Martha thank you very much. Afternoon. Martha maccallum and this is the story. You are watching it with us. Moments ago former President Trump wrapped a fourth News Conference just since August Reminder that we have not seen 1 for Vice President harris freewheeling period of time where she was taking questions from the crowd. We havent seen that yet but look for to seeing that. The president at the very end President Trump did say he would leave the door open to another debate. He said ive been 2 already and has cautions about prior debate that just happened and says of them in the right mood that maybe he would consider it so see. Still got a couple months ago so there may be another opportunity. He defended his performance on tuesday. Watch. I thought the debate was great. I thought i did very well but i was fighting 3 people. I think he correct me 11 times. I dont think he had the right to correct me. Didnt crack her once like im project 2025 or had no Idea Nothing to do with me. He
i m jim acosta in washington will be in this hour of americans caught up in the escalating crisis in sudan. just minutes ago, the u. s state department announced it will carry out a military assisted evacuation of government personnel if the crisis worsens . in the past week, more than 400 people have died since two rival generals first lead their forces into a battle for control of the country. that death toll includes at least one american. both sudan s army and its paramilitary rival. the rsf say they will help evacuate for nationals. the u. s is making preparations to get diplomatic personnel right out right now. but the white house says private citizens should not expect and evacuation. we have correspondents in the military expert here to help us tackle all of the angles of the story. let s begin with cnn s larry meadow, a live in nairobi, kenya. larry. i know things are very fluid at the moment. but what s the latest on these evacuations? jim right now there s evacuati
up into an all out civil war that would potentially destabilize that region? of course it could. in fact, i d say it s already in a civil war . look you have these two competing military factions. one is the sudanese military. then you have this counterinsurgency force that exists. one is a professional military one is this again. kind of, um, a counter force if you will, for lack of a better term, a civil war already exists and sudan s important because of its location next to the red sea, or u. s military. transits that as a matter of routine and you ve got rare earth minerals. the competition for those are very, very pronounced. that s why you know there s a possible intersection of russian, um, interest chinese interests. united states interests. this could be maybe at the far end of the possibility this could be an opportunity for those three nations. to try to cooperate to put a lid on this thing because the competition exists and it s