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The US president's claims that the crown prince "knew nothing" contradict the CIA's own assessment.
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After Mohammed bin Salman's last White House visit, U.S.-Saudi ties were strained by the slaying of Jamal Khashoggi. They've rebounded in Trump's second term.
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President Trump rejected a U.S. intelligence report finding that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the murder of a journalist.
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President Trump defended Saudi Arabia's crown prince saying he ‘knew nothing' about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The CIA previously concluded that the Saudi leader approved the killing. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports.
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President Donald Trump is set to fete Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday when the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia makes his first White House visit since the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and U.S. resident, by Saudi agents.
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