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Saudi consulate, a big violation of international norms. but, again, you have to see this from the prism of the turkey/saudi relationship. they are longtime rivals, turkey helping iran violate sanctions, saudi arabia -- close friend of the u.s. saudi arabia alleges turkey is trying to drive a wedge between them and the u.s., and right now this is becoming a much larger geopolitical issue. what we're waiting to see right now is where the u.s. and where donald trump fits in. back to you. leland: yeah. more from the president, i guess, during that "60 minutes" interview tonight. benjamin hall liv...

Talk to the white house often, what would be your advice vis-a-vis turkey and is saudi arabia? >> i'm proud to hear the president say what he did about saudi arabia. he's stepping up, and he's going to try to make them, you know, accountable for -- if they actually did this. other than, take the opening that turkey's given us. leland: you said earlier that you would be in favor of suspending u.s. arm sales if the turks -- if the saudis were behind this killing. is there enough bipartisan support on the hill for that, or to the saudis have their claws in too deep? >> that would be an interestin...

There will be serious consequences if they're involved in the disappearance and alleged murder of a columnist in turkey. >> there's a lot at stake and maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. there's something -- you'll be surprised to hear me say that -- there's something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case. so we're going to have to see. we're going to get to the bottom of it, and there will be severe punishment. leland: benjamin hall live in turkey as the turks also keep up their pressure on the saudis. hi, benjamin. >> reporter: yeah, hi, leland. wel...

Get individuals home, to negotiate them and get them release. we all know the four individuals that president obama got released that were in iranian prisons, the big swamp, multibillion dollar deal. the trump administration came in and said, we don't exchange money, we don't deal with people that are holding americans hostages, we have seen americans coming from north korea, we have seen americans coming from turkey. they are working this in a very different formula than what the obama administration did. leland: president trump both said on tarmac and tweeted that there was no deal here made...

>> leland, you know, the campaign money, i listen to my people, that has no effect on my votes and you can look at my record in the past, it has no effect on my votes. i listen to my constituents and i do what my constituents want me to do and, of course, i agree with my constituents on most of these issues, so, again, i've been very effective, i was on air force with the president with regard to turkey and i am chairman of national freedom caucus and we talked about releasing the pastor and the next day he put the sanctions on turkey and he's been very tough with -- we need to hold allies acc...