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The essence here. but when he was asked by van jones in this interview about some of these varying accounts from the saudis and how they really kind of veer from what we know based on clarissa's reporting and others, kushner really declined to criticize the saudis at all, and instead, he emphasized the long-standing relationship with the united states. listen. >> we're more in the fact-finding phase, and we're obviously getting as many facts as we can from the different places. and then we'll determine which facts are credible, and then after that, the president and the secretary of state will...

Questions over jared kushner's relationship with the crowd prince, forcing his role. working on middle east issues of the white house. today kushner was asked what advice he has given the crown prince. >> just to be transparent, to be fully transparent. the world is watching. it's a very serious accusation. a very serious situation. i see that right now, as in the mistry, we are in the fact-finding phase. we are getting as many facts as we can from the different place places. >> melissa: ari, is there any chance the prince didn't know about it? >> ari: it's hard to imagine. because of the mona...

The president's son in law and senior advisor says the administration is still considering the facts. >> is a demonstration, we are not more in the fact-finding phase and we are obviously getting as many facts as we can the different places and then we will determine which facts are credible. >> he has a relationship with the saudi crown prince, working on a plan for peace between the israelis and palestinians. he called saudi arabia a very strong ally. the president and senior and administration officials have repeatedly stressed the ties between the u.s. and saudi arabia. saudi foreign minis...

Intelligence community to be conducting an investigation with the thank you, to get to the bottom, not asking the saudis. to take more time if they'd like to, to come up with another explanation that is clearly not true. for the first two weeks, the saudis told the world that khashoggi walked out alive at their own consulate in istanbul. not true. they made up another story, clearly not true. as i suspect tomorrow we'll hear from erdogan in turkey, they have detailed information about this that may make this even more difficult for the saudis to maintain with a straight face. >> during an inte...

Addressed in another piece in the post, quote, the challenge now facing president trump is that his waffling public response could leave a lasting impression of weakness. some of trump's advisers have warned him that if he lets the saudis get away with such a barbaric extrajudicial killing with impunity, the saudis would not respect him as a strong leader. nor would other authoritarian regimes around the world, including north korea and iran. here was jared kushner today on the growing crisis. >> i'd say that right now as an administration we're more in the fact-finding phase and we're, obvio...