from washington. really good news for the british diplomats an their families. reporter: absolutely. what we ve been hearing is this was a very complex situation with not a whole lot of time to plan but that planning was very intensive, pentagon officials say. they describe the operation as fast and clean. say it was conducted in one movement with service members spending less than an hour on the ground. so under 100 u.s. government personnel were removed from sudan s capital city by way of three helicopters. again, officials say that this was about a week of planning as they saw chaos erupting in sudan. president biden thanked the unmatched skill of service members of getting the this this completed. they confirmed the operations at the u.s. embassy have been temporarily suspended. the president added that this has cost the lives of hundreds of civilians and it must stop. sudan entered the second week of violence as the army and paramilitary group battle for control of the
captions by vitac www.vitac.com and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c. it has been quite a day and quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his sixth vote to become house speaker. the house adjourned. members then reconvened briefly, only to adjourn until noon tomorrow, with the speaker more upbeat about his chances. why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? reporter: he s hearing more positive responses from those opponents, the people that have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which mccarthy has made a number of concessions, ranging on political issues, how his outside group engages on key issues, as well as giving them more power and more sway over themselves, the rank and file at the expense of the leadership, some of these members sound like they re moving in direction. congressman mike cloud, for one, says the talks are moving in a positive light, in his view, as well as scot
and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the chaos in washington, d.c.. it has been quite a day in quite a night. first, kevin mccarthy lost his 60 vote to become house speaker. the house then adjourned around temps a deal making. consumed members reconvene briefly, only to adjourn again until noon tomorrow. the would-be speaker announcing more upbeat about his chances. cnn s manu raju first broke that news for us. he joins us again tonight from the capitol. so, why are things looking more upbeat for mccarthy? he s hearing some more positive responses from those opponents, the people who have essentially seemed immovable for the past two days. but after a meeting in which mccarthy made a number of concessions on arranging on political issues, how the outside group engages on some key issues as well as giving more power and more sway over themselves the rank and file, at the expense of the leadership. some these members sound like they re moving in his direction.
along with joey and the big story tonight, former president trump going full throttle at nascar this memorial day weekend. trump is bringing his patriotic message to fans at the charlotte motor speedway in north carolina tonight. and that s where we find fox news national correspondent madison scarpino. madison we know it is loud there but what has donald trump been up to so far? yeah. sorry about this noise tomi motor speedway over the track and crowd erupted. [inaudible conversations] [cheering] reporter: after making debut into air, former president made his way inside the track and former president trump met with gold star family members some of the hundred gold members here today. former president then saluting during national anthem 600 and this is only time sitting president has been to north carolina with a key battle ground state and trump won the state in both 2016 and 2020. [inaudible conversations] going to win north carolina? i do believe so. i think