i have one in my inbox right now from a young girl from saudi arabia who appeared to believe nasa is not part of the u.s. government. she cannot understand why cannot hire her as an intern. [laughter] dr. barry: because you are paying for the interns. you guys should have the chance to be interns. another key aspect of having isa be a civilian agency that new technologies are almost immediately available to the public. that leads me to number four on my list. like the naca before it, nasa has done fundamental research to advance technology in the kind of work often too risky or expensive for normal companies. nasa has a little bit less than half of 1% of the budget. money and weat break the trail on technology so things can be created. is requireds nasa to tell people about what we do and accomplish. industry can turn those things into new products and services. one of the first technologies developed by nasa was the weather satellite. this shows the marking on an early weather satellite. this was being developed by the army and handed over when nasa was created in 1958 and launched

saudi arabia into riyadh some of which of indiscriminately targeted residential areas killed saudi citizens killed an egyptian laborer how is that not a war crime to target civilian areas in a neighboring country no matter what they're doing to you let me correct it to you it's one hundred ninety two rockets and if you more not hundred took so you're proud of the rockets you fired into saudi arabia oh yes we defend our country if you would go to the start of this war the first two year we did not fire anything we just were waiting to stop this crazy war then we did not find any response from the world so we started defending our country by not shooting some rockets to that country no no. or that you meant that about some saudis who were hit or that egyptian citizen what's the number give it to me and i tell you that they killed fifty thousand person in our country that injured more than that number and that minister we've all heard about him on this show up to romania so you know whether. that is a result of one comparing two wrongs don't make a right minister i'm not defending the saudi ki

arabia maybe around the red sea haricots are estates five and dry temperatures at around twenty seven twenty eight degrees think a cloud as we go on into wednesday or with the possibility of want to see some spots of rain. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as if i were. xenophobia violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's past just growing far right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine appends national party generation hate. part one of a special two part investigation on al-jazeera. lives in fear constantly looking over his shoulder she says she was threatened by armed men as they ransacked the home she knows who ordered the attack and why they want to develop on her community and. we can't let the men to imitate us we need to continue they can kill me i'm not afraid of being killed i need to defend my people who've been here since fifteen sixty nine without any help from the government and now they want to destroy the forest tha

the saudi and turkish investigations remained separate and seem to be going nowhere saudi arabia is refusing to hand over the suspects it's arrested and it hasn't given the turkish authorities any idea of the whereabouts of the journalist body now in an interview for talk to al-jazeera the new high commissioner for human rights michel brusha lay says the time has come for an international investigation is it time for the u.n. to set up an investigation i think it is time i mean i don't have that in my mouth monday i will be the secretary general to do that well where i think they're looking at which are the best ways of doing it but i think they should be an international inquiry and because we cannot do criminal investigation you need you need to be sure with all the mechanism that can that can do that i have asked the un secretary general to look forward to the best mechanism to go into. you bought the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists currently at the g twenty summit is sticking to his position that he won't act until he gets a referral from one of the un's major bod

arabia there is a chance to push the saudis and the abilities to leave the coalition against the who are these to stop the military campaign and give diplomacy a chance that could put more pressure on the government to move ahead with some of the critical points if there is any progress in the coming days here in stockholm this is good news if the tossed collapse once again here in means the forty million people on the verge of famine in yemen we have to brace for the worse it is the other two million children in yemen who suffer severe malnutrition with face uncertain future it is that yemenis will have to wait yet for another day hoping for peace and stability and no one wants that has the yemen talks in rimbaud in sweden thank you hashem his. middle east analyst joining us from our washington news center let's go with the positives first of all shall we the fact that they've got there the fact that it's happening the fact that sweden is hosting talks it's something isn't it. it absolutely is in fact just getting the parties to leave yemen and traveling to sweden is a diplomatic ac

arabia of being in charge of the security forces at the time jamal khashoggi was murdered and of being complicit that's the word they use for his killing and the resolution goes on to demand an end to the war in yemen and to demand and and to the dispute between saudi arabia and qatar the chinese government has condemned the arrest of the chief financial officer of technologies and is demanding immediate release main ones you was arrested in bank in canada on saturday on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran the oil producing group opec is meeting in vienna as pressure mounts on member nations to stabilize the price of crude oil but there is some disagreement among them about how to do it paul brennan with more. big decisions for opec to deal with here in vienna basically they're dealing with an over supply of oil in the markets at the moment the concept of competition factors for that place they are but iran and venezuela are producing more than originally expected for this period in the cycle and also the prospect of an economic slowdown in twenty nine hundred which is much p

discuss measures to punish saudi arabia. yemen's warring sides on a prisoner swap deal as they start talks in sweden but back home the fighting on the suffering clinton.

the escape help provided by the kingdom of saudi arabia. tonight, the u.s. marshals office telling abc news it believes noorah is still there. fallon smart's family says all this is "just another painful reminder how the saudi government doesn't seem to appreciate our legal system." with no extradition treaty between the u.s. and the saudis, the smart family continues to work with the county prosecutor to bring noorah to justice. the saudi embassy here in washington did not respond to our request for comment. tom? >> kenneth moton with that american family demanding answers tonight. kenneth, thank you. >>> and billions of christians around the world celebrating christmas. >> poem francis leads midnight mass inside st. peter's basilica at the vatican. his christmas message centering on the meaning of christ's in bethlehem. the pontiff saying that by feeding on that bread of live, we can be reborn in love and break the spiral of grasping and greed. >>> and there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this monday. chaos in the subway. an officer fendin

the president joining world leaders, including saudi arabia's crown prince and vladimir putin. the two leaders who have been defended by president trump. but that meeting with putin and the president, abruptly cancelled. jonathan karl is in argentina tonight. >> reporter: in argentina today, an epic greeting. the russian president and the saudi crown prince, two men portrayed as supervillain dictators, were all smiles. donald trump at that moment in the background. he had abruptly cancelled a one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin, citing russia's aggression toward ukraine. >> hopefully they will be able to settle it out soon, because we look forward to meeting with president putin. >> reporter: the russians aren't buying it. a spokeswoman saying trump cancelled the meeting because of "the domestic political situation in the united states." she was clearly talking about this. >> mr. cohen, how are you feeling? >> reporter: the news that michael cohen, the president's with special counsel robert mue. cohen admitted the trump organization was in talks to build a moscow trump towe

in a private plane with an illegal passport headed to saudi arabia with the help of saudi officials. the u.s. marshals office tells abc news they believe noorah is still there. in a recent letter addressed to the trump administration, senator ron wyden of oregon demands answers, writing, "these are shocking claims in any event. but with the barbaric murder of u.s. resident jamal khashoggi, they suggest a brazen pattern of disregard for the law and abuse of diplomatic privileges. adding these claims must be thoroughly investigated." wyden has given the administration until the end of january to respond. the smart family's attorney tonight is thanking police for their efforts and the saudi embassy has not commented. jon? >>> a disturbing incident in an oregon hotel. a black hotel guest confronted by security. now two workers have been fired. zachary kiesch has the story. >> reporter: tonight, the two double tree employees at the center of this viral video that sparked outrage out of a job. >> i was racially profiled. >> reporter: jermaine massey, a guest at the portland hotel, started

the country has been under a diplomatic and economic embargo by arab neighbors, including saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for 18 months. >>> a major energy company is giving its executives a powerful new reason to care about the environment. today, royal dutch shell announced plans to link executive pay and cuts in carbon emissions. the energy firm says it will establish short term emission targets in 2020 after coming under pressure from investors. if approved by share holders, it will become the first energy company to make this kind of a change. >>> lawyers for stormy daniels and president trump are squaring off in federal court right now in los angeles. attorneys for the president want daniels to pay $340,000 in legal fees after a judge threw out her defamation lawsuit against the president in october. the porn star sued president trump after he dismissed her claims about being threatened to keep quiet about their alleged affair in 2006. >>> it can be hard if you're trying to eat healthy during the holidays. >> up next, tips on how to enjoy the season without overindulgin

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arabia. >>> in paris, 100 hurt, 400 arrested during the worst urban riot in years. and the french prime minister is hold crisis talks with representatives of major political parties as the protests continue partly stoked by a fuel tax hike. france's finance minister warned the protests are causing a negative impact on its economy. >>> happening today, california lawmakers will take the oath of office as the legislature starts up a new two-year session. democrats will have super majorities in both chambers. the number of new comers as at its lowest. there were eight this go round compared to 26 in 2016. six state lawmakers plan to produce a bill to ban e cigarettes in store vending machines. they get middle school and high school students hooked on nicotine onne would still be allowe cr is over 21. >>> will she run? kamala harris will make a decision on the 2020 campaign in the coming weeks. she said over the holidays she and her family will discuss a possible run for the white house. if she does end up running against president trump, she warned it could get ugly. s

. >>> a foreign exchange student from saudi arabia fled the country after a deadly hit-and-run crash, and now a oregon senator is seeking justice for the 14-year-old victim and her family. marci gonzalez has the details. >> reporter: this morning an oregon senator is demanding that trump administration investigate the accusation that saudi arabia helped this man, a saudi citizen escape justice after he was accuse accused of killing a teenager. police say in august 2016, 15-year-old fallon smart was crossing a portland street when she was hit by saudi national abdul raman's speeding car. his mother was feet a wway. >> i did everything to keep her safe. i thought her everything that i knew about pedestrians and cyclist and motorist safety, and it is still not enough to keep her alive. >> reporter: in the u.s. are on a student visa was accused of manslaughter and put on house arrest after the saudi government paid a portion of the bond. weeks before the trial in june of 2017, federal investigators say that he fled the country cutting off ankle monitoring bracelet and getting into this bl

in the new year, they are going to begin focusing on the middle east, and specifically saudi arabia. david pecker has at least three ties to the saudi government, and god only knows what, you know, screwed any of those relationships is going to provide. >> how surprising is it, as someone who worked for "the enquirer" that david pecker took a deal and broke from him? >> i think, you know, that while they profess to be great friends, when push comes to shove, david pecker had to worry about his own skin and his own culpability. given the options, he frankly, he know, broke his ties with donald trump as soon as the prospect of severe penalties were proposed. >> we know requesting the enquirer" on occasion have actually broken material. the john edwards case, they found out about his mistress. there were running stories on dirt with trump's perceived enemies. will we find out more about that? >> if you find out story by story, the genesis of each of those stories on president trump's rivals, i think you'll find the strings go back to the trump organization. the story leads themselves we

connell: showdown over saudi arabia continues. senate measure caining momentum following murder of columnist jamal khashoggi. calling u.s. stop supporting civil war in yemen. details where this goes from here when we come back. so lionel, what does being able to trade 24/5 mean to you? well, it means i can trade after the market closes. it's true. so all... evening long. ooh, so close. yes, but also all... night through its entirety. come on, all... the time from sunset to sunrise. right. but you can trade... from, from... from darkness to light. ♪ you're not gonna say it are you? connell: more breaking news from overseas. we got new reaction to the vote of the british prime minister theresa may surviving the vote of no confidence. it comes from opposition jeremy corbin, labour party leader tweeting this, tonight's vote changes nothing. theresa may lost her majority in parliament, her government is in chaos and she is unable to deliver a "brexit" deal that works for the country and puts jobs and the economy first. she must now b

admonishing saudi arabia for its role in the murder of columnist jamal khashoggi. fox news's peter doocy live on capitol hill with the latest. peter. reporter: charles, the trump administration wants lawmakers to be careful not really rock the boat with saudi arabia a strategic ally but just a few minutes ago they passed a resolution condemning the crown prince of saudi arabia, their most dramatic action yet. >> but as a result of what the chairman just offered, it is a clear and unambiguous message, about how we feel about what happened to this journalist. reporter: next up senators might move to sanction saudi arabia once there are a few more republicans in the ranks, according to lindsey graham, who thinks sanctions could be veto proof or unable to be undone by the president if he wanted to. first thing first, not only did the senate condemn the crown prince, but in a separate vote on resolution that predated the journalists murder, they voted to pull troops from the war backed by saudi arabia in yemen. that was supported by republican mike lee and independent b

number two bad for saudi arabia, bad for russia, bad for iran as they try to sell oil on the black market getting around various sanctions. connell: that is true. melissa: it is also putting the squeeze on our global enemies. connell: don't you think we need a bit of a balance if it goes down to that point, the guys in west texas won't keep producing? melissa: it is definitely bad for them. it is squeezing our enemies when at the time their only revenue is oil. connell: good points all. melissa: white house is willing to work with congress to avoid a government shutdown to handle alternatives to fund the wall. can they get it done? the latest on the funding battle. connell: gop leaders seeking to expand the president's support heading into the next election but will the commander-in-chief go along with some of these new ideas? >> attacking from every angle, democratic leaders taking on tax reform. what it could mean for you and your hard-earned cash coming up. ♪ ♪ there's no place like home ♪ argh! i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ melissa: just three days left to avoid a

at same time we were going after iraq, there were 15, 19 were from saudi arabia and we didn't even talk about. i would say that people have to understand, one principle which they're totally ignoring they say we should stay there to combat, combat terrorism. the violent people but why do people get violent? where did al qaeda and these groups come from? this comes from us being there. so if you stay there, let's say it is true they reduced number of al qaeda and are in better shape, by us going back in accelerating it, it is just incentive to get more. because i think iraq, they use that get away with that. but that is not a good analysis there was no al qaeda. yeah they had a ruthless dictator ruled with iron fist. it was not al qaeda. as a matter of fact he kept a balance. so i think there is a lot of misinformation on that. melissa: ron paul, thank you for coming on. we appreciate your time. thank you. >> thanks for having me. connell: holiday season i guess almost over. pulling up on christmas here. we'll tell you what americans are buying last minute coming up next. ♪ your goals

obviously china and trade and also strained relations with saudi arabia also are affecting investors point of view. not to mention interest rates. so there is these issues. also some of these bigger issues, such as the mull per investigation and, you know, what is happening in syria. that is sort of a you know, a thing that happened last minute, that took a lot of people by surprise. i think at the end of the day this creates more uncertainty for investors. and it makes it tougher for business to make decisions. investment decisions. connell: throw it in the mix with everything, else's jack. which know uncertainty rules the day. peter navarro did interview with japanese service, nikkei service, far be it from me timing of interviews, mr. navarro's interviews after 4:00 p.m. eastern might be advisable here on out, when he said a deal will be tough to get done in the 90-day period, seemed to push stocks lower. what do you make of that? >> we have 45 different things to worry about right now. it is global trade uncertainty, it is rising interest rates all of this government suddenly bec

saudi arabia is sending troops in there. we will still have communications with the kurds. and they will have eyes on and be able to paint the targets as it's called for the air force and helicopters that can conduct these raids. this is the perfect combination, alliance between the kurds, the saudis, other forces on the ground there. and the u.s. forces, coalition forces in iraq. it is also important to stay in iraq because you have iran trying to build a land bridge through, syria, through iraq into syria and, you know, we need to stop that. that is one of the reasons that israel is bombing syria right now. blake: general, real quickly, the future of u.s. troops in iraq looks like what? >> i think it is about ap3 to -- about a 3 to 4,000 strong logistics force. blake: pull out 20% of the troops that are there? >> that is what i can say. conduct raids and be able to do logistics on the ground and make sure we can come in to reinforce when we need to reinforce. it is time for other people to conduct this fight. the president was absolutely right. this was never an open-ende

oil surging 4% as russia and saudi arabia agreed to exten cuts. qatar is planning to withdraw from opec. this effective january 1st. phil, this was huge development. people talk about qatar. mostly has natural gas. they know know talk about it in equivalent energy barrels, in my experience going to the meetings, the number two person at those opec meetings. this is a huge deal. >> they really were. they are the type of country that could go across the aisle in opec. they could talk to both sides. they could talk to iran. they could talk to saudi arabia. they were really a stablizing force in the cartel. now of course with the saudi arabia, really taking it over along with russia, qatar feels they're being pushed out of the market. as you know, melissa, saudi arabia has put a blockade on qatar. they had a lot of political disputes. qatar is to the point, hey, we don't need this anymore. we're doing all the work. we're focused on natural gas. we're stepping away. interestingly enough the oil markets rallied. we had a rally 1:30 central time, 2:30 ce

we've seen the visit from south korean former minister, seem mir from saudi arabia. bob dole, the former senator stood up and saluted. he lost to push in the 1988 republican primary. we saw john brennan and cia director, gina haspel, pay their respects. roster of athletes paid their respects. peyton manning, progolfer, jack nicklaus, phil mickelson and greg norman paid their respects. sully bush, the yellow lab stayed by the president's side until the final words were uttered paid his respects. he circled the casket and for a moment laid down on the ground below. thousands paid respect and will continue to throughout the day today, and overnight tonight. he will stay here throughout the morning tomorrow. he will make his way first two funeral services at the washington national cathedral. president trump and first lady melania arrived here tuesday. former first lady laura bush visiting the white house today, to take a tour of christmas decorations. she described it as a sweet moment in what has been a somber week. also, we are expecting the president, because he anno

and saudi arabia. details on a u.s. senate resolution calling the saudi prince complicit in jamal khashoggi's murder. what it could mean for relations going forward. that's next. ♪ ♪ trelegy. the power of 1-2-3 ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy with trelegy and the power of 1-2-3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to... ...open airways,... ...keep them open... ...and reduce inflammation... ...for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling,.. ...problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. think your copd medicine is doing enough? maybe you should think again. ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy and the power of 1-2-3. ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 save at t

germany, the netherlands, norway and others have stopped bare arms sales to saudi arabia. when will the united kingdom do the same —— stopped their arms sales. on ukraine, as nato said, we need both sides to show restraint and de—escalate with international law adhered to, including russia allowing unhindered access to a ukraine's ports on the sea of a's of. britain's trade policy must be led by clear principles that do not sacrifice human rights. —— azov. the international trade secretary said trade deal between the uk and eu would be the easiest in human history and yet all we have is 26 pages of vague aspirations. it seems neither has it got very far on the 40 trade deals, he would be ready to sign the day will leave next year, unless the prime minister can update us in her response. and in light of la st us in her response. and in light of last week's report from the foreign affairs committee, how does the prime minister intend to ensure the 240 expert trade negotiations she promised by brexit day will be in place, given they have had two years and there are

arabia which help to foot the bill for the first gulf war. it was the first war that america had won ina long the first war that america had won in a long time. and the contrast of the coalition of the willing with the coalition of the willing with the coalition of the willing with the coalition of the unwilling for the coalition of the unwilling for the second gulf war. the words i have heard repeatedly about him as a person since he died on friday, civility that he was kind, that he had a real reference to the office of the presidency, that he almost seems to hark back as a man to a former era. that is all true but there is a big but. if you look at there is a big but. if you look at the campaign he waged in 1988, it was one of the most brutal campaigns we had seen. he condoned the airing ofa we had seen. he condoned the airing of a clearly raci5t at which showed a convicted murderer going through a shadowy revolving door and he basically tagged his democratic opponent a5 basically tagged his democratic opponent as being 5oft basically tagg

saudi arabia, kazakhstan and even australia require heavy paperwork. your get on with it and leave properly, fully, whatever that means. do you think all these ta riffs means. do you think all these tariffs that susie is talking about will make a massive disruption on this one business park?|j will make a massive disruption on this one business park? i understand susie's point of view very much and ina susie's point of view very much and in a situation where the wrist no deal, she is correct but my view is that we will not end up with no deal because the eu will want to have a deal with ours so on day one of a world trade organisation situation, we will be able to negotiate trade arrangements with the eu and at that time... susie, you've got to hold on earth, britain needs a stronger deal. we've done risk assessments and risk analysis for a long time and risk analysis for a long time andl and risk analysis for a long time and i think a no deal is very real. the prognosis is this deal will not get through and the norway plus deal... norway does not want

support of saudi arabia's war in yemen. here are the five democrats who helped attach this monstrous rule to a farm bill. they apparently think it's all right to use the farm bill to help continue starving the children of yemen, and you have to ask again why? why do they think that? we don't know since they wouldn't actually debate it. are there constituents who get up in the town halls of these five democrats and say, what i need from you, congressman, is to continue starving and bombing the children of yemen into death and submission? i highly doubt it. so why i ask, again, are we doing this? in the senate at least there's a real debate and a real effort to vote against the u.s. support of the saudi war in yemen. senator chris murphy joins me next. heading in a new direction. but at fidelity, we help you prepare for the unexpected with retirement planning and advice for what you need today and tomorrow. because when you're with fidelity, a partner who makes sure every step is clear, there's nothing to stop you from moving

response, an enduring commanding message from our society to saudi arabia. with the killing and butchering of american journalists, your crown prince made a statement to the world. this is ours. this crime against truth will not stand. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> trump did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. >> the president scrambles to control the narrative -- >> nobody except for me would be looked at like this. nobody. >> as news that implicates him keeps on breaking. >> i don't think they even paid any money to that tabloid. >> tonight new reporting that donald trump was in the room when his lawyer and the "national enquirer" discussed illegal hush money payment. >> they put that on to embarrass me. they put those two charges on to embarrass me. >> plus, breaking news of a brand new criminal investigation into the trump inauguration. >> we had a massive crowd of people, and i've seen crowds before. >>> plus, new revelations of russian contacts during the t

and i'm not saying that as long as saudi arabia is doing -- >> i understand that argument, although i do think it's revealed something about the regime and how that regime may treat civilian life given the way they treated the life of jamal khashoggi. >> i agree with you. >> congressman ryan costello. thank you for making time tonight. >>> the race to be the next democratic candidate for president is already under way. i'll ask one of the early contenders what he brings to the table, ahead. >> i want to give my thanks to ali velshi for filling in for me a few nights this week. i really appreciate it, while i was taking a little time off with my family. a new pod up this week with joanne freeman about the shocking violence in congress on the house floor leading up to the civil war. we're talking duels, brawls and public beatings. it's really riveting stuff. check it out wherever you get your podcasts. today is the day you're going to get motivated... get stronger... get closer. start listening today to the world's largest selection of audiobooks on audible. and now, get more. for just

in large parts because of mattis and because of syria and earlier even because of saudi arabia, i think you see the republicans, particularly in the senate, beginning to, if not throw in the towel on him, at least inch away from him a bit. it will be interesting next year when we have divided government. >> you've covered your fair share of shutdowns, i've covered them as well. it's worth noting that shutdowns usually happen in divided government, a member of one party, and one house controlled by the other party and they fight and that happened with barack obama, with clinton and gingrich. the third shutdown in unified republican governance. what conclusion can you draw from that? >> well, i think you have to conclude that abraham lincoln must be looking down in tears. the party that saved the union now seems intent on tearing it apart. and i think everybody in professional washington, politicians, government employees, journalists understood what we saw yesterday when general mattis' letter became public and everyone instantly recognized that this was a patriotic defense intellectual

tonight now reporting that saudi arabia used u.s. military veterans to pump money into a trump hotel. "the washington post" reports that lobbyists representing the saudi government paid for an estimated 500 rooms at president trump's d.c. hotel in the months after his election, the total bill for those trips, more than $270,000. according to the post the lobbyists rented the rooms ostensibly as part of a pressure campaign to overturn legislation, opposed by the saudi government. the lobbyists offered veterans a free trip to washington if they then went to capitol hill lobbying against the law. several veterans told the post the trips featured fancy dinners, an open bar frequently extended. one of the veterans said he was confused by the opulent nature of the trips until one of the organizers who had been drinking at the champagne -- oh, we were just used to giving trump money. one of the "washington post" reporters who broke the story is with me. and former national security adviser to hillary clinton. dave, this is a shocking story,

last week he insisted he doesn't make any deals with saudi arabia. back in 2015 he was telling a very different story. >> i like the saudis. they're very nice. i make a lot of money with them. they buy all sorts of my stuff, all kinds of toys from trump. they pay me millions and hundreds of millions. >> democratic senator richard blumenthal, is the president compromised? >> he is extremely compromised. the russians have the same leverage over him they had over michael flynn. that's the reason the former attorney general wanted flynn fired, it's the reason that flynn was prosecuted. the russians could blackmail flynn, and now trump with the truth. >> yeah, just a reminder to folks that sally yates went and warned folks at the white house about flynn because they knew that flynn was telling a public lie about private communications he had with the russians, and that that was the -- that provided a possibility for blackmail and compromise. what you're saying is that's precisely the same situation with the president of the united states, the commander in

this proxy war between saudi arabia and iran. that's what is being portrayed as. it's the saudi-led coalition for the free yemeni forces versus the iranian-backed houthis or at ublic that's what the narrative is. why all of a sudden there will be a political will to settle what is essentially a fight between the u.s. a the saudi arabia and the uae versus iran? >> well, don't actually agree with that narrative. i don't thinkt is a simple proxy war even though as you say it's described as such. i thit's firstly a yemeni war between the houthi movement and the government of yemen. clearly there are interests at take. we all knowt. there's nothing surprising. i don't think there's anything shocking about that, so to resolve this conflict we have to combine both mediation between the yemeni parties of the sort that we saw last week as well as sort of anlignment of international interests, and indeed sweden did that, too, because sweden was not only negotiated around the tablen sweden. there was constant contact lstween these various capi to get help to ensure that what

support of saudi arabia's war in yemen. it's a direct protest also against crown prince mohammad bhin sal -- bin salman from the wake of khashoggi's murder. leaders from iran to washington expressed guarded optimism at the progress towards peace. but the negotiations advanced so quickly that crucial details remain unclear. as u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths spearheaded the tentative truce and joins me now from brussels. martin griffiths, welcome to the program. >> thank you very much. thanks for having me on. >> so a special envoy, clearly you know what i just announced. it's just been said there is a ceasefire that is set to go into effect tomorrow. give me as much as you know and what you expect that to achieve. >> well, as you were saying in your lead-in there, there's a lot of work that needs to be done to flesh out the exact timing of different withdrawals but essentially it's as follows. the cease-fire will go into force at midnight tonight, one minute after midnight. we would expect the parties at that p

arabia, the official saudi arabia sponsors terrorism or what are you saying? >> no. i'm not saying that the kingdom sponsors it, what i'm saying is that within wahhabism, which the wahhabis, they are the potential leaders of the political body of which the wahhabi clerics give their allegiance. it was a very os tier, puritanical interpretation of the quran. essentially dismissing 1,400 years of history. >> a more moderate islam. >> moderate, tolerant, cos cosmopolitan islam was dismissed. very much like what luther said when he held up his book and said only the book, nothing else. >> you in your book talk about the five imperial wahhabi projects that launched this very doctrine, medieval version of islam, intolerant, and let it flourish, and this happened in the last 40 years. which was the first one? >> in 1973, there was extraordinary cash flow. >> that's because of the oil. >> the ioil embargo, and all ofa sudden the kingdom found itself flush with funds. those within the wahhabi community said, well, now it's time to really spread the word, and the word t

so how do you think, senator, president bush would view the current leadership in saudi arabia? would he have been angry about the killing of the journalist who was based in the united states, jamal khashoggi, remembering that it was president bush that basically gathered the massive coalition that defeated saddam hussein and saved saudi arabia from being invaded by saddam hussein? >> well, that was jimmy baker out there raising all those bucks, so we didn't have to do them ourselves. i think he gathered up about 60 million bucks so that colin powell and cheney could shoot the works. but he had a very tight relationship with the saudi leadership, and that's a very sensitive thing. i don't know where that would be today, but always there was something going on, some coordination with saudi arabia. so obviously dicey is half a word now with this situation. >> look, i'm sure many people will ask you and many people probably have asked you, how do you compare the leadership of president george bush 41 and your republican party with the current leadership and the current party of tru

saudi arabia has been a strong ally. it was george bush who defended and saved the saudi's bacon in the threat of saddam hussein in 1990. fast forward to the new crowned prince, and the allegations and the strong belief by the u.s. intelligence committee that he did order the murder and dismemberment of jamal khashoggi and it looks like president trump is end coup of losing some support on this, particularly from some of his cheerleaders like lindsey graham. look at what he said about the cha showingie murder. >> there is not a smoking gun. there is a smoking saw. you have to be woefully blind not to come to the conclusion this was oh strapted and organized by people under the command of mbs, and that he was intricately involved in the demise of mr. ckhashoggi. open source reports show he had been focusing on mr. khashoggi for a very long time. it is zero chance, zero that this happened in such an organized fashion without the crowned prince. >> senator bob corker said the same, the chairman of the senate foreign relatio

relationship with saudi arabia and especially in the way of the khashoggi murder and all the details that are coming out. you did say in the senate debate just a couple months ago, if it is shown the prince of saudi arabia was involved in ordering the murder of the journalist in a brutal fashion as is has been reported, then everything has to be on the table. you know, more and more evidence seems to be coming out in that regard. your own senate colleagues, republicans, lindsey graham, bob corker, after the briefing said they had no doubt it was ordered by the crown prince. if that does become irrefutable, what do you think the united states should do vis-a-vis the person of the crown prince, and the fact it's an important alliance at the same time? >> well, listen. the alliance is one thing. the conduct of mbs is something else. we can send all kinds of signals that we want to remain friends with the country of saudi a arabia while we condemn this prince. i was a courtroom prosecutor. give me this file. let me get in the courtroom. i'll convict this guy. the evidence -- circumstanti

arabia, to call saudi arabia to count for this murder, to call saudi arabia to count for the bombing, the increasingly indiscriminate bombing of civilians in yemen and calibrate what the response out to be. that's a sound way to make policy. while we see it in secretary mattis, we don't see it in the secretary of state right now and we certainly doesn't see it in the president. >> as we did in the cold war and other issues, the united states can walk and chew gum at the same time. can you have allies and adversaries and do vital business at the same time. i think that's what i'm hearing you say. >> that's right. we work with countries that have deplorable human rights issues and we're not going to work with them under those constraints and we would want the intelligence community to brief congress, to brief the administration, not only on what we know of saudi behavior but also what would the saudi response be to different sanctions for any of the approaches that we might take so that we can maximize the pushback and the express of our values, but at the same time not sacrifice some

. >>> well, some senators now say they're more convinced than ever that saudi arabia's crown prince was involved in the murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. the cia says khashoggi was killed by a saudi hit squad at the direction of the crown prince known as mbs. senate leaders reacted angrily after a briefing about the case from cia director gina haspel. >> there's not a smoking gun. there's a smoking saw. you have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized by people in -- under the command of mbs. >> i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince mbs ordered the killing. if he was in front of a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes guilty. >> a pretty powerful statement. senator graham there was referring to reports that saudi agents used a bone saw after khashoggi was killed. president trump and members of the administration have wavered on whether the crown prince was involved saying there's no conclusive evidence. >>> let's take a look at your weather now on this wednesday morning. >>> good morning. we're

basically you're saying that saudi arabia's help with the u.s. when it comes to iraq takes precedence right now? >> i don't think there is a precedence, accountability for the murder of jamal khashoggi stands alone, it's distinct from any other factors going on, however, it is integral to our relationship with saudi. right now we do not have a smoking gun, i have accepted the last 24 hours, ladies and gentlemen, i have seen all the intelligence we have. we do not have a smoking gun that the crown prince was involved. , we certainly need to continue to explore everyone or explore all aspects of the murder and find anyone who was involved but that should not in any dissuade us from confronting iran. >> what happens to halt military involvement in yemen? >> i don't like speculating on congress. i will wait -- i have another opportunity coming up to -- this time in the house of representatives. >> you will make that case? >> i will make the case that we need to act on our own best interest and that means standing up for the principles that we believe

of saudi arabia, he went over for thanksgiving. and i remember his attitude. he went out on a ship and ate a meal with the sailors, and then he went up to a remote camp in the saudi desert and ate a meal with the soldiers there. and you could -- and i must -- he was very emotional that day. and all of us who were covering him knew him well enough to know that he would not have felt that way if this was some big bluff. but there were a lot of journalists back in washington who thought he was bluffing and that nothing would ever come of it. we all knew otherwise because we could see that it was painful to him to see these soldiers, not knowing what the outcome of the war would be, not knowing how many would come back. as it turned out, you know, the american casualties were very few, indeed, and the military action was a complete walkover. but i remember him well there, and he was very emotional that day -- dana: of course. because he knew -- >> he felt the cost. dana: and he knew personally what could happen. >> yeah. and, of course

your colleagues in the senate passed this resolution this week sort of condemning saudi arabia's role in the yemen. and because you're on the armed services committee, are you going to vote in favor with the same type measure. >> one resolution that the senate passed is condemning crown prince mohammed bin salman's role in the killing of khashoggi. >> i agree with that and our security needs in the middle east. keep in mind when it comes to yemen we need to counter iran in the arabian peninsula. i chaired the emerging threats submarine committee focused on our counterterrorism and those alliances with gulf states are incredibly important. so i think in the next congress you will see the house armed services committee continue to ask questions, continue to make sure that we are standing up for our national security, to make sure that al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, for example, doesn't continue to grow, but, obviously, when it comes to the human rights violations we need to hold the saudi regime responsible for that. gillian: it's important to have female voice ins national security