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One of them. we were talk before. how many years was it? you can say the number you told me. it s a very scary number. they wanted 35 years from me. they wanted him in jail for 35 years. so we have many people throughout the world in other countries, and we are working very hard. this group, all of this group, we re working very hard to take care of that situation. reporter: is there a red line in terms of saudi arabia that would cause to you consider we have to wait to see what happens. what james said, it s really best to let s determine what happened first. there s plenty of things that we can do that are very tough. let see what happened first. reporter: have you seen the video or audio recordings? have you seen the video? mr. president, i ve not seen. i mean, we ve all heard a lot about the audio. nobody s seen it yet. ....
That they were engaging for everyone there. so i know this just from talking with the cans lonsulate staff w they would come to visit me in prison that they were involved very much in advocating for the other prisoners. with respect to turkey or saudi arabia, when you look at what s going on in iran and other places, it is really bad. there are a lot of really bad things going on in that part of the world and frankly in other parts of the world also. any other questions? reporter: what did you do different than other administrations? well, they re tending not to take them they are tending not to take them out of our administration and that s good. i like that. and i think i could tell you why but i won t. but they tend not to take them out of our administration. and you know what, it s going to stay that way, okay? ....
Foolish for our country. there are other things we can do that would be severe. reporter: what s an example of what we can do? there are many things we can do. would you like to speak up about that, james? there were many, many things. i don t want to put you on the spot, but if you guys would like to tell them some of the many things we can do, there s a big list. we have a longstanding partnership in saudi arabia. my preference is not talk about what we would do. let s find out what happened. his fiancee is still waiting to find out what happened. there s a lot of speculation. until we know, i hate to take the next step on it, just to be able to see. we ve invited his fiancee. she actually wrote a letter to myself and the first lady, a beautiful letter, and we have invited her. i believe they re working it out where she ll be coming. ....
I d love to have her. at this point it s looking like it s looking like he perhaps won t be or isn t around and that s very sad. i think we would have known by now. that was our first hope. our first hope was that he was not killed, but maybe that s not looking too good, right? from what we re learning. there s a lot still to learn, mr. president. but there s a lot to learn, okay. reporter: three employees of the u.s. consulate in turkey prison, what efforts are being made? efforts are under way. there are many people who have been there for many years. we have at least 18 and the 18 were people that they said would never, ever be freed. by the way, pastor brunson was ....
And he got swept up in that as a christian minister living abroad in turkey. his parents said they were overwhelmed by good news. brunson through an intermediary said how grateful me was for his release. this is a win for the administration that doesn t have a down side. this is a humanitarian plus for the country and certainly for andrew brunson and his family and loved ones. so we ll be seeing that and following it closely in the next half hour. now, there is the whole larger dynamic of u.s./turkey relations. there as a lot embedded in that, especially when the u.s./saudi relations are tense over missing washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. thank you very much, kelly, joining us from the white house. i want to turn to kerry johnson. she covers the justice ....