any key vote -- anything that you need me for to get out of town, i ain't doing it until we hear from the cia. >> we were told in the briefing it was at the direction of the white house she not attend. >> reporter: a white house that also disagrees with the intelligence community's conclusion that in all likelihood, mbs was behind khashoggi's murder. trump telling the "washington post" that mbs denies it and the cia isn't sure. i'm not saying they're saying he didn't do it, the president said. but they didn't say it affirmatively. and jake, the cia has responded to those allegations from those senators that the white house told director has ankkell not t attend today. the ccia saying, quote, the notion that anyone told director haskell not to attend today's briefing is false. >> alex, thank you so much. we should point out, there was just in the last hour some action when it comes to saudi arabia. there's a threat from some