Of chinese goods. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im Alex Marquardt in for dave briggs. Great to see you this morning. Great to be back with you. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east, 11 00 a. M. In brussels, where the nato summit is under way today, and boy, is it under way. The president coming out swinging before the nato summit officially starts this morning. At a presummit breakfast, he dressed down nato secretarygeneral jans stoltenberg, demanding increased defense spending by nato allies, his wrath trained specifically on germany, calling them a captive of russia. Germany is totally controlled by russia, because they were getting 60 to 70 of their energy from russia in a new pipeline, and you tell me if thats appropriate, because i think its not, and i think its a very bad for nato, and i dont think it should have happened. His jabs coming as little surprise to european leaders. They fear President Trump will follow through on threats to cut back on milita
Future as the king depends on how he handles this issue. Pompeo told the crown prince that he must own the situation and every fact is going to get out. The New York Times and Washington Post reporting there is evidence that connects the crown prince to the kill killing and several members of the kill team that flew from riyadh to istanbul just as khashoggi disappeared. The post reports that the white house and the saudi royal family are searching for an explanation of khashoggis death that does not implicate prince muhammad. The president is waiting for answers and cast out on intel that could implicate the saudis. Im not giving cover at all. With that being said, saudi arabia has been a very important ally of ours in the middle east. I want to find out what happened and where is the fault and we will probably know that by the end of the week. You asked for the audio and video . We asked for it if it exists. We asked for it if it exists. Are you surprised they have not turned it over
Is expecting a baby. I like baby stories. Im more of a baby watcher than a royal watcher. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. Lets begin with the president and the saudis trading threats this weekend over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The president telling 60 minutes they will face severe punishment if they killed khashoggi during his visit to a saudi consulate in turkey and a saudi own news channel said that the u. S. Faces an economic bloodbath if it imposes sanctions on saudi arabia. For the latest developments lets bring in diplomatic International Diplomatic editor nic robertson. Hes live in istanbul for us. Reporter yeah. Mixed messages from riyadh for sure. Not that article not just written by anyone, the general manager, that doesnt happen without somebody senior taking the box and saying, its okay, we had a statement from saudi officials saying that they would double down on any action taken against them in a very clear
No go when an umpire is trending on twitter. Is it or is it not fan interferen interference . Let us know earlystart. It will would ith be debated. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. Nice to see you. It is thursday, october 18th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. President trump meeting this morning with secretary of state mike pompeo. He will get a briefing on the diplomatic swing through the saudi and turkish capitals. A trip focused on the disappearance and presumed murder of jamal khashoggi. Cnn has learned beneath the surface of the pompeos upbeat photo op with the crown minutes with all smiles. Behind closed doors, pompeo warned the crown prince his future as the king depends on how he handles this issue. He must own the situation and every fact going to get out. The New York Times and Washington Post says there is evidence that connects the crown prince to the killing and several members of the team that flew from riyadh to istanbul just as khashoggi disappeared. The post reports that t
Ukraine. All of that is the president derailed at the whistleblowers attorney who has been tweeting against him, it turns day one. In moments, joined by secretary grisham, representative devin nunes and senator chris kuhn. We begin tonight with chief congressional correspondent, mike emanuel is the transcript that was unveiled today described in a bombshell, tell us about it. It is because that evening. George can testimony is now out. He is one of the state department officials. We expect to hear him from him in a public hearing next week. More than 300 stages of george kens testimony behind closed doors was released late in the day. In it, he raises concerns about President Trumps private attorney, Rudy Giuliani. We justified about him saying he attached investor Marie Yovanovitch and he is putting at the new president needs to investigate biden in ended 2015 campaign. Kurts reaction, response to that was if there is nothing there, what does a meta . If theres something there, it sho