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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul announced Wednesday that he planned to introduce a bill this week to remove all military aid to Saudi Arabia until Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, missing, be returned alive.
The Turkish authorities believe that Khashoggi disappeared on 2 October after entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and was dismembered. A team of 15 Saudis went to the country on the day of his disappearance and is suspected of playing a role.
"For me, this is just one more reason why we should be very suspicious of the sale of weapons to the Saudis," said Paul Shannon Bream, host of "Fox News @ Night. " "If they have the ability and the audacity to go to another country and kill a reporter, they may not be the kind of people we want to sell weapons to."
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he demanded responses from the Saudi Arabian government's "highest levels", but he told Fox News that it was too early to commit on what recourse we would have ", if it turns out that Saudi Arabia is involved in the disappearance of Khashoggi.
"I think it would hurt us," said Trump. "We have jobs, we have a lot of things going on in our country, we have a country that is probably more economically successful than ever before, part of that is what we do with our defense system and everything. the world wants it, and frankly, I think it would be a very hard pill to swallow for our country. "
His comments came after Khashoggi's fiance, a Washington Post contributor who often criticized the regime of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, urged him to shed light on the case.
"I think you could say that there may be no evidence that they killed the journalist or even that the journalist was ever killed," said Paul. "I do not think we need evidence, but there is enough to indicate that they have been involved."
Paul also mentioned Saudi Arabia's intervention in the neighboring civil war in Yemen.
"What you have evidence of is that the Saudis have been bombing civilians in Yemen for over a year now," he said.
"I think their growing opposition to what the Saudis are doing in Yemen is just adding to that," he said.
Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Approved the break-up of the US-Saudi relationship in a tweet last week.
"If this is true – that the Saudis have drawn an American resident to their consulate and murdered him – this should represent a fundamental break in our relations with Saudi Arabia."
Paul introduced a one-year resolution to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which garnered only 25 votes, he said. A second attempt six months ago garnered 47 votes.
"I think if we had to have another vote the week or the next two years, I think you would have a Senate majority that would say," Hey, we have to go back. "
