everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with a dramatic evacuation of u. s. government personnel and their families from sudan president biden confirming the operation overnight more than 100. special operations personnel were involved in the extraction. the decision to evacuate came after a week of heavy fighting between rival military factions that left more than 400 dead and thousands injured. we ve got full coverage with kylie atwood at the state department, kevin liptak at the white house. kylie let s begin with you. this was a big operation. i mean what was happening behind the scenes at the state department and what provoked this decision. major operation and what you have to understand with embassies like this that are in areas where conflict can arise is that the state department has plans for these evacuations. but then they have to go back and look at these plans in a very detailed way, and that s what state department offic
Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards had a hard fall that left him hobbling off the court on Tuesday with a bruised right hip. Edwards was hurt when he tried to dunk on Oklahoma City's Kenrich Williams, drew a foul and lost his balance in the air. Hearing “MVP” chants from the crowd, Edwards rejoined the huddle and walked back to the court to shoot his free throws.
takes a long time. sometimes to find common ground. so you are going to go through a process here that all of us are concerned about. but, hopefully, we can get all of this done by labor day and people will be comfortable that we will have a good budget to work on starting the fiscal year october 1. as we mentioned, you are the co-chair for the president s re-election campaign. we saw that hard fall. then we saw as our phil mattingly said his jig when he got off the plane making a joke. have you been in touch with the president in terms of how he is doing this morning, how he is feeling? i have not talked to the president this morning. i plan to talk with him later today. i saw him arriving back at the white house last night doing his little jig. i think that irrespective of whether it took him two hours to come up with it, given sandbag
President Joe Biden knows a thing or two about picking yourself up and trying again . and he proved it again Thursday during a commencement address to Air Force grads.
oh, my gosh! what a hard hit and a hard fall, uh, over the issue of gambling and, you know, look at all the ads, right? i mean, where there is a lot of legal gambling as it pertains to sports and getting a lot of fans involved. old does it appear as though is it? does this exemplify that it s a growing problem among players in the league, whether it be the nfl or some other league? i don t know if it s a growing problem as much as maybe perhaps a more exposed problem now that gambling is legal, and it s taking up more bandwidth. there s more attention being paid to the activities and perhaps one of the league s are beginning to look at the players a little more closely because it is not legal, and thus it might be against league rules, but not against, you know, u s law. so i don t know if it s a growing problem, fredricka, but it s definitely is a problem is a long standing problem. every single league has had cheating allegations connected to gambling. you know, obviously your first