so we re going to demand answers. the world deserves answers. dana: benjamin hall is live in istanbul for us today. benjamin? reporter: yeah. hi, dana. as you just pointed out thrrbg are two tracks to this case, as the investigation here on the ground, the legal side, then there s a diplomatic side. that s the one whoeu is gathering pace. that s why you re seeing mike pompeo in riyadh. there is also sensitive. saudi arabia and turkey are trying to slow down without causing too much disruption. in turkey t rhetoric has dialled down in the press as well as the government. on arrival, secretary of state pompeo first had a meeting with king salman and then with the crown prince and then dinner with him. he thanked both of them for their commitment to a transparent and timely investigation into khashoggi.
entering the consulate with mops, buckets and other cleaning materials. up on capitol hill, republicans and democrats are in lockstep, mulling sanctions and possible punishment for the saudis. the only two things that could have happened is, he s alive and somehow still in there, or he s dead and the saudis are the ones who did it. there is no other explanation for it. reporter: senator marco rubio, among others, disagreeing with treasury secretary, steve mnuchin s decision to still attend an economic conference hosted by the crown prince in riyadh. i don t think he should go. i don t think any of our government officials should be going and pretending as it s business as usual until we know exactly what s happened here. and jake, even if secretary mnuchin does end up going, it would be highly embarrassing for mbs to host that conference with some of the biggest names not attending. it reads like a who s who of the business world. the ceos of job morgue chase, master card and u
is even technologically feasible for his phone to connect to this apple watch while he was inside to do that. cnn cannot confirm that. we have tried reaching out to apple multiple times to try and see if that is even technologically possible, and we still have not had luck getting information back from them on that. so some security experts are quite skeptical about these reports, especially saying that this report came out after many were questioning how turkey may have obtained audio recordings from inside a diplomatic mission in turkey. competing narratives of course. what is the perspective, sam, in riyadh? reporter: well, we ve just recently overnight heard from saudi arabia s interior
department with more. what we do know the crown prince of saudi arabia, the next in line to the saudi throne is strengthening and consolidating his position. there have been arrests of a number of billionaires, princes and government officials in what he has described as an anti-corruption probe. saudi government is leting some of these officials buy their freedom. the government arrested more than 200 in the anti-corruption campaign locking them in the ritz-carlton in riyadh. the state department says the saudis should pursue the effort legally and transparently. the government is also pushing a more aggressive international posture particularly with its proxy fight against iran. in lebanon. the saudi prime minister of lebanon resigned from saudi arabia claiming overwhelming influence from hezbollah in that country. he says he is now returning to
ways? i don t know but i know it s time for this discussion. it s already started. we now have a sitting president of the united states unused to being president and some would argue ill equipped to being president secretary of state. in your travels around the globe, in riyadh, in tel aviv, what s the feeling about the position of the united states vis-a-vis the world and the possibility that a horrendous mistake might soon be made with regard to north korea? i see three things out there. i see on the one hand people who feel that it could be gained. you have a civil war or religious war in the middle east, sunnis versus shiites. it s not something we should be in the middle of, all right. and we have sided with the sunni arabs over the iranians. i have real issues with the iranians but it s not like the