Speaking with Anderson Cooper Wednesday night, former Fox News analyst Ralph Peters slammed the Trump administration’s response to the murder of  Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

It started after Cooper brought up John Bolton saying he didn’t listen to to the Khashoggi murder tape because he doesn’t speak Arabic. Bolton also questioned why he would listen to a tape of someone being killed.

“That infuriated me,” Peters replied.  “You don’t want to listen to that tape? I don’t speak Arabic either, but I’ll tell you if you listen to a tape of somebody being tortured to death, you can figure a couple of things out. The screams are universal. The gloating tone of the torture is universal. And these people are cowards for not listening to the tape. It astonishes me they would take such a position. But yes,  The president’s position on Khashoggi has squandered much of the remaining credibility we have.”

Then, a bit later in the interview he added that Trump’s claim that the U.S. needs the Saudis is not sound.

“The 1970s are over,” Peters stressed. “We do not need Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia desperately needs us.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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