Robert Evans

And then comes 9-11.

right you know you're well aware yeah so basically there were some big buildings in new york uh and and then there weren't um as a result of uh these guys who learned how to fly but not all the way right that's the that's the brief description i would give 70 of how to fly yeah yeah 70 put that in the textbook yeah

That's basically what happened, right?

There were some other things going on.

Yeah, we forgot.

Well, they did.

Yeah.

They never knew.

So the attacks caused a massive upset inside the Saudi security establishment, right?

This is as big a problem as it could possibly be because 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi.

Yeah, that's a pickle.

Kind of their deal, right?

Bush was rattling his saber at Iraq, and they'd had fuck all to do with al-Qaeda.

Like, right after the attacks, we start making, it starts becoming clear we're going to move on Iraq pretty soon.

So obviously, if you're thinking about this from the perspective of the Saudis, Bush is about to fuck up Iraq and they had nothing to do with this.

We had a lot to do with this.

Not only were 15 of the 19 hijackers Saudi, but a lot of guys in the Saudi royal family were shuffling money to places that wound up getting to Al Qaeda, right?

One way or the other.

Yeah.

And so there's this worry that like, well, how do we know they're not going to fuck with us next?