good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for sharing your morning with us the back half of the weekend. easy start to the sunday smile is so big this morning. i m feeling good. i m feeling good. here s what we re watching for you this morning. special operation forces evacuated american personnel from the u. s embassy during heavy fighting and clashes in sudan. now u. s officials are trying to figure out ways to help private american citizens as the crisis intensifies. a team of cnn reporters will have the latest showdown takes shape and washington house speaker mccarthy scrambles to unite his party on a debt ceiling plan. can you get the votes to avoid a financial crisis and will president biden and mccarthy be able to see i to ii before time runs out, plus a wake up call. a new study reveals an alarming number of teams admit to abusing 80 hd medications. what s behind the rise and what you can do to protect yo
as a former air force guy boots on the ground are key and the problem that the sudanese military has is that they have morale issues they have in fighting that is going on with them, and they also have a situation where they re finding it. very difficult in a very dense the populated urban setting to actually complete their mission to keep their government in their hands. colonel cedric leighton always appreciate the expertise helping us understand this. thanks so much. still to come the first major test for house speaker kevin mccarthy, as house republicans are expected to vote on the debt limit and spending cuts. does he have the votes warning for black women? new research shows they should start getting mammograms much earlier than others. what s the number one retinol brand used most by dermatatologists. neutrogena rad wrinklee repair smoothshs the lk
the lk of someonen crge and lines of authority, a point pers. we need an evacuatio czar sobody who wl provide alan and servise actio so that we can g out offghanianhe american thatremain there and will tellou,e don t have an estate on the numbe because nobody is in charge right now. let bri intur coersation senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. s a member of the armed services, judiciary, and terans affairs committees. thank you for spending time with us. aye talked about that moment and we just played it part of our convertion, our coverage. tell me if you left today with clarity on any of the important issues you raised there. there really was no clarity, and with all due respect tthe secretary of defense, he provided no real responses t my questions because at the moment, there aren t responses.
we are you know, hispanics are 500 million of the 1.3 billion catholics in this country. he lk speaking in their language. he will be speaking to them about immigration. we have heard him speak about immigration before, bill, but this will be the first time in which he will be having a conversation, really, truly, to the people which it affects the most. we ve heard him talk about how he s an immigrant and how this is a country made by immigrants. we ve heard him address congress and talk about the golden rule and how important it is that we treat these people as faces and human beings and not numbers, but now he will do that. he will address them as people, and here at independence hall at 4:00. so this should be something that many that i ve spoken to in spanish and english are excited about, bill. thank you, brian. [ applause ]
why some cuban-americans are furious. we re going in-depth. first the secret service and now dea agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in colombia. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the high-powered campaign surrogate is on the hot seat for going off message after newark s democratic mayor cory booker spoke about the attacks on mitt romney s old firm bane capital. he had to struggle to do damage control and the dust still hasn t settled. let s discuss what s going on with the key adviser of the romney campaign, ed gillespie, former republican of the national committee. thanks very much for coming in. thank you for having me, wolf. good to be with you. let s talk about what the president specifically said about mitt romney, his experience at bane capital yesterday and then we ll get your reaction. my opponent, governor romney, his main calling card for why he thinks he sho