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Think and be a one-term president and cash in to the tune of billion of dollars, its causing fis season -- fissures. lindsey graham said he would never deal with the saudis again, give these reports. never deal with mbs again. i think even the most steadfast trumpian apoll gist and allies on the hill would have a real hard time continuing to work with this murderer and not think twice about it? >> i think thats right, joe. i think the challenge is that, you know, they dont necessarily have a lot...

Knowledge. >> what if the crown prince, speaking to you, the president of the united states lied to you. >> he told me he had nothing to you. >> what if hes lying? >> will anybody really know? >> well, yes, actually we do know. sort of very clintonian of you what conservatives at least used to accuse bill clinton of engaging in. what the meaning of is. splitting the truth a thousand different ways. katie kay, we have once again donald trump believing an autocrat in a foreign country, like vladim...

Of washington post columnist jamal khashoggi. the saudi kingdom continues to claim that mbs had no knowledge of the operation despite several of his top aides being involved. the kingdoms explanation for the killing has changed at least six times since october 2nd. originally maintaining that khashoggi left the consulate on his own to now claiming a 15-member team killed him using a drug while trying to either persuade or force him back to saudi arabia. the new york times reports that the cia ha...

Coming up here, his biggest threat is a primary challenge. hes taking these actions to go out of his way to protect the president. you remember what mitch mcconnell did in advance of the russian investigation while obama was still president. i just have trouble seeing him allowing the senate to take official action against mbs or audi arabia is f the president is opposed to it. >> i dont know how popular saudis are that killing people. the cia. in western kentucky is going to be pretty interesti...

Camps, a lot of countries that are allies to the united states do a lot of bad things. he hasnt wanted to make a big deal of it at all. he told in interviews over the weekend he wasnt interested in hearing the tape of the killing, he has heard its horrible, he has talked about releasing a possible report. actually, repairing a report on that, but we dont know if that will be released externally at all, maybe just for his consideration. something the president wants to go away. unless there is a ...

People now that say he had no knowledge. >> what if the crown prince, speaking to you, the president of the united states, directly lied to you? >> he told me he had nothing to do with it. he told me that five times as recently as a few days ago. >> do you just live with it because you need him? >> well, will anybody really know? >> i want to bring in correspondent for nbc news international cal perry. cal, good to have you with me. lets talk about the dynamics when it comes to the united states...

This very closely and well be having a full report over the next two days, probably-month-old or tuesdprob or tuesday. >> contrary to the presidents comments, the "washington post" reports that trump has already been shown evidence of the crown princes alleged involvement in the killing, although he remains skeptical and is looking for ways to avoid pinning the blame on mbs, according to several presidential aides. >> a month ago you said you had spoken with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma...

Prince now. >> what do you think the u.s. should do? should the u.s. sanction mbs? should the u.s. suspend relations with saudi arabia until somebody else takes over? >> we have a report come iing o on tuesday. we dont want to prejudge that. certainly we ought to do whats been outlined, legislation thats just been introduced, bipartisan legislation that involves bob corker and others. it ought to involve what we do in yemen. its a horrible situation there and the saudis have not made it wert. in...

Relationship with the crown prince now. >> what do you think the u.s. should do? should the u.s. sanction mbs? should the u.s. suspend relations with saudi arabia until somebody else takes over? >> we have a report coming out on tuesday. i dont want to prejudge that. i hope we can get to the bottom of it by then. certainly we ought to do whats been outlined in legislation thats just been introduced. bipartisan legislation that involves bob corker and others. it ought to involve what we do in yem...

Relationship with the crown prince. correct me if im wrong, bob corker, one of his fierce critics, about to leave the senate. hoping the holidays pass and you come back and the temperature goes down on this. >> the white house has wanted nothing more than to put this behind them. president trump does not want to hold the crown prince directly responsible because he thinks the saudi relationship with the u.s. is so valuable. not only in regards to oil but also iran. its interesting to me that on ...