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Kind of hasty cover-up job by the saudis. theres definitely a sense that turkish officials are getting impatient. what they want to hear is a definitive statement from saudi arabia about what happened, how it happened and why it was allowed to happen, brooke. >> perhaps some of those answers may come from the saudis. we wait. sam, the question to you is we know secretary pompeo is in riyadh meeting with mbs. do you know anything about what was discussed between these two? >> reporter: only, broo...

Inefficient and chaotic but the bad guy also come out and they will tear everything down. so the only way to get to a different place is to push off any sort of political reform, to push off open discussion, that that can come later. right now, saudi arabia is under an urgent need to reform. what jamal khashoggi said was the only way to reform the system is if you engage people, you free people to follow all kinds of ideas. some of them will be good. some of them will be bad. but you have to hav...

♪ >> what i would do, i know what im going to do. im going to sanction the hell out of saudi arabia. you know, we deal with bad people all the time. but this is in our face. i feel personally offended. they have nothing but contempt for us. why would you put a guy like me and the president in this box after all the president has done. this guy has got to go. saudi arabia, if you are listening, there are a lot of good people you can choose but mbs has tainted your country and tainted himself. >...

The threats and the pressure on them. so theyre -- >> no, im -- if the saudis -- if you go with what the saudis are saying, you go with their cover story, the fact remains that they still abducted and tortured a journalist. >> yes, that remains. for all the rumors and murky details, that fact remains that jamal khashoggi is gone. and the fact remains for all the talk of an important ally in saudi arabia, it means that we had a country that lied to our faces for two weeks. so as far as being a de...

Dont they give the body back? >> were not talking about full sanctions like what will be reimposed on iran in a few weeks. youre talking about holding someone accountable. whatever mbs is saying to secretary pompeo and to the president right now is important, but its going to be even more important for the congress to be convinced. i think you could have 80 votes for targeted sanctions and holding someone responsible in saudi. >> its been mentioned jared kushner and his relationship with the cro...

Criticisms. again, this calls into question what sort of ally is saudi arabia that would continue to grind its own people into the dust? i dont understand. >> you know, listening to republicans, specifically lindsey graham, he was the most forceful i heard this morning. he was the one who said mbs needs to go. when you think back into the history of 9/11, what happened in yemen, weve seen u.s. eyes turn the other way many, many times before. karen, do you think that this is a turning point in th...

Consulate in turkey. this guys gotta go. there are a lot of good people you can choose, but mbs has tainted your country and tainted yourself. >> there are also reports that saudi arabia are considering saying that agents who authorized the murder actually killed khashoggi during an interrogation gone wrong. this would be a major breakthrough, and one that shields the royal family from blame. its worth pointing out that all the details we have so far, from the turkish government, and until we ha...

Deny involvement. i want you to listen it lindsey graham talking about the crown prince known as mbs. >> this guy is a wrecking ball. he had this guy murdered in a consulate in turkey. to expect me to ignore it -- theres a difference between a country and a figure. the mbs figure is toxic and can never be a world leader on the world stage. saudi arabia, mbs has tainted your country and tainted himself. >> with me now, sam kiley in saudi arabia and clarissa ward, who broke this story in turkey. c...

That president trumps, but what he is clearly trying to do is minimize the necessity of the united states having to take action here and get further involved than we need to. >> martha: mark, what do you think? >> comparing him to brett kavanaugh is an insult to brett kavanaugh. there is no video of him walking into the house. there is video of him walking into the saudi consulate and not coming out. i think we have pretty clear evidence that something happened inside that consulate. >> martha: ...

Kind of response if these allegations are true? >> i cant imagine there wont be, but i think we need to find out what happened. >> martha: there is talk potentially of the magnitsky act being put in place against the saudi leadership. >> i wouldnt hold my breath on that. we are dealing with a bunch of sharia supremacists, anti-american regimes. i think it was a mistake for the president to hop in with the speed with the saudis. you have to be leery of the turks. actually, i think the smart thing...