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Hype. it could come out tomorrow where youre like, wow, he doesnt have anything on the president. theres absolutely nothing that this president has to worry about, okay. but you never know, and thats why were bringing the big guns out to break down how it make shakeout, people who know the intricacies of this. investigative journalist michael iskov, has seen presidents rise and fall. key insight next. was ahead of its time. still, we never stopped making it stronger. faster. smarter. because to ...

States no longer take them seriously. but people around the world do hear this rhetoric. people do hear a president calling the press the enemy of the people. and when they hear that, they might take it more seriously than many people in this country do, and that may have been what happened here. >> michael, to button that up, do you think there is some notion of u.s. contributing role, liability here, that they should clean that up? >> not conscious, but i think this is the kind of inevitable, ...

Clear-cut it is, but i think we need to hear more from governments. and because this is a journalist, i think our president needs to speak out. because we know -- you know. youve covered it very clearly here on your program, on "the beat", you know, that this president has spoken with alarming words again journalists. so i think its incumbent on him to speak clearly right now, to get to the bottom of this and to tell the american people what he already knows. >> right. and you make the reference...

Ill read for the viewers. you say that khashoggi crossed this line that made him a marked man and probably led to his brutal death. this is according to your discussions with at least one of his close friends. his offense, he dared criticize the crown prince in a washington post column. accused this strong man of imprisoning intellectuals, journalists and other political dissidents. explain, michael. >> you know, this stung for mbs, mohamed been salaman, because he was a man whod been closely ti...

Given that there is still, i think, no clarity as to what has happened to mr. khashoggi, "the washington post" journalist. >> i am planning ongoing at this point. if more information comes out and changes, we can look at that. but i am planning ongoing. >> thank you. well, i guess a lot of people are going over to the investment conference. he was partially over there anyway. a lot of people are going over to the investment conference. >> joining us now michael iskov, and evelyn farkas, former d...

And lack of medical assistance. so there are people in dire straights in yemen because of the way the saudis have been fighting that war. in fact khashoggi was most recently consistently criticizing that i think as michael said. but its reached the point now where we have to reassess this relationship, and we may not need the saudis as much as we thought we did. i think its been bad policy on the part of this administration to swing so far towards the saudis because we need to maintain a balance...

And when they hear that, they might take it more seriously than many people in this country do, and that may have been what happened here. >> michael, to button that up, do you think there is some notion of u.s. contributing role, liability here, that they should clean that up? >> not conscious, but i think this is the kind of inevitable, you know, by-product of the kind of outlandish rhetoric we sometimes hear from the president. >> evelyn? >> well, i was just going to answer that to say in eff...

So i think its incumbent on him to speak clearly right now, to get to the bottom of this and to tell the american people what he already knows. >> right. and you make the reference to extra judicial killings abroad, which have the geographic overlap that russia will also go into other countries and take people out. michael, one big difference is some of their targets have been what you might call ex-spies or people they view in a way as an intelligence combatant, certainly debatable. but as evel...

First of all, we dont have that. on paper they agreed to that. >> i think thats fair. but bush and obama were never going to do much against the saudis either. unless somebody warrants to say actually were going to tilt our oil, financial and military plans so were less reliant on them. >> well, i think this is bridge too far. although many people would argue that yemen was already a bridge too far. we had i believe it was in september the bombing of the school bus with the children dying. we kn...

Overlap that russia will also go into other countries and take people out. michael, one big difference is some of their targets have been what you might call ex-spies or people they view in a way as an intelligence combatant, certainly debatable. but as evelyn emphasizes, this isnt even near that. you say that khashoggi crossed this line that made him a marked man and probably led to his brutal death. this is according to your discussions with at least one of his close friends. he dared to criti...