saw with that nighttime parade last week. the implications, of course, are wider so there is fresh urgency for president biden s mackey fr you. we have more breaking news coming into the newsroom and these are developments out of the department of justice with a new announcement related to new rules for federal police reform watchdogs essentially. let me bring in julia ainsley to break down what we re learning. good morning. good morning, halle. let me explain the watchdogs and who they are. when you think of a descent decree, that usually happens after a police department has been found to have a systematic problem often showing excessive force sometimes tied to issues of race and then what happens is the court comes in and establishes a monitor to come in and clean up the department and the justice department gets involved to trigger the process in the first place. what we re hearing just today in
there s an ad that barack obama talking straight to camera that if republicans like larry elder end up winning this race the mask and vaccine mandate also be overturneded. democrats are running on the same thing that billion-dollared about, president biden outlined last week as far as a mask or vaccine mandate. i think that how democrats are running we ll see in virginia in november and maybe also into 2022. mark murray and gad venegas, thank you. news coming in just in the last couple of minutes about booster shots and this new review by the fda. what the fda is saying as a million kids are back in the classroom, most of them for the first time in 18 months plus in the nation s biggest school system. also, on capitol hill, some new information on that human infratrukt stur bill as it s called and how it s going to get paid for. we ll bring that to you along with the police chief getting
sure we got more out and then what is the nature of our relationship with the taliban moving forward. we heard some of the top pentagon officials talking about the likelihood we ll be working with them. secretary blinken putting a hold on that, saying there s not necessarily the trust that you need here so this is going to be a really interesting week and i should note president biden was chairman of the foreign relations committee. we have the back-to-back hearings and tony blinken for a long time was his staff director. he knows full well the kind of grilling he s going to be facing himself today, but it doesn t make the preparations for it any easier as we see the real focus here going forward. richard, let me turn to you. you are back now in kabul today, a place you ve been a lot over the years. talk to us about the changes you re seeing this time, what looks different to you. reporter: the last several months the city seems radically different. when i was here earlier in the
larry elder the vob reese front-runner, 31% of the vote, following the story guad venegas. what are you seeing ahead of the vote tomorrow in california reporter: the key thing is turnout. kamala harris was sheer, senator bernie sanders was in a commercial, former president barack obama also supporting and president biden is expected to come to california. they re trying to activate democrats to come out and vote. if you look at the numbers registered voters in california, democrats outnumber republicans almost 2:1, so if they can get enough democrats to get excited about the recall election in the last few days, they expect to win this. we need more than 50% of people to say no on the recall. part of this is also getting the latino vote. 30% of registered voters in california are latino and they re also very unlikely to vote.
whether saudi arabia supported the 9/11 terror plot of president biden s calling for the review, declassification and documents on the investigation. i want to bring in national security reporter at the washington post. devlin, walk us through this and why we saw this investigation in the first place. one of the long unanswered or lingering questions from the 9/11 investigation was did any saudi government officials help the hijackers? they knowingly helped the hijackers and there has been a lot of suspicion on that front within the fbi and among the families of the victims and there is a long running lawsuit against the saudis and the saudis denied being apart or helping in any way this plot. but the families have been fighting to force the fbi, to force the government and multiple administrations to give up the documents and biden tried to break that log jam by signing this executive order and we ve seen the first document as a result of that order.