Mika on Khashoggi: ‘The Press Is Never Going To Let This Go Away Without All the Answers’

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BRZEZINSKI: “David Ignatius, in your latest piece in 'The Washington Post' you write this: 'Inside his royal palace in Riyadh, Mohammed bin Salman is said to have alternated between dark brooding and rampaging anger in the days after the death of Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia's crown prince looked for someone to blame for what Turkish officials have said was the journalist's grisly murder. The emerging Saudi narrative appears to be that the palace authorized Khashoggi’s arrest and interrogation, but not his murder. This version has some obvious holes in it: If the goal was rendition back to Saudi Arabia, then why interrogate him in Istanbul? And why did a forensics expert allegedly join the 15-man Saudi team photographed arriving at Istanbul airport?' There's a lot of evidence here. 'Finally, will such a Saudi account hold up under intense scrutiny by Congress, the media and, perhaps, U.S. courts? Behind the scenes, says one knowledgeable source, MBS went into a funk for several days after learning of Khashoggi's death before re-emerging on a rampage of anger around what happened and trying to figure out a response. Putting a lid on a murder investigation won't be easy, even for the brashly confident crown prince.' David Ignatius, one of the biggest mistakes here, and it sounds like there were many, this is a member of the press. When the press has its back up and the press is never going to let this go away without all the answers.”