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On the recordOctober 21, 2018
Well, the jury is not really still out on this question. I love the response, we'll see if they're going to be transparent. They lied. They lied for two weeks. They let the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo go over to Saudi Arabia, stand next to the crown prince as they told him the President of the United States and the world that Jamal Khashoggi was still alive, that he walked out of that consulate alive when they knew the entire time that he was dead.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Senator Murphy criticizes the Saudi government's lack of transparency regarding Jamal Khashoggi's murder and the U.S. administration's naivete.

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