Two months after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the broad consensus is that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the hit. And by broad consensus, we mean virtually everyone outside the White House has concluded he directed the assassination, from the C.I.A. to lawmakers briefed by director Gina Haspel, who have said things like “There is zero question . . . that the crown prince directed the murder and was kept apprised of the situation all the way through.” The people in the Oval Office, however, have essentially maintained that nothing will sully their relationship with the kingdom and its de-facto ruler—not even harrowing details of Khashoggi‘s last moments (the words “I can’t breathe” and the sound of a bone saw) released over the weekend. Presumably, that stance has a lot to do with the bond the Saudi prince and the Boy Prince of New Jersey, Jared Kushner, have forged over the past two years, after bin Salman and his advisers reportedly identified the First Son-in-Law as an easy target. So when Kushner agreed to appear on Sean Hannity’s show Monday night, he probably knew the Fox News host was going to toss out an extreme softball re: the Khashoggi killing, as we assume he got the questions ahead of time (though Fox denies it would ever do such a thing). And even then, this was the best Kushner could come up with:

Hannity: “What is the status? I know that 17 individuals are being held responsible. And do you feel that we’ll get to the bottom of it, if we haven’t already?”

Kushner: “I think our intelligence agencies are making their assessments, and we’re hoping to make sure that there’s justice brought where that should be.”

In fact, Kushner knows U.S. intelligences agencies have made their assessments, and their assessment is that his buddy M.B.S. was behind the grisly murder of a U.S. resident. Justice, for starters, would involve no longer (reportedly) texting with the prince, and maybe, just for yuks, not telling him that the U.S. has his back forever and always. Kush-ball, as we assume M.B.S calls him, then stressed to Hannity that Saudi Arabia is crucial to his plan to bring peace to the Middle East, which he’s just putting the finishing touches on!

Kushner also told Hannity that the administration was hopeful that its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan would be released “in the next couple of months,” but cautioned that “not every side is going to love” the proposed agreement.

“There’s enough in it, and enough reasons why people should take it and move forward,” Kushner said. “And this plan will keep the Israeli people safe and give them a good future, but also give a real opportunity and hope for the Palestinian people so that they can live much better lives.”

Kushner did not say if bin Salman will be at the ribbon-cutting ceremony unveiling his plan, but we assume he wouldn’t miss it for the world.