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Behaving like this is a cause for profound moral concern. >> ive been hearing similar degree of alarm among former intelligence officials who feel that two years in, the relationship shouldnt be such that hes briefed by his intelligence community and walks on the south line and talk about rogue killers. thats something a 1 of 17 candidates in a gop primary can say maybe. a guy in a general election talking about -- i think thats where he talked about the 400-pound hacker. >> this is about him tr...

Some point he might buy the arms and it might be 2032. >> thats right. but its not -- you know, its certainly not money on the table and there were a lot of people who wanted a middle east peace deal and many people wanted that. >> the president didnt bring up middle east peace when he was talking about why he would be reluctant to punish saudi arabia. he brought up the arms deal. but when youre looking at the larger role of saudi arabia and middle east peace, theres a lot of coordinates about j...

At the time, mnuchin is trying to decide about going over to saudi arabia. just minutes ago, there was whats been described to me as a very unusual briefing at the pentagon. lets turn to jennifer griffin for details. what happened? >> reporter: shepard, it was supposed to be actor, girouard butler, pronouncing his new movie about submarines. the questions immediately turned to why he and the rest of the cast had canceled their upcoming opening in saudi arabia. he said he was supposed to meet wit...

And get it into the community of nations before the oil power runs out in 20 or 30 years. he was willing to go into alliance with israel and change the balance of power in the middle east and you go with him. then he does this pre modern thing, right, he lures somebody into the embassy, the guy gets killed, he may have been dismembered, its -- you know, its henry ii, its not a 21st century leader. on the other hand you would say its the middle east, who knows what they do, these people. >> john,...

The king, lots of folks have known, has not been the leader of the country. its mbs. in the last year hes imprisoned his own family members and reorganized the entire state to have stronger control over them. the u.s. government, especially the u.s. military has relied objected saudis and continues to as a lynch pin of security more than donald trump needs the saudis as a lynch pin of foreign policy. that goes to being an anti-arraign yan lynch pin, keeping iranian forces from attacking the unit...

Middle east at play really and the final season has not played yet. he is a reformer, mbs, a reformer that is -- one man leader. that is the biggest criticism of him, one single mans leadership, either i agree or i dont agree. so that is true. he is shifting the saudi population, one-third of saudi population is wahabis. this is very scary. you do not want saudi arabia to go in the hands of the wahabis. this is very, very scary. this is a fragile relationship we have to play in here. he is sprea...

>> can i put you on the spot? do you think theres any chance the word rogue killers exists in his pdb or was briefed to him other than for the intelligence community to describe that as the saudis alibi at this hour? >> i dont know, but i would doubt it. it may be a theory going around, of course, one theory going around is that this was intended to be some other kind of operation or rendition operation or something like that where they were to swoop in and take him away. and it went bad. and i ...

Here and they also have prosecuted all their journalists and they have killed all their free media. there is also qatar who mbs is saying this is fake news and this is qatar conspiracy theory to they can undermine me in the world. this is all at play. >> i was just going to say thank god we have turkey, the defenders of journalists helping. of course -- >> thats who he hung out with. >> in 2017 of course it was turkey who prosecuted -- and persecuted and jailed more journalists than any other co...

Crown prince. late last year nbs issued a crackdown. some were held against their will at the ritz carlton in riyadh while they negotiations billions in payments to the government. when asked about it on "60 minutes" the prince denied it was a power grab. >> translator: if i have the power and the king has the power to take action against influential people, then you are already fundamentally strong. these are naive accusations. >> reporter: many in saudi arabia have celebrated bin salmans rise ...

Are, and ivo is right, if there is a close relationship between the crown prince and president trump and his son-in-law, but if there is anything to disrupt it, it is this type of the posturing, because both of the sides seem to be very sensitive and prone to taking slights very seriously, and so it could be an escalation in the relation. and can i say that it is kind of dramatic, right? when muhammad came here earlier in the year, he was celebrated as a reformer, and it was like going from bein...