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The mideast. for years, america has been desperate for a new day in saudi arabia. >> his royal highness. >> enter 33-year-old crown prince, mohamed bin salman. he is unlike any saudi ruler the world has seen before. mbs, effectively took over from his father, king calman two years ago. suddenly everything in saudi arabia seemed to change. >> right away he looks like a breath of fresh air. he is forceful. >> remember music was evil? but mariah carey performed here in january.

Putin and mbs and kim over u.s. intelligence. >> i dont think that is what he is saying. if you take the case of khashoggi, he and others have said we want from saudi arabia a complete top to bottom explanation of what happened. >> its been months and you havent gotten it and the senate has been calling for stricter sanctions and you guys are opposing it. specifically he said u.s. intelligence says this but putin says no. >> fundamentally in the case of all three of those countries, we have to p...

Issue a resolution like that? >> as soon as i heard the president speak. i heard on a lot of issues, it is important that the congress of the united states be an alternative voice for the world right now. >> as you pointed out, this isnt the first time the president has done this. hes also sided with vladimir putin over his own top intelligence agents. hes sided with, as you say, hes sided with mbs over the evidence. and so where does this get you? >> its very important to say to the world that ...

>> he was gobeginning to do something. >> his reforms inside saudi arabia have been revolutionary. >> he said i am not going to leave this life until i see the middle east in the first rank of nations. >> movies are were heresy, but he opened a movie theater. >> dont freeze. >> i never freeze. >> watching black panther were men and women sitting together. thats dramatic change. >> this man is extremely popular. >> here it is, ladies and gentlemen. its in front of you. amc is here. >> we have beg...

Their power. he arrested some of the crazy clerics. al a-rifi, the wife-beating advice giver, was among them. saudi arabia is changing. but even as it does, there is something else going on. >> massive purge of princes, all arrested by a man who would be king. >> mbs imprisoned hundreds of princes and wealthy businessmen at the riyadh ritz-carlton, of all places. >> we drive in under police escort -- >> it was called a crackdown on corruption. >> no one enters here now without official permissio...

>> finally the saudi government settled on one word, rogue. it was a rogue operation. >> the saudi foreign minister told fox news that this was a rogue operation. >> rogue elements may have been involved. >> theyre going to say he was killed by rogue operatives. >> this rogue killers explanation, this is absurd. >> sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers, who knows. >> the cia said it believed mbs was involved with the murder. >> mbs, the crown prince, is a wrecking ball. i ...

Pattern. by some estimates, the modern founder of the kingdom had 45 sons. when the one died, the next-oldest brother took his place. but nearly two years ago, king salman shook up this established ritual. after an interim choice, he installed as crown prince his 31-year-old son. >> saudi arabia has a new heir to the throne. >> a royal shakeup in the house of saud. >> maums, mbs, was an obscure young royal known to almost no one outside saudi arabia. now he is poised to succeed his ailing father...

And one death which the government denied. meanwhile, even as mbs gave women the right to drive, saudi police arrested the leaders of the right to drive movement. and again there are credible reports that some of the women were tortured. >> its a new level of aggression. its a new level of brutality that has been unprecedented. >> this is an authoritarian absolute monarchy. >> there was one world leader who loved the princes style. donald trump. a president with no previous foreign policy experi...

>> it began in the dead of night, october 2nd of yaft year, a private saudi plane landed in istanbul. >> the turks say assassins were waiting for him. >> jamal khashoggi had an appointment there that day. >> he is a saudi journalist, vocal critic of crown prince. >> he is creating an environment of intimidation and fear. >> jamal khashoggi was well connected with ties to senior royals. he had been treated well at the consulate before. at the appointed time, he went inside. what follows is from a...

Saudi. these are americas friends? >> they are not our allies. >> the crown prince is a wrecking ball. >> that are prince, am mohamed bin salman. >> she dangerous. >> accused of involvement in the murder -- >> outrage. >> -- of a "washington post" journalist. >> jamal khashoggis body was dismembered. >> they brought a bone saw. >> chopped up into small piece. >> that crown prince, mbs is changing saudi arabia. >> its a new era. >> this man is extremely popular. >> in one of the most repressive c...