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Able to read the -- some excerpts from some of the pieces that jamal wrote for "the washington post." and if you read these pieces, which are available online, you will see two things. both his deep, deep love for his country and how restrained -- how he was simultaneously powerful, forceful and restrained in his criticism of the saudi regime when they did good things, when they showed modernization and tolerance he gave them due praise. and when they needed to be criticized he did not fear to criticize them. and that is why we are all in this business. >> ruth marcus, david ignacius, thank yo...

He? what are you doing to find out the truth? and as you say, finally, and last but not least, from the united states government, what are you doing? this is a writer for a u.s. paper. and this is intolerable. whether it's u.s. citizen or a u.s. writer or anybody else. this is not the way we treat journalists in the world. this is -- if the worst is true, it is just horrible and not to be tolerated. >> turkey already -- the irony, of course, is that, david, turkey of all countries in the world according to the committee to protect journalists imprisoned more journalists this year than any othe...

For help and where is the state department? the u.s. has been notably silent not only on this but the dispute of the saudis and the canadians. they have an interest of selling u.s. weapons. had a close relationship with the saudi leadership. what is the u.s. government doing? >> there's been too much silence all around. our lead editorial this morning which we did in addition to david's very powerful column of khashoggi talks about time for answers. we need to have answers. i brought actually -- i have a -- >> a time for answers asking -- >> saying all governments. there are three government t...

Children from their moms and dads at the southern border. >> so last week they thought they had a great issue, and when i heard them talking about the children, first of all, they were using pictures taken in 2014 when barack obama was president. i wasn't president. and what i learned is one thing. our facilities are cleaner, better ke better kept, and better run. that's the one thing. i saw that. i said, hey, i like that. this is fine for us. the democrats want to protect illegaling coming into this country, some of whom are not good. it was a disaster for bush, although we very much apprecia...

Punish other countries with trade barrier, they're going to respond in kind. and additionally and a very odd thing about that tweet was the president suggesting that harley-davidson wasn't going to pay tariffs. they are going to pay tariffs. that's how trade wars work. it's a strange curious way of him trying to defend himself when the reality is this is the way trade wars operate. this was entirely predictable. >> all right. still ahead on "morning joe," we're going to be taking a look at today's primary race. i also want to get back to that with betsy and david. with ear going to talk about ...