this week on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling also ahead, the state department pulls u.s. personnel out of the embassy in sudan amid fierce fighting in the country we ll have the latest on the deadly conflict and what s next for thousands of americans who are still over there plus, we ll dig into new reporting on a possible spring counteroffensive from ukraine. looks like the russians are actually retreating or starting to evacuate people from areas around kherson, which suggests a retreat is coming up for the russians. ukraine, again, is trying to regain land controlled by russian forces, and that will ultimately, in the end, whenever that is, it s going to involve some very, very deep negotiations as it pertains to land they took. yeah. now opposed to crimea. good morning welcome to morning joe. it is monday, april 24th there s our good morning. good morning. happy monday with us, the host of way too early, bureau chief at q poli
trying to protect getting our people out, be concerned about what happens to the populists in sudan? well, of course sudan, you know, this is a tragedy that is unfolding. you know, there s considerable death and certainly incredible concern that a civil war is going to break out and we re going to see, you know, things on the ground which we certainly don t want to have occur i think the international community is going to be more involved there s thought that perhaps we were not so for some time. look, at the end of the day, it is going to be kind of africa, the region, who is going to have to jump in, as jeff said before. there s a lot of players involved sometimes when you have this power competition, things go awry i will throw one other kind of word of caution here one of the reasons, i think, there s concern in the u.s. counterterrorism community is failed states, states at civil war, are breeding grounds for terr terrorism. there is a problem with isis on
The warning comes amid a wave of jihadist attacks including the beheading of a schoolteacher committed by young men, none of whom were previously known to French intelligence services. The letter also comes after widespread public indignation over a French justice system compromised by political correctness as evidenced by the refusal to prosecute an African immigrant from Mali who, while shouting Allahu Akbar ( Allah is the Greatest ), killed an elderly Jewish woman by breaking into her home and pushing her off her balcony. Every Frenchman, whatever his belief or non-belief, should everywhere be at home in continental France [
l Hexagone]; there cannot and must not exist any city or district where the laws of the Republic do not apply. From an open letter signed by 20 retired generals, a hundred senior officers more than a thousand other members of the French military, April 21, 2021.