state senator josh mclauren on the phone with us. thank you so much, please continue to stay safe. we appreciate you taking our call. we want to take you live to a ground perspective, with 11 alive reporter, this armored vehicle pulling through your shot is quite a visual for the situation that continues to unfold in one of the busiest parts of the city. reporter: it really is, literally within the last two minutes that vehicle just pulled up, trying to navigate around in atlanta police car that is also blocking this road. right now we re on 13th street. just up from spring street, and they are continuing to block off a lot of the streets around here as they try and make sense of it all. i did see two people who told me they were hospital employees who said that they had just been asked to leave and to get as far away from the area as possible. they were not able to tell me if they had received any other instructions from police but only that they were told by their supervisors l
rule in sudan, but they can t agree over who will ultimately be in charge of this to fighting forces. and that is why this place victor camera. appreciate that. larry madonna. thank you. joining me now is cnn military analyst and retired air force. colonel cedric leighton. leighton good morning to you, colonel. first off, talk to us about how difficult an operation like this was to pull off. can you just walk us through the planning and also the execution of it? i mean, we heard from us officials that this was fast and clean. yeah i m really good morning. this is one of the most intricate operations that the u. s military performs. basically what you need to be able to do is you need to have a flight route that gets you into a hostile place like cartoon and then be able to extract not only yourself, but the people that you re coming to rescue, so this is a very difficult thing to do . it requires a lot of pre planning both from an aviation perspective as well as a from a tactical and o
the principal threat but i think everybody in the republican party looks at that now that way, you have to se the polling to see tha desantis s distinguished himself as the clear alternative to trump at this point. it is still very early in th process. and that can change. desantis is touring. and maybe he has trouble wit the retail politics once h gets out into other states once people start looking, you know, more on his record education is a big issue her in iowa. the governor can kim reynold pushed her plan for you know basically universal school choice as she calls it and iowa and it helped her wi legislative seats. she was able to get that through, so i think both trump and desantis understand it is top issue for voters here. thanks so much for that on the ground perspective, john, have a great time there in iowa now, my political panel join me with keith boykin who is former clinton white house aide, and the author of race against time the politics of a darkenin america. also
dangerous dry hot national park big bend, and this is even worse , i can t believe it. that s executive right, the numbers here are just shooting through the roof. to give you an idea of border patrol they have more than 1800 illegal crossings and just 24 hours, those are some huge numbers for the sector. we want to show you what that looks like. you mentioned this group off th top, a single group of 167 they crossed into eagle pass this morning at around 8:00 a.m. mostly all single adults, not really those family units we were seeing last summer for a. typically these have been mostl cubans, venezuelans, colombians and peruvians. the eagle pass area has been getting hammered by these big group spread we saw six or seve of them last year alone. you see a video of that same group from the ground perspective, the sector just since october 1st is had more
northwest out of kherson to try to encircle odesa. they have ships in the black sea. we haven t seen any maritime moves on odesa, but it certainly seems to be what they are considering doing. it would make sense that if they did that they would also try to come up on a ground perspective coming down from the north, and that appears to be what they re trying to do or why they went through kherson. they ve had more progress in the south, but in the north they continue to be frustrated. they re not making as much progress on major population centers, certainly not kyiv, not kharkiv, not a town called chernihiv which they re trying to encircle and bombard. that con vie we have been talking about has been stalled and slowed and a reason for that has been the ukrainian resistance. they were able to hit some of the lead vehicles and get it to stop. pentagon press secretary, retired rear admiral john kirby. thank you. you do a great job explaining this difficult situation. we appreciate it.