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We do two or three things. that we use our leverage with saudi arabia and our knowledge of this to push them on yemen, where they are engaged in a miserable war thats created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world at this time, at least 17,000 civilians have died and the country is starving, and its not working, their objectives. i would also push them on the issue of terrorist cooperation. we need more from them. and i would not worry so much about our need for their oil. yes, we dont pro...

Investigation. >> and you have written that congress has got to say -- youve written in your op-ed we must do what the supine republican congress has failed to do over the past two years, restore congress as an equal branch and check the ambition of an imperial and erratic president. if the democrats take the house, you may be the chair of the intel committee, a committee that didnt do what it was supposed to do in the russia investigation, in the investigation into russian involvement into the ...

Election and what he may do again. it matters what kim jong-un does. so what happens, what happens if president trump gets to a point where he needs to rein in these dictators? to protect americans, to protect the free world. does this president have any leverage left? or has he left it all on the table and made a deal with the devil? lot to talk about. max boot and major general spyder marks, boat heth here. were going to dig into it, next.

The bottom of it very soon. his was a flat denial. that he deny it. they deny it every way you can imagine. >> the saudis insisted he left alive soon after arriving without providing any evidence to support that claim. but now they seem to be changing their story. sources are telling cnn the saudis are preparing a report acknowledging the death of the washington post columnist and claiming it was the result of an interrogation gone wrong and president trump took a significant point of leverage o...

President trump took a significant point of leverage off the table saying he wont cancel on multi billion-dollar arm sell to saudi arabia. if the saudis admit in a limited role what happened to jamal khashoggi, what will president trump do about it? good evening, everyone. thank your for joining us. the saudis say thats an accident. are we supposed to believe this new explanation? >> no, i dont believe it but i think its an easy out for the saudis and president. well let him go forward with this...

Its not just the money. the arms sales does give us leverage over a country, when they have our weapon systems they need our maintenance, our replacement equipment and the like and that gives us leverage over their behavior. thats why we are talking about arms sales now because its leverage. they will buy those weapons from someone else. there isnt enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights and the way nations should conduct themselves. with he lose our credibilit...

It doesnt matter. >> well -- >> we won. >> it doesnt matter, we won. you wont find a clearer statement of the trump doctrine than that. that and never apologize. even after elizabeth warren released dna results that indicates she has some native american heritage. >> you owe her an apology. >> no. >> what about the -- >> i owe her? she owes the country an apology. >> so dont apologize. double down. heres the thing. as we say here on this show all the time, facts do matter. facts matter. it matte...

State sponsor of radical islam. they fund tens of thousands of that democrats around th mad. they have been doing this for decades. they are not our friends. [broken audio] doing what theyre doing in yemen, its a catastrophe, a humanitarian disaster. this latest episode killing a journalist is just proof, you know that we need not to be arming them. >> neil: you wonder fen this we would take apart the deal that we scored with the saudis last year $110 billion worth, the president was arguing the...

This difficult political sit waste, th situation, but this embarrassing situation for the u.s. so i think it really raises questions about what exactly, how that relationship came together and what is that relationship? >> yeah, and david, administration at this point still is not polled the treasury secretary steven mnuchin back from this conference thats being held i find somewhat creepily at the hotel where they imprisoned a bunch of wealthy saudis for awhile. >> the crazy thing to me is admi...

Hill say, look, sanctions -- forestalling these arms sales puts us at a hamstring further down the road, because then we cant hold back spare parts and further technical assistance, so we lose all leverage at that point. so it is a difficult tight rope to walk here. look, its hard to believe, right, that -- all of this is kind of hard to believe. this gentleman walks in the front door, cctv everywhere. if the saudi intelligence agency didnt know that, and they thought they were just going to eli...