secretary, thank you for your time. thank you. a quick programming note for all of you join jake tapper for a cnn special report called trumping democracy: an american coup. it airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow night on cnn. coming up for us, the mayor of st. louis is trying to do something about gun violence in her city only to have a speech that she s giving about that interrupted by gunfire. she joins me live next . . .
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and jihad grew out of that. for the saudis, that was something they could push and they had a religious background to push it. we know to this day there are religious zealots in saudi arabia who still adhere to al qaeda s beliefs. one of them attacked soldiers in pensacola, florida in the past couple years. that threat is still active in saudi arabia, but it s actually a threat to the monarchy in saudi arabia. al qaeda hates the monarchy of saudi arabia. it s in the monarchy s interest in saudi arabia to fight the interests. when we hear from the foreign minister and ambassador saying we support the full release of the report, we want to work together on counterterrorism, they have skin in the game. it s in their interest to keep al qaeda and that threat down. for them especially. all right. we ll leave it right there for you. thank you both so much.
let s talk about how close this comes to some of the family members of the victims of 9/11. joining us, terry strata j the national chair of 9/11 families. her husband, tom, was killed in the north tower of the world trade center. terry, so glad you could be with us. and again, our hearts go out to you, and all of the loved ones of 9/11 victims. has to be a very difficult weekend. at the same time, does this offer some answers for you? seeing this report if you have had a chance already to take a look? yes, i have had an opportunity to look at it, and i d like to correct what was just said earlier in the reporting, that the saudi arabia welcomes all of this. no. saudi arabia has been fighting us tooth and nail to keep all of this evidence buried. it s what they put out in the press, but it s not true at all. they don t even release their own files.
correspondent and cnn international diplomatic editor. alex, you first. these documents are heavily redacted. but they do tell us something. what? they do. we should note this was released late saturday night after the events commemorating the anniversary of 9/11. and as you mentioned, this is the first part of what we expect to be a series of documents to be declassified following the president s order. this was a 16-page heavily redacted report from the fbi, and what it is is a summary of an interview that the fbi did with a saudi citizen in 2015. this report coming out in 2016, and classified until now. what it does is summarizes this interview with a saudi who worked at the saudi consulate in los angeles. he is not named in this report. he was applying for u.s. citizenship, and he had contact, the fbi says, with people who they themselves had contact with two of the 9/11 hijackers. you can see on your screen the