Kristen Breitweiser

Actually.

I don't know what the Tappan Zee Bridge had to do with terrorism, but... Was it ever bombed by Iran?

i don't think so but i do like to make the joke my daughter went to college in upstate new york and when i would go over the bridge and uh pay the toll i'd be joking that it should be going to the 9 11 widows and children since the money that went towards the bridge uh reconstruction came from the power bomb money as i understand it from reporting instead of going to victims of terrorism how can that be

Well, you know, the Department of Justice runs a lot of their sanctions programs, sort of like a slush fund.

But at any rate, this fund was created, Bank Paribas put together like I think 1.8 or 1.9 billion of the first deposit into that fund.

So the widows and children were excluded from joining that fund and being compensated, even though we were given the right to sue the co-conspirators of the hijackers when we were forced into the victim's compensation fund back in 2002, when the government took away our right to sue.

We were allowed to sue the terrorists, the co-conspirators of the hijackers.

And we did.

We were able to get a default judgment, sorry, against Iran.

And the widows and kids have Iran judgments.

And we sought to be compensated for those judgments because it was the only way that we could- Iran judgments?

Iran judgments.

I know not a lot of people know that we have Iran judgments, but- May I just ask a dumb question?

Right, so the evidence that was presented to the court for Iran's role in the 9-11 attacks is that Iran cleansed some of the passports of a few of the hijackers when they went through Iran after being in Afghanistan.

That evidence was used.

Iran doesn't show up in court in the United States.

So I think at this point, probably close to 20,000 9-11 victims have been given copycat judgments off that basic evidence that Iran cleansed these passports.

And this is the only way that the widows and children of the 3,000 killed

are in any way able to hold terrorists, quote-unquote, accountable, we are supposed to be able to get compensated for our wrong judgments in this government fund, okay?

A Department of Justice fund.