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Maybe its rogue killers as we put it. and then lo and behold yesterday thats exactly the kind of explanation they came up with after, by the way, denying this for a long time. there are a lot of people who are not at all persuaded by the saudi story. one of them is senator lindsey graham whos been very pro-trump for a long time, but not on this. he said to say i am skeptical of the new narrative about mr. khashoggi is an understatement. and i think that trump would like to stay close to saudi ar...

Arabia. the saudis believe this is given the crown prince denybilt and i think the white house is looking for that, deniability. well probably hear the president say its their citizen, and theyre taking care of it and some people went rogue. >> bret: this guy, al katani, advisor to the royal court, fired. pretty close to mbs. its getting as close as can you get without saying he knew. >> this feels like a drip, drip, drip scenario. the word "fight" as air quotes around it. what did that mean exa...

Leader on the international stage. if youre saudi arabia and this guy is 33 years old, are you really going to be an international pariah for the next half century? people arent going to need oil forever. thats an awfully risky move for them to make. >> and i think mbs thought he had more cover than he has with the united states because of his friendship with kushner, because he thought donald trump had his back in a way that he maybe didnt quite understand. he took this incredible step, apparen...

Region for countering the iranians economically, and i would also say what mbs was trying to do within saudi arabia was also to discredit and delegitimize the radical ness ideology that has come from saudi arabia in the past and has basically been the fuel for al qaeda and isis on the one hand. and on the other hand, a behavior that violates every global norm. that you go, and you lure somebody to the consulate, and in this case, you kill them. there has to be a consequence for that, and so here...

This. certainly those in the conservative media who carried his water. there are people out there willing to give him cover on no matter what issue it is. this is a case, i know were talking about this. it seems like trump is start to go distance himself from the royal family in riyadh. but the trump administration has bet big on mbs. they have made saudi arabia the linchpin of their middle east strategy to try to come up with peace in the region and certainly iran. and it is going to be difficu...

>> well, since its patently absurd, i think the u.s. and other nato countries -- since this happened in a nato country, there is some reason for nato countries to act together, to call for an investigation under the auspices of the u.n. the security council could call for it. the general assembly could call for it, or the u.n. human rights council could call for it. any of those would be feasible. and then nato should jointly expel saudi ambassadors and suspend weapon sales to saudi arabia. i th...

Says that there was a, quote, quarrel and fighting by hand, which led to his death? >> well, i have been struck, ari, by the fact that over the last two or three days, multiple reports and multiple media outlets have been reporting on what the saudis were going to cook up as their cover story. its, again, one of those things you never thought you would see, active reporting on how they would construct their story. i have a really good source who knows the royal family very well and says of mbs t...

Or does he think mbs is just getting too much bad press? >> im not sure. i just think that the white house found itself finally in a place yesterday where there was an overwhelming amount of media attention, overwhelming amount of intelligence that was pointing in one direction. and they realized they had to start to head in that way or it would continue to be a bigger problem for them. >> drop the rogue killers. >> all right. thank you for spending time with us. after the break from body slam...

Still, theres strong circumstantial evidence that agents of the 15-member saudi team accused of killing kashoggi have close ties to mbs. three people tell the "new york times" that saudi leaders are considering a plan that would place the blame on a top intelligence official who is a high-ranking advisor to mbs in evident to he effort to help deflect blame. t on wednesday the turkish government leaked some gruesome details it says are indeed from that audio recording. >> youve got the white hous...

-- theyre using a tool box thats empty for the most part. >> is mbs not surviving this a possibility? and i dont mean that in ooh literal since. evelyn, like him being removed? >> i think its a -- well, its a possibility. i dont know how much of a probability it is because obviously hes the favorite son of the king, and it will be up to the king notionally to decide to push him aye aye side. >> right. >> but hes got a lot of rivals. hes got a lot of enemies, all the people he put under house arr...