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>> mike is mike pompeo, secretary of state is expected to arrive back in the united states late tonight, early tomorrow morning. the president is urging people to wait for the outcome of the investigation before drawing conclusions. in an interview, the president said allegations against the saudi leadership, king solomon, reminds him of the kavanaugh confirmation as the president put it another case of guilty until proven innocent. the president saying "well, i think we have to find out what ha...

Presidency. you are a former colleague of jamal khashoggi. mike pompeo going over, meeting with the king and the crown prince and then saying when asked by journalists, why are you giving the saudis the benefit of the doubt. he said, quote, they gave me their word. how good is the saudi word? what does history tell us? >> there is no robert mueller in the kingdom. and the idea that there is an independent judiciary or an investigative body that could come up with anything that resembles the real...

Is that whats happening here? is the world just being too hard on mbs and king solomon? >> it seems to me that president trump has done a classic trumpian thing of inserting himself right into the middle of a story that many in his own party would wish he wasnt. he seems to be acting more like a lawyer for the saudis, more like a pr agent for the saudis than he does the president of the most powerful country in the world. my question is, number one, whats happened to american intelligence capabi...

Saudis and turkey. what i think president erdogan is doing is as the only people that can make in the only country that can make the saudis accountable are two. mainly the united states and great britain. ill let the administration and the president needs to talk to king solomon and needs to talk to the conference and push hi him -. neil: what if the guy is not dead. i dont want to sound like a plaid novel but what if we missed this and everyone is saying the saudis mother done something and may...

Continue to be to this crisis what may be this scandal compared to the way our presidents used to respond to things? >> yeah, it was an unfortunate first choice of a place to visit and the obama administration i was part of had lots of problems with the saudis. president obama remember called them free writers, which is what a president does when he wants to be tough on people. its an odd choice. now part of this comes from this alliance supposedly of the two princes. you know, mohammed and jare...

Resident being killed in a consulate in saudi, theres a problem. >> u.s. intelligence knows that the saudi government was out to get this "the washington post" columnist. what is he up to here? >> well, if thats the case, and lets presume that it is, i think hes looking to not have culpability. what is the first job of the president of the united states? to protect american citizens and american residents. and he let everybody down. the fact that they may not have known in this advance and not w...

Inside this consulate in turkey, why on either should we continue to believe them when all of the evidence tells us that they are, just as most of the evidence weve seen thus far tells us that they did kill jamaal khashoggi? i think it calls into question whether we should continue in this partnership with them inside the civil war in yes, maam.en. that has, by the way, killed about 10,000 yemenis over the course of the bombing campaign. >> any concern right now how close of a relationship the a...

>> is the impact for u.s.-saudi relations? >> this is part of a much broader, brutal crackdown that solomon is undertaking to those who oppose his regime. he has engaged in large scale executions. we need to be very concerned about whats happening inside the kingdom of saudi arabia. but we are also engaged in a disastrous military partnership with them inside yemen today that is predicated on us believing the saudis, that they are not intentionally trying to kill civilians inside yemen where the...

News this hour from townhall dot com Im Michael Harrington Kristine Ford has apparently agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday the attorney for Ford saying her client had agreed to appear to in her words provide her firsthand knowledge of Brett Kavanaugh sexual misconduct Ford alleges a drunken Kavanaugh attacked her at a high school party outside Washington more than 3 decades ago Capitol it strenuously denied the allegations and has said he looks forward to testif...