It sounds like a plot straight out of a Hitchcock movie.

A prominent foreign journalist enters his country's consulate in Istanbul to pick up the papers he needs to marry the woman he loves.

But he never comes out.

After his worried fiance contacts local authorities, they launch an investigation.

They're denied access to the consulate, and soon they get intelligence reports, still unconfirmed,

that the journalist had been murdered, his body dismembered with a bone saw.

For days, the mystery of what happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi and why has gripped the world's attention

and raised new tensions between the United States and its longtime allies in Riyadh.

We'll talk to a longtime friend of Kashoggi, who a few short weeks ago was smoking cigars with him in Northern Virginia,

just before he left for his fateful trip to Istanbul.

A trip he had hoped would start a new life of marital bliss, but may have ended instead with his brutal death.

It's one of our subjects, along with an update on the Russia investigation, and some fascinating new insights into the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh has now joined on today's Skolduggery.

There is absolutely no collusion. I didn't make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia. Everybody knows it.

Because people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt, but I'm not a crook.

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

My heart and my destined tension still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Many times you have to answer this question. Russia is a ruse.

A Michael Isgov chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

And I'm Dan Clydeman editor in chief of Yahoo News.

You know, this Koshogi story is wild and it's really truly a crime mystery that has all sorts of international implications.

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