September 28 - Evidence of Russian Involvement in the Downing of a Malaysian Passenger Airliner; The Overwhelming Vote to Override Obama's Veto of a Bill Allowing 9/11 Families to Sue Saudi Arabia; Could American Exemption From Sovereign Immunity Backfire

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with an analysis on the just-released report by the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team into the shoot-down of a Malaysian airliner over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 that killed all 298 people aboard. David Gleave, a Chief Investigator for Aviation Safety and an expert with the Transportation Research Group at Loughborough University in the U.K., joins us to look into the enormous amount of evidence compiled by the Dutch, Australian, Belgium, Malaysian and Ukrainian investigators and prosecutors which involved sifting through thousands of pieces of debris, 150,000 intercepted phone calls and half a million photographs. While the report promises to later identify suspects and determine who gave the orders, it does conclusively prove the Russian Buk missile was trucked in from Russia at the request of the Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine, then returned to Russia that same night after shooting down the passenger plane.

Part 2

Then we examine the overwhelming 97 to 1 vote in the Senate today to override President Obama’s veto of the Schumer/Cornyn bill that was followed by a 338 to 74 vote in the House to allow the families of the victims of 9/11 to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for possible involvement in and sponsorship of the 9/11 attacks.  Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent who pushed to investigate the so-called 13^th 9/11 hijacked Zacharias Moussoui before the 9/11 attacks, joins us to discuss the importance of the families of the victims getting their day in court because it will be the only way that evidence about an alleged role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks could be presented to the public and evaluated.

Part 3

Then finally Gregory Gause, Chair and Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M University and author of “Saudi-Yemeni Relations: Domestic Structures and Foreign Influence”, joins us to discuss the Obama Administration’s concerns having suffered their first veto override, that the legislation, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Acts”, which defines an American exemption to sovereign immunity, could backfire and expose the American government, its military, its citizens and corporations to lawsuits abroad.