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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday visited the U.S. for the first time since U.S. intelligence concluded that he approved the brutal 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.
US President Donald Trump defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Tuesday over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, insisting the kingdom's de facto ruler "knew nothing" about the murder as he wooed him at White House.
President Trump said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, "knew nothing" about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite a 2021 intelligence report finding bin Salman ordered the killing. Nancy Cordes reports.
ABC News' Mary Bruce asked President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder and the anger of some 9/11 families over the White House visit.
US President Trump challenged US intelligence that concluded that bin Salman approved the capture or killing of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The US president's claims that the crown prince "knew nothing" contradict the CIA's own assessment.
President Trump says that Crown Prince Mohammed knew "nothing" about journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in Saudi Arabia in 2018, despite the CIA's determination that the crown prince directly ordered Khashoggi's death in 2018.
President Donald Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington on Tuesday as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia makes his first White House visit since the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents.
Mohammed bin Salman steps foot in the U.S. for the first time since Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder that caused global outrage.
