as an indicator of the trump administration s response to the situation. joining us now from istanbul is matthew briser. he is a former u.s. diplomat and a former coordinator of u.s. policy in turkey with the national security council. thank you so much for being with us. thank you. so, jamal khashoggi s body has still not been found. we do want to just listen to what the saudi foreign minister said about that when he was questioned about it on fox news over the weekend. let s bring that up. you said you don t know where the body is. someone obviously knows. was it chopped up? was it dismembered? do you know that? we are working on this. we are working on this with our turkish colleagues. the public prosecutors continue his line of questioning. and we are intent on determining what happened and we are intent on uncovering all the facts that exist in this case. we want to make sure we know what happened and we want to
make sure those responsible will be held to account. matthew briser, how likely is it that the body of ka shoug ee will ever be found? and how committed do you think the saudi government is to getting to the truth of the matter when it comes to the murder of khashoggi? i think it is unlikely they ll find the body, though we don t know what details president erdogan and the turkish government are going to divulge. president erdogan says tuesday, tomorrow, he says no facts will be hidden. but that doesn t mean you can find the body. to me, foreign minister al-juber are dodging questions. there are alleged facts turkey has provided. he s addressed none of those issues. he desperately tried to get out of the question and said, well, we ll see what the independent investigation determines. again, those facts have been leaking out a week-and-a-half now. he also on saturday or sunday yesterday, the crown