guys, meaning mbs and jared kushner. jared doesnt know him well or anything. theyre just two young people. theyre the same age. they like each other, i believe. this sort of infcharacterizatio what do you think of it? >> god gi...

>> i think its possible. im not sure. >> its possible i lose weight in the next two days. its not probable, though. what do you think? >> yeah. ill give the fact that his portfolios bringing peace to the holy land my guess is yes. >> these are highly confidential situations. it would raise that question of whether or not he has the clearance to go to the meeting, josh? good job. well played. >> clearly theyve had a face-to-face meeting. now whether that was because jared doesnt have the security...

Decisions about whether he opposes the trump plan to save his political skin or works with it to preserve his relationship with the united states. so the peace plan is problematic for netanyahu and theres no surprise that hes emphasizing iran in the visit thats about to take place today and regards the peace process as a secondary issue that hell discuss with the president. >> we know that trump and netanyahu have put up a united front. jared kushner and his family have a long relationship with ...

These are peoples first instinct were to protect rob porter. they said today the statements we heard yesterday came out because this behavior that these allegations that are so horrified did not reflect their experiences with him, so no answer yet as so why he was allowed to stay despite allegations. thats something we are trying to figure out why the behavior remained in the most senior offices of the white house with access to the president on a daily basis. >> were still trying to figure out ...

States. >> right. >> that has everything to do with balancing against iran that could allow natural attrition to take effect here but theyre intervening in a process they dont understand and for reasons i cant quite fathom. >> i dont -- mike barnical you cant wander into the middle east without understanding the 67 boundaries, without understanding 1948 and what led to it and what happened before 1948, without understanding all the complications. so you can sit down and say, i understand 67, i u...

Example, that actually havent borne out. but changes in foreign policy are very tough to reverse. so i worry, frankly, that the summit will go extremely well. that youll see a lot of declarations about agreements between china and the united states that dont actually end up with much and china ends up leading foreign policy. >> hes supposed to be leading this office of government innovation to modernize and stream line the government. you worked with him at the observer for 18 months. that was b...

>> look what its designed to do. what youre really talking about is reforming government, which largely requires operational expertise that jared doesnt have and he doesnt really have that kind of experience, either. he comes out of commercial real estate, which certainly is a competitive and difficult to be competitive industry, but its 90% transactional and the 10% that isnt transactional is really about cost cutting. and if those were the only two things that mattered in terms of reforming go...