murder means they know everything that's going on in that building and they know how everything's done. the second part is little more disturbing. the chain of information that we've seen reported from "the post" about the u.s. intelligence knowing -- having information about the saudi's participation in this or issuing orders on this, we have a system setup so that the president of the united states is informed of critical flash traffic like that within five minutes. which means the president would have had to have known about the outlines of this plot and the murder almost instantaneously. >> ruth marcus, your reaction to what president trump had to say both about saudi arabia and the khashoggi case today. >> well, my reaction has to be colored by this terrible news that my colleague shane has reported and the fact that i represent the opinions section of "the washington post" that employed jamal khashoggi, and we were all -- i'm struggling for