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
msnbc. thank you so much, reverend sharpton, thank you so much, let s begin this saturday with mifepristone and what happen now, supreme court i temporarily protecting acces to the most used abortion drug in united states two of the nine justices justice clarence thomas an samuel alito dissented friday, saying they would have allowed the original ruling, you know, the one by judge matthew kacsmaryk, to stay in effect which invalidated the fda approval of mifepristone this is thanks to the bide administration, the high court got involved in the firs place. this late quote, fridays stay sends long message to the lowe courts that scotus will no entertain the cynical attemp to impose new nationwide restrictions potentially even a ban o abortion if you feel like it is a littl too early to breathe a sigh of relief, well you would b right. mifepristone remains available in certain states wher abortion is currently illegal. that is until the fifth circui court of appeals rules o
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
deployed troops to the u.s military base in djibouti to prepare for a possible evacuation of some 70 u.s. government personnel now we know that there is abou some 16,000 american citizen inside the country right now but officials have told ou pentagon team that the mission to evacuate those 60,000 americans right now is too dangerous. they went on to say that the u.s. military is preparing for all contingencies, including a larger evacuation mission. but then of course we ar hearing from the general fro the sudanese armed forces wh is saying that he is immediately working to evacuat u.s. - french and british nationals we have communicated with thos countries, none of them, obviously of course includin the united states, hav confirmed that that is the case meanwhile, over the course o the last week we have seen several attempts at cease-fire including yesterday when bot sides agreed but that failed. violence continues we are looking at increasingly volatile situatio