WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Matisse will brief the council on Wednesday on the latest developments in Saudi Arabia, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Korker said on Wednesday.

Bob Korker said there would be "a lot of events" in Congress about Saudi Arabia, including a vote soon this week calling for an end to US support for Saudi Arabia in the context of its war in Yemen.

He also reiterated his call for the CIA director to brief the Senate this week on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

But Korker said he did not expect the briefing to be provided by Pompeo and Matisse enough to answer all questions related to the assassination of Khashoggi.

He said members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were considering adding new legislation to target Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The senator said he was looking into some "improvements" to the request of the Donald Trump administration to investigate whether the Saudi Crown Prince had committed human rights violations and should be subject to penalties under the Magnetsky Act.

Sen. John Cornin, the second-largest Republican in the Senate, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense James Matisse would brief the council on Wednesday on the latest developments concerning Saudi Arabia.

Graham asks to hear US intelligence briefing on Khashoggi case

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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he would press for sanctions against the Saudi crown prince if he received assurances from the CIA that bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Graham, in a statement to Axius News, said he and some of his senators asked to hear a briefing from US intelligence this week.

Graham said he would work to give consensus to a draft resolution in the council if the evidence found there was a high probability that the Saudi crown prince would be involved in the crime.

He also stressed that he will urge through his draft resolution to consider a number of behaviors of Mohammed bin Salman, which he described as abnormal and destructive, such as the war in Yemen and the detention of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the siege of Qatar, which was without any consultation, he said.

"The president is not honest with the American nation about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi," the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, described Trump's position as "what is he paying for it?"

Schiff has vowed to open investigations into any financial transaction that could have an impact on Trump's refusal so far to convict Mohammed bin Salman and hold him responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as in the CIA report.

In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" program, Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee expressed "displeasure with President Trump's assessment, which contradicts the intelligence reports he has seen."

Republican Sen. Johnnie Ernest of Iowa called for toughness toward Saudi Arabia, saying "we need to look carefully at it."

"We are also a very strong country when it comes to human rights and the rule of law," said Ernst. "If there is any indication that the prince has anything to do with this murder, we will have to take other steps." "He said.