doesn t mean that the intelligence services in russia, which by the way the president was a former kgb officer for years. one of the most violent intelligence organizations in the world. they disbanded it. and then he went into politics. this stuff is going on right now, there s no doubt in my mind. here s the thing that i m confounded today. today is kate s unfounded is this we have seen in rare circumstances the republicans standing up and saying it s wrong, full stop, there s no, you know, no asterisks to it, take tariffs, take china trade, take china trade war. we ve seen this before. even when it comes to the saudi arms deal. you have republicans standing up. not here, though, jamie. not here. and i m i don t know why. and we don t know why, but i m just so not yet. let s see if anything changes over the next 24 hours. just to go back to what robert said for one second. to his point, in last two years what is the one thing we have known that every intelligence
the saudi arms deal, hush money payments, the list could go on and on and if the tables were turned, i expect republicans to hold us to the same standards. i just want for americans to do for what is best for americans and right now i do not know that impeachment is. i would encourage an inquiry. look at 17 democrats standing with speaker pelosi and her position. impeachment is premature. california, the second most senior member of the house judiciary committee to live through two inquiries, at stafford during the nixon years, elijahcummings, central figure in democratic investigations as chairman of the house oversight house and the party s rank and
statement is also said, we may never know all of the facts of the murder of jamal khashoggi. and he said in many cases saudi arabia is a very important in the fight against iran. the united states will remain a steadfast parter of saudi arabia to ensure the interest of our country is real and all of the other partners in the region. it is our paramount goal to fully eliminate the threat of terrorism around the world. why are the president s critics saying this statement is disingenuous? for one thing the president repeats an unsubstantiated claim that there s a $450 billion u.s./saudi arms deal on the line. and he also starts the statement, the entire first paragraph is all about iran. the president saying it s iran that supports terrorism. it s iran that poses the threat to israel. then he makes the case, well, iran is the company the u.s. and saudi arabia both don t like. but i think this is a situation where the president might have his hand forced by a bipartisan
they give us a lot of business. a lot of economic development. they have been a truly spectacular ally in terms of jobs and economic development. and i also take that you no he, i m president, i have to take a lot of things into consideration. you ll recall when khashoggi first went missing last month, the president effectively drew a red line telling reporters that he was not willing to touch an expensive saudi arms deal as punishment. i will tell you up front right now and say it in front of senators, spending $110 billion purchasing military equipment and other things. if we don t sell it to them, they ll say, well, thank you very much, we ll buy it from russia, or thank you very much we ll buy it from china. that doesn t help us. the president has side cited this arms deal multiple times. here s the thing though $110 billion saudi arms deal has been brokered but what that really
president trump didn t know about the assessments before. if there was news in a major, something that high level, getting the news to president obama wouldn t have been difficult at all. i can t imagine it would have been difficult for president trump to receive that information unless he wasn t y paying attention or didn t attend the briefing. it puts him at odd because he continues to distract from the issue. every time the issue of jamal khashoggi comes up, he turns to the saudi arms deal, the spectacular ally comment, helpful for our own economy and jobs. the sanctions they did on thursday are just simply not enough. we re going to have to go. thank you both. coming up, facebook under fire. a scathing report from the new york times exposes the company s alleged tactics encouraging propaganda on the site and simply ignoring attempts by the russians to