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The relationship between the pyd, the united states and pyd in syria that has been a troublesome relationship for erdogan. there are a number of files both with the united states and syria that he might be interested in getting in return for these files if he were to play along and try to make life easier both for the saudi crown prince and the american president. >> and this is why hes been holding back information that could help answer some of the questions. hes using it as leverage presumabl...

Turkeys president will reveal more on tuesday, but why has turkey been reluctant so far to reveal all it knows about the death of khashoggi? what is it hoping to achieve by doing that? is it getting some sort of leverage at this point? >> i think it is. i think turkey is playing a careful game. number one, it is quite remarkable that the turkish government has been leaking these details. had it not, we wouldnt really know anything. number two, president erdogan i think is still angry at the crow...

Those people who were inside the consulate. one would expect there to be more information than the body has been handed over to a turkish person or someone here in turkey to dispose of. that could be the implication. at the moment the trail seems to be cold, rosemary. >> yeah. and, nick, why is turkey not shedding more light on this investigation? apparently using what they have as leverage rather than revealing all that they know? >> reporter: yeah, we heard from a spokesman from president erdo...

A new situation there but in fact a large number of arms exports have been approved before the us government took over and those exports are continuing in fact this year they will more than four hundred million euros of explosives have gone to saudi arabia already this carries obviously makes the situation creates a new situation in lot of ways and since this german government as america is already hesitant of politics supporting all the saudi arabia i think this case potentially could lead to a...

Which they signed in march so that they would not sell all this to any participant in the human conflict that includes saudi arabia so there is potentially a new situation there but in fact a large number of arms exports have been approved before the us government took over and those exports are continuing in fact this year there were more than four hundred million euros of exports that have gone to saudi arabia already this carries obviously makes the situation creates a new situation in in a l...

>> the feckless war in yemen which is the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet shows their incapacity as a fighting force despite our weapons which they had paid for.i do think we have leverage. i want to say that jamal khashoggi, was about to be a journalist scholar at the wilson center. highly regarded in town. the irony of all of this is that he was writing about the modernization program in a positive way. he was critical of mbs extreme behavior but positive about the program. and they ...

Iranians having ballistic missiles that theyre developing. theyre doing that in response to the arming of the saudis. its a bilateral arms race that goes on and on. i dont think we need the saudis. they need us much more than we need them. we have incredible leverage. there ortheir air force is entirely american planes. we train their pilots. they are completely dependent on us. we need to tell them to behave and if theyre not going to behave, that includes cutting off funding to the schools tha...

>>chris: marc? >> i agree with the congressman in that theres a lot to balance. today he came out in the "washington post" and said he does not believe there account, that it was the result of a fistfight. i think equally, theres a lot there trying to balance.the iran funding hamas, killing westerners throughout the middle east and saudi arabia is our ally. the administration is to be more aggressive or congress will act. >>chris: i want to bring in the congresswoman because i thought what senat...

Know about this. fred, earlier i spoke to jane harmon. she said when dealing with countries like saudi arabia, the united states has always got to balance its interests and its values. the president keeps coming up with these numbers of jobs connected to a notional arms deal that he calls the biggest in history, $110 billion. hes now said its worth a million american jobs. we cant prove or disprove that because theyve given us no stats. we know what the interests are with saudi arabia. how do we...

Banker of oil. they buy all these arms from the united states. it should be pointed at the number. its not 110 billion as president trump says but probably close to 20 billion or 30 billion. >> in terms of contract, its only 4 billion. >> but who has the leverage? >> well, theres no doubt that saudis the swing oil producer, have the ability to moderate pl we dont need their oil anymore. but much of the rest of the world does. and we do need them to be in a position to pump oil because on novembe...