we have seen time and time again that president trump is willing to say and do just about anything, whatever it takes to win. that personal integrity isn t exactly a priority. principles are a matter of perspective. but in the wake of the murder and the reported dismemberment of journalist jamal khashoggi, is there no bottom, no level the president won t sink to in order to get his way? right after saudi arabia s foreign minister announced that khashoggi s killing was a terrible mistake, a rogue operation that went wrong and that jamal khashoggi died in a fistfight inside the consulate, the president said this. do you consider it credible, their explanation for it? i do. i do. again, it s early. we haven t finished our review or investigation, but it s i think it s a very important first step, and it happened sooner than people thought it would happen.
it s what will be done about it? elections are about what the people want. this is the time to test. we ll see where the people are. thank you for watching. cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. look at that. you re done 10:00 p.m. on the nose. sometimes i m waiting for you like, come on, chris, move it along. in truth, i apologize for that. no, i don t care. i m joking. i don t want to deliver to you late. it s without question the most important aspect of the production of my show is being on time for you. best part of your show. people say i love it when you and chris talk. it bothers me. two reasons. one, i don t like bromance. why? why can t men be friends? why does it have to be a stupid label attached to it? second, it would be a weird mismatch because i m so much better looking than you. and i don t like people like me more when i m with you than what i m not. you said this to me on the
donald trump cast a dark vision of america in 2016, and essentially said elect me, or this is going to happen. he s doing that again. don t underestimate it working as it relates to turning out base republicans. i still think women, particularly women in the suburbs and bill knows this from his time spent on house democratic committees. those voters are the biggest problem for donald trump and republicans, and there are a whole lot in california and everywhere else. a lot of house districts republicans hold, there s a lot of suburban women. i don t think these tactics work there. let s see. i want to play one more. listen, don t i m going to let you respond. i want to play this real quick. president obama taking another jab at trump and the republicans. take a listen. when there s a vacuum in our democracy, when we don t vote, when we take our rights for granted, when we turn the other way to politics because we think it s ugly and messy, and we don t want to hear it, that s
that s our biggest problem with immigration zbh that was true until right now because now you have this freakishly large group of people. right. and you re going to have a problem when they get here because it s going to be too big a group to go through the ports of entry the right way. all of them won t get here. we have people coming over i hate that these people. i didn t mean i m worried about it, don. we re going to be down there when they get closer. i can feel it. people come over in that way, in caravans. that happens occasionally. this isn t the first time. but, yeah, sowing division, and the truth does matter. he s a heck of a seamstress when it comes to that kind of sowing. nice show. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. let s continue talking about this, okay? because the president is he attended a campaign rally tonight in texas for senator ted cruz, his old nemesis who is now his bff. you know we had our little difficulties and then it ended,
good evening, sir. i m so glad to have you on. you heard my take. i want to get yours now. have we reached a new low with this handling of the murder of jamal khashoggi? well, i think so, don. although after watching your take and being reminded unfortunately of there s a long litany of this and how low can we go? well, we probably haven t reached the low point. i think what the saudis did was absolutely despicable. and they compounded it by all these meandering inconsistent stories. this is a pr disaster for them. and our behavior is all over the map. having just returned from a month in australia, and i know people there almost uniformly found what the saudis did as