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Todays briefing makes them even more convinced that, as you heard, mbs, the saudi crown prince, had involvement in this case. this puts them at odds with trumps secretary of state, with trumps secretary of defense and with president trump. with us tonight to talk about all of it, a.b. stoddard, columnist and social editor at clear politics, and editor of the bush administration and editor at large of the weekly standard. welcome both. a.b., does this equal an awakening to certain republicans and...

>> well, listen, we did get 63 votes last week for this specific proposal that pulled the united states out of the yemen coalition. right now, i dont see a path by which this resolution passes. this may be a very clear signal that the senate sends in the next several days. but i would agree that this isnt the end. i also think you need to look at what mbs is doing with these weapons around the region. for a long time, we were happy to sell billions of dollars of weapons to the saudis because the...

Organized by people under the command of mbs and he was intricately involved in the demise of jamal khashoggi. there is zero chance, zero chance this happened in such an org oinized way without the crown prince. >> and chuck schumer is calling for a full senate briefing from the cia director. yemen and saudi arabia, similar to the briefing last week. haskell is not scheduled to attend. surveilled for months by what is believed to be a foreign agent due to the nature of the attack. the hack was...

Your country and our country that this will never happen again. what steps is saudi arabia taking? that could be done privately, publicly, but somehow i think thats the essential next step. >> and the problem with that, of course, is the president of the united states, the top of the government, has already given them a pass. >> yeah. >> so no you how does he go back and say we know you did this when he said i didnt believe you did it. >> the saudis if they have leaders that are looking ahead ha...

Pocket of saudi arabia, but since i have such respect for them, i am going to assume theyre being good soldiers and when they look at the analysis, they are being technical in their statement. they are not giving the assessment that i think the senate will have. i would really question somebodys judgment if they couldnting in out. it is there to be figured out. please let me finish. the reason they dont draw the conclusion that he is complicit is because the administration doesnt want to go down...

Theres a smoking saw. you have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of mbs and that he was intrinsically involved. >> reporter: an open and shut case, said senator bob corker. >> i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince, mbs, ordered the killing, monitored the killing, knew exactly what was happening, planned it in advance. if he was in front of a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes, guilty. >>...

Regime change. force him to take the power away from mbs. he is too young and shouldnt be in this. he did something against every norm of anybody who is not an absolute brutal dictator with the evidence we know about and even more so they saw in a classified way and he was behind or directing the brutal, brutal murder of a political opponent. a journalist. thats another signal they are trying to send. >> they want to know that the president or his secretary of state and national security adviser...

Clear evidence that the saudi prince, mohammed bin salman is responsible for the killing, after receiving a long had mu-a cia director briefing. >> so heres my takeaway, that saudi arabias a strategic ally and the relationship is worth saving but not at all cost. well do more damage to our standing in the world and our national security by ignoring mbs than dealing with him. mbs, the crown prince, is a wrecking ball. i think hes complicit in the murder of mr. khashoggi to the highest level possi...

His fellow world war ii hero. president bush is going to lie in state at the capitol rotunda until tomorrow morning when his funeral will be held at the national cathedral in washington. all five living presidents are expected to attend with one of them, his son, george w. bush, delivering a eulogy. lets continue our conversation. i wanted to talk about something that we covered in the b block, which has to do with all these republican senators being given information by the cia director, gina h...

Whats been leaked is true, the assessment the intelligence community or specifically the cia has done has high confidence that mbs is not only implicated but probably did direct the killing of the saudi journalist. and shell be forthright about that. >> there was also the high five between putin and mohammed bin salman at the g20. it got a whole lot of attention. what went through your mind when you saw that? >> well, to me this was two a o autocrats with blood on their hands thumbing their nose...