“It’s the equivalent of waking up to find Warren Buffett and the heads of ABC, CBS and NBC have been arrested. It has all the appearances of a coup d’état. Saudi Arabia is rapidly becoming another country. The kingdom has never been this unstable.” Robin Wright: The Saudi Royal Purge—with Trump’s Consent.

+ Saudi banks have frozen more than 1,200 accounts in probe, and the number is still rising.

+ 11 Saudi princes were arrested over the weekend (including one of the world’s richest men). They’re being held in a Ritz-Carlton.

+ To add more stress to the Saudi situation, MSB has blamed a missile fired by Yemen rebels on Iran, saying the move “may be considered an act of war.”