our sources told us what the assessment was. the president's secretaries mattis and pompeo tried to tell us something different. the president even said the agency had not reached any conclusion at all. >> they did not make that assessment. the cia has looked at it, studied it a lot. they have nothing definitive. the fact is maybe he did, maybe he didn't. >> keeping them honest, he might simply have said something along the lines of the cia has given them their assessment, i won't say what it was, but i'm still not persuaded the crown prince ordered this. that's not what he said. he might have shaded the truth or dodged the question as other presidents certainly have when they know something they'd rather not reveal. instead the president looked the public in the eye and said just what you heard him say about the cia's assessment. his secretary of defense reinforce td on saturday. >> right now we do not have a smoking gun. except for the last 24 hours, ladies and gentlemen, i have seen all the intelligence we have. we do not have a smoking gun that the crown prince was involved. >> no smoking gun. he has seen all the intelligence.