Saudi Crown Prince Speaks Out on Journalist's Death; Islamabad Gets $6 Billion Loan from Saudi Arabia.
VAUSE: At his investment conference in Riyadh, the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman made his first public comments about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And he vowed those responsible will be held accountable.</s>MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN, CROWN PRINCE, SAUDI ARABIA (through translator): The crime was really painful to all Saudis and I believe it is painful to every human in the world. It is a heinous crime that cannot be justified. Today Saudi Arabia is carrying out all legal things to finalize the investigation, to cooperate with the Turkish government and to present the perpetrators to the court and take their judgment.</s>VAUSE: CNN's Nic Robertson --</s>VAUSE: -- live this hour in Istanbul, has the very latest on the investigation. But Nic, I just wonder, how seriously can you take those promises from the crown prince to find those responsible and bring them to justice? Is there any evidence on the ground to support the claim there's this investigation ongoing and they're cooperating?</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN  INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: John, it is a great question. What we have heard from President Erdogan here is he says that since he has started a direct dialogue with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, the crown prince's father, that the cooperation has improved. But what Turkish officials will tell you here and the evidence that we've seen is that cooperation is not in a good place. Take the consul general's residence behind me. He fled the day before Turkish investigators were allowed in. Of course it took several weeks before they were allowed in there. But we've learned that once the Turkish investigators got in there, the Saudi officials in there would not let them look in the well, in the basement of the building, which, you know, really just defies logic. Investigators looking for a missing body, Jamal Khashoggi's body, logic would say they should have free access to the whole building if there's this genuine cooperation. That was over a week ago. The fact that Turkish investigators haven't been able to go back in and haven't been back in, speaks to a lack of cooperation rather than an abundance of it. What is being said in the -- in the Turkish media here, in many of the outlets both on TV and in the newspapers, is that the Turkish investigators are right now again talking to Saudi authorities about getting into the residence and they could get into that well finally. That hasn't happened. Look, we're here this morning. There's no sign of anyone coming and going from there. So if there was this real cooperation and Turkish authorities, as we understand from officials, do want to get into the basement, do want to see if Jamal Khashoggi's body is in there, the president, Erdogan, said just two days ago it was hugely important to find Khashoggi's body, hugely important to have that cooperation. It just doesn't seem to play out on the ground as the crown prince in Saudi Arabia says it is, which begs the question, what is going on? It doesn't seem to be cooperation.</s>VAUSE: In some ways this comes back to this excuse which the Saudis put forward, saying it was a rogue operation and that the crown prince knew nothing about. The rogue operation, he knows nothing about the lack of cooperation on the ground. So in many ways it brings into question, well, who is running the place?</s>ROBERTSON: Yes, top to bottom, lots of questions as you say. If the crown prince knowing -- let's look at the evidence that we see so far. We know Gina Haspel, the CIA director, heading back from her visit to Turkey here, "The Washington Post" at least reporting that she was able to listen to some of that recording of the Turkish officials that have been quietly saying was the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. "The Washington Post" reporting that she's been able to hear that. She'll get a report back to President Trump Thursday, that this newest and latest evidence she's got. And we understand from what the State Department has already done, which is rescinding visas for people inside the royal court as well as the intelligence and foreign ministry in Saudi Arabia, certainly points to the fact that the United States has reason to believe that people very close to the crown prince were responsible. The Saudis themselves have removed a couple of very senior people close to the crown prince from their jobs. But is there is a smoking gun, is there evidence that directly ties the crown prince to this operation? We don't know at the moment. But every official that appears to be briefed on this seems to suspect that is the case. Everyone who knows well how authority works in the Saudi kingdom, you know, knows it passes through the hands of the crown prince. So it is at this stage, given the lack of clarity, the inconsistencies in the Saudi narrative so far, is another inconsistency that the crown prince wasn't involved. The evidence is not all out yet. It does really beg that question. If the crown prince wasn't involved, how come he didn't know to some degree what was going on, this effort to -- what the Saudis say, a rogue operation that went too far that was supposed to bring him back to Saudi Arabia just doesn't add up.</s>VAUSE: A snatch and grab operation with a bone saw does not make a lot of sense. Nic, thank you, Nic Robertson live for us there in Istanbul. The Khashoggi killing overshadowed a major investment conference in Saudi Arabia. High-profile --</s>VAUSE: -- companies and big names pulled out. But even so, deals were made. Pakistan walking away with $6 billion from Riyadh, details from Amara Walker.</s>AMARA WALKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As Riyadh feels the international outrage over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Pakistan is finding a friend and financier in Saudi Arabia, sending investors buzzing as Pakistani stocks soared Wednesday.</s>MOHAMMAD JAVED, EQUITY TRADER (through translator): We expect that the market will further gain. The market will boom even more when the Saudi package is actually inducted in the system in Pakistan.</s>WALKER (voice-over): Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, was quick to secure $6 billion of financial support from Riyadh at Saudi Arabia's so-called Davos in the desert. Several business leaders and government officials have pulled out of the investment conference over the death of insider turned critic Khashoggi. But the Pakistani prime minister says he needs funds fast. He reportedly told news service Middle East Eye, "We actually won't have in another two or three months enough foreign exchange to service our debts or to pay for our imports. So we're desperate at the moment." He reiterated that desperation to shore up Pakistan's economy in Riyadh as well.</s>IMRAN KHAN, PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER: So we are talking to both IMF and also we are talking to friendly governments that we could have gone through this difficult period to have -- get loans.</s>WALKER (voice-over): Saudi Arabia said that they would help, agreeing to $3 billion in foreign currency support for a year and a further loan worth up to $3 billion in deferred payments for oil imports. It is a deal that has earned Khan both praise and criticism at home, some asking whether Saudi Arabia will now expect the Pakistani president to side with them over one of their key allies. Turkey, where Khashoggi's death inside the Saudi consulate there, has rattled officials and the president is openly voicing his disdain.</s>RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, PRESIDENT OF TURKEY (through translator): We are determined not to allow a coverup of this murder and to make sure all those responsible, from those who ordered it to those who carried it out, will not be allowed to avoid justice.</s>WALKER (voice-over): But in a cash-strapped Pakistan, Imran Khan has just secured financial assistance that's much needed and larger than many analysts expected. Now the question is how Pakistan's recently elected leader will manage a loan with potentially longstanding implications and the complex regional dynamics that follow -- Amara Walker, CNN.</s>VAUSE: The chilling acts of terror, the search is on across the United States for whoever sent multiple pipe bombs to prominent Democratic figures as well as CNN. We'll speak to a former investigator about how this case is being handled. Also it's Kumbaya to the DMZ. North and South Korea clearing out the weapons and making nice, trying to take the hostilities just down a bit, a little notch.