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>> the feckless war in yemen which is the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet shows their incapacity as a fighting force despite our weapons which they had paid for.i do think we have leverage. i want to say that jamal khashoggi, was about to be a journalist scholar at the wilson center. highly regarded in town. the irony of all of this is that he was writing about the modernization program in a positive way. he was critical of mbs extreme behavior but positive about the program. and they ...

Ones on the hit squad at the consulate. >> there were pictures of some security officers who may have been part of his security detail from time to time. this is normal security people who deal in security details rotate among different officials both domestic and foreign. having somebody in a picture does not imply that they are close at all. the has denied this and not aware of this. >> shepard: four from the security detail the accusation is we are part of the runs who murdered and chopped hi...

There very lightly. theres going to be some price to be paid by the people that were there whether they were ordered by the mbs or whether they went over there and they were rogue, either way theyre going to be held accountable so theyre going have to look at the prince of saudi arabia and put pressure on him and i think the truth will come out and of course tomorrow, the turkish government is going to release that information and i think that is going to be a whole other story. so lets see how ...

Murder, and this reckless war in yemen are not our values or interests. i think that in addition to sanctions, it would be good to talk to the king about perhaps moving mbs sideways for a while and putting an adult in charge of saudi arabia. such as, the intelligence chief was widely admired but is now under house arrest because of mbs decision or even the foreign minister we used to be the ambassador was highly regarded. >>chris: you have a much better sense of this than i do. do you think if t...

Put mbs in charge of the overhaul of saudi intelligence. >> i think it stretches credulity to believe the crown prince wasnt involved and i think thats how they will write this off. people in saudi arabia arewhere you are told what to do and you do it. then they will execute you and put blame on someone theres no one way 18 people were sent. just to pretend like you are doing something.i think we really need to discontinue our arms sales to saudi arabia and have a long and serious discussion abo...

Been a regime repressive for a long time. and it is now under the trump administration when the trump people moved closer to them in some ways that it is coming to a head. it took the spark of a writer for an american newspaper to set it on fire. i think its partly a trump thing. >> it is very much a flame when i was in the white house after 9/11, but he is right to point out, saudi, u.s. relations have never been cozier. do you see any path forward for the administration other than encouraging ...

Long lost cousins. theyre emphatically not that. so now we have a real crisis on our hands because we allowed the relationship to grow too close and allowed the saudis to think they could get away with this behavior. >> youve written aboutbehavior >> youve written about donald trumps language and violence towards journalists and what might have happened. we should have imagined. failure of 9/11 was a failure of our imagination, that mbs as close of an ally on the world stage as donald trump has,...

But my guess is at the end of the day the united states and the rest of the world will believe fully that he did it. >> can you imagine us having a relationship with the saudi government thats positive if the crown prince is still there? >> no, i dont think so. again, if the facts lead to what we all suspect they will, i think it will be very problematic for our relationship going forward. >> president trump discussed his son-in-law jared kushner amid questions over his relationship with prince ...

Fact, killed inside its consulate in istanbul. per the kingdom he died during a quarrel and a fistfight and that those involved attempted to conceal what happened. saudi arabia also says that 18 people have been arrested and several high ranking officials including a top intelligence office and a top advisor to the crown prince have both been fired. recent reports have stated that the crown pirince personally ordered the operation to try to lure kashoggi back to capture him. although they mainta...

Arabia, and that those involved attempted to, quote, conceal what happened and to cover it up. saudi arabia also says that 18 people have been arrested and several high ranking officials including a top intelligence officer and a top adviser to the crown prince have been fired. recent reports have stated that the crown prince personally ordered the operation to lure khashoggi from his home in virginia back to saudi arabia in order to capture him, although saudi arabia maintains mbs had no advanc...