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This message comes from Progressive Insurance and the name your price tool. It helps you find car insurance options in your budget. Try it today at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Price and coverage match limited by state law. Not available in all states. This, Justin, you were looking at, obviously, a very disturbing live shot there. We don't fully know the details. Did you see what happened, sir? Unconfirmed reports Did you see what happened? What happened? On 09/11/2001, as the ashes of the Twin Towers smoldered, a team of FBI agents met in a basement in Washington, DC. The energy in the room was intense. It was their job to find out who did this, why, and if more attacks were coming. They started making calls to the CIA, to police precincts around the country, and to an agency known back then as INS, the Immigration and Naturalization Service. We are doing numerous interviews, running down hundreds or if not thousands of leads around the country. Within three days, they had a list of 19 names. First name, Waleed Al Shehri. The second, Whale Al Shehri, also known as Waleed. And as investigators dug into each of those names, pressure mounted on the INS because all 19 hijackers had come from abroad, and all 19 were on temporary visas. Some of their passports had fraudulent stamps in them, and consulate officials didn't catch them. Two of the hijackers had lied on their visa applications, and a handful of them had overstayed or violated the terms of those visas before the nine eleven attacks. The nineeleven commission was set up to determine how so many federal agencies missed this and how to keep it from happening again. Here's audio from one hearing. These 19 people got documents and got in The United States Of America. They defeated the INS. They defeated the customs. They defeated the FBI. They defeated the CIA. They hijacked four American airplane. It was a war of activity. You know, a lot of lot of lot of panic, a lot of, like, like being kicked in the gut. That's about the best I could I could describe it. Roger Werner worked for the INS at the time. On the morning of 09:11, he walked nearly 60 blocks in New York City to get to the INS office on Houston Street. And when he got there, he says there was a lot of work to be done. There were still a lot of unknowns. There would be leads developed by other agencies, and a person was discovered that, hey. This person has overstayed their visa. You know, we're putting them before an immigration judge to see if they, you know, are removable. So there was a lot of work during that time. For years, politicians on both sides of the aisle had fought for major immigration reform in The US. And now it seemed like a massive terrorist attack had happened in part because …