we would be returning fire which we have not done. do you think he ll wrap up the investigation before the end of the year? i don t know if he s going to wrap it up. i wouldn t be surprised if he is going to break this up into, you know, one or two reports. there is so much that he has uncovered already, i mean he has 34 indictments, he s had eight guilty pleas and one conviction so far. this is a remarkable production of evidence and efforts to succeed in a process that typically takes much more time. so he has moved very quickly. by all accounts, mueller and his team, they know so much more than any of us. and we probably don t even have a clue on a lot of the stuff they know right now. very quickly, i want to turn to some mixed messages, that we re hearing on the murder of jamal
prince. and he didn t post a photo meeting with nbs today. we only found out about this because the saudi government posted this photo. we have asked if he discussed the killing of jamal khashoggie with the crown prince and they haven t immediately responded. but what it s showing is that even as president trump is growing frustrated with the saudi denials and the saudi claims, some members of his administration are still maintaining close ties with the saudis. president trump skeptical tonight over shifting saudi accounts about what happened to jamal khashoggie, the man who walked into the turkisaudi cons and never walked out. president trump said he has spoken to the saudi crown prince but says he won t accept for another month to investigate khashogg khashoggie s murder. while appearing doubtful of
saudi officials to cover up the death of jahmamal khashoggie. clarissa, the saudis allegedly used a body double to make it look like khashoggie walked out of the consulate alive. tell our viewers what you have learned. reporter: this is really mind-blowing stuff, if it was in a movie, you would say it was unrealistic. nevertheless, this is what turkishing officials are telling us. they have no doubt, they say, that this was a premedicated murder. they obtained a body double to make it look like khashoggie left the consulate unharmed. there s investigative surveillance footage that appears to show just that, check it out. at first glance, this man could almost pass for jamal khashoggie. and that s the idea.
have the same hairstyle, and the interesting thing you pointed out was the shoes were different, and you can t just squeeze into somebody else s shoes, so he had to go with his own pair of shoes. quite clearly bringing in a 57-year-old who broadly speaking matches the physical description of the person you are trying to interrogate or render or kill, this would indicate strongly this was premedicated. that s what is making turkish officials here angry, and that s what they want to hear, the saudis step up to the plate. it could be, john, that the attempt was to rendition him back to saudi arabia, and then they would deny it and the body double would try to provide some kind of plausible deniability if that was their story, but officials telling cnn they have no doubt it was pre- medicated
united states sending hit teams around the world to either render maybe it was a rendition that went bad. maybe the plan was to kidnap jamal and not to kill him. or worse, a premedicated murder. we need make premeditated murder. we need to make it clear to the saudis, yes, they are important security partners, and we should encourage mohammed bin salman to continue his reform track. no blank checks. and that means that when the incontrovertible evidence appears of whatever the usda desto jamal, the president is the saudis did to jamal, the president is going to have to consider, as i think senator corker said, is exacting a pretty heavy price. all right. aaron david miller, adviser to republican and democratic secretaries of state. thank you very much for being with us this morning. pleasure. right now an american pastor imprisoned in turkey is on his way home.