this man says prince mohammed bin salman, the ruler of saudi arabia, sent an assassination team to kill him just as the prince did for jamal khashoggi. >> i am here to sound the alarm about a psychopath killer in the middle east with infinite resources who poses threat to his people, to the americans, and to the planet. >> how did he escape and why is he going public? that's our story tonight. this is it?

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help. truth is hard to triangulate among spies and despots in the middle east. and as we first reported in october, you're going to hear that saad aljabri may not be spotless. but as a spymaster, saad says he has one more favor for america. a warning about a prince with the power to trouble the world. >> i am here to sound the alarm about a psychopath killer in the middle east with infinite resources, who poses threat to his people, to the americans, and to the planet. >> saad aljabri is talking about mohammed bin salman, who seized power behind the back of the man greeting president obama. that's mohammed bin nayef, then heir to the thrown. but in 2017, nayef was arrested

by prince mohammed bin salman. >> a psychopath? >> a psychopath with no empathy, doesn't feel emotion. never learned from his experience. and we have witnessed atrocities and crimes committed by this killer. >> a source from u.s. intelligence told us saad aljabri would never show up for this interview. he had lived too long in a silent profession. the fact that he did show up is a measure of his desperation. saad is 63, married, eight children. he started as a cop but rose to the top of saudi intelligence and earned a ph.d. in the science of artificial intelligence. he could be seen in the oval office with american ambassadors, the u.s. military command, and with michael

morrell, former acting director of the cia. >> i'm a big admirer. i found dr. saad to be extraordinarily bright. i found him to be incredibly loyal to his country. >> would you say honorable? >> honorable, yes, absolutely. >> but in 2017, saad found himself on the wrong side of prince mohammed's coup. the deposed prince nayef was saad's boss. saad fled to canada where he remains and refuses to return. now prince mohammed is making saad's family pay. the very day of the coup, two of his children were barred from leaving the kingdom. this is his daughter sarah. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> and his son omar. both planned to be in american colleges. they are now in saudi prisons. next the family says prince mohammed targeted saad's son-in-law.

they claim the son-in-law was kidnapped in a third country and returned to the kingdom. >> the first night he was kidnapped, he received more than 100 lashes. he was tortured. he was beaten on his back, on his legs. >> khalid aljabri is saad's eldest son. what was he told he was being detained for? >> he was being told he was being detained and tortured as a proxy for my father-in-law, meaning my dad. they asked him a question, who do you think we should arrest and torture so dr. saad can come back to the kingdom? >> their story recalls "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi, a critic of prince mohammed. in 2018, a year after his coup, u.s. intelligence says prince mohammed sent a team to turkey to lure khashoggi to a saudi consulate and dismember him. saad told us that days later,

before khashoggi's murder was known to the public, he received a warning. a friend in a middle eastern intelligence service said another hit team was headed for saad in canada. >> and the warning i received, don't be in proximity of any saudi mission in canada, don't go to the consulate. don't go to the embassy. i said, why? he said, they dismembered the guy, they kill him. you are in the top of the list. >> saad says a six-person team landed at the ottawa airport in mid-october, 2018. he says members of the team lied to customs about knowing one another and they carried suspicious equipment for dna analysis. the team was deported. canada seems to confirm at least part of this story, saying, we are aware of incidents in which foreign actors have attempted to threaten those living in canada. it is completely unacceptable. is that the way intelligence

organizations work in this world? >> it's not a norm in this world. it's a norm for countries like russia, north korea. it's not a norm for almost any other country in the world. >> do you think mohammed bin salman fears you? >> he fears my information. >> saad told us his information includes a 2014 meeting between prince mohammed, on the left, and the then head of intelligence, mohammed bin nayef. it was three years before the coup. saad claims the young prince boasted to nayef that he could kill the sitting king, abdullah, to clear the throne for his own father. >> and he told him, i want to assassinate king abdullah, i get a poison drink from russia, it's enough for me just to shake hands with him and he will be done.

>> a poisoned ring from russia? >> that's what he said, whether it was just bragging, but he said that, and we took it seriously. >> by "we" saad means saudi intelligence took it seriously. the alleged threat, he says, was handled within the royal family. saad told us he watched the meeting on a video recording. does this video recording still exist? >> yes, i know where it is now, i know there are two copies of that. i know where they are. >> prince mohammed is 36 and wields unlimited power on behalf of his ailing 86-year-ol father, king salman. the prince is admired by some for allowing women to drive, permitting movie theaters, and disbanding the religious police who once assaulted couples for holding hands. >> there are two groups of

people in saudi arabia. there are those who are very happy with mohammed bin salman. 70% of the population that's under 30. he is not popular with the old guard, with the royal family, because he changed the system. >> but much of that change has been reckless. his war in yemen has killed thousands of civilians in what the u.n. says may be war crimes. he invited lebanon's leader to visit saudi arabia, took him hostage, and forced him to resign. he detained hundreds of potential rivals until they signed over their wealth. jailed women calling for human rights and murdered jamal khashoggi. >> i expect to be killed one day, because this guy will not

rest until he sees me dead. >> but what does america owe saad aljabri? we asked former cia acting director and cbs news consultant michael morrell who worked closely with saad from 2010 to 2013. is it too much to say that saad may have saved american lives? >> he absolutely -- dr. saad absolutely saved american lives. he saved saudi lives, many of them. and he saved american lives. >> can you name any of those cases? >> the one i can talk about is the so-called printer cartridge plot. >> in 2010, al qaeda hid bombs in two desktop printers. they were in the air as cargo, headed to the u.s. on two planes. perhaps intended to explode over american cities. but thanks to intelligence relayed by saad aljabri, the bombs were intercepted during layovers. are there any other examples of times that saad had saved american lives? >> there are. >> what are they? >> i can't talk about them

because they're still classified. >> are there several? >> there are many. many. >> while working in that classified world, saad aljabri became enormously wealthy. prince mohammed typically accuses potential rivals of corruption and saudi entities are suing saad in the u.s. and canada, claiming he stole as much as $500 million from the counterterrorism budget. did you steal the money? >> no. >> if you didn't steal the money, how did you get so rich? >> you know, i have a royal monarchy and a closed proximity for two decades. three kings. they have been nice to me. thy've been very generous. it's a tradition in saudi arabia royal family, they take care of people around them.

>> i don't know if dr. saad was corrupt in any way. i wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't, because he's such an honorable man. but i also wouldn't be surprised if he was, because everybody to some extent had their hand in the kitty. and king abdullah allowed it, permitted it. >> but in the saudi lawsuit against saad, the canadian judge has said there is, quote, overwhelming evidence of fraud. and so she has frozen his assets as the case moves forward. the saudi government declined an interview but in a statement it said, saad aljabri is a discredited former government official with a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to hide the financial crimes he committed. he implies that stealing was acceptable at the time. but it wasn't acceptable nor legal then.

and it isn't now. saad says he's thinking only of his imprisoned children. >> i have to speak out. i am appealing to the american people and to the american administration to help me to release those children and restore their lives. >> saad aljabri told us he's recorded a death video that reveals more secrets of the royal family and some of the united states. he gave us a short silent clip of the video which he told us, quote, could be released if he is killed. it includes a message to omar and sarah, his imprisoned children. >> i told them i'm sorry. i tried my best. >> does the united states as a country owe anything to saad? >> do i feel some obligation to dr. saad?

yes. does the united states of america? the people at cia do. the people at cia do. whether the country does or not, i don't know. it's a little bit of a hard question. >> it's been hard for presidents to stand up to mohammed bin salman. neither the trump nor biden administrations publicly sanctioned him after khashoggi. saudi oil isn't as important as it once was. but countering iran is, which has led to a certain tolerance of a menacing prince. that tolerance will include a meeting between president biden and mohammed bin salman this week during the president's

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if you have ever suffered through what felt like an endless night on a plane, you might jump at the chance to get to your destination in half the time. does new york the los angeles in less than three hours sound appealing? even then super fast flights were only on very limited routes. most of today's jetliners actually fly more slowly than they did 20 or 30 years ago, in order to save fuel. but they be about to change. it's still a long shot, but as we first reported last november, private startup companies with a big assist from nasa may just give us all another chance to fly faster than the speed of sound. when british airways flight 002 roared into the new york sky on october 24th, 2003, everyone on board, passengers and pilots,

knew that something special was coming to an end. >> enjoy the moment as you are the last people in the world, as passengers to cruise at twice the speed of sound. >> the supersonic concorde, a joint effort of the french and british governments, was making its light flight after 30 years in the air, grounded by a combination of stratospheric costs and safety concerns after a deadly crash in 2000. even people watching that last landing in london were emotional. >> i just love their planes. there's not going to be anything like concorde again, is there? >> never. >> well, you know that old maxim, never say never. >> the supersonic is coming back and it's going to be different this time. it's back to stay. >> blake scholl is the founder and ceo of boom. his audacious goal is to build a new supersonic airliner from scratch.

has a private company ever built a supersonic aircraft, anywhere? >> nowhere. it's been governments and militaries only. >> boom is not the only american startup company in the new supersonic sweepstakes. spike is developing an ultra fast business jet. and hermeus aspires to make a hypersonic plane that aspires to fly five times the speed of sound. but boom is the only entrant to actually build an airplane. is that it? >> that's it. >> oh, wow. so far, blake scholl and boom has built this single seater test plane which they hope with fly this year. the passenger jet meant to follow is called overture. it only exists in artists' renderings but it's real enough for one of america's largest airlines to climb on board. so is the overture the plane that united recently ordered? >> that's right. united just ordered 15 overture airplanes. so more overtures than concordes

were ever delivered into service. >> is this united deal like a stamp of approval? >> i think it's incredibly validating. when you're united, you take these things really seriously. >> seriously enough to produce a slick promotional video that's already playing on many united flights. the ad may say supersonic is here, but it's not. not yet. blake scholl is a software engineer who started his career at amazon, not in aerospace. but he insists he's going to make it happen. >> when i look several decades out, what i want is to be able to be anywhere in the world in four hours for a hundred bucks. that's not where we start but that's the end goal. >> the concorde charged thousands, thousands of dollars

for a one-way flight from new york to london. how is it going to be possible for you to have a similar flight experience for $100? >> you keep iterating. so the same way, for example, electric cars when they first came out, they were pretty expensive. but we kept working on them and the price came down. they got better and better. we're going to do the same thing with supersonic jets. we're going to keep working on them, we're just going to keep innovating. >> this industry needs people dreaming big. that is essential. this industry was built on that. >> jon ostrower is editor and chief of "the air current," a publication that tracks every development in commercial aviation, including boom and blake scholl. he admits something like he is proposing has never been done by a private company before. but yet he's convinced that he can do it. do you think he can? >> i think you cannot ignore the obstacles that will be on the path to getting there. and i think the amount of money that is required to make this happen makes this a very long shot.

>> how much money will it take? >> probably in the neighborhood of at least 15 or $20 billion. >> ostrower says that's about what it costs boeing to develop and build and certify a new subsonic airliner. and they already have huge manufacturing facilities. boom doesn't. blake scholl told us he can get overture built for 7 to $8 billion. but that's a lot more than the $300 million he's raised so far. and money is not the only hurdle. boom and united have promised their new plane will operate on 100% sustainable aviation fuel. but that doesn't exist yet in anything like the quantities they'll need. oh, and one other thing. >> they're going to need an engine to do this. >> and they don't have the engine? >> they don't have an engine. >> blake scholl says an engine is on the way from the same company that built the supersonic engines for the

concorde. >> we're working with rolls-royce on a custom jet engine that will power overture. >> you're working with rolls-royce. this engine doesn't exist yet? >> it is a lightly customized engine. and part of that is rolls-royce's work, where they're kind of turning some design knobs. skepticsut ps to twntown dismiss so long ago, no one thought he could build teslas and reusable rockets. where does this passion come from? >> because we stopped making progress on air travel. the airplanes we have today are no faster than when my parents were growing up. there's no good reason for that. we can fix it. >> when do you expect the first paid customers to fly on one of your planes? >> by the end of the decade. >> supersonic really only makes sense on a flight of four or five hours or more. that's the sound of a sonic boom, created by a boom breaking the sound barrier.

listen again. the first boom was made by chuck yeager's x-1 rocket plane when it passed through mach 1 about 660 miles per hour back in 1947. >> and he does it! >> what is the sonic boom? what generates it? >> so when an aircraft flies faster than the speed of sound, it creates disturbances. >> mike buonanno is a top engineer at lockheed martin's skunkworks aircraft design studio in california. dave richardson is his boss. >> a lot of us understand the wake that's generated by a ship or a boat. imagine that wake from a speedboat, whatever, all those different waves, coming to be one large wave. those individual disturbances created by the airplane, they combine together to make a loud

double bang. >> the federal aviation administration tested the impact of that big bang back in 1964 by flying military supersonic jets like these over oklahoma city for six months. the outcome, broken bricks and ceilings, frayed nerves and public outrage. >> it was just patently obvious that no one was going to tolerate such a loud noise on a day to day basis. >> the result was a ban on civilian supersonic flights everywhere in the world other than over open water. >> that basically hit the brakes on commercial air travel in terms of advancing speed. up until that ban, every decade air travel had gotten faster and faster. >> the ban remains in place today. so if boom gets its overture in the air, it will only be able to serve long transoceanic routes similar to what the concorde flew. >> if you want to go from jfk and new york to paris, that's okay.

but for many of us, we want to fly places over land. if you're living in los angeles, almost everywhere i want to go flying east requires overland travel. that's one of the big problems we're trying to solve. >> buonanno and richardson and their lockheed martin team have been commissioned by nasa to build a test plane that can fly twice as fast as current airliners without rattling nerves or breaking windows. your mission is to get rid of this sonic boom? >> that's right. the entire point of the airplane is to reduce sonic boom. >> the airplane is called the x-59. it will look like this when it makes its first flight later this year. for now, it looks like this inside lockheed martin's assembly building. >> you're looking at the cockpit of the airplane and there's no forward windscreen. this is it. every part of the x-59 is streamlined and smooth, to

disperse sound waves and transform the loud sonic boom into a much quieter thump. >> if you look at it, it's pretty slick. i mean, it looks like a dart. >> nils larson is the nasa test pilot whose job it will be to prove that the x-59 can replace the sonic boom with a simple thump. later this year, he'll pilot some of the early test flights and then its first sound tests. >> that's coming to a town near you. so our researchers are going to work with the public and we're going to fly over various cities and towns and they're going to give us the feedback of that thump. was that thump too loud, did you even hear it at all? >> so if you are able to fly over populated areas and provide this data, the faa will use this data to perhaps lift this ban? >> exactly. >> are we likely to see planes in the future flying supersonic that look like this one? >> i certainly hope so. and i think you will.

so there are definite things that you would see if you walked into a commercial, you know, supersonic airplane here, ten, 12 years from now, and you would look at that, you would see some dna that goes back to the x-59. >> larson took us over to nasa's x-59 flight simulator, and the first thing we noticed is there is a tv screen in place of the missing windshield. for you, does it work as well as your own eye? >> so far i think it does, about to go through mach i, there's mach i. >> we're now going supersonic. >> yes, supersonic. >> larson gave me a turn in the cockpit. not to fly supersonic but to land the x-59, which is tricky given that it's shaped like a pencil, has no windshield, and i'm not a pilot. >> pull up a little bit. so pull back a little bit. a little bit more. just hold it right there.

hold it right there. there you go. you've landed the x-59, and in the middle of the runway! that's better than i did. sign him up. >> nils larson will start test flying the real x-59 later this year. and soon after that, he'll be flying it over us. and if it's quiet enough, future planes that follow its design lead could eventually fly us lots of places twice as fast as we can get there now. when might i be able to fly from new york to los angeles in a supersonic plane? >> there's a long line of things that have to happen, starting with the x-59. but i think 2035 is your answer. if everything marches along the way it's supposed to. >> it's something that people have been trying to solve for decades. have you guys solved the problem? >> we believe we have. it's rewarding to see it getting

built. but i think that real aha moment for me is going to be when i hear that first shaped boom from x-59. >> thump-thump. >> thump-thump. we won't hear this bang. when we hear or don't hear that sound is when we know we did it. >> lockheed martin and nasa plan the first test flights of their x-59 some time this year. for its part, boom has chosen the location for the factory where it intends to build the overture airliner, greensboro, north carolina. but it still doesn't have an engine for the overture. in golf, xander shaufly won the genesis scottish open. in the wimbledon men's single

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when emmy nominations are announced this week, expect to hear the television show "ted lasso" mentioned a lot. it's a fish out of water story about an american football coach from kansas who moves to london, england to take charge of a professional soccer team, despite knowing nothing of the sport. the tale of "ted lasso" may sound improbable. but as we first reported in march, the series has become a phenomenon and changed the game in hollywood. so when production for the third season was about to begin, we went to london to meet as many members of the ensemble cast as we could, including jason sudeikis, ted lasso's mastermind and alter ego, to find out how the show scored. >> knock-a-doodle-do. >> good morning, coach. >> did you set out and say i want a character that's all about positivity and kindness and can transform people, bring

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matter where you play it. >> the show's success is even more extraordinary when you consider the show's origins. nearly ten years ago, long before "ted lasso" became gospel, he began as an arrogant, incurious commercial. >> how are you doing, this is ted lasso, i would like to talk to the queen, please. >> nbc sports needed a buzzy ad campaign to promote soccer's english premier league in the u.s. so they called sudeikis, who was finishing up a ten-year run on "saturday night live." >> skip like little girls, not a care in the world. >> he said the job sounded like fun, especially when he was allowed to invite two old friends along for the ride. before you guys created "ted lasso," you were actually best friends. >> i don't know, best. >> a lot of people in our life. >> i think we got along well. >> we're fine. >> yeah. >> how would you describe your relationship? >> i think best friends, probably. >> "ted lasso's" co-creators joe kelly and brendan hunt have known each other and jason sudeikis for more than 20 years. >> i'm going to be okay. >> after the commercials, the trio developed "ted lasso" into a more complete character, who

shed his arrogant swagger for humble curiosity. in the show ted lasso also deals with divorce. >> you're not quitting, ted. >> and mental health challenges. >> you get paid to jot down your notes and diagnose my tears. then what? >> all while bringing a feminine approach to a typically masculine job. >> y'all got to get together and woman up. >> i think you mean man up. no. y'all been manning up for a while now. look where that got you. >> if anybody claims they knew this show would work, they're fibbing a little bit. no one was sure. >> the three friends got a boost when veteran television producer bill lawrence joined the project. what was in jason's pitch that convinced you? >> he knew from the start that this was a guy that was putting out an optimistic face and that would be one note. if he wasn't also aware that was covering up someone who needed to learn about self-care and being proactive in facing whatever demons they might have. >> it got moving when bill got

involved. >> but bill said this was not a sucker show. >> he basically pounded the table and shouted, this is not a soccer show, this is a workplace ensemble comedy. but that's kind of been a guiding principle, you know. it takes place in the soccer world but it's never about the soccer at all. >> pitched me when bill and i went out, this should show is as much about soccer as "rocky" is about boxing. >> what happened when you shopped around "ted lasso" here in hollywood, what was the reaction? [ raspberry ] >> what's the opposite of a bidding war? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. it was like we'll take it. >> streaming service apple tv plus decided to take on "ted lasso" which is produced by warner bros. do you think you had more

freedom because it was apple? >> we went into filming feeling like the underdogs that richmond were. we weren't coming on the heels of a bidding war. we weren't coming on the heels of like here we go with this monster show. i feel like it helped the process, the tone, the feeling, the vibe, everything. >> the vibe behind the scenes seems to mirror the team seen on the show. we invited brendan hunt, who plays coach beard. >> brentford taking on crystal palace. >> and toheeb jimoh and kola bokinni who play soccer players on "ted lasso" to a proper saturday afternoon match. so i was kind of surprised in talking to the writers that one of the things you guys deal with in the show or are trying to dismantle is toxic masculinity. >> 100%. i think the show, the boy's locker room is the perfect place to tackle that.

>> it's very competitive, like boys being around other boys, and like everyone is pretending to be like this version of like what they think of like a man is or a young man is. >> there's versions of people in it, the person you are behind closed doors is not the person you are in real life. >> yeah. >> before he took on "ted lasso" in real life, jason sudeikis hailed from kansas just like the coach he now plays. there he was a college theater star. but just as comfortable playing point guard on the basketball team. he says richmond is partly based on his old team that also happened to be called the greyhounds. >> bill had one of these hanging in his office. >> he pointed out on the set. >> de maat, a teacher from second city. >> he named members of the team after friends, family members and former mentors. saskia maas is one of the owns where we worked in amsterdam.

>> it's hard sometimes for one word to capture so many things but for a lot of people this is the iconic "ted lasso," believe in yourself, believe in the people around you. >> yeah, absolutely. believe in the process. >> one of the shows' breakout stars, brett goldstein, believed he could play roy kent. >> check on your [ bleep ] teammate. >> the gruff, washed up tough guy with the heart of gold. >> i like being roy kent. i don't know if i can handle just being some loser has-been called roy. >> reporter: trouble was, goldstein was hired to write, not act. >> last time i saw it head to head. with roy scheider. >> we were writing it, somewhere around episode 5 i started to think, i think roy kent is living inside me. >> how did brett goldstein go from writer to star? >> just flat out showbiz gumption, you know? he just felt a connection to the

character and so he taped himself, sent it to bill, saying, hey, if this is good, you know, great, if it's not, we never need to talk about this again. >> they're like, brett turned in a roy video. oh, did he? fire it up. and immediately it was like, brett's right. it was immediate. >> you all played like a bunch of little pricks, you hear me? >> yes, coach! >> roy is very gruff, very angry. it's always jarring when he call brett and he answers the phone, "hello, how are you"? "how are you, dear friend?" he's the sweetest, most gentle man. >> he is a cogent of imagination that he doesn't want anyone to know about who has been raised in a culture of almost toxic masculinity to be a [ bleep ]. and he has all these feelings and these emotions but he cannot express them. and he has to keep them pent-up, which is why he talks like he talks, because he's holding it all in. he's like a cork, if you pulled

it out he would cry and sing and, you know, fly off. >> you're nearly 70 and you're having a baby? what are you, a character from the [ bleep ] bible? >> hannah waddingham, who spent much of the last 20 years performing musical theater in london's west end, plays team owner rebecca wilton. why do you think the show resonated with so many people and does it have something to do with the pandemic? >> i think it does and it doesn't. people associate it with the pandemic time, of course, because it was a massive hug and it was a way of everyone blocking it out. the show is a massive hug. >> a hug to what? >> to people, to humanity. i think it's what everybody needed at the time. they needed a hug. and a reminder to be kind to

each other. a reminder to include each other. a reminder to check in with each other, even if you think someone's got their stuff together, they haven't. i also think that had the pandemic not happened, it would have done exactly the same thing because there's something about our show that reminds everyone that you don't have to be cutting to be funny. you can be warm and funny and kind and giving and supportive and accepting and funny. and that's what makes "ted lasso" distinct. >> yes. >> at last year's emmys, waddingham, goldstein, and sudeikis all took home trophies for acting. >> i'm eternally grateful. >> and the show won outstanding comedy series. >> richmond was more of a cricket town than a football town. >> the richmond greyhounds may be a make-believe team. but richmond the town is 100% real. this is the real version of the set?

>> yeah. you kind of can't fake richmond, really. this bar is great. we basically built an exact replica. >> this is not what i expected today. >> the day we were there, so were fans of the show, including a young woman who had traveled from germany and had just gotten a tattoo in honor of "ted lasso." >> it's still in a ziploc. >> and it read, be curious, not judgmental. i mean, this is pretty special, being out here, right? >> yes. >> we also took a walk on the field where the richmond greyhounds shoot most of their soccer scenes. it's kind of great, your pitch is right near the studio. >> i know, something else. happy accident. >> in typical midwestern fashion, jason sudeikis was not entirely comfortable explaining the show's success, nor taking credit for it. what do you think the legacy of "ted lasso" is decades from now? >> i don't know. i hope folks keep watching it. there's a decent chance it will

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