KEILAR: In a CNN exclusive, we're learning that the U.S. government is helping Saudi Arabia build its own air marshal program. This is a story that CNN national security reporter, Kylie Atwood, broke. Tell us what you're learning.</s>KYLIE ATWOOD, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER: Brianna, this is a program that hasn't been revealed before. So basically, the U.S. government, through the TSA, is helping Saudi Arabia build up, from beginning to end, an air marshal program that essentially would allow Saudi air marshals to fly with weapons on Saudi-owned airplanes potentially in the future, potentially those flights coming to the U.S. It is a defense for the Saudi Arabia to make sure that the airplanes they are flying are safe. And officials say that this would be a good thing for Americans who are flying on those planes, of course. But they're concerns from members of Congress who haven't been fully briefed and have questions about sharing U.S. defense tactics with the Saudis.</s>KEILAR: And that's going to be a concern of many people. There are certainly families who have lawsuits pending against the Saudi government because so many of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi. They're going to have some worries, right?</s>ATWOOD: Exactly. We're also in this moment in time when the Jamal Khashoggi incident is raising questions about how much trust the U.S. should be putting in its reliance and its engagement with the Saudi government. You have that to consider as well. There's reason for alarm bells here. But the reality is that members of Congress really just want to get the answers as to what the U.S. is actually sharing and what they're teaching the Saudis with this program.</s>KEILAR: All right. Kylie Atwood, thank you so much for our exclusive report.
U.S. Helping Saudis Build Own Air Marshal Program.