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Relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia, specifically the crown prince there. pushback at least in the symbolic way by the senate. peter doocy reports from the capitol hill. >> the u.s. senate is ready to respond to a journalist splitting murder with a resolution condemning crown prince mohammad bin salman of saudi arabia. >> my sense is it will pass and not affect policy. >> thats not the point, not right away. >> i think its important for the senate to get on the record that this is unac...

Report comes out that it doesnt play out as nicely as president trump is hoping it would. >> it has to go beyond campaign finance. julian, good to see you. "new york times" reporting that son-in-law and senior individua adviser jared kushner offered crown prince mohammed bin salman advice on how to weather the storm after the murder of jamal khashoggi. white house protocol requires that national security staff be present on all phone calls with foreign leaders, but the times reports that kushn...

Mbs and all of the other foreign officials with whom he interacts. i cant breathe. the final words of jamal khashoggi. the audio recording of the death seen by a cnn source also includes the dismembered body. we have nic robertson with more. nic joining us live from london. nic, good morning. >> reporter: the transcripts reveal that as soon as jamal khashoggi walks into the consulate, he recognizes someone. khashoggi knows him and asked with a he is doing -- asked what he is doing there. he an...

Searched his phone and other records. the new york times reports that jared kushner offered crown prince mohammed bin salman advice on how to quote weather the storm after the murder of jamal khashoggi. white house requires that national security council staff be on phone calls with out foreign leaders. there are reports that kushner and mohammed bin salman continued to speak. jared has followed protocols and guidelines with mbs and all of the foreign officials with whom he interacts. i cant...

Counterintelligence investigation into why he knowingly broke the rules on foreign outreach and set himself up as an exploitable asset of the kingdom of saudi arabia. these rules exist to preventative foreign government from knowing more than their own. when jared kushner texted mohammed bin salman, for example, a saudi official has more information than the u.s. government. thats a bribery point but jared kushner also big footed the policy process i hope was under way after khashoggis murder an...

Talked to the crown prince once. >> what kind of advice did you give mbs in this whole situation? >> just to be transparent. to be fully transparent, the world is watching. this is a very, very serious accusation. and a very serious situation. >> reporter: kushners relations with the crown prince have been a cornerstone of the administrations ties to saudi arabia. with international affairs analysts suggesting the two young men were cultivating each other as critical allies in a volatile region....

Refusing to accept at mbs ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi. some republicans broke with the president after the cia briefing. >> you have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of mbs. >> there is zero question of what mbs did. there is still a question of what the united states does about it. howie: i get the president has to weigh the diplomatic and financial consequences. president trump named heather nauert the...

Murder of khashoggi is a shocking revelation. >> to put it in context, as the middle east adviser, he was persuaded, jared kushner, been to some of these white house briefings where the white house thought that by going to riyad as the first summit and getting the saudis to connect with israel and if they could do a global deal for middle east peace, throughout the region, and that was the thinking behind it. >> in the middle east and because mbs was on their side against iran, those are two thi...

Fallout of the allegations he ordered the killing. >> yeah, thats right, andrea. in the period of time after khashoggi was killed on october 2nd, we learned there were repeated conversations between jared kushner and mohamed bin salman or mbs as hes commonly known. in some of the conversations, kushner was actually offering him some advice about how to get through this storm of controversy and scrutiny that came after the killing of khashoggi. so its a long pattern that really dates back to even...

Have made him susceptible to be manipulated by the saudi, three former senior american officials told the "new york times". one former white house official ceded out there was a risk that the saudis were playing him. a white house spokesman told the "times" in part quote that jared has always meticulously followed proelts a protocols and guidelines. >> im not sure thats the case. you had jared kushner going over and spending a weekend with mbs the week before he conducted his riyadh perch. you a...