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Citigroup, Citibank is the largest stock
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held by the Saudis.
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AOLTimeWarner has big Saudi investors.
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So I read where like the Saudis
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have a trillion dollars
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in our banks of their money.
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What would happen if like one day
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they just pulled that trillion dollars out?
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A trillion dollars,
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that would be an enormous blow to the economy.
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Could I speak with you for a moment please, sir?
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Uh yeah, sure.
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Good, how are you doing?
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Good
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Steve with the Secret Service.
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We're just ascertaining information regarding,
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are you making a documentary
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regarding the Saudi Arabian embassy?
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Uh, no.
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I am doing a documentary.
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And part of it is about Saudi Arabia.
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Even though we were nowhere near the White House,
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for some reason the Secret Service
:40:42
had shown up to ask us
:40:44
what we were doing standing across the street
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from the Saudi embassy.
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We're not here to cause any trouble or anything.
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Uh, ya know, is that...
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That's fine.
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Just wanted to get some information
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on what was going on.
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Yeah yeah yeah,
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I didn't realize the Secret Service
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guards foreign embassies.
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Uh, not usually, no sir.
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No no, do they give you any trouble?
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The Saudis?
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Uh, no comment on that one,
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I'm not going to answer.
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Uh, okay,
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I'll take that as a yes.
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It turns out that Saudi Prince Bandar
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is perhaps the best protected ambassador
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in the US.
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The US State Department provides him
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with a six-man security detail.
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Considering how he and his family,
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and the Saudi elite own seven percent of America,
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it's probably not a bad idea.
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Prince Bandar is so close to the Bushes
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they consider him a member of the family,
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and they even have a nickname for him:
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Bandar Bush.
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Two nights after September 11th,
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George Bush invited Bandar Bush
:41:42
to the White House for a private dinner and talk.
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Even though bin Laden was a Saudi,
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and Saudi money had funded al Qaeda,
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and fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis,
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here was the Saudi ambassador
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casually dining with the President.