Explainer: What Jamal Khashoggi s Murder Means for Saudi Arabia and the Region
Is the Khashoggi murder then that âsignificant momentâ in world affairs, one that in itself may not be earth-shaking, but somehow captures the moment and has a cascading impact beyond anything that seasoned observers could have anticipated?
Pictures of Saudi journalist Khashoggi are placed on security barriers during a protest outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey October 8, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Murad Sezer
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Note: This article was originally published on October 25, 2018 and is being republished on February 27, 2021, in light of the US intelligence report finding the Saudi crown prince responsible for the journalist’s murder.
respect to the jamal khashoggi case. all of these things are not standing up for america s democracy and not standing with our allies. that is where i think secretary clinton, among many other ways, can be a strong voice as we head into this election. what about joe biden, who is kind of the hamlet of this drama? many people including myself, from my reporting, believe he is going to get into this, perhaps not before april. does he then sort of take over the democratic field? i think that first of all, i have a lot of respect for vice president biden. i truly enjoyed working with him when i was in the senate. i think we re going to have a lot of competition, that s a good thing. i don t think it s fair to say, when you have so many excellent people running, that any one person will take over the field. it s going to be a long year. let me ask you about another big issue, medicare for all.
and that the judge says can come in to this case. and i ll look at this meme. basically you see that picture there. it s someone running into a bunch of people. and it says, you have the right to protest, but i m late for work. so it shows a certain kind of callousness. now, remember, that is several months before he has been accused of running his car into all these people, killing heather heyer. but i do want to mention to you what was really striking in court today. we heard from some of the victims, some of the victims who are still recovering after being hit by the car here in charlottesville. we heard from a victim named jean pearson. she said she was there, she was near heather heyer, she saw heather heyer being hit, fly up into the air. she looked into her eyes and said, i think that s what the eyes of a dead person looks like. and she is still in a wheelchair, don. she has such damage to her leg that she is still going through surgery.
capitol rotunda george herbert walker bush lying in state. president trump paying respects as funeral details are revealed. after a year of silence, we re about to hear how much michael flynn knows about the president s ties to russia. critical details expected today from the special counsel. cia director briefing on the jamal khashoggi case. her absence last week drew scorn from lawmakers. and another assault allegation against former nfl star kareem hunt. one nfl announcer is saying enough with the second chances. twitter pointed out the irony that colin kaepernick is unsigned and reuben foster claimed by the redskins. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is 31 minutes past the hour. at this hour, george herbert walker bush is lying in state in the capitol rotunda. his body will remain there for
juliette, in the new court filing from cohen s attorneys they say in addition to his interviews with the special counsel that cohen is cooperating with prosecutors from the u.s. attorney s office concerning an ongoing investigation. the new york state attorney general s office civil lawsuit against the trump foundation and state tax authorities. so how worried should the president be? because this is one he can t pardon anybody for, right? that s right. and this is part of the theory that renato and others have been talking about, that mueller has sort of dispersed this case to enough different courts in terms of different legal proceedings so that there s not one single point of failure. in other words, if trump fires mueller there s still going to be a whole bunch of other stuff going on. what you see this week is the panic attack trump was having quite publicly on twitter, is what i call what i ve been calling the 4 m problem.