good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for sharing your morning with us the back half of the weekend. easy start to the sunday smile is so big this morning. i m feeling good. i m feeling good. here s what we re watching for you this morning. special operation forces evacuated american personnel from the u. s embassy during heavy fighting and clashes in sudan. now u. s officials are trying to figure out ways to help private american citizens as the crisis intensifies. a team of cnn reporters will have the latest showdown takes shape and washington house speaker mccarthy scrambles to unite his party on a debt ceiling plan. can you get the votes to avoid a financial crisis and will president biden and mccarthy be able to see i to ii before time runs out, plus a wake up call. a new study reveals an alarming number of teams admit to abusing 80 hd medications. what s behind the rise and what you can do to protect yo
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perspective, the intelligence since preparation of the battle spaces we call it in. the military is very, very extensive for something like this. and as larry was pointing out all the different factions that are involved in the sudanese war for the sudanese conflict right now , those factions have to be dealt with in sometimes you need to bring foreign third country actors into the like countries like saudi arabia and get the oh, pia to help with those kinds of things, so it becomes a very intricate dance. it requires great deal of planning that sometimes takes months. yeah history often remembers the extractions that do not go well or end with death as we saw, most recently in afghanistan with those 13 service members who were killed, but this one was, as they said, fast and clean, so we should highlight that as well as it relates to the american civilians who are still there. do you believe that? this is a tenable position for the us to say? there is no plan to create some mission or
airspace to kind of full-on jet fighters. drones. and we have seen in the world today in a number of battle spaces around the world how effective drones can be. looking back to your time as national security advisor in the obama administration, looking back through the lens of today, should the obama administration have been more aggressive in protecting ukraine? mika, i think there s been an evolution here. this is a continuum for putin. i think it probably was the case we should have looked harder and supplied more weaponry to defend ukraine. but the interesting thing is that, you know, i was with putin the friday night before he came into his second time around and it was clear then that he he was going to take russia in a different direction. he was not interested in integration of russia in the west anymore. he was going to define russian policy kind of in opposition to the west, right. we saw that building over time. this is a continuum. if you go back and look at georg
doing that. maybe they want us to increase the pace of the negotiations because they re feeling the sting right now. molly: yeah. and you know something that has been just widely a big focus in the news, of course, russian meddling in our american elections. and just if you could bring us up to speed on where you think that stands right now. well, it hasn t stopped. it s been ongoing for years. just because the president called out china doesn t mean that the administration believes russia has stopped interfering in our elections through a variety of means by using our social networking and media sites and conducting massive espionage operations. but this was about china. and remember in august the president signed the national defense authorization act which calls out china as a hostile power which we must counter across all battle spaces. and i think that s what this tweet sorry, e think that s what the president s statement at theup was all about. molly: yeah, it does seem like