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Argentina. the trip comes amid growing pushback over white house support of saudi arabia in the aftermath of the murder of columnist jamal khashoggi. the cia has reportedly assessed with high confidence that the crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the killing, and as you just heard, the president is not planning to meet with the crown prince. meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators rebuked the white house yesterday after they received a classified briefing on the khashoggi killing. many senat...

Freeing up some big time on the presidents schedule on saturday. of course sh, he has that din w president xi which is a big aspect coming up in the argentina g20 summit. and also in argentina for the summit is mohammad bin salman of saudi arabia, and the white house saying no plans for him to meet with mbs and a close ally he has been denying, the, the intelligence that has been reported by all of us, and the high confidence that the saudi leader is involved in that kashoggi murder. and so i wa...

Is not acceptable. the briefing today did want help me at all better understand the role that mbs played in the killing of mr. khashoggi. the yes, mamen conflict is one of the puzzle. i think we have a right to be briefed by the cia. how can i make a decision about whether or not the crown prince is complicit in a murder if i dont have access to the intelligence that i read about in the paper? thats unacceptable for me. and is it too much to ask of an ally that the de facto leader of the country...

Democrat in voting for the measure. >> i changed my mind because im pissed. the way the administration has handled the saudi arabia event is not acceptable. the briefing today did not help me at all better understand the whole that mbs played in the killing of mr. kashoggi. the yemen conflict is just one part of the puzzle. i think institutionally we have a right to be briefed by the cia. how can i make an informed decision as a united states senator about whether or not the crown prince is comp...

This is such weakness. but im glad that we finally are examining the sartarvation of s many yemeni civilians that we are complicit in by ignoring what we are doing in yemen and we are at war there. >> secretary of state mike pompeo said there is no direct link between mbs and the murder of jamal khashoggi. so the white house and the secretary of state going one direction, everybody else going the other. >> there was a way where they could have dealt with khashoggi in a forthright way and maintai...

Prince to jamal khashoggis death. do you believe mbs was responsible or even aware of khashoggis murder? >> yes. i think when you have an organization, a security organization that reports directly to the prince, that has a number of its representatives who are implicated directly in the killing of mr. khashoggi, that you have to hold the prince accountable for that. i think its fair to say that people who are in positions of authority and power like mohammed bin salman is, that nothing happens ...

That the cia concluded that the crown prince, mbs, was involved and directed the killing of khashoggi, the dissident. thats somehow been classified and was leaked to a newspaper and now is out there in the open. i dont think that should be classified. i dont think it should be kept to a select group of people. because the rest of the representative democracy, we should debate if that is the cias conduction. no one has told me that. i have read it in the newspaper. really, all of congress should ...

Bring democracy. >> bill: you need saudi arabia. >> sandra: theyre about to brief senators. gina haspel will not be there. its a key part of this. >> it looks weird to people on both sides of the aisle. a lot of conversation about that yesterday why the decision got made and why would it be the case and ambassador bolton yesterday during the press briefing saying he didnt listen to the khashoggi tape. what use would it be? he doesnt speak arabic. the rhetoric coming out around this, the presiden...

This is not a tom clancy novel. there is no smoking gun. the intelligence community makes an assessment based on the evidence and information and, you know, what they know. and their knowledge of the regime. and what the policymaker, i guess the president in this case, is resisting is the fact that his ally mbs ordered the killing of a "washington post" columnist. >> absolutely. hes willing to say that mbs denied doing so and is willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in this instance. what...

Dont understand. >> the president has made very clear he is not going to change the relationship with saudi arabia. the statement right before thanksgiving could not have been more expleasicit in that. hes being transactional about it. saudi arabia is a key ally and he doesnt want to disrupt that relationship. hes not going to hold mbs feet to the fire. the president leaves for argentina tomorrow. mbs will be there. theres no meeting scheduled. the president said yesterday, he wouldnt rule it ou...