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Following this part of the story for us. jim, top republican senators, forget about the democrats for a moment -- top republican senators are now fully convinced that the saudi crown prince ordered khashoggi's murder. the white house says, not so fast. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the trump administration is sticking to its conclusion that it's not clear that the saudi crown prince, mohamed bin salman, orchestrated the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. but president trump's fellow republicans, as you said, up on capitol hill, are furious tonight after the director o...

Off. after cia director gina haspel briefed a small group of senators on the killing of khashoggi, top republicans declared the evidence is crystal clear, that the kingdom's crown prince, mohammad bin salman, is behind the gruesome murder. senator lindsey graham pointed to the killer's use of a bone saw to dismember khashoggi's body. >> there's not a smoking gun. there's a smoking saw. you have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized by people under the command of mbs and that he was intrinsically involved in the demise of mr. khashoggi. >> ...

>> a smoking saw, as in the bone saw that was alleged live uly u dismember khashoggi's body. haspel traveled to saudi arabia after the murder and she has reportedly heard the recording of that murder. we'll come back to the congressman in a moment. manu, it seems like haspel made recommendations. do you know what she said? >> it lasted about an hour, where they were taken through the intelligence, what they know about the khashoggi murder and what the cia believes with a high degree of confidence that the crown prince of saudi

Ordered the killing, knew exactly what was happening, planned it in advance. if he was in front of a jury he would be convicted in 30 minutes guilty. so the question is what do we do about that? so far it's unfortunate but i think they feel like this is something that's come and passed because the administration has not spoken to this in a way that -- has spoken to it in a manner that really gives them immunity. so what the message is to him and those around him is that you can go around killing journalists. >> secretary pompeo and mattis are following the lead of the president. there's not a ...

Khashoggi's murder? >> well, you've heard the secretary of state and even the president and defense secretary mattis, fred, say there's no smoking gun. lawmakers have been talking to us and cia officials and analysts. there isn't any kind of smoking gun in things like this, fred. there's an assessment and basically, like one lawmaker said the other day, you're not going to find an e-mail from the crown prince saying don't forget your bone saw. it's pretty clear what happened to jamal khashoggi. it's pretty clear that the crown prince knew at least there was some type of operation going on, whe...