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Accomplished phone call that essentially has him being informed directly that his mission has been complete, i suspect the administration is going to try to find a way, and all the rhetoric suggests this, and some of the actions, of at least, i guess, getting or giving a get out of jail free card on this one. i dont think the administration has any intention of signaling loss of confidence in the leadership of mbs, let alone applying personal sanctions on travel, freezing assets. nothing like th...

Discounted some findings from u.s. intelligence in the past. so it is a big question how much he will trust what is in that report and what he will most importantly do about it. >> yeah. i think it is important to start from the perspective that this intelligence perspective is a high confidence intelligence assessment. the cia, the intelligence agencies have not only looked at organic intelligence as well as what we know about the way orders are dolled out in the kingdom. the president will get...

Shots. >> right. thats what the cia is saying. anyone who covers the region knows nothing look this could have taken place without the acquiescence or the consent of mohammed bin salman. so now essentially whats going to happen, if we game this out a little bit, the saudis have rounded up almost 20 people, five are facing the death penalty, and what looks like is going to happen is the relationship will move forward without any punishment against mbs. we have to note on capitol hill there are a ...

Open here. in the past presidents have turned a blind eye to bad behavior on the part of saudi arabia. but when you have every when he will evidence of a journalist killed in such a horrific way, the president has to do something. what hes got to look for is he has to walk away from that middle ground and look for something that will hold mbs personally accountable. that will be sanctions or something that impacts the arms deal or something that impacts yemen. but he cant simply push those thing...

The relationship with benjamin netanyahu in israel and the relation with saudi arabia. no one is arguing that we ought to destroy or fundamentally change the nature of the relationship. saudi arabia is important. we got to reinject some balance, some leverage and some reciprocity into this relationship. so bottom line mbs is literally his most significant policy achievement, has been the bamboozling of donald trump. i think this statement reflects the fact that the president is determined no mat...

It. what are your thoughts? people on both sides of the political aisle are upset today. >> well, advisors job is to have the president understand what are the geopolitical challenges and what means to the united states. really in terms of substance, what were dealing with here is one criminal act on one hand, we need to investigate, get to the point, the bottom line of what it was and why and who gave the order, the smoking gun. we havent seen so far. on the other hand, we have strategic relati...

Move-on.org. i want to start with you your thought. >> this is a truly appalling behavior from the president, on a scale of the worst events in the trump presidency, helsinki summit with putin. let me point out a couple things first of all, the reporting is the intelligence community has a high confidence assessment that mbs was responsible for this murder which by the way is anybody who follows saudi arabia closely would think about a team of people flying to a third country to kill someone and...

Arabia which hes spent a great deal of time today denying which only makes it seem pretty clear that that has something to do with this. there are multiple, a multitude of reasons, and, you know, gross im rights violations, if thats on the other side of trumps own reasoning, that side is going to lose we see that time and time again. weve seen that with vladimir putin. weve seen that with others. none of this, sadly, is a surprise. >> the other side of it is the human tragedy. and i want to just...

When the president floated the saudi line about rogue killers being behind the savage murder of a u.s. resident, did the president already know, had he already been briefed that mbs was responsible? did the intelligence community describe khashoggi as an enemy of the state and member of the muslim brotherhood as donald trump did today in his statement? what u.s. government agency signed off on todays statement from the white house did any u.s. government agency signal any concern about that whit...

Smoke. that was a magical moment for him. and he holds this friendship with the saudis in high regard and hes very protective of it and been looking in private conversations with his advisers in the last two months 23ig y sg out how to deal with, responds to this murder hes been looking for ways to excuse mbs and ways to point the finger somewhere else even though his intelligence agencies have been arriving at a very different conclusion >> former national security official said to me the relat...