urged reopening additional channels to address issues of mutual concern. we are still greatly concerned about kurty s continue of staff and citizens including a scientist. we also discussed the khashoggi case, achieve a peaceful lasting solution to the syrian conflict. with that, i m. peu happy to take a few questions. secretary, one of the things the president points to in his statement is the $110 billion arms initiative. by the state department s own record in october only $14.5 billion has come through. have you received the rest of the money from that agreement? some of these contracts, defense contracts in particular, are complex lengthy contract negotiations. we are working diligently on
the rest of the tape is filled with brawling and torture. if you boil the white house statement down to its essence, president trump just asserted if you do enough business with the u.s., you are free to murder journalists, quite a lot of anger among the journalist community. certainly today, president trump saying for him, national security is the first and foremost concern and relationship with saudi arabia is the key to that in the middle east. shep. shepard: benjamin hall. the president just finished speaking to reporters about the khashoggi case. he talked about general mcraven and talked about his new department head of department of justice, so there is a lot of news coming. the white house pool will now get that tool a playback machine
danny, talk about the n magnitsky act is how this is related to the khashoggi case. it had to do with the jailing of a russian lawyer and it s about essentially an embargo we put on russia, but as it relates here, the general idea is that when government officials, when government leaders engage in this kind of behavior, we sanction as a country. you keep in mind this is also a violation of international law there are many other laws that potentially a lie hepply here a have a missing body case they create a lot of challenges for getting answers to critical questions. john, it was decided by john mccaffrey in the last hour, and he said this about turkey, it was a turkey, saudi arabia, u.s.
now president trump getting a briefing on the khashoggi case today as senior officials tell cnn the caa the crown prince saudi wanted this. so will the president hold this saudi prince accountable? the c saudi wanted this. so will the president hold this saudi prince accountable? ia the saudi wanted this. so will the president hold this saudi prince accountable?
by introducing a full upright model. shark ion cord-free vacuums available in stick and upright. welcome back. saudi arabia and turkey are at an empass over the khashoggi case. they will not be expedited. thaw are to be prosecuted in saudi arabia. and that clash is what the turkish president wants. he says the 18 must be handed over to turkey to stand trial there. they say he was murdered at the saudi consulate in istanbul. cnn has correspondents covering all aspects of this story.