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And security details across the countrys lives were at risk these last few days. they probably couldnt sleep. god forbid something happened to them. and he -- hes never going to take this with the seriousness with which his job requires. hes held to a higher threshold. the burden on him is bigger. he refuses to accept it. weve seen that again and again. i think the problem for me this week is really watching republicans who continue to abdicate their own responsibility at these moments and peopl...

Here on cnn, cnns citizen political forum, he said this about the investigation. here it is. >> were getting facts in from multiple places and then once those facts come in the secretary of state will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe and what we think is credible and what we think is not credible. >> so as i mentioned, director, president trump said he believes that khashoggis death was a plot gone awry. does it seem that they have their eyes wide...

Elastic evidentiary threshold that this administration and this president exhibits. sometimes on flimsy or no evidence whatsoever well get these bald assertions which are false. yet in other cases we seem to require very high evidentiary bar and we have to have all kinds of investigations, all kinds of fact finding before well reach a conclusion, where i think frankly its pretty obvious here what happened. and i dont know why were dawdling on this other than we just dont want to condemn this adm...

The midterms. election day is just 14 days away but it may be weeks until we know who wins key races. including a senate race in mississippi which if things falling a certain way, they could be deciding control of the united states senate. our nbc news/marist show the republican senator, appointed senator, cindy heinz smith has a nine-point lead over the democrat mike espy but still all-important short of the 50% threshold. no candidate hits 50, there will be a runoff on november 27th. think abo...

That didnt seem to pass muster. it was actually strangulation. a lot of questions. let me play you this sound bite from the president. he was asked about the relationship. he said obviously theres been deception and theres been lies, but he also called saudi arabia an incredible ally and heres what the saudi foreign minister had to say about u.s. saudi relations. >> i believe that when the investigation is over and the facts are revealed and people know who is responsible and see those individua...

Clean about parts of this that they are not doing it in a way thats totally forthcoming to their public. >> the white house and the president himself have seemed to be at pains to signal precisely to the saudis what would meet their threshold for everyone to sort of wash their hands and say, okay, weve gotten past this. i wonder how you think this will be received in washington past the white house, particularly in the senate foreign relations committee among congressional republicans and democr...

Talk about free and fair elections i mean the threshold halfway acceptable ones and im actually not sure where the threshold has been crossed today now there are reports of blossom casualties across the country is the threat of terror stopping by tis from costing the ballots are they being intimidated yes it is and thats mainly the case in the ruling areas we have only very sketchy reports from there we also have reports from can do city in the north which is one of the biggest cities of the cou...

Victim in all of this. it shouldnt be surprising that now even as they are coming clean about parts of this that they are not doing it in a way thats totally forthcoming to their public. >> the white house and the president himself have seemed to be at pains to signal precisely to the saudis what would meet their threshold for everyone to sort of wash their hands and say, okay, weve gotten past this. i wonder how you think this will be received in washington past the white house, particularly in...

Portraying the kingdom as a victim in all of this. it shouldnt be surprising that now even as they are coming clean about parts of this that they are not doing it in a way thats totally forthcoming to their public. >> the white house and the president himself have seemed to be at pains to signal precisely to the saudis what would meet their threshold for everyone to sort of wash their hands and say, okay, weve gotten past this. i wonder how you think this will be received in washington past the ...

Ben carson wanted a $31,000 table to dine. the the way that little scandal shook out was a career official at hud told ben carson that he couldnt do that. she was like, listen, theres a dollar limit on what you can spend to renovate your office. youre a public servant. youre spending taxpayer money. its like a $5,000 limit for you doing renovations for your whole office. under no math could a $31,000 table fit under that threshold foreign vindicating your office. so this career official at hud t...