Khashoggi's killing.

Asked whether he had reviewed the audio or video recordings, Trump said he has not. He then turned to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to ask if he had seen them, to which the top diplomat replied, "Mr. President, I have not seen it."

"We've all heard a lot about the audio," Trump said. "Nobody's seen it yet. We do want to see it." The president confirmed that he had asked the Turkish government to share the recordings and added, "We're going to be seeing it very soon."

Trump said he would be calling King Salman of Saudi Arabia later Saturday or early Sunday to discuss the Khashoggi matter.

Pompeo told reporters: "There's a lot still to learn."

Trump said that he had invited Khashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, to visit himat the White House and that his staff was working out arrangements with her. The president said that Cengiz wrote "a beautiful letter" to him and first lady Melania Trump and that they would welcome her.

"It's looking like he perhaps won't be or isn't around and that's very sad," Trump said of Khashoggi. "I think we would've known by now. That was our first hope. Our first hope was that he was not killed, but maybe that's not looking too good."

The Saudi government issued a statement Saturday morning condemning and denouncing "the false accusations circulated in media reports on the Saudi government and other people in the purported relation to the disappearance" of Khashoggi.

The statement said Saudi's interior minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, "stressed