White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Monday that the US is still seeking facts in the slaying of Jamal Khashoggi, who Saudi Arabia claims died after a fistfight with security officers in Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul.

“Right now as an administration we’re more in the fact-finding phase,” Kushner, who has a close relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohemmad bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, told political commentator Van Jones during CNN’s Citizen Conference.

“We’re getting facts in from multiple places and once those facts come in, the secretary of state will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe, and what we think is credible and what we think is not credible,” Kushner said when asked if he trusted the Saudi probe.

Riyadh has given contradictory explanations about what happened to Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the crown prince, after he entered the consulate Oct. 2 to pick up papers for his upcoming wedding.

Two days after the kingdom confirmed Khashoggi was dead as a result of a fistfight, Turkey’s ruling party said Monday he was the victim of a “monstrously planned” murder.

Asked whether he thought the Saudis had been deceptive, Kushner said he sees deceptive things every day.

“We have our eyes wide open. The president’s focused on what’s good for America, what are our strategic interests, where do we share interests with other countries — let’s work towards those,” Kushner said.

Kushner also said he has urged the crown prince “Just to be transparent, to be fully transparent. The world is watching.

“This is a very, very serious accusation and a very serious situation,” he said.

Asked how the prince responded to that, Kushner said: “We’ll see.”

Kushner added that it was important to maintain the US-Saudi alliance to counter Iran’s influence in the Middle East.

“We have to be able to work with our allies and Saudi Arabia has, I think, been a very strong ally in terms of pushing back on Iran’s aggression,” said Kushner.

In an interview with the Washington Post on Friday, Trump defended Kushner as doing a “very good job,” but acknowledged that his 37-year-old son-in-law and the 33-year-old prince are relatively young to wield so much power.

“They’re two young guys. Jared doesn’t know him well or anything. They are just two young people. They are the same age. They like each other, I believe,” Trump told the paper.

According to US officials, the president has also groused that Kushner’s close ties with the prince have actually become a liability.

Meanwhile, Turkey’s pro-government media published new claims Monday linking the crown prince to Khashoggi’s death after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to reveal the “naked truth” about the case.

The daily Yeni Safak reported that Saudi security official Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb — the alleged leader of a 15-man hit team — called the head of Prince Mohammad’s office, Bader al-Asaker, “four times after the murder,” according to Agence France-Presse.

“The circle is tightening around the crown prince,” said one of its headlines.

And Hurriyet columnist Abdulkadir Selvi called on the prince to take responsibility.

Selvi said Khashoggi was strangled by the assassination squad in a process that took up to eight minutes and ended with Saudi forensic expert Salah Muhammed Al-Tubaigy chopping the body into 15 pieces while listening to music.