u.s. resident and washington post at the saudi consolate. they have high confidence crown prince directed the murder. haskell would have been able to answer questions on the murder. joining me now is mississippi senator roger wicker. he is a republican on the senate arms services committee. he was in this briefing. before i get your perspective i want to know where you are when it comes to the crown prince s. it is hard to imagine this level of activity takes place, this
excellent terms with the king of saudi arabia. now, as yes, i assure it is for real and all that he is doing is changing saudi arabia in a very revolutionary manner, socially, economically, financially, and even saudi arabia right now is huge development and changes and as you know, happily so, i do not represent the government so i ll be speaking to you freely and openly and independently as usual. as for the jamal khashoggi incident, he was not only my friend. he was working with me, and i d like to give my condolences again to his family, to his wife , ex-wife, and to his children, and his family, because jamal was a reformer, and what took place in that saudi consolate was clearly
okay, in your question you re implying that orders were given by the prince directly and that s a false statement. now publicly, a murder did happen in a saudi consolate in turkey, so that s been recognized already. now, saudi arabia did acknowledge also that they had a standing order, by the way, that whenever there is a position to saudi arabia by any human being outside saudi arabia, the standing orders which i said i repeat, it was to engage with them, talk to them, and try to convince them to come to saudi arabia so i think some people s intelligence did follow these orders and sent a group of people to turkey to engage with jamal khashoggi and clearly some went there, whereby he was murdered, so please anticipate what s going to happen in the
missing columnist jamal cay cay khashoggi. the saudis may admit that he was accidentally killed during a botched interrogation at the saudi consolate in istanbul, turkey. we ll keep you updated on how that meeting goes. a tense time. here is some of that video right there, you see them smiling but some serious issues they have to talk about today. carley: that s right. this is live, you re looking at a live look right now, it s noon over there. the president very interested in this case as it s quickly unfolding and we ll see, like i said, this could have big-time side effects on the price of oil and certain things that could unfold as a result of this. we have to think about that poor family too. rob: the president said it sounds like a tragedy happened. he doesn t deny that it appears that saudi arabia was some how involved in the killing of this
man, if he is indeed dead. he said he doesn t want to punish the american economy and american jobs by having to go after saudi arabia, he doesn t want to punish lockheed martin and other companies like that in the united states by sanctioning saudi arabia over the apparent death of this journalist at the saudi consolate in istanbul, turkey. he is technically missing at this time, jamal khashoggi. carley: on capitol hill, we re switching gears, jeff sessions rob: i ll take this one. jeff sessions ripping federal judges over blatant anti-trump bias. the courtrooms are not ledge legislative chambers, they re not bully pulpits. we don t need political judges. judges are subject to the same criticism as other political leaders are, sometimes they might be called on to be replaced.