Daily Mail: Outraged Senate leaders from BOTH parties demand Trump say publicly whether crown prince ordered Khashoggi killing as President THANKS Saudis for keeping oil prices down
* Bipartisan group of senators demand Trump investigate whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
* GOP senators are criticizing president's statement defending Saudis and denying there's any certainty about MBS's involvement
* 'I never thought I'd see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,' said GOP Sen. Bob Corker
* Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump ally: 'It is not in our national security interests to look the other way'
* Tulsi Gabbard (Democrat, Hawaii) called Trump 'Saudi Arabia's bitch'
* Trump issued a statement on Tuesday saying he'll stand by the Saudis because of hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending the kingdom has promised
A bipartisan group of senators has written to President Donald Trump, asking him to investigate whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
The letter from Republican Sen. Bob Corker and Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, the chair and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sets up a showdown between the White House and Capitol Hill.
It comes in the wake of Trump's statement Tuesday insisting there is no certainty bin Salman ordered the killing of the dissident journalist followed by his tweet thanking the Saudi for low oil prices.
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