revised new saudi explanation nearly two weeks after he disappeared, the journalist? >> i think it could be plausible. i mean, i think it's something that actually could have happened that way, which makes it all the more important that this investigation be allowed to proceed, transparently, incredibly. and that pompeo goes over there with a firm desire to find out what happened. it doesn't alleviate, if that's what happened, hard questions from being asked or from the relationship with saudi arabia from being modified or changed. >> so basically, what you're saying is, the saudi intention was to get this guy into the consulate, and then hold him there, interrogate him, and maybe then kidnap him and bring him to saudi arabia illegally. >> or could be like a rendition thing. where they wanted to get him in there -- >> rendition is a fancy word for kidnapping. >> to bring him back, but under government auspices, bring him back to saudi arabia. maybe he put up a struggle, they weren't expecting that. it devolved into violence and he was killed. it is a plausible explanation. we won't know until the investigation is over. again, this makes it all the more important that the saudis