state department says the government has yet to reach a final conclusion about who ordered the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi this after multiple u.s. media outlets reported that the cia believes that saudi crown prince mohamed bin fallen personally gave the order state department says it will continue to seek all the relevant facts as to what happened to khashoggi while maintaining what it called the important strategic relationship with saudi arabia. for more i m joined now by d.w. correspondent michael can a guy who s in washington so michael we seem to have two very different statements coming from the u.s. why is there no consensus between with the cia is saying and what we re hearing from the state department. well what is interesting about the state department statement is actually that no one has actually said that the u.s.
the u.s. state department says the government has yet to reach a final conclusion about who ordered the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi this after multiple u.s. media outlets reported that the cia believes that saudi crown prince mohamed bin fallen personally gave the order state department says it will continue to seek all the relevant facts as to what happened take a show while maintaining what it called the important strategic relationship with saudi arabia. for more i m joined now by d.w. correspondent michael can a guy who s in washington so michael we seem to have two very different statements coming from the u.s. why is there no consensus between with the cia is saying and what we re hearing from the state department. well what is interesting about the state department statement is actually that no one has actually said that the u.s.