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What is that climate change is more frightening than a nuclear war? Imagine that. Welcome back to the show, glad you're here today, 855-839-1210, and the Biden administration just approved a deal with Iran to swap prisoners and unfreeze billions of dollars in funds. At some breaking news today, $6 billion in frozen funds will be given over to Iran.

The U.S. will release five Iranian citizens being held in the U.S. And the transfer of the $6 billion was the critical element in the prisoner release deal, which saw four of the five American detainees transferred from Iranian jails into house arrest last month. The fifth detainee had already been under house arrest. Due to numerous U.S. sanctions on foreign banks that engage in transactions aimed at benefiting Iran, several European countries had bulked at participating in the transfer.

The U.S. waiver is aimed at easing their concern about any risk of U.S. sanctions. And as you can imagine right now, there's a lot of people who are upset by this believing that this is just money that's going to be used for Iran to be used to use for nefarious purposes. So we'll talk more about that, obviously, as things come. But it is the 22nd anniversary of 9-11. The question that I have is, what does Saudi Arabia know? And what did Saudi Arabia know?

So watching the Looming Tower, which is a show on Hulu, it's based on the book, and there's a scene in the movie where these very prominent Saudis are going down to visit George and Laura, Laura Bush down in Texas.

And there's another scene where it's right before September 11th, and the Saudi guy calls George Kennett, the director of the CIA at the time, and says, George, we need to talk.

We know how the Saudi royal family and all their friends were airlifted out of the United States of America, even though there was a federal aviation embargo, we got them out.

And there's a lot of questions around Saudi Arabia's involvement. None of the hijackers, I mean, there were several Saudis who were hijackers on September 11th.

And a lot in his very prominent and Saudi was very prominent in Saudi Arabia. His been a lot in partner's construction company is brother, obviously, very, very rich guy there.

So on the 22nd anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee are continuing to press the US government officials for unredacted documents related to Saudi Arabia's involvement in the 2001 attacks demanding those materials returned over to the Senate this week.

Either the Justice Department or the federal Bureau of Investigation has provided complete unredacted records of Saudi Arabia's role in the attacks despite a July 18th request for those documents from the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations according to a Sunday letter from the subcommittee to US Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI director Christopher Ray tomorrow marks the 22nd anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, which took nearly 3,000 lives and reshaped the world as we know it.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut and Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, the chairman and top Republican of the permanent subcommittee on investigations.

No one was more affected by these attacks and the families of those whose lives were lost that day and who have struggled to obtain accountability ever since.

After their July 18th request, there was a phone meeting on August 8th between their staff members and officials from the Justice Department and the FBI.

In that meeting, Senate staffers said government officials should prioritize releasing an unredacted copy of an 11-page document summarizing quote, Operation Encore, close quote, which detailed ties between the 9-11 hijackers and Saudi nationals.

What the US government has released so far about Operation Encore has been heavily redacted.

Over one month since that call and nearly two months since our initial letter request, we have not received a single document or obtained an explanation for any of the hundreds of redactions that remain despite the government's recent declassification review.

Your failure to respond to our letter only adds to our concerns about the US government's longstanding refusal to provide full transparency to the American people and particularly for the families of 9-11 victims about Saudi Arabia's role in the 9-11 terror attacks.

They've said a Thursday deadline, which will of course not be met by them for the government to provide these documents as well as a briefing to explain why anything still needed to be redacted.

Should DOJ and FBI fail to provide the briefing and continue to fail to provide the requested unredacted documents by this deadline, the subcommittee will be forced to consider the use of other tools at its disposal to ensure compliance.

Possible next steps will include asking for interviews briefings or depositions with increasingly senior levels of officials at the Justice Department and the FBI.

They could also issue subpoenas.

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