vision we have brand new reporting on what president biden s campaign launch could look like and who will lead his team with his re-election announcement expected to come as early as tomorrow this as a new nbc news poll shows a vast majority of republican primary voters stand firmly behind former president trump despite the criminal charges and the looming legal challenges he faces. are we headed for a rematch? steve kornacki is here to break down all the um numbers for us the race to evacuate is under way in sudan american forces rescuing personnel from a u.s. embassy in a nighttime mission, as fighting the africa s third largest country enters a second week we have more on the incredible mission to get them to safety. what about the 16,000 americans still on the ground there in sudan? an american travel writer stuck in the capital describes chaos in the country the city is so tense right now. a lot of people are fleeing left and right. i can see the cars outside i m just
this week on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling also ahead, the state department pulls u.s. personnel out of the embassy in sudan amid fierce fighting in the country we ll have the latest on the deadly conflict and what s next for thousands of americans who are still over there plus, we ll dig into new reporting on a possible spring counteroffensive from ukraine. looks like the russians are actually retreating or starting to evacuate people from areas around kherson, which suggests a retreat is coming up for the russians. ukraine, again, is trying to regain land controlled by russian forces, and that will ultimately, in the end, whenever that is, it s going to involve some very, very deep negotiations as it pertains to land they took. yeah. now opposed to crimea. good morning welcome to morning joe. it is monday, april 24th there s our good morning. good morning. happy monday with us, the host of way too early, bureau chief at q poli
i m jose diaz-balart you can reach me on twitter and instagram. you can watch highlights online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell has more news now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, our new nbc news poll reveals only 5% of americans want to see a trump-biden rematch in 2024. 70% of all voters do not want biden to run at all with many saying age is their chief concern. also this hour, justin jones one of the two state representatives ousted from office joins me before meeting with president biden this afternoon. as tennessee s governor says he s calling state lawmakers back to nashville after they adjourned without taking up his gun reform proposals an update on the deadly situation in sudan after the u.s. safely evacuated u.s. embassy personnel. thousands of americans remain strands. my first priority is the safety of our people and i determine that the deteriorating security conditions in khartoum pose an unacceptable risk to keeping our
Phase of this war on ukraine. Just today, President Putin has made overt Nuclear Threats against europe. I talk with the president of finland, who knows putin well. I also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. Also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in Police Custody there. What will come of the demonstrations . I will ask an expert. But first, heres my take. Lets not play down what has happened this week. The leader of the Worlds Largest Nuclear Power publicly threatened to use Nuclear Weapons. In an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all Weapons Systems available to us to defend the country. He emphasized it. This is not a bluff. It might be. Putins threat is an addon of traditional soviet doctrine. Now they contemplate scenarios which it could use Nuclear Weapons. But putin
president putin has accused ukraine of terrorism after the only bridge between russia and occupied crimea was damaged in an explosion on saturday. he blamed kyiv s intelligence services for the blast on the crossing, a crucial supply route for moscow s forces in southern ukraine. meanwhile, ukrainian authorities say at least 17 people have been killed by russian missile strikes on the city of zaporizhzhia. rescuers are digging for survivors in the rubble of residential buildings that were destroyed as people slept. paul adams reports from the ukrainian capital, kyiv. in zaporizhzhia, this is what escalation looks like. a gaping hole, where once there were homes. rescue workers searching for the dead and the living. moments after the blast, in the middle of the night, stunned, furious reactions. they destroyed a building at night, at 2am, he says. they simply destroyed a multi storey building. translation: we ran out into the street. - when we left the corridor, a neighb