share 20 transcripts from his witnesses with justice department investigators. the committee also seems to be zeroing in on former trump cabinet officials. of particular interest, conversations among those officials about possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. joining us now is johnwood, a former senior investigator for the january 6th select committee. he is running as an independent in missouri for the senate there. john, thank you so much for being with us. so, it was cnn s exclusive reporting, the department of justice is preparing to make a case to get around executive privilege, to basically force the testimony, to be prepared to force the testimony of key trump advisers. what does this tell you about where they are? where this federal investigation is? yeah, this is a really big step. up until a few days ago, there were very few public signs that the justice department was really focused on people in trump s immediate inner circle, as opp
Principle of justice. and i think what s going on here is that you have two governments, the saudi government and the united states government at the very tops of our government. we have a very cozy relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia. look, it s no secret that they buy hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons every year. it s no secret that they stabilize the world oil markets. but at the end of the day, that should not be a reason or excuse to keep these documents classified. and the blame goes all around. it starts with president bush, president obama vetoed our law which he overrode. president trump invoked the state secrets principle and was playing golf with them on every other weekend with liv golf. president biden, to his credit, was the only president that actually engaged with us and made an executive order to declassify these documents. but what we think is that these three-letter agencies are ignoring the will of that executive order.
9/11 Justice, a grassroots movement made up of survivors, first responders, and family members of the victims of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, has launched an initiative to highlight the ties between Saudi Arabia s government and the World Trade Center attacks, hoping to increase pressure on both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
i would ask him what he s doing, when did he sign this liv contract? how much is he personally benefiting? did you sign this liv contract before and after you decided to invoke the state secrets document. i met with the former president on 9/11 with my mom, two former fbi agents and a dozen other family members. we pleaded with him, please declassify the documents. please do it. he looked us in the eye, shook our hands, said he was going to declassify these documents. less than 24 hours later, his attorney general invoked what s known as the state secrets principle. it basically blocked all this information from coming to light. information that we now have, thanks to the biden presidential executive order, which unwound the state secrets principle designation. he kept those documents secret for a reason. he was protecting the saudi role in 9/11. and to be fair, other presidents have done it as well, bush, obama. they have all done it. president biden unwound his decision to seal the
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