know, he still holds that powerful position. he says that congress will respond with full pressure if president trump does not include the crown prince in these sanctions after he gets this report. what additional pressure would actually change action in saudi arabia in meaning, is it just about sanctioning these people? is it about curtaining or stopping that arms agreement? what is it? it is a bipartisan piece of legislation right now that would not only impose sanctions on an individual but also would impact the u.s. practice of, for example, refuelling saudi arabia, saudi flames that are flying in the war in yemen. there are a number of things the administration could do that would hold saudi arabia accountable and would still to some degree maintain a relationship there that would be in the best interest of u.s. national security. look, we have to be eyes wide
and urged reopening additional channels to address issues of mutual concern. we are still greatly concerned about turkey s continued unjust detention of u.s. staff and citizens, including a nasa scientist. we also discussed the khashoggi case and the need to work together to de-escalate the syrian conflict. with that, i m happy to take a few questions. mr. secretary, one of the things that the president points to in his statement is $110 billion arms initiative. by the state department s own record in october, only 14.5 billion has come through. when do you expect to see the rest of the money from that arms agreement? some of these contracts that defense contracts in particular are complex, like the contract negotiations. we re working diligently on the
we certainly should look at our arms sales. you know, this $110 billion of arms sales is just not real. there are about maybe $25 billion in sales that are on the books, and the rest of it is what we call a memorandum of intent. we hope to. and, in fact, the jobs the president talks about aren t real either. when lockheed martin got a contract for black hawk helicopters, they re going to be assembled in saudi arabia to provide jobs for saudi arabians, not for americans. so, the president isn t telling us the truth here, something new and different. but more importantly, we are not looking at our values. yes, we have interests and values, and they don t always align. but if you don t go with your values, you never get to them. one quick point about the united states president saying we re going to pull out of our arms agreement with russia. it is an insane decision. we have now given up all of our leverage with russia. you stay in arms control agreements and you have them because yo
actions. if i actually had the goods on the crown prince, i would have to speak out publicly about that in real terms. we certainly should look at our arms sales. you know, this $110 billion of arms sales is just not real. there are about maybe $25 billion in sales that are on the books, and the rest of it is what we call a memorandum of intent. we hope to. and, in fact, the jobs the president talks about aren t real either. when lockheed martin got a contract for black hawk helicopters, they re going to be assembled in saudi arabia to provide jobs for saudi arabians, not for americans. so, the president isn t telling us the truth here, something new and different. but more importantly, we are not looking at our values. yes, we have interests and values, and they don t always align. but if you don t go with your values, you never get to them. one quick point about the united states president saying we re going to pull out of our arms agreement with russia. it is an insane decision.
china, sit with members of the security counsel and say we all have to create a new arms control future where short range and long range missiles that are capable or carrying nuclear weapons we really will not proceed with. we have reasons to be very concerned about what china s doing because they haven t been part of the inf treatry, but to just pull out without any strategy of how we re going to move forward, is going to make us all less secure. this is all part of what s going on in the rearrangement of power structures in the world. the trump administration is very transactional. trump has never seen an arms agreement he doesn t like and he had never seen a war that he doesn t want too wage. so we are in a very dangerous situation where we are rather