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And show the princes some compelling evidence that it was indeed saudis who were the hijackers. >> it's disturbing that you say the current king his initial reaction was essentially, you know highly defensive and in a way suggesting that saudi arabia did not have this big terrorism problem. >> i think they were in denial to a great agree, particularly at some of these levels. and it took a great deal of effort on our part to develop the cooperation which finally did come. >> eventually it came because al qaeda actually attacked within saudi arabia. >> the greatest leap forward was after the bo...

Briefer out and show some of the princes compelling evidence that it was indeed saudis who were the hijackers. >> but it's disturbing that you say that the current king his initial reaction was, essentially, you know highly defensive defensive, and in a way suggesting that saudi arabia did not have this big terrorism problem. >> i think they were in denial to a great degree particularly at some of these levels. and it took a great deal of effort on our part to develop the cooperation, which finally did come. >> and eventually it came because al qaeda actually attacked within saudi arabia. >> t...

Why such a big gap? >> well, you know, let me just make a couple comments. first of all, every single veteran should be proud of serving their country. they put themselves at risk, you know -- >> i'm sorry, i misspoke, 90% say they are proud of what they did in afghanistan and iraq. >> i think it should be 100%. but in any event, i understand when you look at -- if you take a look at these wars, all right, the afghan war, this war came to us and we were attacked and we went to the afghan war. now we've gone over to, when you look at what we did in the iraq war, let's look at the result now. yo...

Cannot sweep these threats under the rug like we did with benghazi or the warnings from russia on the tsarnaev brothers and the boston bombing. is there anything americans should be doing about this? >> i don't really think there is. the so-called cooperation between russia and the u.s. on the terrorism issue really, as actually demonstrated by the boston bombings, has not been very successful and the terrorism problem that we're talking about with the olympics and in russia itself is really the kremlin's problem. i see very little opportunity for u.s. -- for the u.s. government to take any pa...

Goal than we've ever been. but you're right. on a lot of those issues, on gun safety, on climate change, on early childhood education, we've had to reduce our expectations because the very dysfunctional nature of the congress and also because the dramatically reduced revenues from the recession. but i hope we can find a way to get past this. i hope that we'll learn from this bitter experience that we've been through and that the leadership in the house will decide to focus more on what the country wants than this very small group of members. >> may i ask you quickly about some international ne...