trump. the president called in the national intelligence director to provide them with more information, after a troubling report last week that president trump overruled advisers and career officials who recommended against a high level clearance for kushner. someone inside the white house has leaked a detailed time line of how the clearances were approved and who made the final call to congress. the white house insists the president has the authority to make the final call on clearance, but there are two big issues here. one being the lies and contradictions about what the president did or didn t do, and, two, jared kushner s troubling track record. the daily beast reports the president s son-in-law left embassy staffers in the dark when he met with the saudi crown prince in riyadh last week. he famously omitted more than 100 foreign contacts in applying for his clearance, russia s then ambassador and the head of a state-run russian bank. that latter meeting is emerging as a key mome
people don t know this, but you served our country in saudi arabia and iraq. we thank you for that service. the president comes over. an unannounced trip. the people there, they don t know that the president s coming. they may have gotten a couple hours notice, if that. when you serve overseas, right, you take what s precious and dear to you, which you care about, and your space is very limited. so the fact these people had this on hand, knowing maybe with an hour s notice that the president s coming, says something about the intention of where these people believe. he got a rousing, rousing applause when he walked into that raorpbl didn t he? do you know what s interesting? when barack obama, when george w. bush, other presidents, regardless of party, go to the region where the troops are serving, they get rounds of applause. why is that? these members serve at the pleasure of the commander in chief. they re away from their family and friends on christmas. it s energizing to see you
from the cia report? reporter: dana, it s been a few weeks since gina haskell went to saudi arabia. what everyone is going to be looking for when this comes out tomorrow is whether prince salman knew about this. whether he sanctioned it. at the moment, there are some people who say they re sure he did particularly among the u.s., u.s. government. among them chiefly lindsey graham. they re an important alley. when it comes to the crown prince, he s irrational. he s unhinged. i think he s done a lot of damage to the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia. reporter: it s also been over a month since secretary pompeo met with king salman and the crown prince in riyadh. while the washington post claims the cia does believe the crown prince ordered the killing, the white house has not
that the turks were able to bhug tbhug bug the consulate so effectively in istanbul. that is the saudi explanation. one question not answered from saudi arabia, where is khashoggi s body. that question remains unanswered. sam kiley live for us in riyadh. thank you. let s cross now to nick r robertson. we ve seen that video showing some individuals who may have been connected to this. is there any indication that any of these people are among the 18 nationals that saudi arabia has detained? reporter: saudi arabia hasn t released the details of the vast majority of those people. they removed two very close officials to the crown prince, three deputy heads of intelligence along with them. but the other people of those 18 that are detained other than those five, it is not clear. that leaves 13 not clear who
degrees from denying originally that was the position of the saudis that mr. khashoggi had met with an untoward end in the consulate to admitting that he d been killed by saudis in what they are suggesting was an accidental death during a struggle, still does not point the fingers toward the ultimate power in the land which is the crown prince. instead, victor, he s actually now going to be presiding over a one-month study and investigation into not only what went wrong in turkey but in a total reformation of the intelligence structures in this country. a cynic might say perhaps one of the top questions would not necessarily coming from the crown prince be whodunit to mr. khashoggi but actually how come it was possible for the turks to bug their consulate, victor. important question. sam kiley there for us in riyadh. thanks. now let s turn to sarah westwood at the white house. the president has been kind of slow to condemn the saudis