americas diplomatic personne from the u.s. embassy in the capital city of khartoum there are still thousands of private american citizens stuc amid the fighting. we re following the stor closely. going to bring in the latest throughout the next two hours. mike pence is finally come out strongly against donald trum on one key issue, not the on you think. we ll get the latest from iowa where they both spoke to conservative evangelicals last night. for today s meeting of the velshi banned book club, we re paying tribute to the public library. once a community fixture, safe haven to explore differen worlds and learn new ideas, it has become the battleground fo the ideological fight over books. nowhere are libraries unde greater threat than in texas that s where we re heading t talk to shirley robinson executive director of the texa library association about th fight for the freedom to redeveloped she starts now it is sunday april 23rd, i m ali velshi we begin with the republican
do think that even though he i now someone who has been twice impeached, wants indicted, all of those things should b working against him. these polling numbers take all of that into account and still almost half the country says they would vote for th eventual republican nomine knowing full well that the polls tell them that is likely to be donald trump let s talk about that par of things, michael, the idea that a 68% a republican primar voters believe that the charge against all trump ar politically motivated and that it is their responsibilities t stand between politicall motivated charges agains former president and anythin else that s clear. that number is overwhelmin 68%. you also look at this when you talk about these other candidates whether it be team scarred o asa hutchinson even iran desantis in particular the ones that ar looking for that language we talked about these are people that have sai that they re there to unify th party. that they need to go back to
gave evangelicals the cover to overlook donald trump s obviou moral failings and now those voters are jus mega voters. in spite of all of his losse in liabilities, there are stil plenty of those voters i donald trump s party for des moines iowa, and we se capitol hill - my friend ali vitale for thi version of the ali v. segment. she is the author th remarkable book electable. why america hasn t been a woma in the white house yet longtime political journalis and friend michael ashore also georges good morning for bot of you ali, you have been a speakin specifically to these voters who are gathering at this firs big gathering of conservativ evangelicals tell me what your hearing. i think it s really fascinating. especially as we track specifically on this issue o abortion we watch of close the way that it played out in the 202 midterms that something when i talk t republican operatives in washington, it s a lesson they won t soon forget. when you look at the way tha
about this michael, help us handicap. this you got - roe first, you had lindsey graham saying let s do this in congress what s been abortion as congressional priority mitch mcconnell said no way, not in her getting near this thing. you ve got at least legislatures as ali said tha are much more conservative generally speaking than th republican party writ large. you ve got tim scott sayin hillside the most restrictiv abortion stuff you can get you have mike pence really leaning into this. alleys right, might get yo some primary voters. it s not where the america public is. it s not where the public i and it s not - i m sure ali was there as well in 2015 when i was in iowa covering this thing. you had at these primary voter who said absolutely, they woul not ever vote for donald trump because of where he stands o conservative values. dad went back a year later whe he was the nominee in the roya saying okay, we can do it, w can hold our noses and do this we can elect somebody who will g