Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement
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🗓️ 19 June 2019
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Carol Morello talks about the U.N. investigator’s report about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Lena Sun on the Manhattan couple donating millions to anti-vax groups. And Rachel Siegel on new ad standards in Britain.
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| 0:20.3 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, this is Tracy Jan Colley from the Post. I'm a kitchen president for a power you. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, it's Robert Given, at the Washington Post. This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:36.6 | It's Wednesday, June 19th. |
| 0:40.6 | Today, a United Nations report on the killing of Jamal Kashokchi, the money behind today's |
| 0:46.8 | anti-vax movement, and a ban on sexist ads. |
| 0:50.8 | She said it was a premeditated, extrajudicial killing that possibly involved torture as well. |
| 1:02.1 | And violated not only norms, but international laws against torture and human rights abuses. |
| 1:08.6 | That's Carol Morello, and I'm a diplomatic correspondent. I covered the State Department. |
| 1:13.7 | On Wednesday, the United Nations released a new report, a 101-page independent investigation |
| 1:20.7 | by human rights expert Agnes Kalamard. She was tasked several months ago with conducting an inquiry |
| 1:27.0 | into what happened with Jamal Kashokchi when he was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last |
| 1:33.6 | October. This is far more definitive than anything else that has come out so far. It is an |
| 1:39.3 | independent investigation, and it is certainly not the final word. Her mandate was to look at human |
| 1:45.1 | rights abuses, not to conduct a criminal investigation. So in her findings, she held the |
| 1:52.4 | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia responsible for some degree of culpability in Kashokchi's killing, |
| 1:59.2 | but she did not address individual responsibility. Though she did say there was sufficient evidence |
| 2:05.5 | to suggest there should be a criminal investigation of higher levels, including the Crown Prince. |
| 2:11.4 | After the report came out, Carol spoke to Kalamard on the phone in Geneva, and they talked about |
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