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Q: CLOSE President Donald Trump defended his decision not to punish Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman or cut arms sales to Saudi Arabia for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. insisting it would be "foolish" to cut ties. (Nov. 20) AP 
  
 Protestors hold candles and pictures of Jamal Khashoggi during the demonstration in front of Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo: Erdem Sahin, EPA-EFE) 
  
 A Turkish newspaper claimed Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency has heard a "smoking gun phone call" of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with an alleged instruction to "silence Jamal Khashoggi as soon as possible." 
  
 The allegation was published in Turkey's Hürriyet Daily News, a well-established newspaper. The claim could not be independently verified by USA TODAY. The CIA could not be reached for comment. It rarely reacts to reports about its activities. 
  
 "The crown prince gave an instruction to silence Jamal Khashoggi as soon as possible and this instruction was captured during (a) CIA wiretapping," the paper claimed. 
  
 CIA Director Gina Haspel traveled to Turkey last month as part of the investigation into the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Haspel has briefed President Donald Trump about her visit. 
  
 Saudi Arabia has repeatedly denied its leadership had any knowledge of a plot to kill Khashoggi despite claims by Turkey's government that it has audio recordings indicating the contrary. Trump has cast aside calls from U.S. lawmakers and international allies to punish the Saudi crown prince for Khashoggi's slaying. Trump said Tuesday the benefits of good business relations with Saudi Arabia outweigh the possibility that the crown prince ordered the killing. Khashoggi was a U.S. resident at the time of his death. 
  
 On Thursday, Trump said the crown prince “regretted the death more than I do” and reiterated his position that there was no conclusive evidence tying the crown prince to Khashoggi’s murder. 
  
 “The CIA doesn’t say they did it. They do point out certain things, and in pointing out those things, you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn’t,” he told reporters in Florida, where he is spending Thanksgiving with his family. He blamed the media of “false reporting.” 
  
 “Maybe the world should be held accountable ‘cause the world is a vicious place,” he said. 
  
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 According to Hürriyet Daily News, Haspel "signaled" during her trip to Ankara the existence of a wiretapped phone call between the crown prince and his brother Khaled bin Salman that captured the order. Khaled bin Salman is Saudi Arabia’s U.S. ambassador. Hürriyet Daily News did not identify the source of its claim. 
  
 The Washington Post previously reported that the CIA concluded the crown prince ordered Khashoggi's assassination in Istanbul. 
  
 Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/22/cia-saudi-crown-prince-jamal-khashoggi-killing-report/2085273002/ ||||| President Trump on Thursday contradicted the CIA’s assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the killing of Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi, insisting that the agency had “feelings” but did not firmly place blame for the death. 
  
 Trump, in defiant remarks to reporters from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, defended his continued support for Mohammed in the face of a CIA assessment that the crown prince had ordered the killing. 
  
 “He denies it vehemently,” Trump said of the crown prince. He reiterated that his own conclusion was that “maybe he did, maybe he didn’t.” 
  
 “I hate the crime, I hate the coverup. I will tell you this: The crown prince hates it more than I do, and they have vehemently denied it,” Trump said. Mohammed has not shown remorse for the killing, which was carried out by some of his close advisers. 
  
 Asked who should be held accountable for the death of Khashoggi, who was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Turkey on Oct. 2, Trump again refused to place blame — instead espousing a grim view of the world that he often shares with advisers. 
  
 “Maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a very, very vicious place,” the president said. 
  
  
  
 President Trump speaks to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 22. (Susan Walsh/AP) 
  
 He also seemed to suggest that all U.S. allies were guilty of the same behavior, declaring that if others were held to the standard to which critics have held Saudi Arabia in recent days, “we wouldn’t be able to have anyone for an ally.” 
  
 Trump said “not at all” when asked if he was concerned that his refusal to substantially punish Saudi Arabia would send a message to the rest of the world that people in power can do as they please. 
  
 The president has grown annoyed with the constant attention on the killing, advisers say, and sought to effectively close the matter Tuesday with an eight-paragraph, exclamation-mark-packed statement that smeared Khashoggi, questioned the CIA and praised Saudi Arabia. 
  
 Trump’s Thursday remarks came after he held a conference call with U.S. military officers overseas, during which he repeatedly praised his administration and sought to draw the officers into discussions of domestic policy. He asked military officials on several occasions to back him up on trade, immigration and other issues — and was sometimes rebuked by answers that did not square with his worldview. 
  
 Returning to a recurrent pre-election theme, the president also warned the nation about threats he said were being posed by a caravan of people seeking eventual asylum in the United States. 
  
 He told reporters that he had shut down “parts of the border” because of “rioting on the other side” and that he was prepared to do so again. It was not clear what the president meant — but it marked the first public reflection of a frequent private threat to close the border. Mexican officials have repeatedly complained about Trump’s rhetoric. 
  
 “They called me up, and I signed an order,” said Trump, who declined when asked whether he would publicly release the document. Department of Homeland Security officials said Trump was referring to the temporary closure of an asylum crossing. 
  
 He also said that he had “given the okay” for U.S. troops to use lethal force against anyone crossing the border who represented a threat. U.S. military forces are typically not allowed to take such actions, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has already signaled his disinclination to change that policy. There has been considerable consternation in the administration about the policy, administration officials said. 
  
 The president’s televised holiday phone call with U.S. military officers was meant to deflect criticism he has faced for not yet visiting a war zone, as previous presidents have done. Asked whether he would be traveling to visit soldiers, Trump said, “We’re going to do some interesting things at the appropriate time.” He declined to give any further explanation. 
  
 Yet if the Thanksgiving morning activity was meant to allay one political firestorm, the president’s remarks on Khashoggi only inflamed another. 
  
 Time and again, the president has sided with Saudi officials and their explanations of the events leading to the killing, rather than with the U.S. intelligence community. 
  
 He sided anew against the CIA on Thursday, noting that in Saudi Arabia “at the top level they say they did not commit this atrocity.” 
  
 Again on Thursday, Trump indicated that the ally’s economic contributions weighed on him more than the death of a U.S. resident. 
  
 “Do people really want me to give up hundreds of thousands of jobs?” he asked when pressed about whether Saudi Arabia’s actions deserved a stiffer penalty. 
  
 As he has before, he credited the nation for a drop in oil prices — while also crediting himself for “jawboning” Saudi Arabia — and said that a global depression could arise if the price of oil were to increase. 
  
 He alluded to the close relationship that Mohammed had forged with Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner over the course of the administration. The two have repeatedly talked as part of Kushner’s Middle Eastern portfolio. 
  
 “Till this happened, there were a lot of people saying a lot of good things about the crown prince,” Trump said. 
  
 Trump also continued for a second day his dispute with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. over the judgments of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which the president has regularly castigated. 
  
 In a rare public statement, Roberts on Wednesday defended the nation’s judges, saying that an independent judiciary was critical to democracy. 
  
 Trump opened Thanksgiving morning with tweets critical of the jurist. 
  
 “Justice Roberts can say what he wants, but the 9th Circuit is a complete & total disaster. It is out of control, has a horrible reputation, is overturned more than any Circuit in the Country,” he tweeted, repeating a falsehood he has often leveled at the court. 
  
 Talking to reporters later, Trump said he liked and respected Roberts but added that “I think we need to use some common sense.” The president has often complained to advisers about the vote Roberts made to uphold a key portion of the Affordable Care Act. 
  
 He also escalated his criticism of the appellate court, saying that “we’re going to have to stop that somehow.” 
  
 “It’s a disgrace,” Trump said of judges stopping the desires of his administration. ||||| President Donald Trump speaks to members of the military via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thanksgiving Day. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images White House Trump denies CIA implicated Saudi crown prince in Khashoggi murder 
  
 President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the CIA did not reach a conclusion about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s involvement in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, adding during a teleconference with military members that Salman “regretted the death more than I do.” 
  
 The president had previously declined to confirm or deny reports that the CIA had concluded the crown prince ordered Khashoggi's assassination. When asked who should be blamed instead, Trump said “maybe the world” because it’s a “vicious, vicious place,” and referenced oil prices as a reason not to punish Saudi Arabia further, according to pool reports. 
  
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 Asked by a reporter if the CIA had a recording implicating Salman, the president responded: "I don’t want to talk about it. You’ll have to ask them.” 
  
 Later, he responded to a question on the crown prince's potential involvement: "Whether he did or whether he didn’t, he denies it vehemently. His father denies, the king, vehemently. The CIA doesn’t say they did it. They do point out certain things, and in pointing out those things, you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn’t." 
  
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 During the call from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the president went on to speak at length about border security and the migrant caravan, saying that he would consider shutting down the entire U.S.-Mexico border in response. 
  
 Echoing earlier criticisms of the Ninth Circuit court, which has overruled several of the president's orders on border immigration and refugees, Trump said: “The border is coming along very well. It’s become very strong, we’re getting some terrible decisions from the Ninth Circuit as usual. I don’t know if we’ve ever had a victory in the Ninth Circuit. We’ve had to appeal it, appeal it. A vast number of decisions get overturned, generally. And it’s a shame, it’s a shame." 
  
 Referencing an extraordinary rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday after his criticism of the Ninth Circuit, the president said "I know that Chief Justice Roberts, John Roberts, has been speaking a little bit about it, and I think — I have a lot of respect for him, I like him and I respect him, but I think we have to use some common sense. " 
  
 The president then threatened a government shutdown over border security, and referenced shutting down "parts of" the border two days ago, but did not elaborate. He said a government shutdown over wall funding "could happen" in December. 
  
 Of embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the president said "She's in there trying ... It's a tough job." He added that troops stationed at the border could use lethal force against migrants "if they have to." 
  
 On the subject of his daughter Ivanka’s use of a private email account when conducting government business, Trump said he had spoken to her and that she is “very innocent.” 
  
 In personal calls with military personnel, Trump referred to America as a "hot nation," citing the economy. Earlier, Trump had spoken about a possible visit to troops overseas, without offering specifics. 
  
 Following the teleconferences with troops, Trump visited with Coast Guard members at Coast Guard State Lake Worth Inlet just after 11 a.m., speaking for about 5 minutes before heading to nearby Trump International golf course just before noon. |||||
A: 
In a session with reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Thanksgiving, President Trump was pressed about Jamal Khashoggi's death and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's role in it, and the president didn't budge. The Washington Post reports he held his position of refusing to blame MBS. "He denies it vehemently," Trump said, declining to get more specific than "maybe he did, maybe he didn't [order it]." He continued, "I hate the crime, I hate the coverup. I will tell you this: The crown prince hates it more than I do, and they have vehemently denied it." As for the CIA's position, Trump said the agency had "feelings" but did not assign blame. "The CIA doesn’t say [he] did it. They do point out certain things, and in pointing out those things, you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn’t." So who is to blame? "Maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a very, very vicious place," he said. Politico reports Trump was asked whether the CIA was in possession of a recording that would prove MBS was involved. "I don’t want to talk about it. You’ll have to ask them," he said. That question followed a Thursday report in Turkey's Hürriyet Daily News that claims the CIA has listened to a "smoking gun phone call" involving MBS. USA Today, which like other US media outlets could not verify the report, has a key line from it: "The crown prince gave an instruction to silence Jamal Khashoggi as soon as possible and this instruction was captured during [a] CIA wiretapping." (Trump also discussed closing the whole border with Mexico.)