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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...

Sherman and martin, let me ask you, everyone when they look at saudi arabia, they say they have the leverage, the theyre the strategy banker of oil, they buy all these arms from the united states. it should be pointed out that the number is not 1$110 billion and president trump says its probably near $20 billion to $40 billion. >> the saudis have the arab to moderate the price of oil. we dont need their oil anymore but much of the world does. but we do need them to be in a position to pump oil, ...

Look at truth, perhaps, than we have in previous times in our history. especially in this country. but one of the things about our country and the objectives in the post-war era of our policy, yes, we have embraced terrible dictators before. particularly during the cold war, in latin america, in africa, all over the world. just as we are watching the trump administration embrace the saudi leaders. but we also know that we have some leverage. and instead of trying to use that leverage, immediatel...

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The consulate and the they tried to cover up for it. eric ares covering up. they will be the fall guys. they will be i am prisons or beheaded to protect the prince. >> even if you take this saudi cover story at face value, the saudis ordered a kidnapping of one of their citizens on foreign soil. thats outrageous by any reasonable standard. why would they try to kidnap a journalist and bring him back to saudi arabia presumably for long-term imprisonment. that is very bad, and should be treated un...

>> i agree with what the congressman was saying before. theres a lot here that you are trying to balance. i think the president is trying to give them a little bit ofenc space. pretty came out he said he does not believe the account is true as a result of a fistfight. he has acknowledged that. i do think theres a lot there trying to balance. the iran funding is killing westerners throughout the middle east and saudi arabia is our ally. that is a challenge we need too navigate. they need to be mo...

When we supply arms to saudi arabia, iran response. will we complain about the iranians having ballistic missiles that they are developing, they are doing that in response to the arming of the saudis. its a bilateral arms race that goes onn and on. i wouldnt continue it. i dont think we need the saudi crude we have incredible leverage. the air force is entirely american planes. they cant last months without parts and mechanics to help them run their airports. we train their pilots. they are depe...

Be grounded in a month. >> 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 abou...

Spare parts they would be grounded in a u month. >> the war in yemen which was the largest humanitarian catastrophe on the planet right now shows their incapacity as a fighting force. its despite our weapons which they have paid us f for. i do think we have leverage, i wanted to say, however his name was pronounced was about to be a journalist scholar at the wilson center. the irony in all of this is that he was writing about the modernization program in a positive way. he was critical of nbs ex...

Be his best to get president putin to comply in some sort of way immediately and if you think that the case, what would you do? how does he respond with the president is trying to do here? >> at may very well be that. when youre engaging in negotiations with anybody about ways to leverage. calling the russians out on their behavior and making them pay a price, you are creating a leverage and maybe some sort of broader agreement with russia that president trump is taking to achieve. by making rus...