heated or whether he didn t, he denies it vehemently. his father denies it, the king, vehemently. the cia doesn t say they did it. they do point out certain things and pointing out those things, you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn t. encouraged by president trump s support, saudi arabia has broken out for the first time since the statement, warning that criticism of crown prince mohammad bin salman is now a red line. yesterday, presidents don t always get the freedom to work with unblemished partners in all things. we are not going to apologize for our human rights stance, nor are we going to apologize for working with saudi arabia when it s necessary, for the good of innocent people who are in trouble. there are already repercussions
how president trump weighed in, on the other side. i don t think anyone will be able to conclude that the crown prince did it. i will say this do you think he did it? i don t know. i don t know. whether he did or whether he didn t, he denies it denies it . his father denies it, the king, vehemently. the cia doesn t say they did it. they do point out certain things, and in pointing out those things you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn t. that was another part of the false reporting because a lot of you said yesterday that they said he did it, well, they didn t say that. they said he might have done it. that s a big difference. reporter: it s a big difference kelly o donnell, what s your take away? there is a semantics battle here which mucks it up and makes it cloudy. the cia does an assessment and they assign a degree of confidence, and our reporting is it is with high confidence that they assess that the crown
that john podesta s time in the barrel is coming, and it s not when john podesta is in the upper es sh upper es kau es shaw lawns. he could say, look, i was just playing my role. this does indicate a degree of communication with assange. wikileak s communications with the trump campaign were not insignificant, we know that. we also know russia has been very involved with wikileaks so this becomes a real problem for the presidential campaign. the e-mails they released do not have a smoking gun, but it shows stone thought he had information and was eager to share it with steve bannon. what is new is the direct communication between roger stone and steve bannon, communication which roger stone denied, vehemently denied.
al, and acknowledge the humanity of everybody that we re arguing with. you know, the founders wanted us to argue. i wrote a book about this. they wanted us to have disputes but they also at least put on paper the idea that all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights. in other words, we re supposed to argue vehemently. that s good, that s how we make progress but respect the humanity of others. at some root level. i think what s happened in this country and frankly donald trump is a part of it, but he s not the only reason for it. is that we ve gotten into a period of arguing by denying the humanity of others. i think to some extent social media is to blame because it s all to easy to use as dehumanizing propaganda. i think the nature of our politics where we support the
as we see mixed messaging from inside the kingdom itself, international pressure mounting on saudi arabia for answers in the disappearance of a prominent saudi journalist. saudi arabia s king spoke with turkey s president by phone sunday about jamal khashoggi,. the two reportedly agreed to create a working group to investigate the case. now ka shhashoggi has been miss nearly two weeks. he was in the saudi consulate in istanbul. they say he was murdered inside the building, a charge the saudis vehemently deny. they expect to get more information from turkey this week. president trump has threatened severe punishment if it turns out the saudis were involved in his disappearance and responsible for his death. meg robinson has more on the deepening diplomatic crisis. reporter: amid escalating