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About this. >> i dont see how there can be any doubt that mbs was directly involved. were not going to find an e-mail saying dont forget the bone saw, but everything else points in that direction. >> we were disappointed when the administration spokesman at that meeting used the term smoking gun. if you sat down with the evidence, with the analyst in a matter of minutes the conclusion is obvious. >> reporter: hallie, within the last hour, dick durbin, who you heard there, said that they also exp...

In both these cases how did you find this out? it makes me wonder, like how much else is there like this? >> thats a really good question to ask. so weve actually found big saudi expenditures at three trump hotels, the one in new york where travelers accompanying mohammad bin salman, one stay by saudi travelers was enough to put the trump hotel in new york in the black for the whole quarter, the first quarter of 2018. theres this example. and then trumps hotel in chicago is also reported an upti...

Countries, but when you go to washington, i remember my sister-in-law who was married to my brother who was the ambassador to sweden, i couldnt send her shoes. there are very clear rules and they actually call you out and call you up if they are broken. >> especially as congress can reporters and a whole lot of people are wondering why the president has gone to such lengths to defend mbs and to extend one of the longest running scandals really of the trump presidency with the murder of jamal kha...

Of the saudi government. thats ridiculous. its like saying you come home from work at the end of it day and you find your dog sleeping on your couch and your couch has been eaten up, and you cant somehow draw a conclusion. and its sort of the same idea here. there are all kinds of very solid pieces of evidence that mbs was very involved as corker was saying in planning and following up and monitoring this operation, which involved his very own security detail. and yes, we dont have a smoking gun...

President trump toe hehotel was struggling. that stay really turned around the quarter for them. >> lot of people are saying is this part of the reason the president has rejected what his own intelligence community has said. many republicans said they accept that mbs was behind the murder of jamal khashoggi. i understand you just ran into bob corker in the hallways. what was your conversation with him? >> its a big topic of conversation on capitol hill right now what to do about this and there a...

Mike pompeo thinks hes practicing the argument that were going to need the saudies. they can be friends with the russians. an understanding its the united states that has this. were their pat trorn. we can dictate terms to how that government behaved. they cant move to the kind of surveillance were going to get in yemen, the kind of protections they get. so we ought to be exerting power over them to bring mbs to heel. not simply rolling over on the false notion that somehow because saudi arabia ...

Yemen preventing a resolution to the blockade of qatar, and jailing and torture of dissidents and activists inside kingdom of saudi arabia and the use of frs to intimidate rivals. this resolution was introduced in the senate just one day after a select group of bipartisan senators had a closed door briefing with cia director gina haspel and declared they are confident that the crown prince ordered the murder. >> i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince, mbs, ordered the killing, mon...

Using the completely wrong standard. this is not about beyond a reasonable doubt and a court of law. you dont need a smoking gun. the question is is the state of saudi arabia responsible for these actions? whether its mbs or someone else, did they do this? did they as a nation do this, are they condoning this, and the answer is very clearly yes, which is why were talking about punishing the nation, not the individual. so this standard of proof theyre talking about is inappropriate to a foreign p...

Committee, this whole issue of smoking gun, this whole issue of standard of proof, how often would the cia come in and present to you what people would call a so-called smoking gun? >> you know, when secretary mattis said that hes actually using the completely wrong standard. this is not about beyond a reasonable doubt and a court of law. you dont need a smoking gun. the question is is the state of saudi arabia responsible for these actions? whether its mbs or someone else, did they do this? did...

Far as ive seen. jamal khashoggi was banned from speaking publicly and writing publicly in saudi arabia in december 2016 after he spoke critically about donald trump here at a think tank in washington. so its just interesting and important to point out in addition to trumps conflicts of interest with saudi arabia, which you pointed out in the beginning and which are significant, but khashoggi was a critic of president trump and of mbs. he was a critic of these aspiring authoritarians, and in the...