international independent investigation. that seems to me to be the only real hope of finding out exactly what happened to jamal in a way that we can have all confidence in. the other thing is that the u.s. government has the option of releasing the information that it has about this, which is a lot. and if they want to gif the saudis are couple more days, fine, but at some point, we're going to have to have a real accounting, and you know, we can't accept the o.j. defense, that like, mohammed bein salman is going to find the real killer. >> i don't want "the washington post" reporting to get lost in the shuffle of what we heard from mike pompeo because it was important. the wording from "the washington post" this morning is that the administration and the saudi royal family are, quote, searching for a mutually agreement explanation. not just for nothing. they're searching for a mutually agreeable explanation to explain the death of jamal khashoggi that wouldn't involve the crown