mp and I was counting on my presumed allies of Saudi Arabia to give me some cover so that to make it easy to not punish them too hard, you know, give me some kind of explanation that is at least a little bit plausible. It should be something that at least one side believes. Something that either the Democrats might believe or maybe even just the Republicans would be inclined to believe. But don't give us an explanation of what happened that nobody believes. Literally nobody. Zero people believe that explanation. I'm not wrong, right? Zero people.

And so Trump is exposed because now he can't act like that it's true. All right, it would be a huge political mistake. I'd be amazed if the president falls into this trap. But they've sort of set up the president where I think they kind of want him to say, "Well maybe that could have happened." You know, I don't think he can say that. He can say a lot of stuff. I mean we have a president who's not afraid of going out on a limb. He's not afraid to depart the fact-checking if it's for a good reason. I don't think he can embrace that explanation. I just don't see any way that he can do that.

So what's he going to do? Well I've suggested yesterday that he take advantage of this crisis. Never let a good crisis go to waste. And suggest that the Saudis need to pay a price because nobody believes it. And in fact I think President Trump is going to be very tempted to say flat out we don't believe it. How much would you love that? How much would you love President Trump saying, "Well you know Saudis have been our ally. They're very important. We wanted to wait until we had a full explanation. They've now given us their explanation. It is ridiculous. It's not even slightly believable. So now that's the facts that we have to work on. So now what are we going to do about it?"

Now it might be that he still says it's just not worth doing anything about it because frankly you know it's like an internal problem. It doesn't have to be our problem if we don't want it to be. So he could just say, "Oh that's completely ridiculous but it's just not going to be our problem." All right. I would kind of like that myself. I'm not predicting it. I'm just saying I would enjoy it if he did that. But I think he should take advantage of it and say, "Look Saudi Arabia, every once in a while I feel that I have to swear. With your permission or maybe not. I'm going to swear. If you have kids in the room, earmuffs. Put the earmuffs on the children. You have been warned. Children, children get out of the room. Run children. Cover your ears. There is cursing coming." It goes like this: Saudi Arabia just fucked our president. You know it, right? Saudi Arabia with their lame-ass excuse just fucked our president. I don't like it. I don't like it. You shouldn't like it either. But that doesn't mean we have to shoot ourselves in the foot over it.

I do think they've got some — let's say they've got some amends. They've got to make some amends. And it would be the perfect setup for this president to say, "Saudi Arabia, you just embarrassed our president in front of the entire world." Because they did by coming up with such a bad excuse. Such a bad excuse. I mean just embarrassingly bad. They exposed our president who was trying — he was trying to make this work. It's pretty clear that he was saying, "Well let's wait." He was giving them room to come up with a good explanation. Just something he could sell a little bit. Something they would have a little doubt. Something that would just be a little reasonable doubt. That's all. And they didn't deliver that. I don't know why but they decided to come up with the worst excuse in the world and they just totally exposed President Trump. I don't like it. I think they owe us. I think that it's time for them to make a bigger gesture. There's nothing we can do to bring back Khashoggi but there's definitely something we could do to make the Middle East a safer place. Recognizing Israel would be one. That would be helpful. Maybe taking over some expenses in the Middle East that maybe are something that we were spending money on. Or maybe something that would be positive for peace. Helping the Palestinians in some way. Something like that.

So I think that they need to write a big check. I think they need to write a big check. And not just a money check if you know what I mean. They need to write a big money check but they need to write a really big check because they just screwed our president right in front of us. And I think President Trump is smart enough that he's not going to act on pure ego and say, "Well you screwed me. Now I'm going to put you guys out of business" or anything. He's not going to do that. But I think he's going to do whatever he thinks is best for the situation. But man I don't like it. I do not like what they just did to our president and I think they need to pay for it. You know they gotta write some checks if you know what I mean. Because I'm certainly not okay with it.

All right. Yeah all they had to do was say something like, "I didn't authorize this action. You know I knew that they were going to interrogate him but I didn't know the details. I didn't know they were going to do it in the embassy. I didn't know they were going to bring a bone saw. You know I don't give specific directions to people. They were acting a little bit outside their mission." That would have been a totally acceptable — not acceptable but at least reasonable. At least a little reasonable doubt. Something. But they just left our president totally exposed on this. And now I think he's got to act aggressively in some way even if it's only for the betterment of the Middle East. Not anything directly about Khashoggi.

Let me ask you something. This is totally random. So somebody mentioned Adam Schiff on here which makes me think of his big googly eyes. You know how the white around his eyes is big and the eye part seems small within the ey