important for the crown prince to remove the threat of this one journalist? >> i mean, khashoggi -- jamal was outspoken, he was a critic in his columns he wrote for us. and jamal told me he was under pressure from his family. why would they risk this? again, this is a brazen, even for the -- if this were all to be true it would be brazen and a new, grotesque, a new grotesque low. here's thing, jamal didn't want to be seen as a dissident. he was close to the saudi royal family. he was an adviser, in many ways a loyalist and seen as part of the royal machine. so, you know, that's why -- the fact he wrote it in his columns, the saudi regime can turn on you just like that. >> he was getting marriage documents. >> right. >> what should the united states government do? i mean, you have the powers of the pen here. what should the government do? >> well, absolutely, you know,