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
unquote major reason why h shouldn t run. what do you make of this 2024 is upon us there s gonna be a lot o prognosticating for many month ahead. here s what i know, presiden biden was elected in 2020 with the most vote of any candidate for president in the history o our country. and he has lived up to the moment, and to do the job the infrastructure and job act. the inflation reduction act. and so much more the united states of america a a much better place today than it was four years ago. and i think that s what we r gonna hear about during th campaign and that s what we re gonna see reflected in the results next november. senator padilla, i can t le you go without asking abou senator feinstein, there s a major holdup when it comes t the president judicial nominee because of her absence there i now growing calls for he
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
rating that s a slightly bit higher than it was at the same 0. months ago so that s something that i think you can expect that th president and his aides when h does make this expected really will try and point to that, th economic ruchim airy that th president said that s more lik america and less like a sprint out of the covid pandemic. and of, course you ll hear him echo these themes that we ve been hearing out for weeks i terms of finishing the job and continuing to build on some of the legislativ accomplishments. but, overall the president tha will have to face the realit in this poll, that even amon democrats, 45% said that h should around 51% said that he should not and many of them in our polling cited age as a top concern, reason for that yasmin , again when you talk to democratic lawmakers they sa look at what the president has done so far. they point to his record, they say not to focus on the fact that he is the oldest presiden