american citizens from the war zone. why are other nations right now successfully evacuating their own citizens by the hundreds. sandra: one of the major questions as the pentagon readies for a briefing. picture is up, podium is there, we are waiting for the briefing, and take the news off the top. navy seals pulling off an evacuation of the embassy workers and families but hundreds of americans are still there at this hour as the deadly fighting gets closer and closer. john: we will see if the pentagon has a message today for those folks. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. starting off a new week, sandra. sandra: right on into it, john. a lot of people think of war the moment they hear sudan but bloody battles in the past have never been like this. all right, so you are looking live in sudan, thousands of americans have been left behind and this makes the pentagon briefing that we are waiting any moment now key,
planes there to get americans out. ok, so taking a step back and looking at the operation that we conducted, again, we believe that in our planning we executed the operation in the safest, most effective way possible in terms of evacuating u.s. government personnel. you ve heard state department and the white house talk to the situation with americans who may still be in sudan, who wish to leave, we are coordinating the state department i know and i would refer you to them for further details, is making itself available to communicate with those americans wishing to leave to find the best way possible for them to get out of the country. again, from a dod standpoint, we are planning organization, we are going to continue to look at a variety of means and methods should state department call on us for support and we ll continue to do that. are you helping the other nations that are sending war planes in to lift their citizens
in. sorry the segment was moved up. we are all here. good news. what we should be doing. john: sandra. sandra: as we await to hear more from the pentagon good getting those americans out of sudan, a live pentagon briefing we are going to dip in at the top and the news, listen. potential land routes out of sudan and detect threats and positioning naval assets off the coast of sudan should they be needed. in addition, africa command has established a deconflict cell in germany, good communication among allies and partners. secretary austin continues meetings on the officials in sudan and the state department ongoing efforts. department continues to actively conduct the sent of defense directed comprehensive review of dod security programs, policies and procedures in the wake of recent unauthorized disclosure of documents. toward that end, the dod chief
indictment. there are tax problems, there s this gun form charge. but there s also one thing that still remains rather odd. with all the leaks coming out of the justice department of potential criminal charges, they are not mentioning farrah, so not mentioning a possible charge of the president s son for being an unregistered foreign agent. that s the charge the biden white house probably fears the most. it s also the charge that merrick garland would not like to see. and the reason is that if he was a foreign agent involved in influence peddling, his father was the subject of that influence peddling. and so the foreign agent charge would spotlight the role of then vice president biden in attracting this type of influence peddling. the question, though, is this is a department of justice that brought this charge against loads of people, including trump