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Consulate. >> reporter: he was replaced by a long time finance minister who holds a ph.d. in economics. a masters from the university of denver. all the changes appear to further r consolidate the kings sons power crown prince. the u.s. intelligence committee holds nbs responsible for the killing of jamal khashoggi. the u.s. senate recently passed a resolution blaming mbs for the murder. mike pompeo and jim mattis a tried to vote against cutting off military funding for the saudi campaign in yem...

Mbs role, will consolidate his power and all the ministers appointed near him are close to mbs. the world thought mbs was a transformational leader including when he gave women the right to vote and the right to drive, excuse me. all this today, feels like mbs grip on power will just be strengthened. >> dana: lucas, thank you. its not even 2019 yet and the race for 2020 already getting some democrats all riled up. who has been spending time with beto orourke? and who is reportedly not happy abou...

Arabia, the new expected crown prince, he was only the deputy crown prince at that time mbs and everyone, hr mcmaster, national security adviser said, no, we cant do this. mattis said, no, we cant do this. secretary of state tillerson said, oh my god, you have to be careful with the saudis. but they plowed ahead. they thought it was a big win and looked at the loss as walter points out, other point outside, theyve not faced the deal they made with the saudis. its corrupt. >> its a corrupt tale. ...

And dry now. youre out on your own. and the turks will do whatever they want to do because the turks view the kurds only one way and that is as a threat. so the u.s. could have said to the turks, look, were going to stay here, but you guys have to stay away from this particular area of operation. if you want to go after isis and you want to continue that. obviously, theres something bigger at play here. and i hate to people the kind of person to put this on the map, but you have to look at this ...

To leave, why leave syria and not yemen? i dont understand. i mean, yemen, because of his friend, mbs, hes sending a terrible message that america is not reliable. >> right. >> this creates instability and this creates a vacuum that will be filled by somebody. and whos somebody? that is putin and china and others. this is a real risk. >> what does it mean for those kurdish fighters you embedded with? >> its an absolute disaster for them. im speaking to them every day. they were completely taken ...

That iran and russia will occupy. perhaps together. lets remember where its located. its on the border of israel and lebanon, which is digging tunnels into iz israel. saudi arabia has been weakened given the hor nor of mbs involvement in this gruesome murder. so they will not be able to protect israel by themselves and i see this thing as cascading and creating chaos in the middle east at a time when the u.s. was playing just the right role, training fighters and standing by our allies and kurds...

>> there were a couple of things about that. we voted unanimously in the senate to condemn the brutal ruthless murder of jamal khaishoggi. and to point out that mbs, the crown prince, was responsible. if there is a smoking gun and i believe there is, his fingers are on the murder weapon. that was our sense to say we needed to speak with moral clarity about what has happened and about our american values in that situation. >> neil: i raised this issue with our ambassador to germany. i dont know i...

The trump organization, including jared, into the american media organization. >> and when you say another shoe to drop, can you give us any more insight on what youre talking about? >> i think theres -- i think the -- this special that they were at last winter is particularly curious. it was a glossy, it had the cover of the -- it had a picture of the prince on the cover. there were pictures of president trump inside. >> the prince of? >> it seemingly came out of left field. it wasnt the typica...

Across the globe? >> it means you have license, basically. you see what happens when you give license to people, whether its putin or mbs. everyone reads that. you know, america is so important for the world in maintaining certain norms, a certain baseline. when we go dark, when we start behaving in roguish ways, it simply becomes a license for everyone else to do it. now, these are hard choices. i recognize that. people are going to do bad things. but the choices are not between saying nothing ...

Dr. brzezinski. sometimes you need to make alliances with people who werent democratic champions to take down the soviet union. but in this case, were talking about the abduction, the torture, the murder of a "washington post" journalist, a virginia resident. am i being naive for thinking this is actually more than just when good leaders do bad things, that this actually puts us in a position where it is hard to deal with mbs moving forward past trump? >> i would have come out and censured him d...