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Neely for us in istanbul. joining me now is robin wright, journalist and senior fellow at the woodrow wilson center. shes known jamal khashoggi for years. robin, good to see you again. marco rubio, one of the u.s. republican senators who do not seem to be satisfied with this pending saudi explanation for khashoggis death has asked a number of questions. lets say the saudis come out and say this was a rogue thing or rendition gone wrong. wheres the body? why two weeks of lies about this? and why ...

>> right. >> to the kingdom. >> that might be an interesting long-term message. its not the short-term message, at least while theres questions about a man would may have been murdered in the saudi embassy. thank you for sharing your time and analysis with us. robin wright, with the woodrow wilson center. shes known jamal khashoggi for years. next, the federal deficit is skyrocket, heading fast for $1 trillion. im going to break it down. but first, were watching the markets for you. for the fi...

So the issue is, the united states sells the kingdom of saudi arabia defense products. the united states buys oil in return. just last year the trump administration signed a billion-dollar deal to sell missiles to the saudis. the united states over the time has imported an average of 810,000 barrels of oil per day this year. current prices, those imports worth more than $10 billion to saudi arabia. >> thats the stunning thing, ali. saudi arabia, the crown prince, the royal family, behave not nec...

Jamal khashoggi for years. robin, a turkish official tells nbc news that turkey is now 100% certain khashoggi is dead. you say the last time you spoke with him back in august he was worried about his life. what did he tell you? >> yes. he actually talked about the fact that the saudis wanted him out of the picture as he put it. he was very concerned for his life, and weve been talking about this for more than a year and i thought he was exaggerating the dangers since he had been in washington in...

Colleague, his friend. im so sorry. and so many people want answers this morning, of course, his family, all of his friends, his fiancee. robin wright of the new yorker writes, she begins her piece by saying i knew he feared for his life. he told me he feared for his life. did he tell you that? >> i mean, i understood, obviously. i was his editor. who knows, maybe he wanted to downplay the risk of things. i knew he had a lot of pressure on him. i knew he particularly felt the pressure that was b...

Mutually, weve done very well with respect to north korea. well be discussing that during the next couple of days. well be certainly discussing it now. but i just want to say its a great honor to have president moon with us. thank you very much, mr. president, for coming. thank you. [ speaking foreign language ] >> as theyre speaking in korean, i have robin wright with me, contributing writer for "the new yorker." you have the president of the

World. were the fastest growing xli in the world. as vast as it is, were the fastest growing economy in the world. up $10 million. were very proud of that. thank you, everybody. thank you very much, everybody. >> all right. robin wright, putting a button on this, two notes, hearing him say about no rush with regard to the second summit, which he says should be happening soon, no rush and also your note about this rod rosenstein meeting at the white house on thursday happening after unga. you wan...

Security council. he has a very important message and he doesnt want the whole world to be talking about or inquiring or dealing with rod rosenstein. when it comes to the no rush, remember, he talked about north korea and getting a de nuclearization program going or concluded within a year. and now hes saying, no rush. so this is already changing the parameters of engagement with north korea. >> got it. thank you very much. robin wright, lets continue on, top of the hour, as we just mentioned, t...

The better. >> robin, let me ask you, the point at which there seems to be some agreement is that what were headed for is a kind of regime change like strategy. press iran, probably economically, but not -- the united states is not going to go into syria, yemen, lebanon to push back against iran. what you end up with is trita right, regime collapse and a very messy kind of situation? >> one of the things that everyone in washington is concerned about is what happens even if you get to the point ...

President trump, of course, responded late that night with a tweet that said, in all caps, never, ever threaten the united states again, or you will suffer consequences the like of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. irans foreign minister responded similarly, in all caps, color us unimpressed. and the leader of irans powerful force threatened thursday if trump began a war, it would be iran that ended it. tough talk. joining me now, robin wright, contributing writer at the ne...