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Investigation into the death of jamal khashoggie has led to a car belonging to a diplomat. khashoggie was -- richard engel is in istanbul. and ashley parker, a reporter for "the washington post," ned price is with us as well, former cia analyst and nbc national security analyst. first, richard, what are police saying about the discovery of this car? >> so right now, im in front of this underground parking garage and police earlier today found a black mercedes, a black diplomatic car that is regi...

Intelligence officials. and showing his true colors, which are not based on humanity, empathy or justice for freedom of the press. >> dorian, where do we go from here? robin wright, the great journalist on npr. the question she has, wheres the body? a big open question looking at preliminary results from the saudis. what happens next as you see it? >> i think we need all of the evidence to come out. i think we need actually journalists to be able to do their jobs unlike mr. khashoggi, unfortunat...

Theory thats being thrown out. i dont think anybody said that, but theyre saying there was fight, but thats a threy pe th put out. >> back with me here in new york. ned, let me start with you. a few things stood out to me during the course of that conversation with reporters. he kept saying this is a big step. first big step. were now more than two weeks 0 ut from when the incident occurred and referred to it as a theory in the end. your reaction to what you heard and to the preliminary story sp...

Fbi has a jurisdiction empowered by congress to do just that. if the president wanted the fbi involved to at least assist the turks or saudis, be able to, he could call for it. could have called for it two weeks ago but we havent seen that, for some reason. >> intelligence people if we follow the logic, get the reports, intelligent and reasonable people to accept our findings. would our president and government? thats the thing. how i feel about all of these issues coming up. even if the career ...

So if that possibility of an investigation is taken off the table, its very difficult to see how this turns out something that the world sees as credible. >> and ned price tonight secretary of state pompeo was running away from questions has he heard any audio recording of the murder, has he read any transcript of the murder, because reporting is running ahead of the official story as its being manage bide both the saudis and the united states. and so reporters are now equipped with questions th...

Miracle miracles happens, i would acknowledge that hes dead. thats based on everything, the intelligence coming on all sides. joining us now an msnbc national security contributor, also joining us peter, senior fellow at the ethics and public center, an advisor to the past three, national political reporter for nbc news. and ned price, i wanted to get your reading of how the administrations language has changed or possibly whether donald trump himself has just fallen out of the course that mike ...

Crime. that is certainly not the case given the heinous crime were talking about here, but there is a cover-up that is going on that the saudis seem to have been behind but that donald trump would have been all too happy to support. >> peter, the give the saudis more time -- give the saudis more time to figure out what happened in one of their consulates, how much time would that take? >> well, it would take in one sense forever and it would take no time at all because they know what happened. t...

So the u.s. is trying not to get ahead of that. we see secretary pompeo saying we need to give the saudis a few more days to fully investigate this, and the u.s. light on this has been, look, they say theyre going to do a transparent investigation, and we are going to see the results of that. and if its a credible investigation, if its thorough, well be able to see that. and if its a sham and theyre trying to cover things up, well be able to see that, too. but the question here that the state de...

Intelligence coming on all sides. joining us now an msnbc national security contributor, also joining us peter, senior fellow at the ethics and public center, an advisor to the past three, national political reporter for nbc news. and ned price, i wanted to get your reading of how the administrations language has changed or possibly whether donald trump himself has just fallen out of the course that mike pompeo was obviously trying to maintain of refusing to use the words dead or alive or just a...

Talking about here, but there is a cover-up that is going on that the saudis seem to have been behind but that donald trump would have been all too happy to support. >> peter, the give the saudis more time -- give the saudis more time to figure out what happened in one of their consulates, how much time would that take? >> well, it would take in one sense forever and it would take no time at all because they know what happened. they were of course complicit. the crown prince was involved in this...