We are a 501(c)(6) membership or trade association. Our mission is to generate economic opportunities for our players.

But there is an understanding that PIF will contribute an investment to the PGA Tour and the entity that will control it.

That is how they can be disruptive because they have a lot of money, bucketsful of money. Correct?

To have them taken over by a repressive foreign regime certainly is a matter of our national security.

Are you bound by the non-disparagement clause that is very specifically stated in the agreement?

To have them taken over by a repressive foreign regime certainly is a matter of our national security.

There is one piece of legislation dealing with veteran suicide. But perhaps you could give us your assessment as to what more we can and should be doing, 'we' meaning not only the VA but also Congress.

But there is something that stinks about this path that you are on right now because it is a surrender, and it is all about the money, and that is the reason for the backlash that you have seen.

What other sources of funding did you explore?

Senator Cornyn and I led the effort--it is called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA)--to enable those families to go to court.

Congress' authority to investigate here and investigate golf comes from Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution.

It takes a lot to turn down a lot of money.

If we are going to be selling out to countries that can throw around hundreds of billions of dollars, we are going to lose, not just financially.

I am betting--because I never want to bet against America--that America will be on your side, thick or thin.

But as you well know, antitrust law, consumer protection law, many other laws involve protection of public interests and individual interests because the public interest demands it.

Instead of accepting this amount of money--call it an investment, call it financing--from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, did you explore other sources of potential investment?

In other words, their interest was public image, sportswashing, cleansing their reputation. Correct?

In 2023 we will distribute almost $1 billion to our players.

I am betting--because I never want to bet against America--that America will be on your side, thick or thin.

I will continue to support the PGA Tour. Just make no mistake--as I said before, America is on your side.

I have the deepest sympathy for the families of 9/11 and support their efforts of obtaining information currently being withheld by the United States and Saudi governments.

But there is an understanding that PIF will contribute an investment to the PGA Tour and the entity that will control it.

But will you commit that it will not have it, that you will not agree to it if it does?

We are here because the regime, an autocratic, repressive regime, is torturing, imprisoning, killing its own people.

They have a lot of money.