for saudis, religious saudis and not all are, but for religious saudis, it is a -- it is something that governs everything you do all day long, and thus the society is very conservative and it does listen to the clerics who are the arbiters of what is the proper islam, and the religious -- the al-saud family wants to say religious because their relate legitimacy is we are the protectors and promoters of the one true islam, and the one true islam with is wahabism, it is this conservative brand of islam. saudis like to say there is no such thing as wahabism, it's salifism,, it simply means being back to the basics, back to the beginning of islam, and that's what we are promoting, but whatever you call it, it is a very conservative philosophy of islam. >> rose: and a political force. >> and a political force, because the only people who can organize anything in the country aside from the government are the religious. >> rose: as you know, "60 minutes" did a piece about the 28 pages missing from the 9/11 commission report and has never been declassified. there is a real effort and former se

it saudis, religious saudis, is something that governs everything that you do all day long.ery the society is conservative and it does listen to the clerics who are the arbiters of what is the proper islam. the religious family wants to very symbiotic relationship with the religious because their legitimacy comes from the view that we are the protectors and promotoers of the one true islam, and the one true , ism, according to this man wahhabism. it is this conservative brand of islam. like to say there is no such thing as wahhabism, it is solipsism. back to the meaning basics, back to the beginning of islam. it is, whether you call it solid is a more wahhabism, it is a very -- solophism over wahhabism, it is a very conservative view. charlie: and a political force. >> the only people that can organize anything in the country, aside from the government, are the religious. charlie: as you may know, "60 minutes" did a piece about the 28 pages missing from the 9/11 commission report. it has never been declassified. ande is a real effort, former senator ben graham from florida h

no high-level saudi support and left open the possibility of saudi individuals, saudi princes, other. this -- you know, 28 pages that are yet to be declassified of a different report certainly is going to leave some tantalizing clues about saudi involvement. and then it's going to be something that people are going to still follow. i think it's hard to imagine that the saudi government had a policy of helping and might be something there. >> thanks very much, mark, from "the new york times." that does it for us this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from philadelphia. follows online on facebook and on twitter. and stay with us for special coverage of the announcement expected in flint, michigan, criminal charges related to the water crisis. rachel maddow and brian williams are up next. your loving touch stimulates his senses and nurtures his mind. the johnson's scent, lather, and bubbles help enhance the experience. so why just clean your baby, when you can give him so much more? thope to see you again soon.. whoa, whoa, i got this. just gotta get the check. almost th

the saudis deny that. 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudi. their leader, al qaeda mastermind osama bin laden, was part of a powerful saudi family with close ties to the royal family. senator graham: the position of the united states government has been to protect saudi arabia at virtually every step of the judicial process. sharyl: and that may be the problem -- could the 28 pages unravel the alliance between the u.s. and a close arab ally in the mideast? sharyl: has someone put an official reason out there for why this is still classified? lynch: having read the 28 pages, i think it's to, to allow those individuals to escape accountability. sharyl: former congressman pete hoekstra read the 28 pages a decade ago when he headed the house intelligence committee. sharyl: you read the pages many years ago. can you imagine what's in there today that would be so sensitive to the saudis as well as the obama administration? hoekstra: well, it may be embarrassing to the saudis or other governments but that's no reason to now continue to withhold this

it drew criticism from the saudis. more than two dozen family members kills in the 9/11 attacks sent a letter to the white house urging president obama to support the bill giving the ability to sue foreign interest. they contended it would resolve the question of whether saudi arabia or others should assume responsibility for the 2001 attacks. >> rich, thank you. >>> one day before the new york primary, a couple campaign stumbles. hillary clinton tries to clear up confusion over whose side she's on on a bill to allow 9/11 families to sue saudi arabia. bernie sanders tax returns raised eyebrows over what he's paid to the government. ed henry is on the road to the campaigns. >> victory tomorrow. >> reporter: hillary clinton was in full damage control mode today on whether she supports a bill by new york senator, shuck schumer to give them a chance to sue saudi arabia. that came after clinton stumbled. she's running on experience suggested she has not done her homework on the issue. >> i knlt, i haven't studied it. i try

laura: the president called the saudis freeloaders. a message i imagine he will be delivering in person. saudis i'mhat the not doing enough to combat the islamic state in the region? >> i don't know if i would use that term, but there's no question that the saudis can do more to take on extremism. they are predominantly focused on iran. formhave stopped in some supporting our campaign against isil to focus on iran and the conflict inside yemen. in yemen there has been niemendous growth of the yeme branch of al qaeda. yet the saudis have been exclusively on the houthis. there is no doubt they can do more. laura: by publicly questioning the relationship with the saudis , do you risk destabilizing an alliance that has served america for decades? buy the argument that by raising public concerns about americanionship or foreign-policy objective that you are weakening this country or this relationship. frankly, i think it is congress over the course of its history, questioning american foreign-policy, that has often righted our ship abroad.

they all went to saudi schools.hey learned from the time they were first able to go to school of this intolerant brand of islam. >> kroft: lehman is talking about wahhabism, the ultra- conservative, puritanical form of islam that is rooted here and permeates every facet of society. there is no separation of church and state. after oil, wahhabism is one of the kingdom's biggest exports. saudi clerics, entrusted with islam's holiest shrines, have immense power and billions of dollars to spread the faith. building mosques and religious schools all over the world that have become recruiting grounds for violent extremists. 9/11 commissioner john lehman says all of this comes across in the 28 pages. >> lehman: this is not going to be a smoking gun that is going to cause a huge furor. but it does give a very compact illustration of the kinds of things that went on that-- that would really help the american people to understand why, what, how, how is it that these people are springing up all over the world to go to jihad? >

has with saudi.ou've got some serious fractious issues at play. >> thank you for joining us on the program. next, syrian peace talks have stalled. but international relief efforts have intensified. aid groups launched their largest assistance, and it comes a day after the u.n. evacuated hundreds of residents from several besieged towns. our oliver has more on what's been described as the largest operation of its kind in the five-year conflict. reporter: rastan was among the first towns to rise up against the syrian regime. since 2012 it hs been surroued by pro-government forces. now they are getting through to those remaining residents trapped amird the -- amid the ruins. behind me, you see the -- they are lining up in the co convoy. today we are bringing very much needed humanitarian assistance and aid. reporter: further south, close to the lebanese border, several hundred residents were allowed to leave besieged towns. among the towns evacuated we zabadani, also madaya. rebel towns that have become

it drew criticism from the saudis. more than two dozen family members kills in the 9/11 attacks sent a letter to the white house urging president obama to support the bill giving the ability to sue foreign interest. they contended it would resolve the question of whether saudi arabia or others should assume responsibility for the 2001 attacks. >> rich, thank you. >>> one day before the new york primary, a couple campaign stumbles. hillary clinton tries to clear up confusion over whose side she's on on a bill to allow 9/11 families to sue saudi arabia. bernie sanders tax returns raised eyebrows over what he's paid to the government. ed henry is on the road to the campaigns. >> victory tomorrow. >> reporter: hillary clinton was in full damage control mode today on whether she supports a bill by new york senator, shuck schumer to give them a chance to sue saudi arabia. that came after clinton stumbled. she's running on experience suggested she has not done her homework on the issue. >> i knlt, i haven't studied it. i try

saudi arabia is too big. we are too big or they will overlap, these two countries, and there is going to be a way to see that. hide.not run and they cannot run and hide. they are too big. we are too big. let's take a call from a democrat. good morning, congressman. i have been looking at relations between america and the middle east, from even before i was born. honestly, i feel, and you can tell me if i am wrong, i feel as though the hand we have had in pursuing and spreading democracy with the a turn majority of the people in the middle east who are very true to their islamic beliefs and do not want any part or any hand in democracy. can you say that a lot of the things occurring today has a lot to do with the choices and our hand in trying to pursue a push democracy in areas within the middle east, which goes against a lot of their religious beliefs? democracy isk that compatible with islam. we had a vibrant democracy in turkey. unfortunately, president and the gan is president erdo moving the country away

isis attacks on saudi civilians?amela, i think this is just the beginning. the target for the islamic state is the royal family and the islamic state has gone on record it wants to take back mecca and medina and in order to do that it has to get rid of the royal family, and this was unthinkable two years ago but with the war in yemen, and the chaos, and there's a ground swell of support for radical islam in saudi arabia, and the saudis have held down over the years and how much longer can it go long especially with the economic problems. >> you just think that if isis is able to convince people to kill their own family members, it shows you the kind of influence the terror groups wields, right? >> saudi arabia is a tribal society and the clans are close and there's a lot of loyalty inside the families and when you see families turn against each other, i have never seen this. >> we know president obama had a high profile trip to saudi arabia last week and a prominent member of saudi royal family said, quote, a recalib

quote, officials saudi assistance for at least two of the saudi citizens who sellinged in san diego. and the saudi embassy in is transfer of some $130,000 from then saudi ambassador prince band ar's checking account. quote, the saudi ambassador funded two of the 9/11 hijackers through a third party. you are quite right, the saudi arabiian government denies, they say the government as an ins stoot institution supported the hijackers. they say senior officials did not. they are leaving a hole a mack truck could drive through. government institution, senior officials? what about junior officials and everything else. >> if some individual funded any aspect of the 9/11 attack, by all means they can be sued. and they should be. there is no issue of sovereign immune h immuni immunity. i understand why the families of the victims of the 9/11 attack are upset. there is no question about that. but that doesn't mean that our government should forfeit its responsibility, particularly when you think of the precedent that we would be seth. it may make us feel good or let's really be honest here. i

>> well, i think what the saudis had was an understanding with the united states that whatever the saudisndicated they wanted was a sham, that what they really wanted was to keep this matter away from the american people and that they would use the commitment of the united states government to do so as their cover to say, we want to have the full information disclosed. and let me say one other thing, michael. >> please. go ahead. >> we talk about the 28 pages. they're important. but there are thousands of other documents which relate to the role of the saudis in 9/11 which also have been withheld. i think the president ought to make a commitment to release all the information, to be totally transparent with the american people as to what the saudis did so that as we go through this what's going to be a rocky period of our relationship, at least all sides will be dealing from the level of truth as to what actually happened. >> i expect that if i, as an american citizen should ever be afforded the opportunity to read the 28 pages, that i won't see a smoking gun. but it's a principle of tran

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and saudi views about what needs to be done in the region, about yemen, about syria, and about saudi my guess is, the idea that comes in late january, things are going to turn around fundamentally, is just a pipe dream on the saudi part. the reality is, we are stuck with each other, for better and increasingly for worse. katty: richard, thank you. katty: as we have said, president obama is now in the u.k., and the issue on whether britain should leave that european union looms large. the president expressed his views that written is better off staying there in the paper. we are traveling with mr. obama and have this report. reporter: barack obama waived goodbye, probably hugely relieved that this was the last time he would have to go to saudi arabia as president. relations have seriously strained. london will be much easier in comparison. whether or not there will be a warmer welcome controversy , awaits over the brexit. when i spoke to him last summer at the white house, he was for -- he was fairly forthright on the issue. president obama: having the united kingdom in the european u

president obama was in saudi arabia today, when he met with saudi arabian leaders.t destination tomorrow is great britain, and what he will address the brexit. here to talk about the broader implications is a talk panel of experts. we have gideon rose of foreign affairs magazine. their new issue is out this week. john micklethwait is the editor in chief of the bloomberg news. bret stephens, foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor at the wall street journal. and jane harman, former ranking member of the house intelligence committee, and currently president of the woodrow wilson center. welcome all. so obama in saudi arabia cannot , have been the easiest trip of this administration. not a lot of specifics have come out, but one thing i have seen already, ben rhodes said, this was an opportunity to clear the air. that is not what you usually say about one of your more important allies. bret, i will start with you. how truly damaged is the saudi relationship? is it really an opportunity to do anything to fix the relationship? bret stephens: i think yo

-saudi issue. this is a matter of how generally the united states approaches our interactions with countries. the possibility that individuals in the united can routinely start suing other governments, we are also opening up the united states to continually sued by countries. in other >> ambassador fraker, the saudi arabia said if that were to happen, if that bill pass, they would off load tremendous amount of u.s. treasuries. anyou think they would pull economic liver lik -- lever like that? >> that's a very real threat. i think congress needs to take account the damage that this would do and the risks, the diplomats and our military put at.l will be economist will look at whether it's feasible for the saudis to unload their various u.s. government holdings. course, it would put them in a difficult position because holdings, if those were to be attached, it would put everyone in very difficult position. i think there are good reasons this legislation. >> saudi arabia highlighted a sort ofwith iran

/saudi issue. this is a matter of how generally the united states approaches our interactions with other countries. if we open up the possibility fee that -- that individuals in the united states can routinely start suing other governments, then we are also opening up the united states to being continually sued by individuals in other countries. >> you can see charlie's interview including the president's relationship with vladamir putin tomorrow morning on "cbs this morning." then later, on "the charlie rose show" tomorrow evening on pbs. >>> now to the race to replace president obama on the eve of the new york primary, our latest cbs news battleground tracker shows, former new york senator hillary clinton with a 10-point lead over brooklyn-born bernie sanders. and new york businessman, donald trump, has more support than his competitors combined. nancy cordes is covering the democarts. major garrett covering the republicans. nancy, bernie sanders needs an upset. he has come back from behind befor

arabia -- in yemen, by saudi arabia?under the obama administration, we have made more arms deals with the saudis than any other time in history. it is been a full gamut. there have been, ships, missile defense systems, fighter planes, attack helicopters, guns, bombs, missiles -- basically, an entire arsenal. on top of that, they are giving target information to the saudis , refueling aircraft. they are in the middle of the conflict. i think there are a couple of reasons. one is this notion of reassuring the saudis about iran, one is the underlying issue of oil politics, and one is the fact that it benefits large numbers of weapons contractors like boeing and lockheed martin and others. nermeen: one of the justifications some u.s. officials have made about continuing arms sales to saudi arabia is that they are precision bombs that are actually diminishing the number of civilian casualties in yemen. >> that is an outrageous claim. they're trying to divert attention. it is not even clear the saudis are making any effort to

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and saudi arabia. correspondent margaret warner has the story.o >> warner: beneath the ornate chandeliers of riyadh's diriyah palace this morning, saudi king salman gave flicker of a smile, as president obama outlined steps the u.s. and gulf statesf were taking to deepen cooperation on regional and security challenges. but their two days of meetings came amidst new strains emerging in the decades-long partnership between the two countries, first the fundamental bargain: oil for guns. a reliable supply of saudi oil, in return for u.s. military protection, and weaponry, for the kingdom.p but today shale-oil-and-gas rich america has less need of saudi oil. and with the region in turmoil, from conflicts in syria, iraq and yemen, islamic state aggression, oil prices falling, and a rising iran, the original bargain is fraying. >> this is a relationship that saw its glory days in the 1980s, 1990s.gl but since the al qaeda attacks on sept 11, 2001, a lot of mistrust has seeped into this relationship and this b

saudi relations. tomorrow's degz nation is saudi arabia.is the broader i plications for the u.s. foreign policy is a top panel of experts. we have gideon rose editor of foreign affairs. putin russia down but not yet out. john mick wait is the he had if you are in chief of bloomberg news and bret stephens foreign awares columnist and deputy editorial page editor at the "wall street journal." and jane harman former ranking member of the house intelligences committee and currently president of the woodrow wilson center. welcome all. so obama in saudi arabia can't have been the easiest trip of this administration, not a lot of specifics that have come out but one thing i've seen already, ben rhodes said that this was an opportunity to clear the air. what do you usually say about one of your more important allies. bret i'll start with you. how truly damaged is this saudi relationship and what can he do at this point. >> the president dug a hole for himself in a number of ways. he didn't support modern syrian opposition. they were distressed by t

the saudis are threatening billions in u.s.estments in american courts to hold them responsible for 9/11. is the saudi action driven by their concern that the 28 kroous crucial pages from the award may finally be released. the co-chair from that committee is here and donald trump is angry saying the delegate system is rigged to ignore actual voters. does he have a point? plus, behind the scenes in the gop delegate fight, i'm going to talk to sean spicer, ted cruz' delegate wrangler and two members of the rnc rules committee. but first, stunning news today on the front page of the new york times, poll lizzer prize winner said it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars worth of american asset ifs our congress passes a bill to allow the saudi government to be held responsible for the attacks on september 1 11. the article states the obama administration has been lobbying on the side of the saudis and this comes four days before president obama travels to saudi arabia and raises a concern i have often spoken about. an inexcus

would allow victims to sue the saudi's. the white house is certain to veto the bill and saudi's have threatened to hurt our economy if it takes sides with saudi arabia, is he doing that? general jack came will way and. our very broken borders. did you know there are more illegal immigrants criminals in the united states than the entire population of the city of pittsburgh or anaheim? the answer for you. and the hot new website he street, a big interview with arnold schwarzenegger on who he is supporting for president and also who got that terminator body. explaining it all. trump's new victory in new york making it mathematically impossible for ted cruz to nab the nomination by getting 1237 delegates, trump picking up 89 of the state's 95 delegates challenging ted cruz to get out of the race altogether tweeting today, quote, ted cruz is mathematically out of winning the race. all he can do is be a spoiler, never a nice thing to do. i will beat hillary but it won't be easy for donald trump to get that magic delegate number,

saudi arabia also confirming it plans to sell a stake in saudi aramco.e variety of things to be discussed in saudi arabia for the president. >> as the meeting unfolds one of the main issues is the ipo. we want to look at why saudi arabia is doing this and what the size and scope of this deal is. saudi aramco controls the king's oil. widely considered the most valuable company in the world. generations of saudi leaders worked to buy out foreign owners so the kingdom would have complete control of the oil resources. today they're putting a chunk of the company on the auction block. it's expected to be worth -- the world's largest publicly traded firm with value estimates between $2 billion to $2.5 trillion. the saudis only looking to sell a 5% stake. raising a little more than a hundred billion dollars. it wouldn't include the king's oil reserves. a source familiar with the situation confirming that jpmorgan and michael klein and company tapped to lead the deal. it's thought early 2017 is likely. what does it tell us? saudi gdp expected to shrink another 1

the saudi's forest strong objections to it.has to do with the issues of sovereign unity and accountability. we are trying to understand the administration's concerns to see whether there is a path forward to accomplish our objective. that is to give away to where the victims can be compensated. host: what about the 28 pages of the report in the investigation of what happened and what led up on september 11 that people have called for the release of them to the public? guest: the 28 pages is part of a report issued for part of the 9/11, it is being reviewed now by the administration to see whether it will be released to the public. parts of it will be redacted and released. i have reviewed those 28 pages in a classified setting, so i cannot comment on it under my oath of office. i cannot give my view on it, but generally, we are giving as much transparency as we can make. the more transparency, the better off we are. host: what could they learn about the 28 pages? general? talk about in i don't want to get you in trouble. [laugh

-- saudi's starting this conversation right now. saudis inside the tent now.israelis, who we do not share values with, there are no women's rights, gay rights like there are in israel. but we ask ourselves hard questions about what the saudi kingdom might do if they do not feel that they have a real alliance with united states. your argument, you can see that with the freelance policy in yemen, which we may not like. this also extends to bahrain and other places in the region. a kingdom that fuels -- feels afraid like it might go down, it is likely to be dangerous. we have an interest in making sure saudi arabia does not become the next syria. having always princes, various sort of religious currents, do we want to see saudi arabia implode? ian bremmer: let me ask another question. wanted judge obama's foreign policy over seven years, one way you can do it, to what extent our relationships but it or worse? it is clearly more difficult with relationships in the middle east. i want to ask you, how much of that can you honestly put on one person, on the obama adm

arabia. >> how much is this saudi arabia just feeling isolated. >> i just came back from saudi arabiahe crown prince is trying to reform saudi arabia in a way which i think is very difficult to grasp the full extent that he wants to move saudi arabia away from an oil economy. he wants to open up the aftermath of the economy, he wants to change things he's getting rid of subsidies many things which will be announced next week. what's interesting to me is he's actually trying to do these reforms and in the back of his brain it's obviously there's this thing how much can they rely on america. gideon's right in the end for the ease -- saudis is a i thin. >> and starting this conversation. >> yes, you can argue that definitely. but it's a bigger attempt on you. >> i think to borrow lbj's phrase we want the saudis inside the tent doing something out rather than the other way. look unlike the israelis we don't share values with the saudis, there are no women's rights or no gay gay rights. they are starting too see the foreign policy in yemen which we intent entirely like and in the region. a

below the highest levels of the saudi government, saudis do play a two-faced game.nd look the other way as many of their princes and underlings and other people from the hobbyist institutions and pay money to make terrorism go away inside their own borders. pakistan and saudi are two of the nations that have the most two-faced approaches. but at the top levels of the government, the king, the foreign minister, the minister of intelligence, the top people in the military, they were powerfully pro-american and have been for a long time. >> let's talk more about the 28-page report that you're talking about. on monday, president obama and the white house said it's almost finished with a review of the confidential 28-page sxz of the report and can determine whether it's going to be declassified. families of 9/11 victims would like to see these 28 pages be released. do you think they should be? >> absolutely. i think people have a right to know what happened. if there's something that they have that the 9/11 commission did not have, we all have a right to know. >> why are

today saudi intelligence is a major ally in fighting al qaeda, isis, and its ilk and yet saudi funding of islamic extremism has not ended and it's pernicious effects can be seen from pakistan to indonesia. the funds now come from individuals, not the government, still it is hard to imagine that the absolutist monarchy of saudi arabia cannot turn off the pipeline of money to extremists. the reason probably is that saudi arabia is reluctant to take on its religious extremists for fear of backlash. hardline preachers and ideologues have significant sway in saudi associates. they are known for vast and growing social media, last known is within that social media the biggest stars are preachers and extremist ideologues. were the saudi monarchy to fall it may not be replaced by a group of liberals and democrats but rather by islamists and reactionaries, and having watched this movie in iraq, egypt, libya and syria i'm somewhat cautious about cavalierly destabilizing a regime that is at the end of the day in many areas, defense, foreign policy, oil, finance, a stable ally. saudi arabia has cr

he bumped into wt he recognized as two saudis. iw you're f from out of state. do you need a pla to live. what can i do to help you? >> his secondry involved this man, an oer roomma. >> ra baba. i know him. the two men lived here in this patterson, new jersey, apartment and later in virginia fox news found shay awe still living in the u.s. >> za hawes w always very well dressed anytime we dealt with him. nenever woworked. never had a job. >>>> during the course of our ininvestigatione found that h h had me a call to the saudi embassy inn whingto and also made a cl to the saudi embassy in russia. ten months waspent investating the relationship with the hijackerers. >>e admitted that za hawesa to me to go to the im and ask him for work. >> when he wen he saw t he was in a figig with somebodyt the sque. he said didn't fee he was a religious man becausef the argument. thene went into the praye area. after theraye wereovover, he turned aund andhe two hijackers were standin there. we thought tt was ve, very strange that they picked him t

the saudi's locked a deal. cked a deal.lyarge part of the which started early in february was based on investors and the sentiment in the market being bullish because of the potential freeze. the verdict is out. they were not able to achieve a freeze. it was a clear indication that there was no agreement. go?: how low does it if you look at paris stocks, we were down almost to $28 kirk ferentz. -- for brent. justified.ould be for brent. manus: the supply and demand situation is critical. saudi and kuwait production are at juxtaposition. is that my biggest risk? hedge funds are bullish. they are geared for a rally. they are on the wrong side of the trade. they are ready to crank out more oil, the saudi's. >> yesterday's meeting was an indication to the iranians -- if you are not joining, we have enough power to crank up production. now that there is no freeze, the saudi's can increase production. see you a and other members -- uae and other members increase. the money managers expecting production to be frozen and not increa

and the 9/11 commission has found no evidence that the saudi government or senior saudi officials individuallyo you believe they played a role and at what level? >> i would very much like to see the senate report. i would like to know what they know. based on what the 9-1-1 commission showed, the saudi government actually was tremendously helpful to us in fighting terror. there was no evidence that the saudi government played any role in september 11th. now, below the levels, the highest levels of the saudi government, they wink and look the other way as many of their princes and underlings and other people and institutions and pay money to make terrorism go away inside their own borders. pakistan and saudi are two of the nations that have the most two-faced approaches. but at the top levels of the government, the king, the foreign minister, the top people in the military, they were powerfully pro-american and have been for a long time. >> let's talk more about the 28-page report you're talking about. on monday, president obama and the white house said it's almost finished with the review of t

-saudi relations. saudi officials involved can ignore that the state visit comes as the u.s. senate considers a rare bipa bipartisan bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue the saudi government. >> it's very simple. if the saudis were complicit, if the saudi government was complicit in terrorism, then they should pay the price. >> reporter: at the center of the family's case are 28 heavily redacted pages of the congressional investigation into 9/11. which detail allegations that wealthy saudis tied to the royal family funded al qaeda in the run up to the 9/11 attacks. former senator, bob graham, served on the senate intelligence committee, and supports the legislation. >> there are literally thousands of documents that provide some insight as to the saudis' role in 9/11. and my position is, all that information should be made available to the public. >> reporter: the saudi position remains that the 9/11 commission already exonerated the government to saudi arabia. >> if you look at th