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Speaking to the "washington post," the president said he had not heard or seen a tape of the attack on kashoggi and reiterated secretary of state mike pompeo hadnt seen anything either. the president told the post ive heard all about the videos or the tapes. nobody would get it faster than me. nobody has been able to show it. president trump did not call for the ouster of mbs, but instead praised the princes leadership, calling him a strong person with very good control. he added the crown princ...

Monday morning alongside ayman mohyeldin, louis burgdorf. lets start with the mornings top stories. president trump is still defending the saudi crown prince over the death of jamal kashoggi. a bunch of top republicans have been out this weekend saying they do believe mohammed bin salman was in fact behind the killing of the journalist. watch. >> i feel certain that the crown prince was involved and that he directed this. thats why i think we can not continue to have relations with him. i think ...

Moving it to greater repression in others. but the larger issue for washington was that americas foreign si -- trumps world view means from kim jong-un to angela merkel to mbs. this has led to the blind cub contracting of american foreign policy of saudi arabia. blockaded qatar, quarrelled with turkey and essentially kidnapped the prime minister of lebanon. all of these in large measure have failed. americas middle east policy should be based on its interests and values in the region and beyond ...

But he was never a radical? why he was seen as so threatening? perhaps because he was respected within the saudi establishment. >> to see him run so afoul of that establishment, to run afoul of the monarchy suggests that theres a deep cleavage with that establishment. when he noted that the conservatism within the ruling elite was almost always the precursor to a broader breakdown of regime. authorities inside saudi arabia have retained stability because its a -- disscepters by buying them off, ...

What has it done since the end of world war ii? it has basically led to mismanagement, deepening authoritarianism. its surprising for me, fareed, that the crown prince mbs is traveling a similar road to the road that had been traveled by other dictators in the middle east. a road leads to nowhere. and its littered with mine fields for saudi arabia and for the people of saudi arabia. >> wendy sherman, let me ask you. this simple question for the united states is what to do. saudi arabia is an imp...

For anybody who has had anything to do with it. its my sense -- and i dont know yet but based on the intel that ive read, based on the other excerpts ive read, its my thinking that mbs was involved in this, that he directed this and that this person was purposely murdered. well have a chance to see that, hopefully, very soon. my sense is, jake, even over the next week it will become much clearer. >> you said earlier this week that the white house had, quote, clamped down on sharing intelligence ...

Been deception and theres been lies in the khashoggie matter. but he praised crown prince mohammad bin salmon. today she is a senior fellow at harvard. she is now distinguished fellow at the counsel on foreign relations. a professor of international relations at the london school of economics, hes the author of making the arab world. martin, let me start with you, the crucial question it seems to me is can mohammad bin salman survive this? >> its not clear. its kind of the land of the seven veil...

Instead of saying, hey, this is the time for truth. let us say to mbs, you must have a thorough investigation and deliver the truth to the people of the world. donald trumps first instinct was to go to the cover story. and that is what we have that is different in this president of the united states than any previous president. the default is go to the cover story. go to the lie. go to that which is untrue. go to that which is not scientific. go to the birther question. et cetera, et cetera. thi...

Secretary pompeo about a wide-ranging number of issues and to his knowledge at 2:00 yesterday, they had not received those tapes. so sometimes the cia gets things. obviously i used to run the agency. sometimes they get things and it takes time to go through them and make sure theyre valid. as of yesterday at 2:00, i dont think we received those. it would be helpful if they go ahead and forward them, if they have them, for us to make our own discernment. >> you said that you believe that mbs, the...

So on. literally theres only $4 billion in actual contracts. so we need to bear that in mind. they need us much more than we need them. theres no question about that. we are their ultimate protecters against the enemy that we share in common which is iran. and our biggest problem there is the saudis are one of two pillars that trump has based his strategy against iran on. the other one being israel. and the problem with mbs is that even though he wants to be our strategic partner against iran --...