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Presented him with a list of things he did, and now we have mbs. its no secret theres some very serious human rights violations in saudi arabia. >> impunity has consequences. you let leaders know they can do worse. i think thats what happened in the case of mbs. my theory is that right now it may well be in the interest of saudi arabia, of turkey and the u.s. to agree on some kind of a fall guy who did this. >> why? >> to protect saudi arabia. to protect the crown prince. certainly in saudi arab...

Administration so eager to make them the centerpiece of their negotiations. theres no accountability here, while theres no direct causality. this is on the saudis, not on trump, the reality is, if in fact your security partner, i wont call them an ally. if your security partner engages in behavior, you kidnap the lebanese prime minister. you undertake a boycott of qatar which is split the gcc. you conduct a disastrous war in yemen without an objective or without end. both the obama administratio...

Thought he ought to support. jamal had long-standing ties to the muslim brotherhood which is at odds with the saudi wahhabi regime. they are both islamists, they are both very, very conservative, but they despise each other. and perhaps mbs, as the crown prince is known, mohamed bell someone, was threatened by this man and "the washington post" behind him. maybe he decided the time is come to silence him. and hes done other rash things that has led his friends and supporters in the cia and the p...

They thought they saw an iranian arm trying to destabilize the broader middle east. sometimes this mbs character has instincts that arent all bad. he has an extreme arrogance and a brutal quality in how he pursues his vision. we have to find a way to check that. just like president trump is trying to work with kim jong-un, who is a far worse guy, comparing the two. >> shephard: they are in love. >> we have to find a way to work with mbs and still send some strong signals and corrective actions. ...

He totally denies it. he says it didnt happen. >> says hes innocent, and i think you have to remember that. he said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent. >> congressman, remember morgan freemans character in sha shank, he said none of us did it. the prisons are filled. why does he believe deniers of guilt? >> the central park 5 didnt do t proven they didnt do it. all the people donald trump believes tends to be the certain type. older white men who run autocratic countries or dictator ships...

Calls journalists enemies of the people and praises dictators like vladimir putin, like mbs, like kim jong-un. do you think that climate contributes to the situation we find ourselves? >> theres no doubt in my mind. the fact that the president of the united states has abandoned what has been a bipartisan tradition in this country of the president of the united states standing up for human rights and freedom of the press certainly emboldened foreign authoritarian leaders to try to lock people up ...

Occurred and the arrogance and just down right stupidity that it would require of any world leader to murder a journalist going into a consulate. this is the question that is bouncing across washington and the world. how could mbs think that he could kill a "washington post" columnist and actually have his country live to tell about it economically? how arrogant, how stupid, how petulant, how intemperate would one have to be to think in 2018 you could get away with that? >> well, the answer is i...

Against u.s. troops and afghan troops inside of afghanistan. >> shephard: hasnt it been american push and american influence and american city on a hill influence that has told people like mbs and others, if you do stuff like this, you, expect severe repercussion from the united states? we are not going to play with you. if we continue to play with them and sell them billions of dollars worth of oil after they have, if it is true, have hacked a man to death inside an embassy, then what good is a...

Salman gave him. >> one of the people who took to twitter to respond harshly to donald trumps description of rogue killers this morning as the ones responsible for khashoggis death and disappearance is chris van hollen. president trumps suggestion that khashoggis elaborately planned murder in the saudis own consulate was orchestrated by rogue killers defies reality. orders must have come from the top. the u.s. must not be complicit in efforts to cover up this crime. he joins me from capitol hill...

>> shephard: the president when confronted with this evidence that the turks say they have, that we are led to believe has been shared with the u.s. intelligence, if it was this mbs, who ordered this hit and dismemberment, the hacking up of this permanent united states resident, how are we going to have something resembling regular relations if thats what happened? >> we are pretty pragmatic or pretty cynical, maybe thats the way the world works. kim jong-un had his half brother killed by chemic...