To be seen as strong as badly as he does, doesnt take on the strong. Thats the only way that youll get the title he wants. He wants to be the badass of the world, the man whos respected the most, you have to go after the people that have that title. Fleeing and looking for asylum, thats not how you do it, you go after the tough, but he doesnt do it. Putin gives him a break, we should be friends. Kim, im sure he loves his country. Duarte you have to give it to him. Now this guy, salman i dont get it. The best way to look strong is to be strong, you dont have to talk about it and discuss it, by the way, when were talking in the last segment and we talked about this president and what he calls Stormy Daniels, its a simple analogy what if the former president had done that, but then you say all right. That would mean, what if a former president or any of the former president s had slept with a porn star, what if it was an affair, while he had a small child at home and he was married. You keep going down the line, and you wonder where the floor is, if theres even a floor. I think its a proof of major ka kataclysm going on. The book written about him should be the luckiest man in the game. Its not because of him, its because of where we are. The disaffection that people have with the process, their desire for somebody different, who seems more like them, or seems to get them more. And who voices their outrage. And he gets a lot of difference because of that, i dont know how long it will last, it keeps seeming to abuse that mandate. He is delivering on promises that matter to people, well see if thats enough. What if any of your young ones said, i want to grow up to be just like that, what would you say to them . Did you take my tequila again . I want my kids do aspire to public service. Im the bad boy in my family, im the only one not doing things to help other people. Everyone else in the family does all these great public services. You underestimate yourself. Im guilty of myself, one is not underestimating myself. I say to my kids all the time. This is the truth. The kinds of things we say on television. When my kids, theyre in schools and theyre in circles where theyre not hearing great stuff about the president on a regular basis. They get a little bit of a mix, but not really. I say to them all the time, dont talk about the president like that. You know what i do, you be fair and respect people in power. I tell them that all the time. But heres the problem. It used to be that the people in those positions helped reinforce those messages im giving them. Now hes working against me. Threw go. Theres much more to talk about, i have a lot of show. Great job chris, see you tomorrow. Have a good night. This is cnn tonight, im don lemon. You would think the president of the United States, the leader of the free world would stand up for American Values above all else. You know, life, liberty. Instead, President Trump is siding tonight with an oppressive regime that sent a hit squad to kidnap, torture and murder a u. S. Resident. President says, and heres a quote, here we go again with you know youre guilty until proven innocent. I dont like that, we just went through that with justice kavanaugh, and he was innocent all the way as far as im concerned. Quite a statement. Innocent all the way. You know who else doesnt believe in the innocent until Proven Guilty thing . A tenet of our american judicial system, you know who doesnt believe in that . The saudis. There are more and more details coming out tonight, about what is believed to be the horrific murder of jamal khashoggi. A high ranking intel officer, one close to the inner circle of the crown prince oversaw that mission. The New York Times is reporting that one of the suspects was a freak went companion of the crown prince. Three others linked to his security detail. And, of course, theres the forensic doctor, reportedly carrying a bone saw. A turkish official saying khashoggis body was dismembered after he was killed. One source saying khashoggi may have been injected with some sort of tranquilizer before he died. Turkey has provided cnn with passport scans of seven men they suspect were part of the alleged saudi hit squad. The scans made on the day khashoggi disappeared. The inside of the consulate was cleaned and freshly painted before investigators got inside last night. Multiple suspects with ties to the crown prince. A doctor with a bone saw. The consulate freshly painted. These are not innocent dedales. Were still waiting for saudi arabia to put out that promised report that sources have said would admit khashoggis death. Theyre still hoping to sell that story. The story of a botched interrogation. Who could possibly buy that . It sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows . Oh, what american diplomat would sit laughing next to a dictator accused of a brutal murder . Mike pompeo met with the crown prince today, smiling and thanking him for his transparent investigation, while the president tweets, totally denying that the crown prince had any knowledge of what took place. And that is not all of what the president was tweeting today. It is no coincidence that he made sure to tweet that he has no financial interest in saudi arabia. But the fact is, he made a lot of money off of them. He told us about it himself. Dont believe me . Roll the tape. Saudi arabia and i get along great with all of them they buy apartments from me, they spend 40 million, 50 million, am i supposed to dislike them . I like them very much. But he never said that. Among the things the saudis have bought from donald trump, the 45th floor of trump world tower. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars spent at trump hotels in washington, new york and chicago. Compare the president s kid glove treatment of a repressive regime with what really set him off today. This is what really set him off. Thats right, Stormy Daniels. Now i can go after horseface and her third rate lawyer. Thats what the president of the United States was really worked up about today. He actually tweeted that. Your president , our president tweeted that many he called a woman a horseface. In spite of everything thats going on, especially with this missing journalist. People ref covering in the panhandle. Insulting the porn star who says her own admission she had sex with donald trump. This president really takes it personally when she crosses him. When he fights back, he fights dirty. Theres elizabeth warren. Pocahontas, thats this elizabeth warren. Pocahontas. Pocahontas. Pocahontas. We have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her pocahontas. Theres his mocking of Christine Blasey ford. How did you get home . I dont remember. How did you get there . I dont remember. Where was the place . I dont remember. How many years ago was it . I dont know. I dont know. I dont know. I dont know. What neighborhood was it . . I dont know. Wheres the house . I dont know. Upstairs, downstairs . Where was it. I dont know. But i had one beer, thats the only thing i remember. Theres his obsession with Hillary Clinton, even though she lost the election to him nearly two years ago. Thats why she lost. She doesnt get it. I beat Hillary Clinton easily. Many billions of dollars more than they would have had if you had crooked Hillary Clinton. Crooked hillary. Crooked hillary, crooked Hillary Clinton. His insults aimed at maxine waters. Maxine waters a very low i. Q. Individual. She is a low i. Q. Individual. Maxine waters, i said it the other day about honestly, shes somewhere in the mid60s. Maxine waters, very low i. Q. Low i. Q. I could go on and on all night. We have a little more time, so lets go on a little more. He mocked heidi cruz, heidi fiorina. Mika brzezinski was bleeding from a face lift. He called his exaid omarosa a dog. And then trump doubled down and told me this. Youve called women you dont like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. And, of course, thats what he said about access hollywood. To access hollywood about women. I got to use some tictacs in case i start kissing her. Im automatically attracted to beautiful women i just start kissing them. And when youre a star, you can do it, they let you do whatever you want. You can do anything. Lots of tough and terrible disgusting talk aimed at women. Were still waiting for this president to get tough on saudi arabia. To demand the truth about what happened to jamal khashoggi. To be the leader of the free world. Still waiting. The world is waiting. Lots to talk about now, phil mudd right after this break. 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Also, frank bruni, the truth about trump. Good evening to everyone. Heres the quote from the president tonight. Here we go again, with, you know, youre guilty until proven innocent. Then hes comparing it to the kavanaugh hearings. How can he be this dismissive of potential murder and all of his glory details . I dont know. Its dumb founding and utterly mortifying as an american. He seems intensely invested in covering for the saudis it was remarkable yesterday when we heard the president say to the press, i dont know, maybe it was rogue killers or something, and then we learned it was a theory that is a defense the saudis are thinking and trotting out. They have the president of the United States sort of floating their pr trial balloon for them, for whatever reasons, i think theyre 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. Thats 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 hes helping to construct it. I cant believe he believes it, i dont 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. Hes constructing a story. This is the thing hes done all of his life, he says hes a great builder, really, what he is is a big builder of stories, hes always told stories about himself, stories about the United States, stories about the world at large, everybodys laughing at us. People fall for it many. Well, its a narrative. And he is spell binding to a lot of folks. Authoritarians and autocrats are his folks. This is someone who fell in love with kim. Its someone who laughs when e duarte said i just spoke with the king. Those are words he wanted to say his whole life. I got to ask you, and i hate to talk about this, there are people who knew him. Colleagues, loved ones and its horrific to hear these sort of details. Khashoggi was cut into pieces, reports say. The president accepts saudis denials at face value. Why . Dont ask me. I mean, if you look at where the president s coming from, as were talking about a moment ago, he likes to be portrayed as someone who can handle heavy hitters around the world, putin, kim jongun, mohammad bin salman. The bottom line, though, let me cut to the chase and get to some facts. There are questions the president could ask. What aircraft flew into turkey . We should have the tail numbers of those. Who owns those aircraft. Whats the background of the individuals who flew into turkey . Do we know they work for the ministry of interior . Do we have independent u. S. Intelligence about who ordered this operation . Have we talked to the turks about whether they have audio from the operation and have they said that they saw cameras in the saudi consulate when they looked at it over the past 48 hours, what do they get from those saudi cameras. The president has to get off his fat ass and ask a couple basic investigative questions about what do we know and whether that information suggests that the saudis were culpable or not. This is not that hard, don, its not that hard. Wow harsh words there, phil. I mean, its if you ask an fbi investigator, you could be a 24yearold fbi investigator and figure this out. You have some forensics here, like whether or not information from within the saudi industry was destroyed. Do we have that or not . Simply the turks had to register aircraft coming into the country from saudi arabia. Did they register those aircraft when they landed. Did the aircraft have tail numbers and who owns those aircraft . How hard is that, don. That takes about 30 seconds on your show. Yeah. Again, those were tough words. Phil im sure stands by those words. The turks say there was a fresh coat of paint applied before turkish investigators gained access. Could the mission or the coverup happen without the knowledge of people at the top . I dont think so. I lived in saudi arabia. Look at some of the facts in this case. Youre talking about a well known opposition as in saudi arabia. Theyre worried about opposition. If they saw what happened to other dictators in the middle east after the arab spring. They send roughly 15 people on multiple aircraft who presumably have cleared access to a saudi diplomatic facility. You think some guy sat around on friday night and said, lets have a frat party in istanbul or turkey . Thats not credible. A bunch of people travelled with the authorization of saud by leadership to interrogate a well known oppositionist. Theres no way that happened with a bunch of guys sitting around saying, lets conduct a rogue operation. I dont buy it. Michael, you mentioned earlier, he spoke with the king, he always wanted to say those words. Correct. Then he said he spoke with the crown prince, and answers are forthcoming. How can we believe what we hear from the president if hes just taking the saudis at their word. This is a person whose lied 5,000 times now. Hes really detached from reality. How depraved is it that he can hear about a man being brought into the facility and leaving in pieces and not be completely outraged. And if you think american intelligence officials dont know which aircraft entered that airspace, exactly what happened. I would be surprised that they wouldnt. This is this is american intelligence. The best intelligence in the world. The president doesnt have to ask the kingdom, he can ask his own folks and they know. Can i follow up on something phil said. Phil said the president wants to show he can handle strong men. Whats so remarkable about this, hes not handling these strong men, hes coddling them. Making excuses for them. And in his desire, his palpable evident desire to please them, he looks weaker than ever. He doesnt look like hes at their level, he looks like hes doing their bidding. Hes thrilled by putting over a story that he thinks people might accept. Its more thrilling to him to fool the world or to imagine that hes fooled the world, or to be right. He doesnt care about reality and truth. He cares about what benefits donald trump. He doesnt care about human rights, no. Follow the money. And im talking about to the trump organization, to donald trump not sure as president , but follow the money to the saudis. Well discuss that next. President trump may be trying to take the heat off saudi arabia by turning his attention to Stormy Daniels. Insulting her in one of his tweets today, calling her horse face after her defamation suit against him was dismissed. I cant believe i just read that about the president of the United States tweeting that. Phil mudd is back, frank rooney and Michael D Antonio as well. The world wants to get to the bottom of what happened to the journal effort about if hes trying to distract its not working, is that what this is . An effort to change the news cycle . It could be. This is also. Who he is . Its deev yans. This is a person whos a deviant person breaks the norms, we also have minimum in the white house, and president s are supposed to set the norms and enforce the norms. Whats happening is what Daniel Patrick moynihan called definiig deviance down. I think weve all learned to tune him out. Hes permitted to do these horrible things, say whatever he feels like saying, insult people. Maybe its a distraction or its just the president being the president. But were using that word, the president. I dont think its a distraction at all. I think its a perfect illustration of his values, right . He cares less about what happened in this consulate than he does about a porn star insulting the dimensions of his f falice and getting into a twitter war with her. Its hard to believe we have a president whos spending this amount of energy over his endowment many how do we gets there. She was okay when he wanted to have sex with her. Were talking about that at a moment when we should be talking about this profound human rights violation. The president and his son in law have been kissing up to like nobodys business. Hes worried about what someones saying about his genitalia. I have to get back to phil. President trump has taken a harder stance on canadian milk than saudi murder. Absolutely right. Absolutely right. Hes really tough on the canadian dairy farmers. Big deal. Hes tougher on Stormy Daniels . Absolutely. And this is in the same moment when the world is trying to find out what happened to this journalist, who worked for an American News operation. And was an american resident. And he doesnt care. The president tweeted he had no financial interest in saudi arabia, this is not true. I played it earlier, the president has bragged about all of the money hes made, millions and millions from the saudis. Phil . I mean, thats yeah, thats correct. But i think tha