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Deals, and ignore the fact checking of all of the inflated numbers right now. what is the effect, i should say, of what the president is doing in questioning the analysis, and in questioning the crown princes role, and then, you know, brushing it off? >> well, this is very typical of donald trump, that e shgoing to disparage any assessment or analysis whether it is going to be mbss involvement in the kill ing of jamal khashoggi or whether it was russian interference of the election, and anything...

Reporters who asked, you know, whether or not he had listened to the audio of jamal khashoggis murder and he seemed to say, well, what would i learn from that, why would i do that? he was almost mocking and ridiculing some of the questions coming from reporters on that. obviously when youre the national security adviser, you would want to have definitive proof as to whether or not, for example, the crown prince, mohammed bin salman was somehow involved in that murder, whether he had ordered that...

Role is in in that process. not only has the president but the entire administration has been fully cooperative with the special counsels office, providing hours and hours of sit downs as well as over 4 million pages in documents. we continue to be cooperative, but we also know that there was no collusion and were ready for this to wrap up. >> reporter: if i could ask a follow up. the president doesnt believe the warnings in the climate report. the president doesnt believe the cia when it comes ...

President xi jinping of china and the crown prince of saudi arabia, all of whom have real issues for the western alliance and western way of thinking about the world. the idea hes going to get-together with the crown prince after the cia has all but basically assessed the crown prince had something to do with, ordered the kill of jamal khashoggi is a pretty striking thing. i cant imagine another president doing that in the same kind of circumstance. the president has made clear he has a transact...

Again, here is where i think -- i get that the president is probably getting these briefings and theyre trying to say we have to balance this strategic relationship with what was clearly a murderous act of a reporter by the crown prince, and i think the president is just not doing a great job of trying to balance those two issues. the administration will need to go back and start putting pressure on the saudi government about trying to get some accountability on what happened. and that means tha...

Intelligence ive seen which suggests that mbs is behind it. >> this is the choir issue here. the cia -- the core issue here. the cia has come to the conclusion that the prince asked for that to happen. trump will not have that. and it hurts the u.s. economically even to go against a partner like saudi arabia. and even on the hill, something else that were going to see in the coming months is representative adam schiff, the incoming chair of the house intelligence committee, he said his committee...

Crossed into russian waters. susan collins is joining a growing list of republican who is promised to address president trump over saudi arabia. its a grave mistake to ignore the assessment that the saudi prince ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi. that echoes similar calls from other republicans. pa. >> i disagree with the presidents assessment. >> i think we need to look into this further. if there are indicators that the prince was involved in this murder, we need to consider further actio...

Pattern. okay, this is mohammad bin salman. we know that the cia has concluded that mohammad bin salman, the crowned prince of saudi arabia, personally ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi in a consulate in turkey, a saudi arabian consulate in turkey. trump, last week, again, a lot of people missed it because of thanksgiving, trump put out an incredible statement, and i dont mean that in a positive way, saying essentially, well, it might have been mbs, might not have been, well never know the a...

The so weak that we fail to tell the truth. mbs murdered somebody abroad and its not strength to mumble past that. strength is telling the truth even when its hard. fortunately, we have a u.s. intelligence community thats really good. a lot of us in the article one branch of government, the congress, have heard from the intelligence community and i will get another classified briefing about this. our intelligence community is really good and the report is really clear. the president should be st...

Involved with the president challenges that. here he is. >> the cia points it both ways. and as i said, maybe he did, maybe he didnt but , i will sa very strongly that it is a very important ally. chris: senator, what you think of the presidents conclusion that basically comes down to this, regardless of what mbs did, we need to continue doing business with saudi arabia. >> it was a very weak statement. i think we need to distance between two things. there is or there are a whole bunch of guys i...