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>> 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 sphere and go into right wing media especially with regards to, you know, the accusation of him being a member of the muslim brother hood...

The ga"game of thrones." right now president trump openly said in october theres three major interests with mbs. number one is the economic interest, the $110 billion arms sale. also, oil. you also want to contain iran. we want to punish our allies who do business with iran. who do we need to do that? saudi arabia. number three is we want a stable ally for israel. president trump has said the crown prince is secure and a strong leader. this strong leader has had five different narratives about w...

>> he thinks he was a catalyst to the coup. >> this is very personal. i was in many meetings where president obama demanded the -- he gave us all these papers that seemed to prove he was involved. we could never find evidence to support that. in the united states we have the rule of law and we cant say because you want this guy were going to send him back to his certain torture and death. what we have is a sort of "game of thrones." its not a coincidence this happened in turkey. khashoggi critic...

Now its a rogue operation. while this was happening, the "washington post" and others reported that the cia had access to intelligence which turkey has had. what happened? we sent mike pompeo to meet the king. he met him for 15 minutes. he smiled and shook his hand. that day saudi arabia sent $100 million that they promised the united states. what did mike pompeo say? i have faith in saudi arabia to do a fair investigation. donald trump said its probably rogue killers. now youre in a situation w...

Grotesque story. but is it going to constrain the president in remaining alive with mbs? >> i think thats a critical point because everything this president has done up to this point when it comes to the intelligence community has been to side with. this is a high confidence assessment. this is the intelligence committee -- this is an opportunity for the president to say look, ive got a committee that serves me and works to give me the vaadvantage. he can do the right thing here and side with th...

Pressure on the president of the united states to do something about u.s. saudi relations. >> it will and it wont just be coming from externally outside of the country. it will be coming from congress. we had someone like bob corker, whos on his way out, that he thought mbs was it was getting closer and closer to him, but the white house has tried to push this away from mbs because they really invested in that relationship. just a couple of days ago, john bolton said the tape thats out there app...

Face-to-face with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. one source tells us thats unusual, normally for a discussion like this he would meet with somebody on his own level but two sources tell us that the crown prince, quote, threw a fit over the resolution. other sources are more diplomatic. they say he didnt like it. he has reservations but overall it was a cordial discussion. so now the uk secretary goes back, has discussions with allies like the u.s. and france to try to figure out wha...

Leader ordered the killing, which saudi arabia now claims was done by injecting him with a large amount of a drug according to the report. his body was then dismembered and disposed of. 11 unnamed suspects have been indicted and saudi authorities are seeking the death penalty for five of them. >> using the magnitsky act the u.s. treasury yesterday sanctioned 17 saudi officials over the killing. one of those officials who was one of crown prince salmans top aide and who was part of the planning a...

That an operation of this magnitude and seriousness and taking place in turkey could have happened without the knowledge of the very, very highest knowledge of power. but how are we going to believe this idea they were just going to interview him when they came with a doctor, when they came with some kind of materials to dismember the body once he had been killed. it seems with every attempt to make the story clearer, in fact what theyre doing is to make it much more confusing, brooke. >> to thi...

Saudis, because the twin statements seem to be coming out in an effort to put this behind us, because the white house has wanted nothing more to that, white house officials have said to me for weeks that we in the media were overblowing the story and we were the only ones focused on it and people out in the country did not care about the story or prioritize it which i dont know is true, but we do see its the administration trying to look like they are holding the saudis accountable without disru...