speech, free press, journalism. i mean, it s almost like it s all right now to do what they did to khashoggi. well, you know, after trump lost the election, biden had said during his campaign that he d make sure saudi arabia was treated like the, quote, pariah, unquote, they are. we now know biden went to the fist bump, famously, with the crown prince under a sort of real politic decision that they, in fact, did have to deal with saudi arabia. so that s where we are. in fact, very importantly, there was a case here in washington, d.c., where there was an effort to bring some justice to this case. the u.s. government basically said, because bin salman has simultaneously been promoted to the prime minister, that he had immuity from this case. it meant he had immunity in other efforts going on in other places in the world. it is possible, efforts are
still ongoing to bring justice to the case. but he was immune in this important washington, d.c. case, and they let him off the hook, according no those allied with khashoggi. they do feel this was a way that win salman did escape being held accountable. all right. political investigative reporter for the washington post, michael, thank you so much. greatly appreciate you being here. jonathan lemire, we re talking about $2 billion here. we could also talk about all the things that happened every day that donald trump was in the white house where he cashed in in a way that, again, it s remarkable nobody wants to investigate on the republican side of congress. just look. you know, he buys the trump hotel in washington before he s president. has it when he is president. you know, quietly, foreign leaders understand, if they want to be in the president s good graces, they have to stay there. it becomes sort of the hotbed.
richard haass, breathtaking stuff. we were aware of this throughout his time in office. this story points, rel aly uncovers the amount that went to kushner afterwards, funding his entity right now. money coming directly from the crown prince whom he had a cozy relationship with and forced policy. it could be corruption, a reward to the future. there is a chance donald trump and kushner will be back in the white house. it is not inconceivable. what makes it tough is the legitimate reasons to stay close to saudi arabia despite everything. given their relationship with israel, iran, energy issues, ro. the biden administration learned you can t treat them as a
hey, listen, his airport is disgusting. thanks, ron desantis. let s not talk about i m not defending him. anyway, you don t look that way in debates. anyway, i will say, i ll go to rev in a second, but, first, jonathan lemire, i will say, i mean, we were talking about how trump had lost his fastball. i mean, the first nickname was something like ron supercalifragilistic- expialidocious. tough on a bumper sticker. yeah, very hard to do. then it was ron desantimonious. tighten it up a little bit. then he goes to meatball ron. like that tweet that you sent me yesterday, it s like a reliever who lost his stuff, suddenly remembering how to throw a 98 mile an hour fastball high. yeah, it is. i mean, this is all childish and immature and ridiculous. of course it is. let s start there. terrible. but in the category of
still have classified documents in boxes of presidential schedules being returned to the justice department, makes this a really, kind of bad few months for trump. even if you can t charge the classified folder itself, even if you can t get trump through the schedules themselves, i think in the big picture of things, this is really problematic. if the justice department can start tying these back to the these spillages back, basically, to the original obstruction of justice in may, when trump s lawyers failed to return all of the classified materials that were at mar-a-lago, then i think it kind of compounds the legal jeopardy that he is facing. joyce, let s get your take here as legal expert. what do these new developments mean in the ongoing case being built against trump? this gives the special counsel an entree into witnesses he d like to turn into cooperators. once you have a lower level