which meant that the entire city was in lock down only individual places. and commended and proud of the fact this was how they operated, where as other cities were having complete lock downs for weeks on end. now shanghai s turn. people are just in bewilderment. this is actually taking place. her words were this is madness. we know the government is doubling down on this. we heard from xi jinping last friday saying the strategy is a great success. there are common almost daily from the state run news immediate yea saying they have to stay the course. there is no alternative. so for the people in shanghai, at the moment, no end in sight. it s so telling. the conversation that you had with the woman. many of us have been in welcome down. to have o to source food. and the toll it takes on mental health. the fact they are scavenging for
needs access to european marketed and access to the u.s. dollar their stock market almost crashed just on rumor of potential u.s. sanctions so they are going to play a double game here and try and walk a fine line. but, make no mistake, brian, i think longer term chinese banks are going to see a buying opportunity in russia. buying up critical minerals, buying up mines and buying up that energy sector as they continue to try to dominate around the world and i think xi sees an opportunity to put putin in his pocket and create a dependency there literally. brian: well, at what cost? because they have never seen a more united europe, a more united nato, there is very little friction between the allies even us here in the west. i m just looking at some of the rhetoric from the state run news, vladimir putin, it looks like he is not even mentioning kyiv anymore and need to have
pompeo or any other u.s. official any audio recording. i have eve heard no tape, i ve seen no transcript. the network that reported that ought to pull down the headline that says i have. we should be factual when we report things about this, it s a very serious matter we re working diligently on. to put up headlines that are factually false, does no one any good. bret: secretary of state pompeo talking about the abc report that heed had heard this audio of khashoggi s death. and of a transcript. he says that s false. as the breaking news the saudis saying he was killed in the con sow lat, 18 people have been consulate, 18 people arrested, two people, deputy intelligence director and advisor to the crown prince have been fired by royal court and king salman. let s bring in the panel. jason riley, wall street
pinning the blame on him. bret: still getting more, we ll update throughout the show. the saudis says 18 arrested according to reuters. and there are investigations still going on. this is at the direction of the king. benjamin, thank you, we ll update throughout the show as we get breaking news. the u.s. and south korea cancelling another major military exercise, detroiting a push for diplomatic prospect. they say the air exercise, vigilant ace, is tabled, quote, to give the diplomatic process every opportunity to continue. in june the pentagon cancelled this year s freedom guardian exercise after everybody trump caved called the drills provocative. the dow finished ahead 65, s&p lost 1, nasdaq dropping 6. the dow was up .4 of a percentage point for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak.
journal columnist, senior fellow at manhattan institute, amy, and chief from the christian broadcasting network. thanks for scrambling on the breaking news. jason? i think there are two issues. one, what is saudi arabia going to do about this, what are we going to do about saudi arabia. at the end of the day they are still a key ally in this region, main weapons buyer, also the key to containing iran f we re going to have iran in there, we re counting on the saudis to fill, make up the void that crow eights in worldwide oil supply. the white house has to weigh the long-term relationship with saudi arabia. against this ugliness that we re seeing right now and figure out how to strike the right balance. it s difficult. bret: a.b., i guess the we is, the saudis are saying this developed after a fight in the consulate in istanbul, then he was killed.