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There is talk about that. but realistically, the u.s. does not have power to out mohamed bin salmon or to change whoever ascends to king there. who would replace him that would be so different? >> he ruthlessly eliminated most of the major power centers that might change his authority except one, of course his father. and reality is king solomon at some point will pass. and then whatever cover exists to keep mbs in check will be undermined. and then and only then, i think, will we see whatever i...

Thats no way that he can investigate this himself. at this point, they can blame general asiri, who is apparently involved in this. but no one is going to buy it. everybody in the kingdom knows that he ordered this impulsively. a lot of princes now recognize him to be a psychopath, dangerous. hes che hes clearly somebody that cannot succeed his father. hes the absolute ruler now, but he cannot spend the next 60 years on the throne, because he will destabilize saudi arabia, no doubt about this. t...

And clearly hes got to go. the trump administration has got to come one a plan. we have a lot of influence in saudi arabia, a lot of princes know people in this town in washington. and they are looking for leadership from the united states. the fact that jared kushner has a personal relationship with mbs is not doing any good at all. it makes people wonder whats going on here. so we need to shift policy here in washington as soon as possible. >> you wonder about the confidence that if mbs in fac...

Think is most disturbing right now. the reporting that jared kushner may have with u.s. intelligence delivered a hit list, an enemys list to the crown prince, to mbs in saudi arabia and the prince may have acted on that and one of the people he took action against is mr. khashoggi. >> just to be clear, congressman, we dont have -- i just want to be clear, we do not have that reporting. im sure where youre getting that from. >> there has been reporting to that effect, sure. >> not cnn reporting. ...

Turkey is an ally. u.s. intelligence is pretty good, last time i checked. if the turks had an indication that early, is it likely that the u.s. also had evidence early of what happened to khashoggi? >> its possible, jim, that we would have even through our own means, perhaps, or maybe through turkey. but we just wont know until the united states gets through evaluating what the saudis are investigating and they come clean about what the knowledge is. i would have to say, though, listening to the...

Refused and when he started to work with dissidents or when he started to criticize mbs in "the washington post" or started to work on some other project, they didnt like that. so they said, no, youre not going to go forward with it. >> why would the saudis risk an international crisis if they did in fact murder him? he is one person and its triggered international scrutiny at the very least. >> honestly that shows how weak they are. you know, they did the same to the prime minister of lebanon. ...

Still breaking news, saudi arabia confirming now that the saudi journalist and "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi is dead. the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman, has been named to head a commission to investigate. lets go to our cnn global affairs correspondent elise labott. so, step back a little bit. what does all this mean? >> reporter: wolf, you have the closest advisers, some of the top two advisers to the crown prince, mohammed bin salman, today, theyre talking about an inve...

>> you say jamal was afraid. what did he tell you about being afraid? >> can you repeat that, please? >> forgive me, we have a bad connection. when you talked to jamal, he expressed he was afraid. what did he tell but that? >> i was asking him if mbs is going to change his behavior because for the last few months he was -- i asked him do you think that this guy is going to change his behavior? he told me, no, thats not going to happen. hes going to be more violent. i said so what do you think? h...

And kushner are very reluctant to do. >> bob, it is about interesting comparison that he makes between kushner and salman. salman is a different personality type, but this sort of insular family-run dynamic, and that seems to be the basis of the relationship. >> well, exactly. max is 100% right. this is a catastrophe. mbs does not understand the world. he looks at the united states as saudi arabia owns it because it sends it so much money. he believes he owns trump because the saudis invested in...

Within his knowledge, if not at his direction. >> pretty straightforward answer. the president seemed to put some distance between himself and the crown prince, mohammed bin salman, yesterday, saying what often amounts to a kiss of death for this president, saying i didnt know that person very well, which we have heard him say about others just before they departed. can the u.s. pressure the saudi family to reduce mbs role? does the u.s. have that influence? >> we have a lot of influence, but i ...