That trump jr. Testified that he spoke with white house aide hope hicks about how to respond when the story broke. Hicks was on air force one with the president at the time. Now, if you remember, trump jr. s story about the meeting changed multiple times. The statement in question which the president took part in crafting read in part, quote, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with American Families years ago and was since ended by the russian government but it was not a Campaign Issue at the time and there was no followup. Well, that statement was proven to be false, just a day later when apparently knowing the New York Times was ready to publish the truth about the meeting, trump jr. Was forced to admit that it was actually about getting russian dirt on hillary clinton. Again, that meeting was in june of 2016. A few days later, trump jr. Acted like it was nothing more than a conspiracy cooked up by the democrats. It jus
Good evening. We begin with breaking news. A new account of the disappearance of the u. S. Based saudi journalist, one involving his killing inside the saudi consulate in istanbul at the hands of a team organized by a highranking saudi Intelligence Officer with close ties to the inner circle of the kingdoms crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman. One of our sources describes what he or she says may have been an accidentally lethal injection followed by what is described as an amateur coverup which included according to another source efforts to keep the saudi government in the dark. Yet even as chilling and damning as that sounds, the question remains is that just a cover story forring . Far worse and potentially more damaging on the world stage . Was Jamal Khashoggi murdered by a hit team and then as a turkish official told us today, was his body cut into pieces to be disposed of in ways as yet unknown or unrevealed . There is certainly a lot to raise suspicion. Remember, yesterday cnn saw
Story for something far worse and potentially more damaging on the world stage . Was Jamal Khashoggi murdered by a hit team and then as a turkish official told us today, was his body cut into pieces to be disposed of in ways as yet unknown or unrevealed . There is certainly a lot to raise suspicion. Remember, yesterday, cnn saw a cleaning crew enter the consulate before turkish investigators went in. Remember also that turkish investigators once they got inside said they found evidence of some kind of cleanup, including painted over surfaces and toxic materials, unquote. The turks also say they have audio and Video Evidence of what went down, including khashoggis death. Also today, they released passport scans of seven saudis they suspect of being part of an alleged 15member Saudi Hit Team which is reported to have included an autopsy specialist with a bone saw. Any or all of those things argue against this new botched abduction and amateur coverup story. Whatever the truth, though, an
Security advisor, anybody having to do with security, legal and other things. Ingraham interjekts are you going to invoke executive privilege . The president says i think you have to for the sake of the office. In a moment our legal and Political Team weigh in on that. First from our jim acosta, including some late new reporting that hes got. What more do you know about the president s move to block bolton from testifying . Reporter well, its sounding more and more that the white house is moving in that direction. I talked to a source familiar with discussions inside the president s senate trial team who told me earlier this evening that there are significant and important executive privilege issues with this potential of john bolton testifying. Its not altogether clear whether or not they will assert executive privilege in the case of john bolton because its not clear whether or not hes going to be testifying. According to this source, they believe inside the president s team that thi