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>> phil mudd, senator lindsey graham, republican senator, has been pretty much in lockstep with this president for the last several months. a marked turn for him, but on the issue of the crown prince, the issue of the khashoggi killing, listen to what he had to say this sunday. i want to get your reaction. >> i haven't been briefed, but i believe from day one that 15 people, 18, whatever the number was, they don't get on two airplanes, go to turkey, and chop a guy up in the consulate who is a critic of the crown prince without the crown prince having known about it and sanctioned it. when it c...

Can the president proceed, keep the relationship on a status quo? >> i think maybe in the long term, but i think in the short term, the question is going to be whether people like lindsey graham translate words into pain. i think other people in the administration, vice president pence, the secretary of state, have been more careful in foreign policy situations, including in this one, than the president has been. you not only have lindsey graham, you have others in the administration more carefully choosing their words about where we're going to be with the saudis if the information is compell...

I have been fully briefed on it. there's no reason for me to hear it. in fact, i said to the people, should i? they said you really shouldn't. i know everything that went on in the tape. >> what happened? >> was very violent, very vicious, and terrible. >> joining us now, former cia and fbi official phil mudd who is now a counterterrorism analyst, and now the director for gulf affairs at the middle east institute. phil mudd, i want to start with you. you have the u.s. intelligence community deliver the president an assessment, it appears a strong assessment, that the crown prince, mohammed bin...

Implicated in this assassination. we can do a number of things. one thing that i think is really important is that we need to get an ambassador out to riyadh as quickly as possible in order to expand and deepen the nature of our dialogue with the saudis. and get it out of this kushner/mohammed bin salman channel, which i think has been extremely unhelpful for our interests. >> maybe deliver some hard messages there, and of course, the president has now nominated a former commander in the middle east. here we are, 48 days after khashoggi disappeared, no body and no hard answer from the administ...