Schiff: The crown prince has blood on his hands
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joins Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman to discuss the CIA-declassified report on the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and to offer his thoughts on the future of U.S.-Saudi relations. Then, Mike and Dan talk with Peter Beinart, contributing columnist for the New York Times and professor of journalism and political science, about Middle East foreign policy, and why his proposal for Israel-Palestine is inspired by America's racial past.
GUESTS:
- Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. (@RepAdamSchiff), Chairman, House Intelligence Committee
- Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart), CUNY Professor, CUNY Newmark School of Journalism; writer/editor of The Beinart Notebook
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Dan Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- The Declassified Report on Jamal Khashoggi's Killing (Feb. 26, 2021)
- "America's Other Forever War" by Peter Beinart, New York Times (Feb. 15, 2021)
- "I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State" by Peter Beinart, New York Times (July 8, 2020)
- "Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine" by Peter Beinart, Jewish Currents (July 7, 2020)
- "Peter Beinart's Latest: a Call to Ease Sanctions on Iran" by Ira Stoll, Algemeiner (Feb. 15, 2021)
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| 0:00.0 | It was a grizzly murder that shocked the world. On October 2, 2018, Saudi journalist Jamal |
| 0:08.8 | Kashoggi entered his country's consulate in Istanbul, thinking he would pick up some |
| 0:13.5 | routine papers showing he was divorced from his wife, papers that would allow him to |
| 0:18.7 | marry his Turkish fiance who was waiting patiently for him outside. But upon entering the consulate |
| 0:25.3 | that day, a Saudi hit team drugged him, suffocated him with a plastic bag, and then dismembered |
| 0:32.2 | his body with a bone saw. The Saudi government at first denied any knowledge of what happened |
| 0:37.4 | to Kashoggi, then admitted that yes he died and what they termed a tragic accident. But |
| 0:43.1 | on Friday, President Biden's director of national intelligence, Averel Haynes, released |
| 0:48.3 | a long delayed report concluding that Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the son of King |
| 0:54.2 | Salman and his country's de facto ruler, approved the operation to capture or kill Kashoggi. |
| 1:01.5 | Given that the Crown Prince had absolute control over the Kingdom's security operations, |
| 1:06.2 | the report says it makes it highly unlikely that Saudi officials would have carried out |
| 1:10.9 | this operation without the Crown Prince's authorization. What will this report mean for |
| 1:16.9 | US-SOUTI relations? And is the US government withholding key details that would make these |
| 1:21.9 | events even more embarrassing for one of America's oldest allies in the Middle East? We'll |
| 1:27.1 | discuss with Congressman Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, |
| 1:31.5 | and then we'll talk to journalist Peter Bynart about the prospects for reviving the |
| 1:35.4 | Iranian nuclear cord on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 2:03.4 | I'm Michael Lysgoff, Chief Investigator correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 2:06.5 | And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 2:09.3 | So this report has been a long time coming, actually, Congress mandated a declassified report |
| 2:18.4 | about what the CIA knew about the Kashoggi murder as early as early 2019. Trump just |
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