personnel from the u.s. embass evacuated overnight from sudan s capital city o khartoum a former army general is gonna join me and what it took to ge embassy officials out what the future holds for the war tor african nation plus, new nbc news polling wit a fresh look at the upcoming presidential election, and wha they re saying about president biden just days away fro announcing his reelection bid. and why governor ron desantis hopes of being a presidentia contender may have already failed we ll take a look at all o those numbers, plus, could w see donald trump take th witness stand this week? a hint, the answer has nothing to do with elections coming up in the next, our special guest, senator alex, right here in california joining as well. you don t wanna miss tha conversation, we re gonna ge his thoughts on what he like t ask the chief justice of the u.s. about ethics concerns a the highest levels of th supreme court. we begin with that breakin news, overnight, out of sud
as we mentioned, just a fe minutes ago, nbc news has some new polling released just this morning. all things trump and biden here s nbc s mark murray wit more on that the latest international nb news poll finds that 60% o republican primary voter saying they are standing behin former president donald trump, despite the recent investigations and the crimina indictment of the former president. just 26% of republican primary voters say that they have th opposite opinion, they actuall need to focus on a different nominee who will be able t take the fight to presiden biden in the general election. in the first trial that ou poll has had, the earl republican 2024 presidential race, former president donal trump is in the league, gettin support from 46% of republican primary voters florida governor ron desantis, yet to officially announce his presidential bid, comes in
polling, folks new nbc polling out toda showing former president donal trump holding a double digit lead over his main primary challenger, you guessed, i florida governor ron desantis. at least for now, right? 46% of republican primar voters said they would support trump if the 2024 primary were held today that is compared to 31% fo desantis, has yet to officiall announce his candidacy so, it s common boasting more than 5 congressional desantis only has three. i want to bring in nbc new senior national correspondent, matt, thanks are joining us on this, we appreciate it trump is not known for his lon term political strategy, right but he is proving to b successful when he comes t congressional endorsements and leading on desantis. wondering what went into this? and what does this say about a potential desantis candidacy