and you certainly don t bring ae bone saw, which are the reports that we re hearing. this looks like it was intended to be a death squad. it looks like they served out their purpose. the saudis know what happened. the turks know what happened. the only person claiming he doesn t know what happened is our president. so, frank, about our president, buried in the new york times a couple days back, an indication, a marker, a warning that the saudis may switch to blaming this on rogue elements. next, we hear of rogue elements that are coming from our president having hung up the phone with the king. do you think anyone in the intelligence community in this country actually briefed the president of rogue elements being a possible cause here? i think that s unlikely. i don t even know for sure that he s received a fulsome briefing or asked for one. but i know this, our intelligence agencies are really good. and then when you combine them with the allies and what the turkish government h
and you certainly don t bring a bone saw, which are the reports that we re hearing. this looks like it was intended to be a death squad. it looks like they served out their purpose. the saudis know what happened. the turks know what happened. the only person claiming he doesn t know what happened is our president. so frank, about our president, buried in the new york times a couple days back, an indication, a marker, a warning that the saudis may switch to blaming this on rogue elements. next, we hear of rogue elements that are coming from our president having hung up the phone with the king. do you think anyone in the intelligence community in this country actually briefed the president of rogue elements being a possible cause here? i think that s unlikely. i don t even know for sure that he s received a fulsome briefing or asked for one. but i know this, our intelligence agencies are really good. and then when you combine them with the allies and what the turkish government has,
that we re hearing. this looks like it was intended to be a death squad. it looks like they served out their purpose. the saudis know what happened. the turks know what happened. the only person claiming he doesn t know what happened is our president. so frank, about our president, buried in the new york times a couple days back, an indication, a marker, a warning that the saudis may switch to blaming this on rogue elements. next, we hear of rogue elements that are coming from our president having hung up the phone with the king. do you think anyone in the intelligence community in this country actually briefed the president of rogue elements being a possible cause here? i think that s unlikely. i don t even know for sure that he s received a fulsome briefing or asked for one. but i know this, our intelligence agencies are really good. and then when you combine them with the allies and what the turkish government has, they
full-fledged international investigation. and it appears to me that the saudi story, even in the last 24 hours, has been changing to where they may be acknowledging that the journalist, khashoggi, was murdered but somehow presenting the notion that it was rogue elements. i mean, come on, jake. this is actually not some dark room or off some dark, deserted road. this is inside the saudi consulate. and 15 individuals coming over from saudi arabia for what at least appears to be one task only and that was the elimination of mr. khashoggi. so you re the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee. have you seen intelligence about this, and if so, what can you tell us about it? i m not going to speak to any of the classified information that i may have seen. i do know that i think our government is gathering that information, and we ll be briefed appropriately. but this is clearly a case where it appears, and i think a lot of
yesterday there appeared to be a break through when reports suggested saudi arabia was going to accept responsibility for khashoggi murder. they were apparently going to say it was an accident that happened during interrogation carried out by rogue elements of the intelligence agency. that statement hasn t come through yet. that s what we are waiting for. if that was true, that would be the break through we are all waiting for. dana: benjamin, what is the latest with the investigation? reporter: well, also some news there. just in the last couple hours, turkish authorities have been saying they now have evidence that khashoggi was killed inside the consulate. that comes from the investigation they carried out yesterday. it s taken 13 days for them to get inside the consulate. that s not for lack of asking. but they got inside. they spent nine hours in there, turkish forensic teams as well as saudi intelligence units. they scoured the building. they took away several loads of bricks