officials. bill neely is in istanbul. kristen, first to you, the president now just commenting on this, he was leaving to go to the gulf, to florida to inspect the hurricane damage. but revealing that the secretary of state was leaving, which we just saw, pompeo leaving for saudi arabia. the saudis have put out a statement just a few moments ago saying that the president in consult with king salman was praising the joint efforts. the turks have heard nothing from saudi arabia, as far as we know, of any information about what happened to khaskhoggi? reporter: and underscoring that point, you heard president trump reiterating over and over again and king salman denied very firmly that the saudis had anything to do with this. in fact president trump said