Virginia as Hurricane Michael moves off of the atlantic coast, and while in florida, an entire coastline is being swept away. We thought that it was a cat 4 with a direct hit, it never would have stayed. We have no communication about the outside world and nobody knows about me. And how long will it take to clean all of this up . I dont know. I havent any idea. And the first family, the first lady is answer iing questions about her husbands alleged infidelity and if she loves him . Yes, it is fine. It is what the media speculates and it is gossip and it is not always correct stuff. And goodday, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A shocking new report revealing horrific details about what may have happened to Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and the turkish government has told the u. S. Officials they that have audio and video of what happened inside of the ko consulate. One said that you can hear how he was interrogated and tortured and then murdered. And then it shows that a Security Team detained him last week when he went into the consulate to get paperwork to marry his fiancee. And after pressure, turkey releasing american pastor brunson under house arrest clear clearing the way for him to come home. Joining us for more on this is msnbcs correspondent Richard Engel and anne guerin reporting on this from the Washington Post team, and also, ned price, former cia analyst, and the former cia National Security analyst, and msnbc analyst. And is so a number of titles there, and lot to talk about. And richard, what do you know about this situation right now, and how much we can trust turkeys reporting of it . So lets start with the disappearance of the saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And turkey is laying out a compelling case and most ly through the media and leaks and saying that there was a 15member saudi team that they arrived on chartered aircraft. They came into the city, and they stopped off at in front of the consulate here sh, the conss residence a few blocks away. They waited. Khashoggi entered the consulate around 1 00 p. M. , and they believe he was killed between 1 00 and 3 00 p. M. , and the vehicles left from here and went back to the residence, and then some of them disappeared, but then the planes took the off, and they lost track of the vehicles and the planes took off at separate times from the airport. That is the case that the saudis are laying out that they have put pictures of the alleged 15 saudi agents in the newspaper, and they have identified the vehicles and ha they have published the license plate numbers and a lot of animations on the local television here describing what i have just explained and laid out for you, and showing how the vehicles came and left and where they went, and so turkey is trying to put out a very convincing case that this is an organized hit job with a 15member assassination squad sent in from saudi arabia and that the murder took place in the building, and they are not convinced by the saudi arabias explanation that the it doesnt know what happened to khashoggi that he came in, and then they lost track of him, and also turkey is not convinced by the explanation that the security cameras on this consulate were turned off at the time or were not recording video at the time. And in act fa, richard, just to remind all who are watching, when i interviewed the Foreign Relations chair bob corker yesterday, he had come from the secure facility and looked at the intel and he said that he had spoke fon to the saudi ambassador to the saudi arabia and he is the younger brother of the crown prince, and the ambassador said that we dont have any video or recording of him ever meeting the consulate, and he did leave the consulate, and they said it was a fishy explanation, and the ambassador has gone back to riyadh and they are wanting answers from him when he returns to washington. Yeah, the idea that theres plenty of close circuit tv footage of him going in, one from of him coming out is suspicious, and also, his fiancee was waiting outside for quite a long time. Three or four hours. Yes. And so she stopped hearing from him almost immediately when he went inside. So that is always, and that has never added up really to anyone. And now, it is well more than a week since he disappeared. If he was outside of the consulate anywhere, it wouldnt have been more than a week since anyone had heard from him. And yes, the u. S. Does now want a lot of answers from the saudis. It puts the president , and his soninlaw Jared Kushner and the entire administration in what is clearly a dicey situation diplomatically, and politically, these are close ties and relations that the Trump Administration has built and specifically with the crown prince who is the person who is usually thought of to be in charge of the daytoday operations of the government and someone that Jamal Khashoggi had been critical of in his columns. And josh letterman, you were as we reported exclusively yesterday, you have Text Messages, and the Text Messages which stop at the moment he goes into the consulate, and there are no more texts from him once he goes inside. That is right. The Text Messages that were obtained by nbc news show that mr. Khashoggi checked the phone just before going in. And you can see the last screen function on his app, but messages sent just 10 00 after that were never read and they have the gray check marks indicating that once he went in, he did not gain access to the messages that friends were sending him back in the United States. This is huge implications, and now, joining us is james, and everybody is hoping that he is alive, but we are fearing for the worst as does senator corker and the other officials involved in this. And the relationship with saudi arabia forged by Jared Kushner and steve bannon and others in the administration, and the president putting all of their reliance on this crown prince. Regarded as a tough customer, and the crackdown in yemen and the fight against the iranian forces, and the iranbacked forces in yemen and most recently an air strike which killed 40 children on a school bus there. And through all of this, the administration has soft pedalled any criticism. Yeah, i mean, i think that the best way to look at this is twofold. One, be very clear that the u. S. And saudi arabia as governments and institutions have had long standing relationships that go back decades. And so there is no, there is no warming apart of the u. S. Towards saudi arabia because of the Trump Administration, but what you have saw that was very interesting is that with the rise of this crown prince inside of saudi arabia where a lot of people were saying that, you know, expressing caution, and maybe saying that this is moving too fast, and we dont know enough about him, and some were describinging him as hotheaded with the way he was launching this war in yemen, and there is some reservations about whether or not the crown prince was genuinely a reformer, and trying the to do too much too fast and that is where the interesting relationship with Jared Kushner comes in, because he came in and essentially doubled down lending the u. S. s credibility to the the crown prince saying that we support you, and the president on the first visit over seas has been to saudi arabia and he has had the crown prince inside of the white house touting that they will be buying hundreds of millions of American Military hardware and what we saw is that as this saudi and u. S. Relationship under the crown prince and the u. S. Administration continued to grow and become more personal, we saw increased criticism of the saudi arabia human rights on some front inside of yemen and inside of the kingdom itself of these women activists leading the charge for more reforms, and we saw execution as well of people that the saudis say were sentenced to death but a lot of the human rights organizations said that the trials did not meet the tran dards or the International Standards and you saw the two parallel tracks where the criticism was inside the track, and Jared Kushner was doubling down and it was a transactional relationship where the white house needed the saudis to buy weapons, and then when it came to the peace deal, and in return, the crown prince could shore up his support inside of the kingdom by being americas guy so to speak or knowing that washington had his back, and that is why this incident with khashoggi is now a major break at least from the congress with saudi arabia and will certainly test whether this white house begins to have different thoughts about the lead leadership of saudi arabia under the crown prince. And you have teed up to issue that i want to get to with the president on that weapons purchases that he claims 110 billion which is what they bragged about in are riyadh, and it is far less, 25 billion, and this is what the president had to say yesterday. First, i want to to find out what happen and we are looking. Again, this took place in turkey, and to the best of our knowledge khashoggi is not a united citizen is that right . Permanent resident. Okay. We dont like it, john. We dont like it even a little bit. But as to whether or not we should stop 110 billion from being spent in this country knowing that they have four or five alternatives and two very good al teternatives that wouldt be acceptableb to me. Okay. But we are looking for the answer. I think that probably you will have an answer sooner than people think. And so as someone who has worked in the intelligence field, at the cia and at the nsc and how remarkable is this because turkey says they have audio and video, and nbc has good reason to believe it is true. What do we do when we have hard intelligence that this happened against someone who is such a close ally and the president making it a transactional relationship . Well, it is a virtual certainty that the president has not been forthright about the American People about what he knew and when he knew it. He said tuesday days after the khashoggi disappearance and the turks started to tell the press that they believed he had been murdered inside of the ko consulate. And the president says i know nothing about that, and that is nearly impossible. It is nearly impossible thanks for the Washington Post reporting that the Intelligence Community had foreknowledge of the the threat to Jamal Khashoggi, and we will be assured that given the close relationship of the turks intelligence that they have been sharing the intelligence with the american intelligence officials who are in turn almost certainly have been briefing the president. So it is not jen wous of the president to say he knew nothing, but he did something remarkable, he put a price tag on americas identity and values and character, and he said it is 110 billion and you are close it is closer to 25 billion, but either way it does not matter, but he paut price tag on who we are as a people, and what we will stand up up for and what we will not count nens, and when he said that he is not sure that he is a citizen, but he is a resident and it can does not matter, but by that, he gave license and impunity to regimes around the world to carry out their worst impulses on journalists, on their critics an anyone who would criticize them, and that is remarkable from the u. S. President. And there is one piece of good news today, and this is coming from turkey, Richard Engel, we understand that after two years of intense american pressure, the angel cal commu n angelical community that a prisoner has been released. Yes, in is the reason that the economy has been tanking over the last week or so is because of the brunson issue. The u. S. Has been putting intense pressure on brunson and on turkey over brunson and put sanctions on turkey over brunson and that has had a cascading effect where the other countries and rating agencies got cold feet on turkey and the lira is sixsomething to the dollar when it was about three to a dollar a little bit over a year ago. And so people here are feeling the pain. And turkey had been looking for a way to get out of the crisis, and now, turkey needs friends. They need rich and powerful friends. It is alienating to a degree saudi arabia and demanding that saudi arabia be more coooperative and in fact, turkey is today issuing an ultimatum saying that if saudi arabia does not par ttiecipate more willing in the investigation, because the turkish investigators and phrenic investigators cannot get inside of the building and turkey says that unless saw di do saudi does more, the next step is prosecutors and a hauling in saudi diplomats and questioning them, and while it could cause a major rift with a powerful country like the king of saudi arabia, the u. S. Needs friends and found an opportune time to let brunson out of his house arrest by giving him a sentence and then convicting him for time served. Richard engel, a complicated story. Thank you so much from istanbul, and with relooking forward po the reports all day today, and of course, to the panel. 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