And are we nearing the end of the worst Measles Outbreak in decades . This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Odonnell good evening. This is our western edition. It is decision time for President Trump, who tonight is weighing how to respond to an unprecedented attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. His first move, sending his secretary of state to saudi arabia. The attack on saturday at two separate refineries knocked out half of saudi arabias oil output. The facilities were hit 19 times with what officials believe was a combination of drones and cruise missiles. Iran was immediately suspected. We have new reporting tonight. Weijia jiang begins our coverage at the white house. Im not looking to get into new conflict, but sometimes you r ve to. Sint trump stopped short of blaming iran for the attacks on two saudi oil plants, but indicated it was likely iran and a u. S. Intelligence official tells cbs news that tehran did indeed launch the attack. Well, its looking that way.
If we continue to pretend that these parties define the spectrum of political thought, we’ll have to get used to mental gymnastics. There will be nothing principled or consistent coming down the pipeline.
the stories of some of the actresses who first spoke of their experiences with harvey weinstein and then with a whole other series of people, again, women who were wealthy, had privilege, had benefits, had sort of won white patriarchy and yet were still assaulted, in many cases violently, had their careers damaged, told the stories of how sexism had reshaped their lives. the testimony of christine blaisey-ford. her story was not believed she could be assaulted according to her account. her story was not believed, not taken seriously enough to halt brett kavanaugh. this is a moment of revelation. it s one of the moments that you re talking about when there are a series of events that reveal that even white women who enjoy some of the greatest and most obvious forms of power and privilege within this country are not, in fact, protected from