6/24/24: Biden Panics As Dems Boycott Bibi Speech, Biden Greenlights Hezbollah War, New Tapes Expose 9/11 Saudi Conspiracy
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So in July, Bibi Netanyahu is set to address Congress. Some Democrats are going to boycott that speech and we happen to have one of those members of Congress who will not be attending with us, Congressman Ro Khanna. Great to see you again. Always good to be on set. Yeah, we love to have you here. Let's go and put this up on the screen. This is kind of amazing to me. It's the headline here. No one knows what he's going to say. White House fears mount about Bibi's DC visit. White House has reportedly grown anxious about his upcoming address.

They're worried he could directly criticize Joe Biden in front of Congress, which I just, just get your reaction to this because this is like the most predictable thing in the world to me. It's no secret Bibi Netanyahu would rather have Donald Trump in office. So what were they even thinking about?

the Democrats joining with the Republicans to invite him in to address a joint session here. It's bewildering and a malpractice. I know exactly what he's gonna say, cuz he's put out videos criticizing the president and criticizing the Democratic Party. And he's gonna go there and basically give an implicit endorsement of the Republican Party and Donald Trump. I don't understand why any Democrat would sit there and applaud for Netanyahu doing this, putting aside even the more urgent moral question.

which is that he's prosecuted this war in a horrendous way with civilian lives lost. So my hope is and my expectation is that you're going to have 100 Democrats not go. Jim Clyburn, who's

Not traditionally, the progressive Democrat is actually talking about having an alternative forum to put something constructive out about the Middle East and peace and ending this war and releasing the hostages. - Congressman, talk to us a little bit about that. So President Biden, he famously, like maybe he won't listen to the progressive members, but he's gonna listen to Jim Clyburn. Clearly a huge portion of his coalition, people like Chris Van Hollen and others have spoken out against the war. You will have more insight into us. What explains Biden's, the bear hug,

strategy, despite, I mean, Bibi in many ways has been more disrespectful to President Biden than he almost was to Barack Obama. So what explains the affinity there, both between Biden, the state of Israel, and then the people around him too, who don't necessarily have the same generational connection?

Well, Barack Obama was actually a break from the traditional unconditional support of even the far right government of Israel. It doesn't seem like it because we've been wanting to go even further for two states. But Biden has always been more aligned with

with Netanyahu. He's always been unconditional in his support of Israel since 1972. So he comes at this from a different generational perspective. And then when he has in any way broken from unconditional, absolute support of Netanyahu, he's gotten criticized by the ADL, by AJC, by the Northern Federation of Jewish Americans. And so I think that his position

people are looking at this and saying, well, we want to play it safe. But what they aren't realizing is they're upsetting everyone. And that the real solution here is an end to the war and a release of the hostages that I still believe President Biden can effectuate. Yeah. So let's actually dig into that. Let's put B2 up on the screen. So as you know, as you alluded to,

Prime Minister Netanyahu put on a video in English, by the way, claiming that the Biden administration was slow walking critical weapons. I mean, I wish that was the case. But as far as we know, there has been one shipment of 2,000 pound bombs that they haven't even blocked. They've just sort of slow rolled it.

Bibi again doubled down. He said there's been a, quote, dramatic drop in US weapons deliveries for Israel's war effort in Gaza. This in spite of the fact, again, the White House really rejects that. I'm gonna put B3 up on the screen. They say they reject these new accusations. We aren't going to keep responding to the prime minister's political statements. We look forward to constructive

consultations with Defense Minister Gallant in Washington this week. He's here this week. He also is under looming indictment from the International Criminal Court for war crimes as well, Yoav Gallant as well. So just speak a little bit to

what the Biden administration is thinking about here and what could possibly shift their orientation. Because as you're pointing out, I mean, they've done everything that the Israelis have wanted them to do. Every time there's been a red line drawn, like with regard to Rafah, they've walked away from it and let Israel move forward. We're about to talk in the next segment about this looming war with Hezbollah, which we've seemed to have effectively given a green light to. So, you know, is there a red line? What would it take to actually change the policy here?

Well, for me and many progressives, the biggest issue is the morality, the issue that 37,000 civilians have died, that Netanyahu continues to bomb sites where women and children are being killed. But putting that aside, if you're an average American,

ordinary American, you're looking at the president of the United States being bullied. And this is, I think, the biggest issue that the president doesn't look strong. I mean, Netanyahu puts out a video basically punching the administration in the gut. And the president's response isn't that Netanyahu isn't telling the truth. The president's response is we look forward to a constructive discussion.

conversation with Gallant. I mean, at some point, Bill Clinton said America is the superpower and we're going to act like the superpower. And yes, Israel's an ally, but we're going to call the shots. And I actually think that that is the biggest issue that the administration is facing, that it looks like not only is he bear hugging Netanyahu, but that he's not an active, aggressive, assertive

actor on the world stage. He tried to do that with the peace plan for finally calling for a permanent ceasefire, which I supported, but it needs more teeth. He needs to have the ability to get it done. What are the levers he could use? Because what you'll hear from his defenders is, well, he tried. He's trying. He wants a ceasefire. He gave a speech.

what are the actual levers that could put pressure on the Israelis to change course? Because clearly the speech isn't enough. The, you know, leaks to Brock Ravid and other reporters that like, oh, they're having tough conversations behind the scenes. Obviously that's not enough. So what are some of the affirmative levers that the

US that the president of the United States could use to actually change behavior here. I could do what 37 House Democrats voted to do, which is to stop offensive weapons to Netanyahu. He could get aid across into Gaza. I mean, what is Israel going to stop? American tanks, American

convoys from going in with aid. Of course, we could get aid into Gaza if we wanted to. He could be much more assertive at the United Nations, but he could just tell Netanyahu, look, you're going to end the war or I'm going to say that both you and Hamas aren't coming to the table. So far, every statement is

Hamas isn't coming to the table. And that is correct. I mean, look, they need to continue to put pressure on Hamas. I mean, Hamas is not some angelic actor here. But there's never been a statement saying, well, look, Netanyahu continues to have an aim of the eradication of Hamas, and he's not coming to the table. You know who said that? Benny Gantz. Right.

Benny Gantz is actually willing to say that Netanyahu is enacting in good faith there. - So this is a very important point. Let's put this up there because we have the actual statement you referenced, which is the White House official rejecting Netanyahu's new accusation. He says, "We aren't going to keep responding to the prime minister's political statements.

We look forward to constructive consultations with the defense minister in Washington this week. That seems to me a tacit admission that the Israelis rely almost entirely at this point on U.S. provided weapons. Can you give us insight into that and then what any future incursion in Lebanon would look like? Could that, you know, invite a Biden administration so-called cutoff? Because that appears to me, you know, a far more dangerous situation, perhaps even than what's happening in Gaza right now.

It is, and the administration keeps saying, well, what has worked is we've avoided a regional war. Well, now it looks like we aren't even avoiding a regional war, and that is why what we need to do is make it clear to Gallant, to Netanyahu, that we're going to stop the offensive weapons. They need to come with a permanent ceasefire and a release of hostages. Now, if they agree to those terms, and Hamas still does not agree to release the hostages, it'll be clear for the world to see that Israel was willing to do

everything to stop the war and Hamas still isn't acting. But they've never put the pressure on Netanyahu to do that. And that is the only thing that's gonna stabilize the Middle East. It's the only thing in my view that is going to help the president also politically is bringing this war to an end. - Yeah, well, and that's a key point because we don't really have leverage with Hamas. We don't fund Hamas, right? We don't have the sort of diplomatic tools we can use with Hamas.

Israel is wholly dependent on us, both diplomatically and directly in terms of weapons, to continue their prosecution of the war. So I think that's really key for people ultimately to understand. Going back to this speech to Congress from Netanyahu, what is your prediction of how many Democrats boycott?

You mentioned that Congressman Clyburn is planning some alternative forum or et cetera. Take us inside some of the plans that are happening on the Democratic side of the aisle among people who are not going to attend to try to expose what's going on and dissent from the Biden administration policy.

Well, just to be clear, this speech is gonna be a one-way lecture by Netanyahu criticizing the Democratic Party, criticizing our president, and supporting implicitly Donald Trump and Republicans. I just don't see how as a Democratic congressperson you can show up and applaud that and stand up again and again and applaud that. So I hope and expect that over 100 Democrats

aren't going to show up, 100 House Democrats. It was about 60 for when he came when Obama was president. And what Representative Clyburn is talking about is having a constructive conversation with Jewish Americans, Palestinian Americans, and others about what a two-state solution looks like, a secure Israel, a secure Palestine,

and having the Gulf allies involved in getting there, having the United States in my view, recognize a Palestinian state that 143 other countries have done, but having a constructive vision. Look, I talk to everyone, you know that I go on all the shows and I've said, I would be fine in a group talking to Netanyahu, but what I'm not gonna do is sit there and applaud while he tells blatant untruths like he has on the video. - Yeah, I think that's well said.

I also wanted to ask you, Congressman, obviously you're supporting Joe Biden for reelection. There are many young people who feel that his support of what they and I and many other international observers see as a genocide is a red line in terms of morality. What's your message to them? And also for you, is there a red line beyond what you would say? You know what? Listen, on these issues, I do feel like he's better than Trump, but this is just a red line morally for me. I cannot support someone who is complicit in a genocide.

I understand people's frustration, their moral concerns, and I certainly can't lecture them to make a choice. And I also think that the administration's underestimating this issue in terms of the outcome. They look at the polls and they say it's only 1% or 2% of people who care. What they don't realize is that among the organizers, among the activists, this is the only thing people are talking about. So if you want to get the president's message out on health care, on rent, on

on the economy. You're not being able to do it or on climate because all the groups are talking about Palestine. My message to them is at the end of the day, I want peace there. I want a Palestinian state living side by side with an Israel state. And I believe that

we have a much better chance of making progress towards that with a Joe Biden and a Democratic coalition that keeps growing with progressive ranks than we do with Donald Trump, who's basically going to even bear hug Netanyahu stronger and give carte blanche to the extreme right. Politics is a tough business where we don't always get the ideal and we make progress inch by inch. That's the case. But I certainly wouldn't shame anyone if they, uh,

if they are voting their conscience on this. All right, well, we at least get that. No shame here from a politician. We appreciate you, sir. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. It's great to see you.

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So we have a bunch of additional Israel updates for you as well. As I mentioned before, Defense Minister Yoav Galant is in town for meetings that are supposed to, in particular, take a look at what is going on with Israel's potential all-out war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. I can put this up on the screen. Very troubling signs here coming from the administration in particular. U.S. officials

this reporter for CNN writes, have not explicitly told Israel they oppose any attack against Hezbollah, but warned it could lead to a greater war. A U.S. official said Israel's made the case it can pull off a, quote, blitzkrieg,

The US is not so sure. Let me give you a little bit more of that CNN reporting. They specifically say senior US officials reassured a delegation of top Israeli officials visiting Washington this week that if a full out war were to break out on Israel's northern border between Israel and Hezbollah, the Biden administration is fully prepared to back its ally, according to a senior administration official. And this

This looks more and more like a possibility, if not a guarantee, that they are headed towards this all-out war. Sagar, I'm sure you probably saw Netanyahu over the weekend indicating that they may be shifting to a different phase in terms of Gaza. They had a number of horrific, deadly strikes over the weekend. We'll bring you in a moment.

But they basically destroyed, they destroyed northern Gaza, they destroyed central Gaza, they've now destroyed southern Gaza. So there isn't a lot more of the Gaza Strip left to destroy. Bibi Netanyahu wants to continue to postpone that after the war conversation about what has gone wrong. He wants to continue to hold onto his grip of power. And so in his logic,

now starting an all-out war against Hezbollah, makes all of the political sense in the world, even as it is incredibly dangerous for Israelis. It's obviously incredibly dangerous for Lebanese civilians, and it's also incredibly dangerous for our troops.

who are stationed in the region. It's way more dangerous for Israelis than anything that's been happening with Hamas. Let's put this up there, please, on the screen. And it shows, for example, just exactly what they are inviting. So two Israelis were already wounded yesterday by anti-tank fire from Lebanon. Netanyahu claiming that the, quote, intense part of Gaza fighting is almost over. But the anti-tank missiles and others have caused, Crystal, the entire northern part of Israel to be evacuated.

And a lot of IDF soldiers have already lost their lives as a result of Hezbollah fire, and they allegedly are not even in a war, right? So this is a much, much stronger group. There's also some fear here about potential, let's say, manufacturing consent, I guess, is the best way to try and draw Israel into the war, making claims about weapons being stored at the Beirut airport. The civilian Beirut airport. The civilian Beirut airport, which means what?

Oh, that's a good justification to bomb it. And it's like, well, if we're bombing airports now, cutting off supplies in and out of the country, this just has a significantly bigger potential. Not only do you have Lebanon, by the way, is an actual sovereign state, right? So there's that. Then Hezbollah has got fighters all across Syria. They have actual connections to Iran. They have much deeper pockets, and it could ignite a full-blown regional war and completely destabilize Israel.

the entire region. There's another US aircraft carrier heading to replace the USS Eisenhower in the Houthi mission, so there's more firepower that's on its way, I believe it's the USS Theodore Roosevelt. So the US is still prepared in a real threat position for anything to pop up.

Yeah, so with regard to that report you're talking about, which people are, you know, really looking at very skeptically. I'm just going to go. I think it's complete BS. But the Telegraph published this report that Hezbollah has been accumulating large quantities of Iranian weapons, missiles, and bombs at the Central Civilian Airport in Beirut, according to testimony reported.

that exposes corruption at the airport. They did not provide any other, it was just anonymous sources, no actual evidence that such a thing is occurring. Also very noteworthy, of course, the timing of this report being published in the Telegraph. Right now, Lebanon's airport authority denied the reports, said they presented no proof or evidence.

added that the outlet bears all responsibility for the safety of airport staff and inviting media outlets to visit the airport to see for themselves. And yeah, you could see the way very easily, the way this could be used as justification for bombing that airport. And then we've also seen the way Israel and Gaza, once they justified, for example, the bombing of one hospital, the raiding of one hospital, well, then it was open season on

effectively all civilian infrastructure within Gaza. This is not just out of nowhere either. We've had multiple high-level Israeli officials going back to the beginning of this particular war, talking about how they could do to Lebanon what they've done to Gaza.

So those threats have been made. They've been made very clearly. By the way, we shouldn't ignore the fact there have already been tit-for-tat attacks between Hezbollah and Israel. You still have the entire population of northern Israel who have been relocated temporarily because of this ongoing fighting.

You also had last week, we showed you that drone footage that Hezbollah was able to obtain, seemingly circumventing the Iron Dome defense system in order to record via drone some sensitive sites as effectively, you know, a threat against

Israel if they go ahead and escalate the war. There was a quote from the head of Hezbollah saying something like there would be no ceiling, no limit, no rules, nothing out of bounds if we did go to that level. So this is a major, major threat that everyone should be deeply concerned about. And the fact that you don't even have the Biden administration, they say they wanna avoid an all-out war, but they're also saying in the same breath, we've got your back if you do it. Like,

We know how this plays out. Bibi doesn't care if you're like uncomfortable with it. What he might care about is if you actually cut off the weapons, if you actually pulled the diplomatic support. But we know very well that Biden is never going to do that. And, you know, part of the way that Israel has justified all of these assaults on civilians, uh,

and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip is Hamas uses people as human shields. And you could very much see them using the same rhetoric vis-a-vis Hezbollah, this airport report being a prelude to that. Well, let's talk about human shields because put this video up on the screen. What you're looking at here is an IDF vehicle that has an injured human being, a Palestinian,

who was injured, tied to the hood of this vehicle. By the way, this isn't in Gaza. This is in the West Bank.

using an injured Palestinian here as a literal human shield here on video for everyone to see. So next time they tell you about human shields and they say, oh, this is under investigation, I'm sure they're going to get back to us on that. So I'm sure we'll hear a lot of accountability for these actions, which are totally out of line with the most moral army in the world's typical actions. They said they will be investigating the incident. So, yeah. Yeah, well, hold our breath on that one. They'll be investigating the incident.

At the same time, we've had a number of deadly strikes. We can put this up on the screen in both, really throughout the Gaza Strip. This one in particular shows the aftermath of the bombing of an UNRWA aid distribution center. The very last numbers I saw were that at least eight people were killed in that airstrike. We can put the next one up on the screen, which shows some of the details of an additional

Israeli airstrike near Rafah. This actually occurred right in that humanitarian zone where they've been telling people to flee al-Muwasi for months at this point. This article from the AP says the Israeli forces shelled tent camps

camps for displaced Palestinians outside Gaza's southern city of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50, according to the territory's health officials and emergency workers. Witnesses whose relatives died in one of the bombardments near a Red Cross field hospital north of Rafah told the AP that Israeli forces fired a second volley that killed people who came out of their tents. So there was a first volley, and then when people came out of their tents,

where they were displaced in this supposedly safe zone, when they emerged, there was a second volley that then killed those people who came out of their tents. So the horrors in the Gaza Strip continue, and as I mentioned before, these are the sorts of things that they have threatened to unleash also on the Lebanese civilian population. Well, that's the terrifying part. It's just about the explosion about where things are. Yoav Galant here, literally in Washington, slowing up traffic this morning, by the way, Mr. Galant.

And he is here to what? Beg for more weapons and to set the ground for the Hezbollah campaign and Bibi's eventual visit here to Washington. So he's here to suss things out and to make sure, smooth things over with the Pentagon, make sure that the delivery schedules continue with ammunition and with all of the other weapons. But it does give us deep insight into how much Israel and its military actually does rely on

on US resupply. So don't let anybody tell you that we don't have tremendous amounts of leverage. I know everyone knew that intuitively, but when the number one complaint is give us the weapons to finish the job, what does that tell you? It's like, oh, you don't have weapons to finish the job. And I also want to say, it really does erase a lot of Israeli myths and lies. I can tell you when I was over there, they used to brag so much about how self-sufficient they were.

about their military and they're like, you guys have been funding us for all this time, but we've used that money to really invest in ourselves and this, this, and that. And so it's like, you guys can't even go 10 months into a war without getting your hand out for more weapons. What kind of military are you? It's like, look at, you're like Ukraine, you know? But allegedly what? You know, some great Silicon Valley startup nation. So there's a lot of lessons in that too about what this looks like. And, you know, to the congressman, and we just talked to Congressman Khanna's point about just the level of humiliation at this point is just, like, absolutely

a certain point. Don't you just have any shame as a man? Like, it's so astonishing. Biden has done everything that Bibi has wanted him to do. They slow walked one shipment of 2,000 pound bombs. That's it. Okay. And in spite of that, Bibi is clearly trying to undercut him, clearly trying to stab him in the back to keep him from getting reelected. Puts on a video in English,

doing exactly as I described, doubles down on that than in Hebrew as well. And the Biden administration, first we get this report that they rescheduled a meeting because they were so upset. Oh, they rescheduled a meeting. Oh my goodness, wow. But then once that report went out, then they were desperate to walk that back and go, no, no, we would

never reschedule a meeting. We would never do that. And I promise we're giving them everything that they want whenever they want it. Don't worry about it. Now they're having these meetings with Yoav Galant, clearly to try to reassure him that, of course, we'll give them all of the weapons they want to continue bombing civilians and unraid facilities and displace people in tents, etc. It's just it's so pathetic.

You think about the interview with Aaron Burnett where he talked about, you know, Rafa was a red line and that we would, you know, reevaluate weapon shipments if they launch a major invasion into Rafa. Well, guess what? They've been in Rafa for how long now? How many weeks now? How many people have been killed? All those people that were, millions of people who were displaced in Rafa have either had to move or they're being directly bombed. And even when they've gone to the safe zones, they've also been bombed. Not a

word about that supposed red line. Then you had the ploy of we're going to put out the ceasefire proposal that the Israelis had sort of agreed to. Biden's going to give this big speech. He's going to lay out the ceasefire proposal. He's going to really frame it as this came from Israel. And so we're just waiting for Hamas. We just had Bibi come out and rebuke that, walk away from that ceasefire deal that purportedly came from him and say, no, we'll do a partial hostage release. And then we want to go back to war. We don't agree with that.

So where is Biden's upset? Over their rebuke of his every word, every insistence, every desire that he's put out there. Bibi in particular seems to take particular glee in rebuking him directly, undercutting him and humiliating him. It's horrible for his political prospects, which I don't really care about, but you would think that he would. It's horrible for Israeli interests even and the interest of future security for Israelis.

And it's obviously outrageously immoral and horrific for the people in Gaza. It's just incredible at this point. And it does go to Sagar also. I mean, this man is just like out of it and incapable of really, you know,

commanding presence or any sort of commanding policy. He's sort of on autopilot. This is what the autopilot instructions have, and so here we are. Yeah, I actually think that's a huge part of it, is that whenever you're old, it's just, you know, expending energy is difficult. So what do you do? You go to what is comfortable, and you just stick with it.

with that. And I think that's a big part of why he even like allows so much of this to happen. I mean, I didn't think I'd ever be in his position, but like even Obama did not take it upstanding. When Bibi came to Washington and shit all over his own foreign policy, he really took it

He did not take it well, reamed Bibi out in private during their meeting, gave a statement against the Israeli prime minister. His whole White House was geared up for war against the Israelis in the lobby and AIPAC here in Washington, which they did beat. They actually beat them on the Iran deal. Yeah. That doesn't exist this time around. Yeah. At all. And I mean –

Obama, it's not like it was great on Israel either. His big brave moment was what he didn't veto a UN resolution security council. In 2016, when he was on his way out the door. But that does lose sight of the fact that the Iranian nuclear deal, Israel hated that. And Bibi Nainai in particular hated it. And he did accomplish that over AIPAC objections and over the direct objections of the Israelis. Clearly Biden does not have that in him at all.

on any level whatsoever. Yeah, exactly.

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I'm Angie Martinez. Check out my podcast where I talk to some of the biggest athletes, musicians, actors in the world. We go beyond the headlines and the soundbites to have real conversations about real life, death, love, and everything in between. This life right here, just finding myself, just relaxation, just not feeling stressed, just not feeling pressed. This is what I'm most proud of. I'm proud of Mary because I've been through hell and some horrible things.

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Alright, Tucker, what are you looking at? Well, I think it's probably fair to say I wouldn't be doing this job if it weren't for 9/11. 9/11, the Iraq War, and the Bush presidency spurred me into politics at a very young age because I grew up in a place where the full-on mass formation psychosis took hold. For a variety of reasons, it didn't work, but I watched people who I liked and even respected

fully cheer on the war in Iraq by the Bush administration's lies well past the time it was obvious that they had all fallen apart. 23 years later though, it is now shocking even to an extreme cynic like me, the extent to which it is now just openly and publicly acknowledged that everything that we were told about 9/11 in the aftermath of the event was a lie, specifically with respect to the Saudi government and its outright involvement in the plot that killed over 3,000 innocent civilians.

In the span of a few months now, absolutely shocking new information has come to light that reveals two things. One, the extent of the Saudi connection. It's as deep as the cynics always suspected. And two, there is no explanation for any of this information staying hidden for so long, other than an explicit bipartisan cover-up lasting 23 years.

Let's start with the first and perhaps the craziest, a new video now released by CBS News 60 Minutes showing Saudi government agent Omar al-Bayoumi casing out the U.S. Capitol in 1999 for al-Qaeda. A voice on the video says in Arabic, I am transmitting these scenes to you from the heart of the American Capitol,

Washington. This video, unsealed in federal court this week and obtained by 60 Minutes, was recorded in the summer of 1999. The man behind the camera is Omar al-Bayoumi, who the FBI says was an operative of the Saudi intelligence service with close ties to two of the 9-11 hijackers. Time is 6 p.m.

The video was filmed over several days. Beyumi recorded entrances and exits of the capital, security posts, a model of the building,

and nearby landmarks. In this portion of the video, Bayoumi points out the Washington Monument and says, "I will get over there and report to you in detail what is there." He also notes the airport is not far away. For those not familiar, that is truly insane stuff because it proves definitively that the 9/11 Commission and the Bush administration completely lied.

The official story from the 9/11 Commission and the Saudi government is that Omar al-Bayoumi was a tangential Saudi government-ish connected official. He just happened to live in Southern California before 9/11. According to them, Bayoumi happened to be

happened to be in the same Los Angeles restaurant as two of the 9/11 hijackers, he overheard them speaking Arabic, and according to the official narrative, out of the goodness of his heart, he just gave them $1500, arranged an apartment for them in San Diego, where he was also living across the street at the time, just because he was a good Muslim. At no time, according to him, did he know or suspect they were Al-Qaeda, and he was simply, as I said, just a good guy helping others in need.

FBI officials actually bought his story and the Bush administration just waved it all away. The 9/11 Commission followed suit by classifying 28 pages of that commission report, which spelled out more of al-Bayoumi's Saudi government connections. That remained classified up until 2016. In the meantime, the American people were left only with the public declaration from the commission that said, quote, "We have found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded al-Qaeda."

Remember, this was 2002. If you were a renegade who thought that the government was lying, you only had the nascent internet boards and your friends to talk about this. This was the cable news era and the heyday. They bought this story hook, line, and sinker. In the meantime, at the very same time, their platforming Bush administration lies about how actually Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11.

We gotta lead a war into false pretenses. By that point, the conversation's no longer about 9/11, it's about Iraq WMD. And we forgot very quickly. But the people who didn't forget are the families of the victims who died on 9/11, murdered in cold blood by Al-Qaeda, who have long sought restitution from the Saudi government for its complicity, and who through sheer force of will have forced this information out into the open.

You might be asking, "Hey, how did that video even stay secret this long?" Of course, the answer is right in front of you. The FBI was in possession of this video via British intelligence just mere days after 9/11. It was then covered up and kept secret until today only because the victims of 9/11 family lawsuit ended up dredging it up. So just the latest bombshell revelation that they have given us in the span of a few months

You may have missed this, but there's even more to the story that definitively, again, proves the Saudi connection to 9-11. Just a month ago, the victims of 9-11 families revealed they have learned through their lawsuit that Omar al-Bayoumi and another Saudi official linked to 9-11 hijackers, quote, were not rogue operators, but rather the front end of a conspiracy that included the Saudi embassy in Washington and senior government officials in Riyadh. They confirmed that Bayoumi organized housing for the hijackers at the behest of

of the government and took care of their day-to-day needs, including introducing them to other terrorist officials. They also found a sketch seized from al-Bayoumi's apartment, quote, "of a drawing of a plane alongside a calculation used to discern the distance at which a target on the ground would be visible from a certain altitude." So in other words, not only did he know about the plot, he actually helped the hijackers and himself appears to have been an al-Qaeda agent working for the Saudi government here on US soil.

Imagine if any of this had been known in 2002 when the Bush administration was trying to take us into war. Now, look, I'm happy it's out today for people like me to have their worst suspicions confirmed. But in a sense, it no longer matters. We already invaded Iraq. We already screwed up in Afghanistan. The worst has already happened. Trillions lost, millions killed, soldiers maimed, killed, all under false pretenses.

So let this be a lesson that many questions about 9-11 remain unsolved and that much of the official narrative is still a straight up lie. And it's still all of our duty to not forget that story after it was done, both in our name and in the names of the victims, because there's still a lot left to uncover here. So, I mean, it's crazy stuff, right? And if you want to hear my reaction to Cyber's monologue, become a premium subscriber today at BreakingPoints.com.

Hi, I'm Katie Lowes. And I'm Guillermo Diaz. And we're the hosts of Unpacking the Toolbox, the Scandal Rewatch podcast where we're talking about all the best moments of the show. Mesmerizing. But also, we get to hang out with all of our old Scandal friends like Bellamy Young, Scott Foley, Tony Goldwyn, Debbie Allen, Kerry Washington. Well, suit up, gladiators. Grab your big old glass of wine and prepare yourselves for an even more behind-the-scenes Scandal.

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Welcome to the CINO Show. I'm your host, Cino McFarlane. I'm an addiction specialist. I'm a coach. I'm a translator. And I'm God's middleman. My job is to crack hearts and let the light in and help everyone shift the narrative. I want to help you wake up and I want to help you get free. Most importantly, I don't want you to feel alone. Listen to the CINO Show every Wednesday on iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Get emotional with me, Radhi Devlukia, in my new podcast, A Really Good Cry. We're going to be talking with some of my best friends. I didn't know we were going to go there on this.

People that I admire. When we say listen to your body, really tune in to what's going on. Authors of books that have changed my life. Now you're talking about sympathy, which is different than empathy, right? Never forget, it's okay to cry as long as you make it a really good one. Listen to A Really Good Cry with Radhi Devlukia on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.