A defense contractor pressing for a U.S.-Saudi weapons sale visited Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker’s office recently. And as the Tennessee Republican tells it, he gave the man a stark warning: “Look. Do not push this.”
“If it came to a vote in the Senate, it would fail,” Corker recalled telling the contractor about the chance that lawmakers would halt the Saudi arms deal he was pursuing. That was before journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Middle Eastern kingdom’s government, vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
Bipartisan Hill anger with Saudis flares after Khashoggi
The White House’s response to the disappearance is also testing how willing Republicans are to break with Trump.
Source