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Report said, he will stand by saudi arabia and resist any calls from congress for tougher sanctions that he does not think of appropriate. more directly from the statement in a moment, let's go to the white house and sarah westwood. this is so striking. a lot of exclamation points beginning with the world is a very dangerous place. take us to how this came about. >> reporter: the president is acknowledging what we have been learning about the cia assessment about the crown prince's involvement in this incident. he said maybe he did and maybe he d didn't know about the murder of jamal khashoggi...

Consulate in turkey. in his lengthy missive, riddleed with exclamation points, mr. trump wrote, we may never know the facts surrounding the murder of mr. jamal khashoggi. in any case, our relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia, the president said that maybe the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman knew about the murder, or maybe he didn't, yet the c.i.a. has concluded not only that he knew, but that he ordered the brutal killing. lawmakers are putting pressure on the white house to punish the saudis, both republicans and democrats. and u.s. allies are doing the same. so the president...

In order to justify a statement from the president of the united states like this? >> no. and we've never had a president of the united states to issue a statement with six exclamation points. maybe he did and maybe he didn't and cothntradict his own intelligence agencies. though intelligence agencies have gotten it wrong in the past, but this is a case where secretary pompeo, a former cia director, is going along with a president who has famously gone against the intelligence community. >> he's the former cia director. >> and he's going against the understanding, our understanding as well as ...

Information but it could very well be the king had knowledge of this event. maybe he did, maybe he didn't. that's in a statement from the white house. the administration has barred 21 saudis. joining me live is yamiche elcindor. this statement is weird. it sounds like a gathering of tweets more than a white house statement. what do you make of it? >> it sounds like it's something the president either personally dictated or wrote himself. you look at not only the long-windedness of the statement. the idea there's exclamation points. that's something you can easily

Couple of journalists there and then to see the boss doing this at home, it's just a complete 180 from what happened to the american values. >> how -- tell me how this -- so i was told by a former intelligence official that this kind of statement is a policy statement. it would not have gone out for interagency review how does a statement like this with eight exclamation points go out? >> well, i've never known john bolton to be a fan of explanation points. >> me, either. >> that statement was dictated if not completely at least in part by the president. >> by whom take me inside he rifted on ...