their pr trial balloon for them, for whatever reasons, i think they're probably about saving face. saudi arabia was the first place they went to a foreign place. he seems bound and determined to help the saudis convince the world that something out of their control happened to this journalist who worked into their consulate and never walked out. >> that's what i was going to ask you. the rogue killer theory. and then his defense of the crown prince to the associated press. is he not only believing the cover story? is he helping to construct it? >> i think he's helping to construct it. i can't believe he believes it, i don't think he cares. he sees it as within his -- he sees it in his interest -- >> politically expedient. to help the saudis rig el out of this. the morals of this bizarrely seem not to concern him at all. >> he's constructing a story. this is the thing he's done all of his life, he says he's a