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Not to mention the fact, i mean were talking about jamal khashoggie case really tells us is it brought a lesson about them at least, not just saudi arabia and the arab world, i mean this notion of the just dictator, the notion of the authoritarian leader or modernizer, the cultive personality. thats the base loss of mismanage, deepening authoritarianism. its surprising for me, fareed, that the crown prince mohammad, this is a man who is traveling a similar road that had been traveled by other di...

That establishment. >> when studied the breakdown of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s and 80s. he noted a schism in the ruling elite was almost always the precursor to a breakdown of a regime. saudi arabia has maintained stability historically because it was really a patronage state, not a police state. the kingdom has typically dealt with its critics and dissenters by buying them off. mostly in the case of hard-line clerics. yet mbs appears to be changing the model from patronage to police st...

With canada. and the kind of instability that mbs is creating a counter to the interest of the united states and to the interest of the saudis and the u.s./saudi alliance. and, you know, if people who believe in having this alliance should want a regime that u.s. businesses and other governments can feel comfortable dealing with, not a regime that feels it can do something like this. and if i could just say one more thing, you know, you showed the columns of jamals weve posted and some of the ed...

Him and get away with it. i think the united states and all other countries and people who believe in basic humanity as well as the important values that jamal stood for have to say no, we cant get people get away with that. >> finally fred, do you think when you look at the situation, youre a distinguished foreign correspondent, youve written all over the world, do you think this is a hard tradeoff for the trump administration, thall-sta break saudi arabia is an important -- >> the u.s.-saudi a...

Market. the saudis are difficult customers. they argue about contracts and stuff. they promised trump 100 billion, but theres only 100 billion in actual contracts. they need us more than we need them. theres no question about that, we are the ultimate protectors against their enemy against iran. the saudis, one of two term naturals that trump has based his strategy against iran off. the other one being central. the problem with mbs is that even though he wants to be our strategic partner against...

Economic and religious reforms with an every tighter grip on power. targeting new platforms and now it would seem executing a loll lunchtime niloll -- columnist. ruthless actions like this often tends to produce instability in the long run. hosni m hosni -- ironically for someone so ferociously anti-iranian, mbs sometimes resembles no mideastern ruler as much as the shaw of iran, who was a reformer and also a dispot, and also much loved by wen eleads, mohammad bin salman is a controversial figur...

States. they have gone into this disastrous war in kbryemen, the have had this ridiculous flap with kenya. and the kind of instability that mbs is creating is counter to the interest of the united states and to the interest of the saudis and the u.s. saudi alliance. and if people who believe in having this alliance should want a regime that u.s. businesses and other governments can feel comfortable dealing with, not a regime that feels it can do something like this. and if i could just say one m...

While its very serious, there must be consequences, but if we abandon mbs, we dont know whats behind door number two. we dont know if extremist one of would have a greater constituency. its a complicated region thats been essentially engaged in pretty bar baric tactics for the last 3,000 years. it is the race for floridas governor that no one predicted. see andrew gillum and ron desantis in a live cnn debate at the top of the hour. coming up, protesters and the political divide. lawmakers conf...

Out of saudi arabia. but at the end of the day, the president is very transactional. weve seen that he has created -- i dont hold him responsible for khashoggis death. but i do think of him with impunity when he talks about slamming american reporters when he stands by saudi arabia so many days later after these explanations are not credible. so i think the administration is is going to have to find some road forward here to, quote unquote, punish saudi arabia. but i dont think that will mean wi...

>> your reaction to the saudis explanation. >> i dont think its credible at all. he was clearly murdered in a consulate. things like that dont happen in saudi arabia without people at the top knowing. >> so josh, does the president disagree with all of them? >> well, the president said to me last night explicitly on several occasions hes not ready to say publicly what he believes. he says hes still getting information from his cia, from his state department. he was not willing to say if he wante...