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With high confidence he was involved. in my experience when the cia says they have high confidence in something, its like saying i have high confidence that the sun will come out tomorrow. they always hedge their bets. the fact they said mbs was directly responsible is really kind of extraordinary. i think they were trying to excludes the cia director to excludes that evidence. >> is this a cover-up? >> its kind of mushing things up. the administration has so kind of pledged their trough with mb...

Seemed to be him following direction from his staff. >> phil, he seems to say here that the cia did not affirmatively say that the crown prince of saudi arabia was involved in the killing of khashoggi, but weve all read the reporting that says that the cia did conclude that mbs was at least aware of it. im just curious, did you push back on him at all? and how does he respond when you push back to him on things like this that are actually demonstrably false? >> well, hes trying to mislead there....

Confidence assessment, that the crown prince mohammed bin salman ordered the killing of the crown prince. president trump said look, the crown prince told me repeatedly that he had nothing to do with this. maybe he did it, maybe he didnt, and trump went on to say potentially he could visit with the crown prince at the g20 summit in argentina later this week. hes going to be getting down there on thursday. he said theres no schedule meeting with mbs, but that he would certainly talk to him if he ...

Theyre intelligent. >> he said, im not a believer. he made it sound as if the science around climate change is a faith claim, is an opinion, right? i dont believe it, right? so at that point what hes doing is hes rejecting the notion of evidence and fact and pulling it into the terrain of opinion, right? and so what we see over and over again is i believe mbs. i believe putin, right? and in each of those instances the belief trumps the fact, right? so in this moment what trump is doing is actual...

Assessment was that mbs directed these killings? >> i dont want to speculate. but nobody was happy she wasnt there. >> its outrageous that the senate can be stone called from hearing from the cia director. i have respect from the secretary of state and defense but i dont need them to characterize the information of the cia and the intelligence community. i need to hear it directly. tells me volumes about what really is going on here. >> the most persuasive presence in this briefing was the empty...

Discussion, to be candid, a little ridiculous on some level. your point is the correct point. i dont know about john bolton. i dont know what -- where hes at on this. there may be some level of denial and he doesnt want to hear the screams and all that stuff. donald trump knows -- >> by the way, it may be he has listened to the tape and hes lying there. >> totally possible. >> everything is possible. >> the donald trump thing is simple. he knows what happened. he has no doubt in his mind. hes no...

Immense damage to u.s. national security interests and those of our allies and partners. cia director gina haspel will not be there. the president isagain, questioning the agencys high confidence assessment telling "the washington post" maybe he did and maybe he didnt, but he denies it adding the cia did not say afiffirmatively he did it. mbs arrived in argentina for the g 20 summit. president trumps headed to that summit tomorrow, and he tells "the washington post" hes open to maybe meeting mbs...

Khashoggi was murdered at mbss order. he does not care. what he cares about is himself and money and he has had long-standing ties with the kingdom. hes had long-standing ties with the prince. his family has had long-standing ties with the prince and he knows hes going to be out of office at some point. if he stays tied with the prince, he can make more money staying tight with mbs than turning against him. its simple. hes a collectocrat. he doesnt care about journalists lies, this journalist, w...

Reports, and they didnt are respond fully to the question as to why gina haspel was not there and the cia assessment, and so they are still ducking the issue. >> they r and the cia has clifred thesclifr -- delivered thes assessment t the white house that the crown prince ordered the brutal murder of the journalist. and we asked about the line of maybe he did and maybe he did and a he said that he had been spoken to the crown prince who assured him that he had nothing to do with the killing and p...

Should meet, should talk with mbs while hes at the g20? >> i mean, i think -- i think i believe trump when he says that he wouldnt mind or would want to meet with mohammed bin salman, you know, absolutely i think my position our position at "the washington post" is that mohammed bin salman specifically should be treated as a pariah when it comes to world leaders, civilized world leaders. we saw this week how tunisian activists protested his coming to meet in the country. i think, again, if trump...