1. What is the last that anyone knows about journalist Jamal Khashoggi?
He was last seen  on October 2 whenever he was walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document verifying his divorce.
2. What does Turkey say happened?  What does Saudi Arabia say happened?
Turkey says they have concrete evidence he never left the building and was murdered there. Saudi Arabia says he left through a back entrance, but there is no evidence to corroborate that. 
3. Why would the Saudi Arabian government have motive to murder him?
He reported on the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and criticized his leadership, so he feared arrest and fled the country.
4. How has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to change Saudi Arabia?
He has allowed women to drive and opened cinemas in the Kingdom, but has also championed a bloody war with Yemen.
5. How did Khashoggi come to work for The Washington Post instead of the Saudi paper Al Watan?
In the Saudi paper he would not be able to express his actual views on the prince because it is not allowed int he culture, so writing for Washington Post let him speak his mind freely.
6. Why did he visit the Saudi Consulate in Turkey?
He visited in order to file paperwork for his upcoming wedding to a Turkish woman.
7.  The US is an ally of both.  Why don't they get along?
"Turkey and Saudi Arabia already have a strained relationship. The gulf monarchy is engaged in an ongoing blockade of Qatar, one of Turkey’s allies, and Riyadh doesn’t agree with Turkey’s embrace of political Islam or its close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. "
8. How is the president responding to the issue?  How are Senators responding?
The President is still treating everyone as if relations are not strained and believes nothing should be broken while they investigate. Senators are taking this more seriously as an immediate break in the relationship if Saudi lured and murdered an American; they are also pushing Trump to impose sanctions on those involved.
9. Why doesn't the president want to cause too much trouble with Saudi Arabia?
He does not want to risk losing lucrative weapons sales to them.

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