senator, you describe this idea that you go into these briefings and aren t getting a lot of information from the white house. the white house rejecting documents request. what strategy do you think democrats in particular in congress should take to get more answers out of the white house and do you think people around the president people who aren t working at the white house who can t claim executive privilege what should congress do to press those people for ans? one of the things they can do is demand these hearings be in public than classified. if the american people so you how little information we re getting there would be more general outrage and more conversation amongst people like you. you have to rely on us to report that we re not getting anything useful. we don t have to wait for the president. we don t have to wait for more information. we can pass sanctions on saudi arabia or on mohammad bin salman. we can pull the united states out of the war inside yemen. we can p
bin salman the ground prince is effectively in chargeof national security inside saudi arabia. so the coverup was led by the saudi royal family and everybody knows that. it s not like muhammad bin salman is just on the sidelines and powerless in the face of this massive coveri iucoverup b forces in saudi arabia. do you think it can ultimately pass and would be enough of a direct punishment on the crown prince? the most important foreign policy endeavor of saudi arabia is the war inside yemen. the war is going terribly for saudi arabia and the people of yemen, who have seen 100,000 die of either bombs or starvation or disease. so our resolution pulls the united states out of that military coalition with saudi arabia. and given what a high priority that coalition is to the saudis, it s probably the most important, the most impactful
is the war inside yemen. the war is going terribly for saudi arabia and the people of yemen, who have seen 100,000 die of either bombs or starvation or disease. so our resolution pulls the united states out of that military coalition with saudi arabia. and given what a high priority that coalition is to the saudis, it s probably the most important, the most impactful signal that you can send to them. additionally, i think it speaks to what we re learning about the saudis. for one, we ve been in this coalition with them for a while, because we believed them when they told us that they aren t intentionally hitting civilians inside yemen with these bombs that we help support. the fact is, all the evidence told us to the contrary it was true, that they were intentionally hitting civilians, and now having been lied to about khashoggi, a lot of senators are coming to the conclusion that they were lying to us about what was happening inside yemen.
enormous amount of evidence now, they ve continued to act as the saudis lawyer and doubled down on it. it seems politically to be mystifying. > evan, this president has done and said so many outrageous things here at home and globally. why account congressional pushback over the saudi story you think all of a sudden? i think senator murphy had it right especially about republicans starting to see our support for the saudi effort in yemen as something that leaves the country vulnerable to quite a bit of exposure given the saudis prosecution of that and the civilian deaths and very large scale humanitarian catastrophe that it s become. i do think that will senator murphy s right that republicans themselves are starting to reassess our role in that effort and then overall, our relationship with saudi arabia and our relationship with saudi
been lying to us about who they re trying to hit and target inside yemen. so i think it s not just a vote that is a rebuke to the handling of the khashoggi case. i think republicans are legitimately worried that we are helping the saudis perpetuate war crimes inside yemen. i want you to listen to this, senator. this is senator lindsey graham, his strong words today about the administration not sending the cia director. i get yemen. i understand the strategic relationship between us and saudi arabia. but i m not going to blow past this. so if that briefing is not given soon, it s going to be hard for me to vote for any spending bill. you re talking about the spending bill being what you would i m talking about any key vote, anything that you need me for to get out of town, i ain t doing it until we hear from the