Law doesn't allow you to sue the government of souti arabia because of the foreign sovereign unities act. The only thing you can do, i assume, is get that law changed. It o pass a law called the justice against sponsors of sm act. Congress has done something to day that they have never done to you before. You vetoed a bill that would have allowed nine 11 families to sux saudy arabia. They to day overrode your veto that has never happened to before. And what that law did as it created a loophole in the existing law.
Candidate Biden said he would make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” on the world stage. Now President Biden is traveling there, asking for the kingdom’s help on gas prices.
This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Amina Al-Sadi, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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