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To $110 billion. the saudis just let another deadline go on the air defense system. these are wish lists they come up with under the obama administration, i'm sure you're aware. we also had about $115 billion wish list, but the saudis never buy everything on the wish list, and they're not going to now. and whether they want to or not congress has already put on hold a bunch of the things that they wanted to buy. those arms -- the countries, the companies also are looking closely. of course they want to make deal, but they don't want boo be complicit in human rights violation or aiding or abett...

The trump administration doesn't take some action? >> congress will. congress will. we can withhold the approval and the arms sales that the president likes to talk about. by the way, it is not $115 billion. there's about $14.5 billion that's actually been consummated, that is the contract's actually in place. the money will eventually change hands as the equipment does. but the point here is really about the freedom of the press, about the role of the press and about the american civil liberties and rights that we have for journalists to carry out their task. our president, our country has to...

It's worth recalling that obama offered saudi arabia 115 billion dollar in deals, about half of which resulted in actual sales. he's pointing over and over again to this saudi arms deal but it's not doing what the president is doing what it's saying it's doing. >> that's right. experts say it will take some time for the total of resources. >> that's correct. he loves that number. he's been saying it again and again and again. he sees that arms deal is so essential to the relationship between america and saudi arabia. it's so important to him that he's been willing to be silent on the issue of ...

Weapons systems. it's important to remember that president obama secured similar letters of intent from saudi arabia to the tune of about 115 billion dollar. that resulted in half of them becoming contracts. something like only 4 billion has been executed into contracts since he announced it. this is letters of intent. it's not 110 billion dollar military deal. >> the president says he wants to look at other options to punipun i punish saudi arabia. what would those options be? >> economic options like this. i don't know why the president would take this off the table. he could do sanctions. h...

Billion that saudi arabia wants to spend on american citizens, what he's talking about is president obama was willing to approve $115 billion of acusitions, but they couldn't afford it. they were only able to obtain half of that at the time. the president seems to think the united states is in a desperate vendor relationship with saudi arabia and we desperately need them to buy this material because they will immediately go to the chinese or someone else. >> that was a very unfortunate statement that the president made about the potentially $110 billion of arms sales over this issue of khashog...