And that is the american spirit i met so many islands approached me about gun safety and doing something about background checks and assault weapons ban and magazines. It has been unbelievable. And i told them all the story of when i sat across him the president after parkland, advocated for gun safety. Nine times he said he wanted universal background text. The next day he goes and meets with the nra, and he folds. As your president i will not fold. [cheering] an economic agenda for this company should unite rural and urban. That is why i have been out there talking about yes, the farm bill. Also childcare. We know the issues. Also housing and education. And hospitals and making sure that we have enough mental only 64eds when theyre in the state of bio. That is not acceptable. And i will end this practice of privatizing medicaid. This is wrong in the state of bio. State of iowa. It all starts here with this change. Because you iowa gave us the granger movements that took on those big
if we are gearing up for 2020 rematch, it will be a very different scene this time around. plus, the u.s. conducts its first mass evacuation of american citizens trapped in sudan amid deadly fighting. we will get the very latest. and, it was no accident that the lawsuit seeking to ban abortion pills across the united states arrived in front of one particular ultraconservative trump appointed federal judge in texas. the antiabortion plaintiffs in that case did what is known as judge shopping. another conservative coalition is doing it again with the same judge. i will have the details on that case and i will talk to democratic senator mazy about her plan to put a stop to it. then new evidence of the deadly reality on the ground in post roe america. in one state where women live under strict abortion bans most hospitals could not explain their own emergency abortion procedures. velshi starts right now. a very good morning to you, is sunday, april the 30th. i am ali velshi, ex
cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the escalating crisis in sudan and the emergency evacuation of u. s government personnel and their families about 100. us special operations forces carried out the overnight mission today. the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and a rival paramilitary group more than 400. people have been killed, including one american state department estimates estimates there are about 16,000 americans in sudan. most are dual nationals, our correspondents, our position here and around the world to bring you all the angles of this developing story. let s begin with cnn s am kylie live from djibouti. sam djibouti s international airport is struggling to keep up with the sudden increase in flight volume. do this mass exodus from sudan. what more can you tell us about that? well, jim, it s not only the pressure, they say local off
really happy to have you here. on a news day like today it is i will admit a little bit hard to know where to begin, but today is yet another day when one place to begin is with today s american mass shoot. this time in louisville, kentucky downtown louisville, right next to the minor league baseball park there police say a 25-year-old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank at which he was either currently or very recently employed. four of the people he shot were killed, nine were injured, and of those nine injured three are consi considerered to be critically wounded. because this is what it s like in our country increasely awash in high powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutely devastating just catastrophic multiple murder scene at that bank, while they were responding to that call, they got a second call from less than 2 miles away, a call about multiple people shot at a nearby community college, one person dead there as well
message ahead of the midterms. meanwhile hours away from the release of the affidavit that led to the fbi search of mar-a-lago and the redacted document that tells us anything that we don t already know. the latest in an escalating situation in ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant goes offline after intensive fighting sparked fires in the russian-controlled silo. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 26th. i m in again for jonathan lemire, president biden stepped back on to the campaign trail yesterday, with a fundraiser and a rally in the dc suburbs of maryland. he railed against maga republicans at both events. told donors, quote, what we re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga philosophy. it s not just trump, the entire philosophy, it is like semi-fascism. the rnc came back with this statement, despicable, biden forced americans out of their jobs, transferred money from working families to harvard lawyer