Rand Paul on Khashoggi Killing: ‘I Have No Doubt at All That the Crown Prince Directed This or Absolutely Knew About It’

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PAUL: "The CIA usually gives us reports and they’ll say what kind of probability, they'll say low probability, middle or high. From the press reports, it's been said that the CIA has reported with high probability they’ve made this conclusion. And mst time you den't get a confession, you don't have a video of someone being killed, but yes, there’s a lot of evidence to indicate that he did. The text messages back and forth to the team that was there doing the killing, his brother talking to Khashoggi and encouraging him to go to that consulate. There’s a lot of evidence leading up, not to mention that this is an authoritarian regime where nothing happens without the approval of the Crown Prince, he runs the country. I have no doubt at all that the Crown Prince either directed this or absolutely knew about it, and I think we could actually change the outcome of what goes on in the war in Yemen if we would simply withhold weapons from the Saudi Arabians. I think within three or four months, I think you'd actually see a change in their behavior and possibly a change in their leadership."