secretary of state mike pompeo had yesterday and then the images of him shaking hands today with the turkish president, they re strikingly different. those optics matter. what do you know about what went on in the conversation between secretary mike pompeo and president erduwon. each of the meetings lasted 40, 45 minutes. turkish officials had been wants to hear tough talk from secretary of state mike pompeo, a sense that the u.s. was going to hold their feet to the fire, a sense that there was some urgency, that this investigation needs to be carried out in a timely manner and a sense, also, that this needs to be a partial investigation. a lot of people here saying, hold on a second. how can you have the saudis investigate their own crime? what is not clear is whether
but this is an alleged murder of a journalist, resident here in the u.s., but not a permanent resident, the dismembering of his body and cover-up, according to turkish officials here. what do you make of the president taking the saudis on their word while leaving members of his own party, graham, corker, rubio, based on what they know already discussing penalties for saudi arabia? well, all fingers point towards the saudi royal family. i don t think there is any debate over that except in the mind of the president of the united states, unfortunately. i think what you are hearing from the republican side is just being echoed on the democratic side as well. we have to take very strong, firm action. we need an impartial investigation of what happened. we have to get to the bottom of it. all the circumstantial evidence does point towards the royal family. and then we have to impose sanctions on the saudi government so that we not only teach the saudi government a
officials tell cnn it could not have happened unless it went up that high. president trump who floated that rogue killer theory says this is another case of guilty until proven innocent. mike pompeo wrapped up his fact finding mission today after stops in turkey, which is investigating khashoggi s fate and saudi arabia. let s get to the turkish capital. tell us the latest on the investigation today. so many of those details coming from turkish officials. what are they saying about what they re finding? so there appears to be some progress, perhaps, today, jim. an inching forward if you like. we re hearing some saudis are now at the console general s residence. turkish officials, you may remember, have been trying to get inside for more than two weeks. they were allowed to search the
salman. tell us what you know. he has been seen frequently in the presence of the crown prince. he is a senior officer in saudi intelligence. we also know he was first secretary at the embassy in london for a period. so he is a powerful figure, possibly the most senior. we don t know yet all of the ranks of the 15 members of this team that the turks said were taken or flew in into private aircraft into ankra and conducted this investigation. i have to stress that the saudis while publically saying nothing unthwart occurred privately are telling me they are working on a statement that may go some way
president trump has turned this from a horrifying story about the saudi regime and the nature of their efforts to crack down on disdense to a story about president trump and his foreign policy, a washington story. robin wright, let s dig down a little bit more on just how specious a comparison it is between brett kavanaugh and this. it is alleged murder that took place two weeks ago. the u.s. has intelligence that the saudis were considering an abduction here, planning an abduction here. the turks, a u.s. ally, nato country, they have intelligence. they say they have intercepted conversations. they say they have other evidence from inside the consulate. the president in his intelligence briefing certainly has access to a lot of information here, which makes it a very different scenario, does it not, from the brett kavanaugh investigation. absolutely. and the comparison between a