move-on.org. i want to start with you your thought. this is a truly appalling behavior from the president, on a scale of the worst events in the trump presidency, helsinki summit with putin. let me point out a couple things first of all, the reporting is the intelligence community has a high confidence assessment that mbs was responsible for this murder which by the way is anybody who follows saudi arabia closely would think about a team of people flying to a third country to kill someone and render them back to saudi arabia number one, that s the highest level of confidence the intelligence community can et. if that s true, trump lied about that today number two, they don t pop up out of nowhere with that to your point, nicolle, they ve had information for some time, probably weeks, that led to that conclusion so the question that needs to be answered is, what did donald trump know and when did he know it about mbs responsibility was he lying to the american people to create a cove
thanksgiving holiday for them, they are so proud to be representing our country on the border where if you look at what s happening, mexico, the people from tijuana are saying, wow, these are tough people. they re fighting us. they re in fistfights all over the place. these are tough people that are coming in. yes, we re so worried about them why aren t you let s bring in nbc news national security and military reporter courtney kube. what s going on at the border? that s a great question, nickol we kn nicolle we know one other thing, he previewed the fact they might be home, some of them before thanksgiving he said some of the jobs dhs requested them to do would be done in somewhere between five to ten days which put it at potentially this week some of them would leave that would include some ed engineering, maybe some logistics. but at the same time dhs still can request more help in other
intelligence agencies are going to have to testify before congress as they did after 9/11 about what he knew and when we knew it about bin laden and they re going to have to i mean, congress will have all the answers in short order. yeah. nicolle, with all respect to our intelligence agencies, this has been painfully obvious to laypeople like us that the saudis orchestrated this brutal murder of the journalist and our reporting has shown that from day one, president trump has looked for reasons to excuse the saudi regime he was ignoring sort of the information that was out in plain view in the press every day. he was looking for holes in the cia s arguments as they began their own investigation. how deranged is that, looking for holes in the cia he s been looking for reasons to believe mbs to believe the crown prince. to stay friends with the saudis. he remembers that first trip he did abroad in may of 2017. the very first country he visited was saudi arabia riyadh the red ca
saudi arabia and conservative media was also advancing and advocating a whisper campaign. that also is a smear and a lie about cakhashoggi. is that also going to be of interest to noanyone with oversight responsibilities over the intelligence community, anyone that advanced those smears against khashoggi that called him an enemy of the state, i m certain that is not the u.s. intelligence community s description of khashoggi. well, first of all, what s truly chilling about that is it s the same language that donald trump uses to describe the american journalists so he just described a journalist who was literally chopped into pieces in a third country as in the same way that he describes people who sit in the briefing room and ask him questions. i think the second point, nicolle, is what s really chilling also about that statement is, it kind of blends together the saudi narrative and the trump narrative. right? the saudi narrative has been this guy is a dangerous member of the muslim
i think if i was the chairman of the house intelligence committee, i would want information that the cia had, all the raw intelligence the cia had about this murder so we can get to the bottom, first of all, of why donald trump has been lying to us and covering for saudi arabia what are the facts of this and the second point, nicolle, he s basically subcontracted out all the policy to saudi arabia what he and pompeo says is very dangerous. he s basically saying we re for sale he defends his policy by saying let me hit pause because i want you to contextualize two things for our viewers intel yeah. isn t like a crime movie where you find a dead body or a smoking gun. but the closest you get to it is an assessment from the intelligence community that something happened, and they are able to make the assessment that mbs ordered the killing of khashoggi because of their understanding of the regime. explain this regime. this is not a democracy where, you know, you just go rogue