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hello again. thank you for joining me. a newly declassified fbi document is shedding new light on the investigation into the 9/11 terror attacks and suspected saudi government support for at least two of the hijackers. the release came on the 20th anniversary of the attacks and just a week after president biden issued an executive order to declassify the reports following pressure from victims of 9/11 victims. now to our senior national security correspondent. alex, good to see you again. there are a lot of redactions in the documents. that s right. the 9/11 families have told the president in a letter essentially don t bother showing up to the memorials yesterday unless you do this. now, this report, this document was released by the fbi on saturday night following the events on the anniversary of 9/11. it is heavily redacted, but it does provide further insight into contact that two of the first hijackers, the first two hijackers who arrived in the u.s. had with t ....
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 name. he was ostensibly a student in los angeles. he ....
today is marking a difficult milestone that changed our country and the world. tributes will be under way at all three sites where nearly 3,000 americans lost their lives. of course, president biden will visit them right here in new york city where the first two planes crashed into the twin towers of the world trade center.we a commemoration ceremony is set to begin around 8:40 a.m. eastern. the obamas and the clintons, they will also be attendance. former president trump says he will visit ground zero, too. though it is unclear if he will be at the actual ceremony. of course, later this morning, a ceremony at the pittsburgh. the site of the second terrorist attacks a big american flag, just moments from now, unfurling over the side of the building as the sun rises in our nation s capitol. we will take you there live as it happens. we ll take you to shanksville, pennsylvania, where the fourth plane, united flight 93 crashed before reaching washington, d.c., than ....
we re about a block from the reflecting pool where the twin towers of the world trade center once stood. president joe biden arriving at this moment in lower manhattan. he and jill biden will visit all three memorial sites today. starting here at the museum on this site. vice president kamala harris will speak in shanksville, pennsylvania later this morning, that s where united flight 93 was forced down. she and second gentleman, doug emhoff, will then join the president and the first lady at the pentagon. nicolle wallace, as i always say, for millions of americans especially anyone in the tri-state area, this is the saddest place on earth. there s no way to walk by this spot if you re on jury duty a few blocks away, on an errand or going somewhere else that you don t feel gutted by what was lost here. our day job is to cover politics, what you have in this place and what you have in this remembrance is heroes. heroes who ran into towers. i think 20 years later that m ....
throughout the next two hours, you don t want to miss it. we begin with a stark contrast how president biden and president trump are marking 9/11. not long from now biden is scheduled to make highways to the pentagon after visiting both ground zero and shanksville, pennsylvania, to honor the lives lost that harrowing day. meanwhile, former president trump who is set to offer commentary at a boxing match this evening used the majority of his address marking the anniversary to bash biden over his withdrawal from afghanistan. this is the 20th year of this war and should have been a year of victory and honor and strength. instead, joe biden and his inept administration surrendered in defeat. the former president did make a trip to the nypd s 17th precinct hours ago to honor the sacrifice made by the city s first responders but took time to criticize the president once again over the withdrawal. i want to bring in nbc s mike memoli who has been with us all day and is a ....