want to. there was an attempt to get into the resident last night of the saudi consul general here in istanbul. but ultimately the saudis didn t give turkish police permission to enter into that building. they were in the grounds. they saw the cars. but they want to get inside that building. we understand they may be given permission to go in in a couple of hours time. but saudi officials are in there now. who knows doing what? i mean, certainly securing secrets. that s certainly within their diplomatic right. but they also may be, you know, cleaning the place up and destroying evidence. we simply don t know what they re doing inside the consul general s home. he, of course, left that house and went back to riyadh yesterday. so as you said in the introduction it s a very, very convoluted story at its very center is probably a dead writer. but this is all about great power politics right now. the turks and the saudis,
i don t want to talk about any of the facts. they didn t want to either. and that they want to have the opportunity to complete this investigation in a thorough way. ned, have you ever seen an american diplomat sort of used as a prop the way mbs used pompeo yesterday? and have you seen this so inv t inverted? i m struck by the fact they didn t save all of the, you know, covering each other s behind for the private meeting and speak as america s, you know, any sort of moral leadership that this country may still possess. i m not sure how much we have left at this point in the trump presidency, but are you surprised there wasn t an utterance of getting to the bottom of what could be the grisly murder of a u.s. resident that all he did was sort of shill for the saudis coming out of that meeting? i think one of my former colleagues may have put it best when she said the fact the saudis didn t want to talk about the facts, that s to be expected. the fact that secretary pompeo himself
most recently, what s happening in yemen. it s very striking to me with the capture and seemingly assassination, if you will, murder, of this journalist, that that is a thing that is bringing everybody together to say, okay, we have to hold the saudis accountable. as opposed to the school bus full of children. or as opposed to when the crown prince, mbs, locked up a number of senior officials in hotels, seemingly, basically locked them up at the ritz for a while in saudi arabia. so i do find that interesting. donald trump has been very clear, though. what he said on fox business is not much different than what he said during his rally in kentucky last weekend. you know, look, i get a lot of money from the saudis. he personally gets a lot of money as personal business interests and now he s talking about the business interests of the united states defense contractors. this is something that should cause everyone to give pause. and i hope to hear more folks on the republican side of
a lot also speculation if the saudis didn t take a cue from what the president actually said say there may be rogue killers involved and now the saudis came if this is true what c.n.n. reports and they re referring and putting this on to sources they have actually talked to they say that if that s true that the saudis come out and now say. taken this cue from the president saying like oh there was an investigation gone wrong and there will be consequences of course for those who have botched this interview which was apparently plants to happen in the consulate in turkey. some critics have been saying that the u.s. president has basically been doing the bidding for the saudis if you will by offering to change the narrative and you know throwing the term rogue killers out there for people to consider what effect would you say is this having though on
prime saw himself forced to increase terrorists on turkey and that didn t do much good for the turkish economy so i guess it s fair to say that turkey is trying to. smooth things out with the united states and it appears that mr trump president trump and his administration are knowledge in this and well let s see what s in the next chapter in the next u.s. relationships are the correspondence to find some months on the story for us in washington stefan thank you. police here in germany say that they have not ruled out the possibility that a hostage taking earlier today was motivated by terrorism it happen at the main railway station in the city of cologne in western germany police stormed a pharmacy inside the station to free a hostage who had been held for two hours now the assault which was carried out by