after a year of russian brutality and ahead of an expected counteroffensive. the mayor of kyiv will join us live this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with president biden making his 2024 plans official, and making the case that he deserves a second term. cnn s phil mattingly reports on the president s big announcement and how trump figured into his message. four more years! four more years! reporter: president biden is officially in. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i m running for re-election. reporter: a short campaign-style video timed four years to the day after this 2020 campaign launch. we have to remember who we are. this is america. reporter: the launch heavily and intentionally featuring vice president kamala harris and telegraphing a campaign strategy crafted to sharpen attacks on national republicans. around the country ma
donte wright is free this morning. these stories and more right here on cnn news central. we are expecting a big but not an unexpected announcement from president joe biden and straight to the arlette seanez who has been watching this and we know that last week you are expecting news that we expect him to announce that he is going to become the presidential elect. well, sara, president biden spent the weekend at camp david to go over the final details regarding the details and staffing for a campaign. the president s advisers have been working towards launching this campaign tomorrow and doing so in a video . also tomorrow, the president is going to be speaking at the building trade yun yon unions t and that is a key group that helped to elect him in 2020. and we are learning that the democratic sources are telling us that he is expected to name julie chavez rodriguez as the campaign member. she is one of the most senior advisers here at the white house and director of th
nothing new there, especially from trump. he should have listened to both of us when we were saying earlier this year. have a great rest of your night. nice to see you. good to see you. tonight on the mehdi hasan show prosecuting a former leader. why are some people acting as if it would be completely crazy to prosecute donald j trump? plus, a right-wing harassment campaign against children s hospital staff, based on pure hate and disinformation. what is this country becoming? and, devastating climate-related floods in pakistan. my conversation with the grandson of the country s former prime minister on how to help, and who s to blame. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. it is called the most exclusive clubs in the world. and as a marvel fan, i was always tickled by how saturday night live used to portray the ex presidents as actual cartoon superheroes. because speaking as a relatively new citizen to this country, one thing that is uniquely american about it is th
reporter: as this ceasefire is holding, but barely in that there is a good deal of fighting in khartoum and elsewhere in the country. there is estimated to be 16,000 u.s. citizens is to shelter in place. that s in contrast, for example, to the british who ve landed at least one aircraft that went in from cyprus and returned to cyprus. that landed in an air strip in the desert just to the west of khartoum. and, of course, the french have actually collected 500 refugees who went out overland amid frigate. that was a 500 mile, 800 kilometer drive. the brits and the americans are sending two warships to port sudan. there has been contingency planning for possible military intervention with the french success of their mission.
400 people there and thousands others wounded. sam kiley is in djibouti which hundreds of diplomats are using to escape the route, and what are you seeing there? well, sara, this is a small country has become the hub for multinational special forces efforts involving troops from countries as far as away as japan and south korea all of the way through to the united states, and of course, many, many europeans, and now that particular operation led there by the united states took in british special forces who themselves then went out on the ground and mustered british expatriots to get them on the 18 kilometer drive which is 30 mimile miles out to airstrip to get the brits out. and there are nearly 400 people