>> roemer: very hard.hese are tough documents to get your eyes on. >> kroft: roemer and others who have actually read the 28 pages, describe them as a working draft similar to a grand jury or police report that includes provocative evidence. some verified, and some not, they lay out the possibility of official saudi assistance for two of the hijackers who settled in southern california. that information from the 28- pages was turned over to the 9/11 commission for further investigation. some of the questions raised were answered in the commission's final report. others were not. is there information in the 28 pages that, if they were declassified, would surprise people? >> roemer: sure, you're gonna be surprised by it. and you're gonna be surprised by some of the answers that are sitting there today in the 9/11 commission report about what happened in san diego, and what happened in los angeles and what was the saudi involvement. >> kroft: much of that surprising information is buried in footnotes and appe

tim roemer, former congressman and u.s. ambassador to india read the 2 pages multiple times.t as member of the joint inquiry. later as a member of the blue ribbon 9/11 commission which picked up where congress' investigation left off. how hard is it to actually read the 2 page8 pages? >> very hard. tough documents to get your eyes on. >> roemer and others who have read the 2 page deez scribe them as a working draft, similar to a grand jury or police report which includes provocative evidence, some verified, some not. they lay possibility of official saudi assistance for two hijackers who settled in southern california. that information from the 28 pages was turned over to the 9/11 commission for further investigation. some of the questions raised were answered in the commission's final report. others were not. is there information in the 28 pages if they were declassified would surprise people? >> sure you are going to be surprised by it. and you are going to be surprised by some of the answers that are sitting there today, in the 9/11 commission report. about what happened i

tim roemer is another. he served as u.s.sador to india and was a member of the 9/11 commission. he joins us now from washington. do you concur -- tell us what you can under the content of 28 pages and how significant they are to what we're looking at today? >> good morning, mika, nice to be with you. i'll start by just telling you a little about the 28 pages and where they come from. i think it's important to understand the context. they were written by joint intelligence committees of the house and senate back in 2002 right after the 9/11 attacks. they were written in about a 12-month time period. not a lot of time to look at the possibility of foreign nation involvement in the attacks of 9/11 that killed almost 3,000 people. then after those were written, some people have described them as a preliminary police report. clues, investigative clues about what might have happened. also some concrete conclusions about what took place. many of us knew from serving on the joint intelligence committee that we had a lot more work to

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tim roemer, congressman on the 9/11 commission, a democrat.evidence about the hijackers, people they met with all kinds of things the commission was tasked reviewing and investigating. wow, where does that lead us? >> they say it read like a police report. classified portions names. sources and methods are important. i classification. we need to know how high up it went in saudi arabia that should inform the next president of the united states republican or democrat how we treat them toward a threat only expanding as we look towards europe and united states and islamic state. we vent contained it. we need a clear-eyed discussion who our friends at all. there are questions whether saudi arabia is that. release the 28 pages. bill: bob graham, former senator from florida, democrat. most important question did these 19 people conduct a sophisticated operation alone or were they supported. do you think the white house does it pete, final answer? >> i think bad step would be releasing it and keeping certain portions still classified because it will

these are people who's seen the classified information, this he know what's in it, and according to roemer, even the saudi government supports it. so why the hang-up? >> bill, i think that we have seen -- there have been some high-profile champs in texample news recently -- of how well-intentioned patriotic national security professionals can arrive at different conclusions about what information can be made public without damaging our national secure and what information must be withheld. and this is always part of a vigorous bureaucratic debate. i know the bureaucrat being often has a negative connotation. i don't necessarily mean it that way. i just mean that there are well-intentioned individuals with different points of view who can can arrive at different conclusions, or at least engage in a debiate that leaves them o different sides of that debate about what information can be made public without risking u.s. national security. i can't speak to the nature of the debate in this instance because i haven't read the 28 pages, but the president is certainly hopeful that this is something