one of his top national security council officials who was handling saudi arabia and had just gone there to push for sanctions for some of those around the prince resigned on friday giving you the sense that there s some controversy inside the white house about how high to go in blaming khashoggi s death on the saudi crown prince. after all, this administration has put a lot of bets on the saudi crown principles, including jared kushner, the president s son-in-law, and the president himself. the crown prince doesn t at this point seem to be being moved aside by his father, though his powers seem to be tightened a little bit. so we ll see. i mean, the president does have foreign policy interests at stake. those are real. saudi arabia is an ally and i think he s going to be very, very, very reluctant to point