but the answer is yes. lindsey graham says there will be hell to pay if the saudis are responsible. lindsay can speak for himself. but this is a bad situation. we cannot let this happen. to reporters to anybody. we can t let this happen. and we re going to get to the bottom of it. so right now, it is unclear exactly how the u.s. is going to get to the bottom of what happened. so far the saudis have denied any involvement in khashoggi s disappearance. according to the washington post, u.s. intelligence has evidence that crown prince muhammad bin salomon ordered an operation to lure khashoggi from his home in virginia back to saudi arabia. and his friends say he was offered protection and even a job by high ranking saudi officials. the saudi dissident has been missing for over a week now. turkey believes are khashoggi was killed by a team of saudi operatives are after he went
according to the washington post, u.s. intelligence has evidence that crown prince muhammad bin salomon ordered an operation to lure khashoggi from his home in virginia back to saudi arabia. and his friends say he was offered protection and even a job by high ranking saudi officials. the saudi dissident has been missing for over a week now. turkey believes are khashoggi was killed by a team of saudi operatives are after he went into the saudi con see lat in istanbul and say his killing was ordered by someone high up in the saudi government according to a turkish official. a lot is at stake here. saudi arabia is a major ally of this administration. remember, it was the first country donald trump visited as president. but how america reacts are to khashoggi s disappearance has consequences for the rule of law and freedom of speech around the world. the secretary of state, the national security adviser, and white house adviser jared kushner have all spoken to the
think they can get away with it because they have been given such a green light by this administration. i would have to agree. since muhammad became the crown prince, he came to the u.s. and did a pr tour, and he s really gotten a lot of people on his side, and the trump administration, from day one, has been extremely poor on calling out regimes with poor human rights records. so the fact that the saudis possibly can even think that they would get away with this is a terrible sign for how the relationship is going between saudi arabia and d.c. like if they think that the relationship is so valuable, so important, that they can do whatever they want carte blanche, that says a terrible thing about the balance of power between d.c. and riyadh. and i also wonder what message it sends to every other country in the world that wants dissident or journalist walking around abroad killed. on the one hand we see russia acting in the united kingdom with the poisoning, et cetera. but this is
the disappearance of their columnist jamal khashoggi after he walked into a saudi consulate in turkey eight days ago. the paper reporting tonight muhammad bin salomon the crowns prince of saudi arabia ordered an operation to lure khashoggi back to saudi arabia and detain him, according to u.s. intelligence intercept of saudi officials discussing the plan. ow yet what really happened to jamal khashoggi last week, seen there entering the consulate. but authorities seemed convinced he was murdered inside that building you re seeing there. an outlet such as the new york times, the associated press reported allegations that khashoggi was also dismembered. it s unclear what the u.s. government might have known ahead of time and unclear what they are doing now beyond trusting saudi arabia to be investigate themselves. are you demanding an information? yeah, we are. we re demanding everything. that s a bad situation.
jonathan, thanks for being with me tonight. ahead, the washington post is reporting tonight that the crown prince of saudi arabia muhammad bin salomon himself ordered an operation to lure a washington post columnist back to saudi arabia and in order to detain him. that breaking news ahead.