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Banker of oil. they buy all these arms from the united states. it should be pointed at the number. it's not 110 billion as president trump says but probably close to 20 billion or 30 billion. >> in terms of contract, it's only 4 billion. >> but who has the leverage? >> well, there's no doubt that saudi's the swing oil producer, have the ability to moderate pl we don't need their oil anymore. but much of the rest of the world does. and we do need them to be in a position to pump oil because on november 4th, trump is about to impose oil sanctions on iran and take something like a million barrels...

To task. because you said the united states before donald trump was basically foreign policy consistent with its values. and the united states was an honest broker. well, the only difference between donald trump and his predecessors, he does not really pay any lip service to the norms that his predecessor did. but what donald trump has done, he made the situation at least much more dangerous than it is. and i know it's very difficult for some of your viewers to believe so. moving the american embassy to jerusalem, he deepened palestinian despair. by drugger a new chapter in the iranian confron...

Martin held many jobs during the clinton administration. he is now a distinguished fellow at the counsel on foreign relations. a professor of international economics. he's the author of "making the arab world." martin, let me start with you. the crucial question it seems to me is can mohammed bin salman survive this? >> it's not clear as so much else in saudi arabia. kind of the land of the seven veils. so we don't know what is happening. but we can assume that the shots are gathering. he alienated a lot of other princes. shaking them down, pursuing a reform agenda which others have questions ...

"the new york times" or somebody else. what we were reacting to was this almost unfathombly monstrous crime and attack on free expression. and we just felt that -- and we continue to feel that the rsponsible thing is to get a true accounting and then accountability for those responsible. >> do you think we will get the actual story? how are we going to get to know what happened in that apparently ten minutes in the consulate? >> it's a great question. i don't know. i think eventually we will find out what happened. how quickly and how soon depends on how many people do the right thing. i mean,...

Is the world ready for me? through internet essentials, comcast has connected more than six-million low-income people to low-cost, high-speed internet at home. i'm trying to do some homework here. so they're ready for anything. this is not an explanation. it is a coverup. that was "washington post" publisher and ceo fred ryan's response to saudi arabia's explanation of how khashoggi died. he was an opinion writer for the paper which has mounted an impressive campaign to get to the truth of this matter. fred hiatt was khashoggi's ultimate boss at the post. he's the editorial page editor of th...