good afternoon, i m katy tur. it is 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in the east and there is a whole lot going on right now. the state department has just declassified a report asserting that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman approved the murder of washington post journalist and american resident jamal khashoggi. right now also the fda vaccine advisory board is meeting to discuss the approval of the one dose johnson & johnson vaccine. their recommendation could come at any moment. and right now, president biden is about to tour an emergency operations center in texas, where more than a million are still without drinking water. while democrats back in washington make a major move on the president s first major piece of legislation. the house is expected to pass the massive covid-19 relief bill today and it is significant. a $2 trillion plan that includes $1,400 for direct payments, billions in aid to government and businesses and they had hoped a $15 minimum wage. but
the top line is, of course, that the cia and this happened back in 2018, we reported it at the time. it is finally being released. the cia deems that the crown prince of saudi arabia, the de facto leader of saudi arabia, the 35-year-old crown prince mohammed bin salman is being held responsible for the operation to kill or capture jamal khashoggi who was of course the washington based saudi dissident, journalist, regular columnist and contributor to the washington post. we know he entered the saudi consulate under false pre tenses, lured there to get a visa for his wedding and never emerged. it was later discovered by the cia and the u.n. investigators that he was murdered, dismembered. his remains never found. what is so important in terms of the top lines here is that 76 saudis, including members of what are described as an elite hit squad including what they described as the ring leader, the former deputy intelligence chief of saudi arabia, are being sanctioned. they a
Reevaluation. congresswoman jackie spier has introduced a bill that would overhaul the process. i think what s apparent as you mentioned is that it s so convoluted that it provides no incentive for women or anyone who faced sexual harassment on capitol hill to come forward and put forth a complaint. it s inheritly designed not just to silence the accusers but to make it look like, for example, when it s settled, there was no wrongdoing. if you look at the conyers, it looks like the payments that were given was just for, you know, work she was doing as a staffer. that tell also you everything you need to know about the perception and the way it is portrayed in the public as to what the actual misconduct is or if it even happened. and it s totally opaque to the tax payers because that money was supposed to have come out of a fund for the office of