In late June 2019, nearly nine months after Saudi assassins brutally murdered Jamal Khashoggi

and carved up his body, President Trump flew to Osaka, Japan, for a G20 summit.

Among the world leaders he met there, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS.

To be with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a friend of mine, a man who

has really done things in the last five years in terms of opening up Saudi Arabia,

the previous fall the CIA had told Trump that MBS had authorized the operation that killed Khashoggi,

his country's most prominent journalist. But if Trump had any qualms about what his own

intelligence officials had told him, there was no hint of that when he and MBS spoke in Osaka.

I want to just thank you on behalf of a lot of people and I want to congratulate you.

You've done really a spectacular job. And true to form, Trump once again brought up what he

seemed to appreciate most of all, Saudi weapons deals with American defense contractors.

As you know, Saudi Arabia is a big purchaser of American products and especially of

America military equipment. We make the best in the world by far. And we appreciate that they do,

they create at least a million jobs, they're created by the purchases made by Saudi Arabia. So

we're very happy to be with you. Great honor. Thank you all very much for being here. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President, for your warm welcome. We're trying to do our best for our country,

Saudi Arabia. There was, by this point, little pushback to the veritable love fest in Japan

between the American president and the Saudi leader. The Khashoggi murder had largely

faded from the headlines. But there were some in Congress who still had questions about various

aspects of the case. And one of those questions was whether there were any American fingerprints

on the crime, specifically whether any U.S. security firms had actually trained the tiger team

of Saudi assassins who flew to Istanbul to kill Khashoggi. We'll discuss what happened next

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