urban on meet the press callin out supreme court justice, clarence thomas. for falling short of ethic rules that apply to othe public servants coming up. i m gonna ask his colleagues of california what changes h wants to see at the nation s highest court. and then a showdown on capitol hill with the entire u.s economy on the line. new information that we re learning about democrats and republicans as they try an figure out how to avoid trillion dollar plus benefit a default i should say we begin once again with the overnight evacuation of u.s. government employees fro sudan. special forces teams from th army, navy deployed for th high stakes pitch. and they were successfully abl to, extract several doze diplomats and their families from the u.s. embassy. in the capital of khartoum that city seen nine days o violence as rival military factions continue to fight for contro of the country at least 400 people have bee killed, we want to bring i megan fitzgerald, who standing by
to execute this. that he doesn t really lik having to close down an embass temporarily. but that is number one priorit here is the safety and well-being of the personne inside 16,000 americans left behind. may again, these are non governmental and plays the first round was many of th governmental employees tha were at the embassy, at what point do they pull the trigger and get these folks out? how do they assess that? yasmin, great question. we ve been speaking with panic on officials, they ve confirme to us that right now it s to dangerous they say to do such large scale rescue mission a this point but they went on to say that the u.s. military is preparing for all contingencies includin a larger evacuation mission. when will this happen, wil this happen, these are the questions we just don t know a this point in time we do know that there
communication with u.s citizens that still remain within the country they are being told to hunke down and stay in shelter i place. look, it s a dangerous situation. it s a volatile situatio that s just increasing and deteriorating overtime people can go outside thei homes to get food. they can t get medical car because as we ve been talkin about, the hospitals in town there aren t functioning it s a very dangerou situation. time is of the essence here. but we re standing by an waiting to find out if and lan the 60,000 americans that ar still within this country will be evacuated megan fitzgerald, w appreciate i want to go to capitol hill and bring an embassy congressional correspondent what are we hearing in washington, julie, their reaction on capitol hill as to what s taking place in sudan and, has been this time tomorrow when congress get back i imagine we ll hear a lot more but so far the top republica
american people about what he accomplished on their behalf and to clamp down on the chaos that we see on the road [interpreter - everyone thought the economy i number one issue for so many americans especially as traveled the country talking t folks. when you look at exit polls, i came down to abortion. abortion is still top of mind especially when we re looking at this decision fro the fifth circuit in six weeks or so on mifepristone possibly the return of the supreme cour as well. these polling numbers, 38% think that - 20% saying legal, most of th time and democrats really need to hone in on the abortion issu when it comes to the presidential election. they deal i think that s why you saw vic president harris already out there talking about abortion the lines are really drawn here, you have rhonda scent is takin it on the hard lin conservatives six-week abortio
judiciary committee an answering these timely critical questions is part o that responsibility. we have introduced legislation that lays out what we want t see. not just higher ethica standards, but across the boar the investigation when there s alleged violation of a code of ethics. of stronger transparency and disclosure of rules when i comes to finances. and again, not just the report but recent reports of justic thomas conduct is exhibit a as to why we need it. senator padilla, i want t ask you quickly about this nbc reporting we re getting from the new polling out. there s a lot on republicans but i want to ask yo specifically about the polling we re seeing president biden 70% of all americans including 51% of democrats - the president should not run for a second term. half of those citing the presidents age as a quot