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Humanity as well as the important values that jamal stood for have to say, no, we cant let people get away with it. >> finally fred, do you think when you look at this situation you were a distinguished foreign correspondent. youve written all over the world. do you think this is a hard tradeoff for the trump administration that saudi arabia is an important ally? how would you strike this balance? >> you know, i think, of course the u.s./saudi alliance is important. and the two people should be ...

Found out he was not involved. so you can tell where the presidents head is on this situation. he wants mbs to stay in power and hopes theres an explanation its plausible that shows mbs did not order this killing. >> you have also reported the president has grown frustrated with his son-in-law and senior white house official jared kushner. what about on this issue specifically? what about kushners role as the white house liaison? >> kushner was the main point of contact for the crown prince. he ...

Arms deals with the united states. he struck a tone last night with me basically saying what happened he thought was reprehensible. he doesnt believe the story of the saudis, but he still wants mbs to stay in charge. >> i want to play you what were hearing from republican lawmakers, how theyre talking about the crown prince, also known as mbs. >> its my thinking that mbs was involved in this, that he directed this, and that this person was purposely murdered. >> can you imagine us having a relat...

Hook? >> well, i think thats always the danger and thats the delicate line the united states walks. weve got to stand up for our values, on the other hand, we have got important business to get done in the international community, you do that with the leaders that are in place in these countries, so long as mbs is there, weve got to be able to do business with him in the interest and in the security of the united states of america. weve seen this in russia, we continue to have summits with vladi...

>> are we surprised this brutality came out of saudi arabia. this country had 15 out of the 19 hijackers? >> yeah, im surprised. im surprised a country that calls himself an ally of the united states. it shows complete content for our value or this is not informing saudi arabia. they will cut up saudi arabia as an ally. this behavior is outside the norm to the point that the people involved need to be removed in my view. saudi arabia is a country and mbs is a person. im willing to separate the t...

Supposedly progressive. they are empowering women to drive. they have the facade of being progressive. howie: experienced foreign policy writers and columnists were saying mbs was making some of the reforms you were talking about so the saudis were getting good press. sara: you could say the president is being held to a different standard. but in another, regardless of who the president is, we need to look at this particular case with extreme attention because of the fact they had been masquerad...

Be grounded in a month. >> 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 abou...

Without mbss approval of tasks? >> no, i think as analytical matter for anybody who followed the saudiss closely and particularly mohammed bin salaman its hard with the potential ramifications its clearly had not happening without any kind of expressed order from mohammed bin salaman, president trump calling good first step, what do you think we should do? >> well, i think its good step, for 2 and a half weeks the saudis have said that this man left the consulate of own free will and now finally...

Protected from the united states and working for media outlet, the washington post. we have to be clear in rhetoric and clear that this can never happen again or will in fact, jeopardize the u.s.-saudi strategic partnership and there are sanction that is we need to put into place, the global act sanctions that targeted against specific saudi perpetrators of this action and then i think weve got to consider real pressure on the saudis finally, dont indulge mohammed bin salaman, hes creating more ...

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...