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You time right now is 1037 Eastern 737 Pacific, and we do have some breaking news out of New York City as a family members of those who lost their lives in the September 11th terrorist attacks are calling on President Biden and former President Trump to address explosive revelations of new footage showing a Saudi intelligence agent assisting two of the lead terrorists in the attack.

We're live in New York City with the latest on the latest on the latest on the latest on the latest on the terrorist hijackers, and we do want to head over to that live press conference for you right now.

I'm with my colleagues in both parties to get the American Victims of Terror Compensation Act and September 11th Day of Remembrance Act passed and signed into law.

Justice for 9-11 families means we must ensure they receive the full compensation they are due for their losses and for their health care needs.

But it also means getting them the answers that they and the American people deserve.

The video filmed by Saudi intelligence agent Omar al-Bayoumi only just made public that appears to show him casing the capital at the same time that the 9-11 attacks were being planned out is incredibly disturbing and raises new questions about the number of and extent to which Saudi officials were involved in the September 11th terrorist attacks.

We owe it to Brett and to all those loved ones on September 11th that we lost, to the victims, the survivors, to those who continued to be diagnosed with health effects from that terrible day, and to all Americans.

I will continue to speak out to demand answers and to ensure that every individual with ties to this horrific attack on our country is brought to justice.

We take the words from Congressman Lawler.

You know, as we stand here today, surrounded by family members of those who died horrifically and tragically in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the flight in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, we're no longer searching for words of, you know, you're in our thoughts and prayers.

We're no longer looking for to be coddled or comfort.

It's 23 years later, and our government has failed to bring us accountability, closure, and justice.

Our government fails to talk tough on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Every member of Congress, especially the two candidates running for the highest office in this land, the two candidates running for President of the United States, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, need to be addressing this issue.

There was a debate, if you want to call it a debate, less than a week ago, where these two candidates for President knew about the existence of this video, and neither one of them had the courage to stand with the 9-11 families and address this issue.

Former President Trump campaigns on the fact that he puts America first.

In 2016, he said live on Fox News, it wasn't Iraq that knocked down the towers.

It was Saudi Arabia that knocked down the towers.

In 2019, he invited myself and members standing with me on this stage to the White House.

He said he was going to declassify the documents.

He said we were right and just to pursue our actions against the Kingdom.

The next day, his Attorney General, Bill Barr, invoked the state secrets principle, keeping all of these documents under lock and key.

President Joe Biden campaigned on the promise that he was going to make Saudi Arabia a pariah state.

He wrote a letter to our families and our attorneys saying if he were elected President, he would declassify the documents.

It wasn't until pressure from these family members on the 20th anniversary of 9-11 when we threatened to protest his appearance at Ground Zero that he enacted Presidential Executive Order 14040.

But despite of the fact that he enacted that Presidential Executive Order, guess what?

We did not get the video that CBS obtained.

It was the families, and it was our dogged pursuit of justice.

We were the ones that were able to obtain this video.

We didn't get this video from the United States government.

We got this video from the British government.

You could argue that the families did a better job investigating the attacks of 9-11 than the United States government with its hundreds of billions of dollars of resources.

The former Deputy Director of the CIA went live on Face the Nation and said he's never seen this video.

Listen, the time for gains and doubts about whether Saudi Arabia did it is over.

You just heard from Congressman Mike Lawler, who's a Republican.

Senator Blumenthal on the left side has been one of our biggest supporters.

Senator Cornyn, Senator Grassley, Senator Gillibrand.

There's no issue today in the United States politics that members of the left and right can agree on except this.

And it's unconscionable that the two candidates for President of the United States are refusing to address this issue.

They'd rather bury their heads in the sand than come out and stand with these 9-11 family members.

It's been 23 years, and we're no longer looking for words of comfort.

We're looking for justice, and we're looking for a champion who's going to put America first.

I won't say anything else before I start swearing, but I think Dennis had a couple comments.

Yeah, I just wanted to share my personal comments.

You know, again, as Brett mentioned, the 9-11 community, with little help from our own Department of Justice, FBI, and government, was able to finally obtain smoking gun evidence of the...

But now is the time for President Biden, former President Donald Trump, Congress, and the Senate to help us obtain justice, accountability, and closure from those who perpetrated the largest mass murder on American soil.

In just the past week, President Biden stated that we are the United States of America.

There is nothing we cannot achieve when we stand together.

Then, the next day, he said, we are the United States of America.

Well, we've been bowing to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the past 23 years.

We've allowed them to get away with murdering 3,000 innocent Americans, murdering our Navy servicemen in Pensacola, Florida, murdering and dismembering a Washington Post reporter, ruin our institution of professional golf, manipulate our economy, and presidential elections.

President Biden also, in his speech last evening, talked about the January 6th protesters.

They were held accountable for their actions that day.

But not the people and government that actually tried to blow up the Capitol and kill everyone in it?

My family and I took a tour of the Capitol Building just two weeks ago.

You cannot replace that building, the history there, nor the lives that would have been lost.

There's a beautiful plaque memorial in the Capitol Building honoring the heroes of Flight 93.

These heroes, our loved ones, the first responders that are still dying from 9-11-related illness, deserve more than plaques and memorials.

They deserve justice, accountability, and closure.

The innocent Americans who were murdered on that horrific day would have done anything to gather those buildings and planes.

We're calling on our president, former President Donald Trump, all of our leaders and representatives in Washington to stand together, do something, and finally end this cat-and-mouse game, this national nightmare that we've been living for the last 23 years.