There’s another transcript in Washington waiting to come to light.
Rep. Eugene Vindman, a Virginia Democrat, is alleging there was a “shocking” 2019 call between President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia following the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi that the public needs to hear. Vindman knows about it because he was working at the time as a lawyer on the White House’s National Security Council, which produced a classified summary of the conversation.
00:00I heard this week something very disturbing me from President Trump about my husband.
00:06He's controversial and he's unliked.
00:09I would like to tell Mr. Trump you're expressing someone else, not Jamal Khashoggi.
00:13Jamal Khashoggi was most stable man.
00:16He was a rule model to represent Assad, he's an Arabic and Muslim.
00:20And he accepts everybody regarding your ideology background as well.
00:24They try to bint him like he's a friend of Osama bin Laden or his Muslim brotherhood and all of this executes.
00:32This not executes to take his life away.
00:35There is no justification to kidnap him, torture him and to kill him and to cut him to pieces.
00:41This is a terrorist act.
00:43What they did, 17 months on behalf of the order came from the Saudi authority.
00:48It's a terrorist act.
00:49Out of all the calls with foreign leaders that I reviewed, two stood out as the most concerning.
00:55The first is well known.
00:58The call with President Zelensky that led to Trump's first impeachment.
01:02The second is a call between Mr. Trump and Mohammed bin Salman after the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist and a Virginia resident, Jamal Khashoggi.
01:13The Khashoggi family and the American people deserve to know what was said on that call.
01:18As I've said on the floor and in the past, if the past is any indication, the receipts will be seriously, will raise serious questions.
01:31And they will be shocking.
01:32All week, I've urged the president to release a transcript.
01:36Our intelligence agencies concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Ms. Khashoggi's husband.
01:44When a president sidelines his own intelligence community to shield a foreign leader, America's credibility is at stake.
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