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Thing? theres no sense really that just because the saudis offer this narrative that this story will go away, wolf. there are a lot of people with a lot of questions about how it was that this really happened. >> earlier today, as you note, clarissa, the president -- president trump touted the saudi kings denials. how will this admission, if it emerges in the coming hours, impact the overall u.s./saudi relationship? >> reporter: well, it was an interesting thing because at the same time, wolf, a...

Today and the king denied his government killed the journalist. the president said he is aware of the reports that khashoggi may have died during a botched interrogation and that he is now looking into it. after talking up denials from saudi arabia that the kingdom had nothing to do with the killing of jamal khashoggi, president trump now says he will look into reports that the saudi journalist was killed during an interrogation gone wrong. >> im going to have to see what they say, and were work...

Leave nothing uncover buddy all i can do is tell you what the saudi king told me. that is not all you can do. the president often opines on what he thinks beyond what someone has said. how dangerous is that? because it is almost verbatim what he has said about vladimir putin and election meddling. putin said he didnt do it. >> rogue killers is the new 400-pound person sitting in their basement. and i didnt even know this, that the saudi king after 9/11 just made something up, just lied. imagine ...

Imaginati imagination to say there was a mishap and botched interrogation that people just discovered today or yesterday perhaps or after a call with the president of the united states. it just -- its hard for anyone to suspend all disbelief to this degree. having said that, the timing is very important. people are pulling out from different corporations and businesses about a meeting with the crown prince on this very issue. so it very much helps for the president of the united states to be beh...

Relationship, particularly the relationship between trumps son-in-law jared kushner and the crowned prince, mohamad bin salman. after this a lot of people will be asking if it is an appropriate relationship to continue given the gravity of the nature of what were hearing has happened. >> good reporting, clarissa. thank you very much. now to president trump and his response to saudi arabias evolving story about khashoggis disappearance. lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta...

A serious international issue, which it has. the key thing to watch within the trump administration is whether cleavage develops between the president and his advisers. the president is responding on this precisely as he did to questions of whether the russians hacked the elections. he takes vladimir putins strong denials and that was treat and pretty noteworthy that his administration has been tough on russia. it will be interesting to see whether his administration treats saudi arabia the same...

Sources conceded journalist jamal khashoggi may have been killed during an interrogation gone wrong, president trump said he was already developing some theories that rogue killers were to blame. that revelation came right after a phone call with saudi arabias king salman. >> the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didnt really know. maybe -- i dont want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. who knows? were going to try getting to the b...

To meet with? >> reporter: all we know, he plans to meet with the saudi king, king salman. both salman and his son, the crown prince, muhammad bin salman have denied any role in the killing of khashoggi. and if the saudis do put out that report you were just talking about, that this operation was carried out without clearance from the top, or rogue killers, as president trump said earlier, that is the line that secretary pompeo can expect to get. as the world grows increasingly convinced that a ...

Rogue killers. who knows? were going to try getting to the bottom of it very soon, but his was a flat denial. >> reporter: the president didnt explain how the suspected rogue killers would have made their way into the saudi consulate in turkey. local investigators believe operatives tied to the king in riyadh murdered khashoggi. >> who else would it be besides saudi arabia? >> i dont know. >> reporter: he appears to be focused on the saudi citizenship, taking note of it with reporters. >> i just...

Brazen. there are ways to sneak sanitation machines and cleansing products into a place to clean it up without having them come through the front door. and they got a whole bunch of middle eastern countries to come out yesterday in solidarity with them and theyre playing hardball. i think trump is letting them. >> lets be frank about the idea of rogue killers. if the president were to accept that explanation at face value, rogue killers inside the saudi consulate in turkey, saudi diplomatic terr...