americas diplomatic personne from the u.s. embassy in the capital city of khartoum there are still thousands of private american citizens stuc amid the fighting. we re following the stor closely. going to bring in the latest throughout the next two hours. mike pence is finally come out strongly against donald trum on one key issue, not the on you think. we ll get the latest from iowa where they both spoke to conservative evangelicals last night. for today s meeting of the velshi banned book club, we re paying tribute to the public library. once a community fixture, safe haven to explore differen worlds and learn new ideas, it has become the battleground fo the ideological fight over books. nowhere are libraries unde greater threat than in texas that s where we re heading t talk to shirley robinson executive director of the texa library association about th fight for the freedom to redeveloped she starts now it is sunday april 23rd, i m ali velshi we begin with the republican
about this michael, help us handicap. this you got - roe first, you had lindsey graham saying let s do this in congress what s been abortion as congressional priority mitch mcconnell said no way, not in her getting near this thing. you ve got at least legislatures as ali said tha are much more conservative generally speaking than th republican party writ large. you ve got tim scott sayin hillside the most restrictiv abortion stuff you can get you have mike pence really leaning into this. alleys right, might get yo some primary voters. it s not where the america public is. it s not where the public i and it s not - i m sure ali was there as well in 2015 when i was in iowa covering this thing. you had at these primary voter who said absolutely, they woul not ever vote for donald trump because of where he stands o conservative values. dad went back a year later whe he was the nominee in the roya saying okay, we can do it, w can hold our noses and do this we can elect somebody who will g