>> well, jamal had been writing quite a lot of columns for us over the past year. as we know, the crowned prince and the saudi government have been pushing this idea that they're undergoing a lot of reforms and modernizing and becoming a more open society. but jamal was pushing back on that, writing articles about crackdowns on dissenters, on activists, people who had been imprisoned over the past months. and you know, was not himself a dissident, but was a critic. and someone who was highly read by people here in the united states and also in the middle east. >> there are some reports, jason, that he asked his fiancee, as we mentioned, to wait outside that building for him. do you think he had any idea that the potential danger that he was walking into? >> so, i think that, you know, over the recent months, he had expressed some concerns about his safety. he also, you know, was the subject of a lot of attacks on