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Frozen. mohammed bin salman is crystal clear that they can maybe have another murder go forward, like vladimir putin wasnt deterred for hacking the election because we havent held him responsible. we are opening the door for mbs to do this again. >> can trump claim, look i did that, its enough, its sufficient. >> he could but it does not get at the heart of the problem, which in this case is mohammed bin salman. again, 17 of the operatives were sanctioned, just like how many russian operatives h...

Mbs? not likely, but theres certainly going to be a lot of pressure from outside sources, from capitol hill, and perhaps even from some within the administration. richard. >> the tone coming from the state department, the tone coming out of white house, at least to date so far. thank you so much, lucy kafanov with the latest on jamal khashoggi. a deadline in florida were watching is just minutes away with experts saying democrat bill nelson needs a miracle as of now to hold on to his senate se...

Told him to retrieve the documents and it was safe to do so. >> i can tell you what the response wouldnt be. the response would not be to send the secretary of state over to meet with mohamed bin salman over when it was quite clear he himself had ordered this murder. we knew it was premeditated. we knew that the turks were claiming that there was high level of saudi complicity in there, and yet mike pompeo went over there and he stood there shaking hands with mohamed bin salman, smiling the whol...

"the post" and nbc news are reporting that the u.s. intelligence agency believes with a high degree of confidence that the man nicknamed mbs ordered the killing. that assessment complicates things for donald trump who has been reluctant to point the finger at the crown prince and has even contemplated the idea of handing over to turkey a different turkish resident, handing that dissident over to turkey, whose leader accuses him of a failed coup in order to get turkey to back off its criticism of...

The idea that the same memes that were circulating on right wing websites were sort of feeding this animosity towards this journalist. >> and many of those memes that were out in the information battle zone so to speak, were coming from saudi arabia. i mean, "the lead" a very sophisticated, you know, anti-opposition information attack process. and, you know, one of the closest friends of mohammed bin salman was his chief propagandist, but that being said that this would enter our informations sp...

Transition to hitch its wagon to mohamed bin salman, and as it pertains to this devastating war in yemen, now home to the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the face of the earth, and the trump administration to this day shows no sign of recalibrating that relationship even in spite of the mounting evidence. >> and indeed the other disturbing in this is this meme about khashoggi that circulated on right wing sites like breitbart and others after his death and just a little bit from "the washingto...

We have breaking news tonight concerning the death of "the washington post" jamal khashoggi. "the post" reports and nbc news has confirmed that the cia determined that the saudi arabian crown prince ordered the assassination of khashoggi. khashoggi as youll recall went missing and was presumed dead after thee entered the saudi consulate in turkey early last month and never walked back out. for many weeks now it has been widely suspected that the saudi crown prince has been responsible for khasho...

Defending dignity and the rule of law and it raises questions about what kind of ally saudi arabia will be. is this guy, mbs, unhainged? is he reliable? can we rely on him, someone who has apparently ordered a gruesome murder. >> the cia provides assessments. it doesnt say this is true, it says we believe this is true. even so, does it put president trump at odds with his own intelligence agencies? >> absolutely. in my own experience for government for 12 years, i really rarely saw the cia be wr...

Response wouldnt be. the response would not be to send the secretary of state over to meet with mohamed bin salman over when it was quite clear he himself had ordered this murder. we knew it was premeditated. we knew that the turks were claiming that there was high level of saudi complicity in there, and yet mike pompeo went over there and he stood there shaking hands with mohamed bin salman, smiling the whole time. i think the response would be something akin to what we have seen in other punit...

East and not be tied down by saudi arabia. weve seen how trump came in, destroyed the deal and triple down on the idea that it is mbs, the 32-year-old murderous crown prince of saudi arabia who is deciding what the u.s. position in the middle east will be. >> to the point, malcolm, theyre po tenlt inititential w trade a u.s. redent aftsident a another u.s. resident was murdered by the crown prince. >> were in a different world right now. its never been like this. ive been on intelligence operati...