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This is a question within saudi arabia and they need to determine how they want to be viewed by the rest of the world. >> right. >> and as kaitlan said they are trying to put this behind them, the white house and saudi arabia. they have always said from the beginning that they thought there might be like a rogue actor. that was several weeks ago. >> look, when mbs came here he was feted by oprah and jarred kushner, roses were thrown at him as being the biggest reformer everywhere. its a tough sp...

Assassination of this journalist, right, and now the saudi prosecutor also at the direction of mbs in order to cover up is now going to order the death penalty for a bunch of people who were ordered initially to commit the crime. its just -- the moral atrocity here, which is horrible enough in the first instance, is just compounded by the way theyre handling this. again, maybe those people deserve the death penalty because they carried it out, but the idea that the crown prince is just pulling t...

Reckless impulsive behavior and this is one of our allies in the middle east? this is not a relationship that will do the united states good in the end. well pay an enormous price and it wont work for us. >> after donald trump, whenever that comes, the saudis must realize we can never have as mbs is running that country in any way shape or form. we just cannot do it. well never be able to do it. right now the saudis have a leader who ordered the murder, the abduction and the murder of a "washing...

Those who want to believe it. >> is president trump betting on the same thing, this storm will blow through? in other words this is the front story on every newspaper. we had a shooting in a synagogue, we had a shooting in a bar out in california. is the white house going to take this up as an issue and punish saudi arabia? >> theyre going to do the minimum amount possible annou e announced in the last 48 hours, theyre going to send the general who used to head central command as the american am...

Treasury department, secretary minneapolis mnuchin adds the government of saudi arabia must take steps to end the targeting of political dissidents or journalists. after six weeks after khashoggis death, the saudi arabian top prosecutor said he would be seeking the death penalty for five suspects, announced 11 saudis had been indicted. three key points from this news statement we are receiving from the treasury department with a hat tip to my friend ayman mohyeld mohyeldin, reading through this ...

>> and if it is the most suggestive evidence so far, as you say, if thats as far as it goes, what are you hearing from your sources, though, on what that means in terms of the responsibility put on mbs? what the united states will take from it, and how theyll respond? >> yeah. that question goes to the heart of the matter. thats the exact right question to ask. look. there are no perfect pieces of the puzzle. when you talk about intelligence, its not like a police procedural on television or a s...

Several officials have told cnn that an operation like this to be carried out by members of the inner circle could not have happened without the direct knowledge of mbs as he is known, the crown prince, but the saudis throughout have denied that he had any knowledge of this. theyve blamed it on rogue elements and they have repeat this had denial to the "new york times" in a statement. you know, some in the intelligence community believe that this is as close as they are going to get to a smoking...

Not show what the turkish says it shows. >> thats right. its a matter of dispute at this point in time. obviously not nbc or any other organization has obtained a copy of this tape so we cannot say definitively what is or isnt on it. but based on the conflicting descriptions u.s. officials are giving to reporters about this, it seems clear theres no smoking gun. theres nothing on the tape in which you hear crown prince mohammad bin salman talking to anybody on the phone or anything like that. th...

>> anything -- anything about this kind of just shaken your basic confidence in mbs as a partner? s i think a lot of people are making a big bet on mbs. people on wall street, davos, hes a reformer. i think you made a bet on him. anything happen out of this that makes you re-assess that? >> like i said, once we have all the facts, then well make an assessment, but, again, i think that our administrations made a lot of gains in our fights against terrorism. we have to deal with the long-term ideo...

Intense scrutiny ever since the incident went down. i asked him about the potential geopolitical consequences of all of this and if he finds what the saudis are talking about to be remotely credible. heres what he had to say. >> as an administration were more in a fact finding phase and well determine which facts are credible. after that the president and the secretary of state will make a determination as to what we deem to be credible, what actions we think we should take. ill also say that bu...