Refuses to meet Congress' deadline on Khashoggi killing

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By Nicole Gaouette and Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 9:39 PM ET, Fri February 8, 2019

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump refused to meet a legal mandate Friday to tell Congress whether the White House thinks Saudi Arabia's crown prince is personally responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"The President maintains his discretion to decline to act on congressional committee requests when appropriate," a senior administration official told CNN.

The White House decision came a day after an explosive New York Times report that cited US and foreign officials with direct knowledge of intelligence reports who say that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told a top aide in 2017 that he would use "a bullet" on Khashoggi.

The senior administration official said "the State Department updates Congress regularly on the status of actions related to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi," the former royal court insider who became one of bin Salman's most vocal critics ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/08/politics/white-house-khashoggi-deadline/index.html

[Docreed2003]

1. They are absolutely brazen in their corruption

And yet Trump and his people continue to do these things because no one has held them accountable! They're running our noses in it while tearing our country apart.

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2. I've not seen any polling on this

Does even a majority of Americans care about this? Or do most of them see it as Muslim-on-Muslim violence on the other side of the world, like so many other stories involving Islamic people "over there"?

If that's the case, Trump may be playing a winning hand here.