Washington (CNN) Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said he believes there are enough votes in the Senate to overwrite a potential presidential veto should Congress decide to withdraw the US' role in Yemen as a rebuke to Saudi Arabia.

"I think there will be. If the administration doesn't change their policy and if we continue to ignore what happened to (journalist Jamal) Khashoggi, then we will have the votes," Flake said in an interview Friday with CNN's Poppy Harlow on "Newsroom."

Amid lingering frustrations surrounding the murder of Khashoggi and the Trump administrations handling of the crisis, the Senate is considering a bipartisan resolution to withdraw the US from providing military support to the Saudi Arabia coalition involved in the Yemen conflict.

Lawmakers voted 63-37 on Wednesday to advance the resolution opposed by the Trump administration.

But Flake told CNN that he believes the Trump administration will "probably" change its policy in Yemen.

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