word of who that punish is because she told her handler, our people in russia should have a heads up and the russian government s opinion should be taken into consideration. circulate the name and let me know what i should tell people here about it. this is crazy stuff. the russian government being consulted on who trump is going to pick as secretary of state? what? the butina and erickson stuff is the most sparky, most lurid and i think the most heavily covered part of this scandal. josh roggin at the washington post reports tonight that maria butina also turned up at the wedding of mike pence s national security adviser. what? this was june 2017. mike pence s national security adviser, andrea thompson got married that summer of 2017, first summer of the trump administration. she s got that awesome new job.
it s hard to read some of this out because it s lurid. it s unpleasant. but he expresses hope that a dissection would be easy. he explained separating the joints should not be a problem but commented he d never cut something on the ground. then someone else in the room asks whether the sacrificial animal, that s a quote, had arrived. that s referring to jamal khashoggi. khashoggi appears to see a syringe. investigators believe he had a plastic bag put over his head. he was asphyxiated. then turkish officials describe hearing the sound of the saw beginning to dismember khashoggi. so this is a damning report,
look, we have too much we need to do, and republicans saying, all of that costs jobs, all of that is expensive. we re doing just fine. tom foreman, always appreciate it. thank you. good seeing you, erica. new this morning, an independent investigation blames saudi arabia for the, quote, deliberate premeditated execution of journalist jamal khashoggi. the cia and other western countries have concluded saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman ordered khashoggi s assassination. saudi arabia denies it. clarissa ward joins us now with more on these findings. so this report from a u.n. official does not go so far as to directly implicate the crown prince, saudi arabia s de facto ruler, but it certainly makes some other things very clear, and it is gruesome, clarissa. it is gruesome, it is lurid,
attention. a movie actress and four of her friends were murdered and the circumstances were lurid. the family was mutilated. this, i d rather fought discussion. nobody related this to hinman. beausoleil remained in jail. charlie was furious. they had screwed up. he blamed them? very much so. if they had done it right. they had to do it again. this time i m going with you to make sure it gets done properly. he took his band of killers on a tour of los angeles, looking for just the right innocent victims. there was a street manson knew, he had been to a party there in l.a. he picked the house next door. no idea who lived there. it was the home of leno and rosemary labianca. charlie says he ll go in,
reporter: the charges, and the headlines, were devastating. in an article in her hometown paper, the shorthand was that michelle hadley was the psycho ex-girlfriend from hell, the mover behind a lurid and devious plot. her parents, michael and suzanne, couldn t, wouldn t believe it. there s nothing in character with the michelle that you ve raised here? not at all. it s actually 180 degrees so out of sync with her behavior. reporter: they went to see michelle on her first day in jail after being charged. is this gonna be a conversation with phones through glass? yes. yes. there s cells without cages, but she s in a caged one. you know, i don t know why she always has to be in a caged one, but she does. reporter: michelle s bail was set at a million dollars. to get her out, mike and suzanne would have to come up with about 10 percent of that. that s $100,000 cash. they told their daughter they had enough to do that, or to hire a good lawyer, but not both.