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Some kind of success, he's going to jump at it when it comes to protecting relationships or projects that matter to him. in this case he can now say, well, they said they're doing an investigation. it doesn't matter if it flies in the face of standard operating procedure for law enforcement and intelligence. it's worth noting it doesn't matter if it's completely at odds with what his own intelligence community is probably telling him. we have no indication our intelligence community or members of the national security team think that this investigation is credible. so donald trump is going rog...

Report on what they claim happened. the committee charged with putting together that report headed by crown prince mohammed bin salman. the very same prince who u.s. officials have told cnn had to have known about the operation that ended in khashoggi's death. the saudis' first claim he left their consulate in istanbul even though there was only video of him entering and none of him leaving. the government's explanation for his death is mind-boggling right now. here's what they say. the journalist got into a fistfight or brawl and was killed. it took them over two weeks to produce this explana...

Juliette kayyem. good evening to all of you. it's just unbelievable the nuv explanations and the absurdity of especially this last one. all of them have been pretty absurd. david, originally they said he left the consulate alive. now they say he died in a fistfight. do they really expect people to believe this? >> they want one person to believe that. it's donald trump. and so far the white house is indicating this is what they've wanted to hear. they are going to i think accept this explanation and try to change the subject. the question is, will republicans in congress do the same thing? lin...

>> the thing about missile testing, you could test missiles in a whole host of places, right? north korea has a whole host of mobile launchers. you could destroy this one facility and not, david rhode, impede your ability to test missiles. >> it seems that the president is being played by north korea and by kim. you need unhindered inspector access across north korea and, to be blunt, president trump needs a better deal than the iran deal. he has criticized inspections in iran as too weak and so far he has nothing close to what barack obama did in iran. it's all talk unless you can look around...

This better economic package for north korea and greater economic benefit for all koreans, but we're not at that stage yet. >> essentially you look at that agreement -- listen, punitive agreement, it looks like a peace agreement between those two countries than denuclearization involving the u.s. >> that's a success for kim and north korea. they don't want to talk about the nuclear weapons and want to play this out and keep them. that's the danger. white house aides fear the president will be too open to this kind of summit if the summit happens, he will be seen again as being sort of too weak...