letter to the attorney general eric holder saying that investigators believe that awlaki had contact with three of the hijackers on flight 77, that s the plane that hit the pentagon. the homeland security committee s probe is focusing on the extent awlaki may have helped the hijackers and whether or not he supported any al-qaeda terror plot before the attacks of 9/11. he was living in the united states for years before now taking his home in yemen. president obama, meanwhile, talking jobs on his bus tour of the midwest, saying he s got a detailed plan to deal with unemployment but it will not be public until september, he s accusing republicans of playing politics on jobs and republicans saying this is all just the president on the campaign trail today. caroline shively, on the north lawn, how long before we get the jobs plan, caroline? we re going to have to wait at least three weeks, maybe longer. that s when congress returns from its august recess. take a listen to the president
a rap sheet with arrest for prostitution and another for loitering around a school. is this lunch shocking to you in some ways? this looks like it may have been another example of where the department of defense was unaware of what the department of justice and the fbi knew about al awlaki. just to give you some context here. what we show in our upcoming special is that al awlaki had contacts with three of the five hijackers on flight 77. the pilot so to see that he had contacts with these three men, who flew that plane into the pentagon and then he returned four months later to have lunch here, it has a very erie effect. it s sort of like a thief returning to the scene of the crime. trace? it will be fascinating. the national correspondent live for us in d.c. thank you. can you see more for catherine s investigation tonight in our special presentation fox news reporting secrets of 9/11. that s tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. well, separate court
through the freedom of information act and there were three things about that lunch that bothered our team. first and foremost, this was a good example of how the left didn t know what the right was doing. on the one hand, the fbi had interviewed anwar al-awlaki four times in the first eight days after 9/11 about his contacts with three of the five hijackers on flight 77, on the other hand, he was being invited by pentagon lawyers as a moderate muslim to speak at that military headquarters. secondly, when you look at the e-mail that we obtained about that lunch you ll see that almost all of it is redact terms of who was invited and what was clear to our team, on the one hand, there s very little vetting of awlaki that went into that lunch but on the other hand, certainly these pentagon lawyers put a lot of effort into getting their names off these documents sent back to us. final point, awlaki ate at an executive dining room at the pentagon and most people in the military will go their
al-awlaki s contacts with three of the five hijackers who were on flight 77. what you ll see in our special tonight is that anwar al-awlaki s contacts with these three men were not a coincidence and not random but that there is overwhelming evidence that this was a purposeful relationship and that anwar al-awlaki helped facilitate these men as they lead up to the 9/11 attacks. now in these documents we obtained from the defense department we have somewhat of an explanation as to why anwar al-awlaki was invited there and it is written by one of the defense department lawyers. i have the privilege of hearing one of mr. anwar al-awlaki s presentations in november and was impressed both by the extent of his knowledge and how he communicated that information and handled a hostile element in the audience. it goes onto describe how they are very interested in his views on the united states and also on the middle east. just to point out one thing in closing if you take a close look
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