{"id":185064,"date":"2021-03-01T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185064"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:01:00","slug":"psaki-pressed-on-holding-saudi-arabia-accountable-for-murder-of-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-pressed-on-holding-saudi-arabia-accountable-for-murder-of-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Pressed On Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Murder Of Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-pressed-on-holding-saudi-arabia-accountable-for-murder-of-journalist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/17926A64-1F14-4DD1-9E73-930DFCB1869E_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/28\/politics\/saudi-arabia-sanctions-khashoggi-jen-psaki-cnntv\/index.html\">CNN\u2019s State of the Union<\/a> and was pressed on the Biden administration\u2019s actions towards Saudi Arabia in light of recent revelations regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/jamal-khashoggi-murder-us-intelligence-report\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, the Biden administration released a declassified intelligence report on Friday that detailed the murder of Khashoggi and the direct correlation between the crown prince and the killing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/jamal-khashoggi-murder-us-intelligence-report\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The report from the director of national intelligence says the crown prince, known as MBS, directly approved the killing of Khashoggi. But while a sanctions list from the Treasury Department listed a former deputy intelligence chief and the Saudi Royal Guard\u2019s rapid intervention force, the crown prince wasn\u2019t listed. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/28\/politics\/saudi-arabia-sanctions-khashoggi-jen-psaki-cnntv\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> host Dana Bash explained the report\u2019s findings of MBS\u2019s responsibility for the murder of the journalist. She then played a clip of candidate Joe Biden on the campaign trail at a debate in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He responded to a question about whether or not he would punish senior Saudi leaders, saying, \u201cYes\u2026I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them. We were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are\u2026They have to be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash pressed Psaki on Biden\u2019s actions since becoming president, saying that he has not imposed a travel ban, asset freeze, or criminal charges. Most importantly, the host added, Biden has not placed any \u201csanctions directly on the crown prince himself.\u201d Bash asked Psaki, \u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki said that the administration has been \u201ccrystal clear at every level from the president on down\u201d since the first day, saying that they are going to \u201crecalibrate this relationship and turn the page from the last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki listed ways that the administration plans to do so, including \u201cending our support for the war in Yemen, doing more to address the humanitarian crisis, and ensuring that we are holding to account the actions, the human rights abuses of this government, by word and by action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash asked if punishing the people underneath the crown prince is \u201clike punishing the hit man and not the mob boss who actually put out the hit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki answered, \u201cWell, first, Dana, historically, and even in recent history, Democratic and Republican administrations, there have not been sanctions put in place for the leaders of foreign governments where we have diplomatic relations and even where we don\u2019t have diplomatic relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we believe there is more effective ways to make sure this doesn\u2019t happen again and to also be able to leave room to work with the Saudis on areas where there is mutual agreement, where there is interests, national interests, for the United States. That is what diplomacy looks like. That is what the complicated global engagement looks like,\u201d Psaki continued.<\/p>\n<p>Bash pressed Psaki later on, saying, \u201cyou say hold them accountable, and it just doesn\u2019t look like that when it comes to the notion of justice.\u201d Bash asked if Psaki felt that justice has been done in this specific situation.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki answered, \u201cWell, this is a horrific crime, and the president has said that himself. I will reiterate that here today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons the State Department put in place what we\u2019re calling the Khashoggi rule is because we believe that anyone who threatens journalists, who threatens dissidents should be held to account and shouldn\u2019t \u2014 and should have their \u2014 potentially have their travel visas revoked. That\u2019s a global issue and one we took action on, on Friday,\u201d Psaki continued.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki added that \u201cit needs to be clear that our relationship with Saudi Arabia is one that is in the interest of the United States to maintain, while still being clear it will be recalibrated. We are going to hold them accountable for human rights abuses, and we are going to take actions, including the actions announced by the State Department and the Treasury Department on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-fearing-saudi-arabia-wont-penalize-mbs-after-he-promised-during-election-that-he-would-hold-saudi-leaders-accountable-reports\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported \u201cBiden would not punish MBS because he was \u2018fearing\u2019 what the consequences would be if he did so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A full transcript of CNN\u2019s State of the Union interview can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2102\/28\/sotu.01.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared on CNN\u2019s State of the Union and was pressed on the Biden administration\u2019s actions towards Saudi Arabia in light of recent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274473,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/17926A64-1F14-4DD1-9E73-930DFCB1869E_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Pressed On Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Murder Of Journalist","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/17926A64-1F14-4DD1-9E73-930DFCB1869E_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Pressed On Holding Saudi Arabia Accountable For Murder Of Journalist","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}