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>> just the sloppiness, it appears. clarissa ward, thank you so much. for the first time, harder stance, somewhat, from president trump on saudi arabia, telling "the washington post" that the saudis' stories have included, in his words, deception and lice. that is a noticeable shift since just friday when president trump said he believed the explanation, as the saudis had claimed, of a fist fight gone wrong. in the same interview, he praised mohammed bin salman, calling him a strong person with very good control. cnn's abby philip is live at the white house. as you hear those words, those are ...

President trump vowed to pull out of a decades-old nuclear treaty with russia. one official says this could be a very dangerous step. we are on it this morning. chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in istanbul. clarissa, you look at these pictures here and it seems to provide pretty convincing evidence this was no rogue operation but a planned one, a premeditated one. >> reporter: that's right, jim. and it's ironic that this comes the day after the saudi foreign minister told fox news that this was a rogue operation, that the killing was unintentional, that this was a mistake. tu...

Things in the world. it's a good counterbalance to the world. iran, they're as evil as it gets. there, jim, you see president trump making it very clear that he views saudi arabia as an important counterbalance in the middle east. he's not willing to abandon them just yet. the evidence continues to mount and the world is waiting to find out what the white house is going to do about this story and whether saudip punished at all. jim? >> syria and algeria, ambassador ford, looking at cnn's exclusive reporting, images supplied by turkish officials here, in your view, does this provide convincing ...

Behind along the edges. again, no severe injuries, according to authorities. no serious injuries. everybody seems to be recovering right now. the question, what exactly caused this. jim. >> no question, just thankfully they're all alive. thanks very much. >> cnn has obtained exclusive new video of what a senior turkish official says is a body double, a suspect wearing the very clothes of jamal khashoggi just hours after the journalist was last seen alive. we're following it all. we'll have an update and the latest coming up next. ♪ east bound and down (performed by jerry reed) ♪ east bound...

Investigators believe it likely contained khashoggi's clothes. as they head back to their hotel, the pair appear visibly relaxed. their mission is complete. now this does appear to give us a better understanding, jim, of why exactly the saudis were sort of brazenly peddling this lie for several days if not the first week that khashoggi left the consulate unharmed but it also raises the question of why they didn't initially reveal or show their own footage. it may have been that they knew pretty early on that their cover-up had been uncovered. when turkish authorityies boardd that plane, it bec...