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Could turkey get the upper hand here? or even potentially retaliate against any resistance coming from saudi arabias cooperation? >> well, a spokesman for president erdogans political party here has warned that there will be very strong consequences if they get to the bottom of it and find, as they believe, that the saudis are culpable. so that leverage comes from being very public, in a way, by drip-feeding information, and putting pressure on saudi arabia, and sharing with allies the intellige...

Past couple of hours heard from the turkish foreign minister who is in the u.k. and probably trying to bolster support for turkey there right now, the turkish foreign minister has said that the saudis are not cooperating the way they should be to allow this investigation to go forward. so to get to the bottom of it, turkey so far has been putting pressure by drip-feeding information about what happened here, drip-feeding it in the local media here, but the nuclear option for them, we are told an...

Deter future action. we need lot more of both and? presidents back and forth attitude doesnt inspire a lot of confidence and that $100 bill ynl arm sale a lot of arms deals already in the pipeline or will never happen and arms sales are our leverage against other countries, not our -- we havent an arms sale get in the way of our interests and values and residents from getting murdered in foreign consulates. we dont sell arms to north korea because they dont respect -- >> he says he doessent want...

Encourage consistent action. we need a lot more of both. and the back and forgt doesnt inspire confident. its mostly brksz s. and besides it theyre our leverage against other countries, not against us. we cant let an arms sale get in the way of residents. we dont sell remembered and our laws and norms. >> the way the president frames this is he doesnt want to hurt jobs. doesnt want to lies onnarder like that. the push back the president is getting from his own wartfy

Engagement. >> and at the same time, we are talking about someone who might have been murdered. >> i agree. remember, 66 other journalists have been murdered this year alone around the world. we saw our own american citizen, daniel pearl murdered and other american journalists and none of them have triggered this outrage, so there is a special dimension to this. if i was able to, i would tell -- >> i do recall the outrage for daniel pearl, particularly. >> but not to the point of ending billions...

Front, getting rid of burdensome regulation. the president keeping his promises. then you see a lot of vicious angry democrats that seem to not have any agenda that i see. sean, the mob rule that you are seeing on the democratic side is really just the tip of the iceberg. its indicative of a democratic party thats been bought and paid for by the george soros of the world who really dont care about the american system. who dont like the way we live. and our values and our principles. those riots ...

Said business to russia and china but he did say clearly there could be other ways of punishing saudi arabia if it turned out they were involved. two other issues if the turks do have evidence from inside the consulate, they were with surveillance program which would be international norms, the other point people are looking turkey versus saudi arabia, turkey a long-time supporter of brotherhood, saudi arabia long-time ally of the u.s. and turkey is trying to drive the wedge between the two. bot...

Arms deal to saudi arabia, reportedly worth 110 billion dollars. there are arguments about the numbers. in your view, is that a wise approach for him to go ahead with the sale and try as he says he will do to punish saudi arabia in other ways? >> well, i think hes giving up some leverage by simply saying straight out that he would not give up the sale. i think a much more nuanced position at this moment would be justified. for example, saying, lets put this on hold. lets take a look at the inves...

Front, getting rid of burdensome regulation. the president keeping his promises. then you see a lot of vicious angry democrats that seem to not have any agenda that i see. sean, the mob rule that you are seeing on the democratic side is really just the tip of the iceberg. its indicative of a democratic party thats been bought and paid for by the george soros of the world who really dont care about the american system. who dont like the way we live. and our values and our principles. those riots ...

There was supposed to be -- there is still going to be a large economic summit at the end of the month in saudi arabia he. eric: the treasury secretary is supposed to go there. today the president was asked about that in the oval office and secretary of state pompeo said that theyre weighing that, looking at that. should mon chin cancel the visit. other people are bailing out of that economic conference that is part of the crown princes esteemed gathering that he created like a davos in the dese...