the u.n. chief declaring that we must do all in our power to pull sudan back from the abyss as the race is on to flee escalating violence there. the u.s. diplomats and families air lifted out of the u.s. embassy and still an estimated 16,000 americans there. what is the plan? president biden is ready to launch his re-election bid, but some democrats are on the fence, and how they plan to boost the 2024 support. >> two words that you don't want to hear together -- planes and fire. the stories behind two intense

scares. right here on "cnn news central." right now, desperation is growing as tens of thousands of people are trying to escape the violence that is unfolding and escalating in sudan. over the last 24 hours, a mass evacuation has been picking up speed and urgency. u.s. officials have confirmed all of the u.s. personnel have been evacuated on president biden's order, u.s. special ops flew into the capital city and the troops were on the ground less than ong nearly 100 u.s. diplomats and staff and family members out. now, at this hour, roughly 16,000 americans remain in sudan and most of them holding dual citizenship, and now at this hour, tony blinken is speaking about the crisis for first time since this u.s. evacuation.

listen to this. >> on saturday, i directed the temporary suspension of operations at khartoum, and we conducted a successful operation to safely evacuate u.s. personnel and their dependents. i want to reiterate my appreciate for ambassador john godfrey and the entire embassy team who managed the consolidation of our people and the necessary e vacuation undera very fluid situation as they were trying to broker a cease-fire. i could not be prouder of our team and most of whom are en route back to the united states. i especially want to express my gratitude to secretary of defense chiefs austin and milley and also, the usual extraordinary precision and skill, and they have dem traited they are the fine nest the world.

the decision to suspend operations at the embassy and remove the personnel from the assigned post is among the most difficult that any secretary has to make, but my first priority is the safety of our people and i determined that the deteriorating security conditions in khartoum posed an unreasonable risk to keeping our team there at this time. i want to be clear that as we have temporarily suspended operations on the ground in khartoum, the work of the consular on the ground continues. indeed in the last 36 hours since the evacuation operation continued, we have continued to be in close with the individuals affiliated with the government to provide assistance and provide departure routes for those working to evacuation routes via land, air, sea. this is including the americans traveling via convoy. we have coordinated with allies

and partners who are traveling on their own efforts and leveraging efforts for other americans and to return the consulars back as soon as possible. we are coordinating with general burr han and metty to expand the cease-fire to a sustainable cease-fire and uphold u man taran obligations. the sudanese people are not giving up for the secure and free and democratic future and neither will we. the united states will work with all parties in coordination with the regional and international partners to bring an end to the fighting and a return to the transition to a civilian government. an update there from secretary blinken on the evacuation of the u.s. personnel and also an update on the efforts they are trying to provide to support and help

americans, american citizens and private citizens trying to get out of the country, but as we heard in the last hour, a family of two young men who are stuck in the country, they need more help they say. sara? >> thank you, kate. at the heart of the conflict in sudan, these two men, the military leader abdul fatah burhan and until recently, they were allies, and gained power in darfur some two decades ago, and some 2.5 million were displaced by that violence. in 2019, they worked together to topple omar al bashir who was behind a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the darfur region, and just two years ago, they played a pivotal role in a military coup and that is where the things began to get complicated and frayed. the coup ended with what was a

power sharing agreement, and the deal between the military and civilian groups, but the tensions began to rise over who would be the subordinate in the new hierarchy. sources tell cnn, these are the sources of the hostilities playing out today. john? >> and now, as far as the forces in sudan, thank you for joining us, but how dangerous do you believe that this situation has become and how essential to try to help get those some 16,000 americans out? >> hi, thank you. first of all, i was an adviser to the special adviser in south sudan for 16 years and right now, it is very dynamic and u of the cease-fires have not been abided by, and the people trapped in khartoum and sudan and other places are facing a difficult situation of sheltering in place without access to electricity, food,

water and other supplies and medical care or trying to join convoys trying to get out of the country. however, some convoys are facing fire and facing difficulties to get to the borders. so it is a dangerous situation, and also for united states and other countries trying to consider how to evacuate the citizens. we know that the evacuation of the embassy was well executed and well coordinated operation by the special forces, but other countries have had difficulties trying to evacuate their citizens and staff. the french and egyptians came under fire when they were trying to undertake their evacuation efforts and people were injured, so the united states has to balance all of the factors when they are trying to help u.s. citizens still there. i know that they are working very closely with the american citizens and in touch with the

embassy to provide information on the current threats and over land route and on organizations organizing the convoys to try to get out of the country on their own. >> what is the situation for current sudanese citizens and do wru you have a sense of what they want? >> absolutely. the sudanese people from everyone that i have talked to, they want the armed forces to stop fighting. they may have some indications or inclinations to which side they believe is most right, but most people just want them to both go away. the situation is incredibly dire. the sudanese people led a popular uprising for democratic transition in 2019 and since then, multiple military takeovers and they want a civilian-led government to be able to lead this country through the transition which has not happened. the cease-fires have not been abided by. it is very dangerous for people

all over sudan and not just in khartoum, but in khartoum, they are under threat of ar erial bombardments and raids and they want the fighting to stop. >> where is this fitting into what you call the global power struggle? >> yeah, absolutely. so there are a lot of dynamics at play here. for decades, the international community has been involved in peace processes in sudan trying to stop the conflicts on the peripheries and then since 2019 to help them into the civilian-led transition, but there is a lot of players interested in some of the resources that are in sudan as well as interested in who is going to have control. actors who are not so concerned that it is a military leader and taken sides. we know that russia as well as the wagner group out of russia have been very involved with both generals, and the gulf

states have been involved and others involved with the sudanese forces, so over the years we have been seeing increase of support of the military leaders which has helped to embolden them in the power struggle they are currently involved in. >> we have 30 seconds left. how do you see this ending? >> unfortunately the situation right now is grim. everyone is trying to get them to abide by a cease-fire, but it is not going solve the problems in sudan long term and it is needed to get the civilians and humanitarian access, but what is needed is much more inclusive process and the voices of people who are fighting for the peaceful transition and rather than their own military and political gain. >> thank you for helping us to understand the situation on the ground, and a somewhat dire situation on the ground. kate? >> tomorrow, president biden is expected to make official what is hinted at for quite some

time, and set to announce he is running for re-election. this morning new details on the rollout, the plans and the thinking as he was working through finalizing the announcement over the weekend. and to the white house as arlette seanez is there for us. what are you learning a tbt thinking, the process behind this announcement now? >> well, kate, president biden spent the weekend at camp david and the weekend to give him the opportunity to go over those final operational and staffing decisions relating to the campaign. his advisers have been working towards rolling out the re-election announcement with the video and possibly tomorrow, and the people are still cautioning that they are waiting for those final tiny details to be set, and the president also has settled on one major decision regarding the campaign and that is who is exactly going to lead it. a democratic source tells us that julie chavez rodriguez is expected to be named campaign

manager. she is one of the most senior advisers of the white house and serves as the leader of the office of governmental affairs and the granddaughter of the late labor icon ceasar chavez and one of the few latinas to run a presidential campaign if she in fact moves into that position, but all eyes on tomorrow, and whether president biden is going to formally announce his re-election, and we know that he and vice president harris have a pair of events. vice president harris is going to be speaking to a pro rights group and the president is going to be speaking to a labor union group. >> and what do you hear about this, arlette, because this is something that his campaign has to be considering about what he

will be facing. >> some of the challenges are the headwinds that he is facing when it comes to the public's perception of whether he should be running for re-election. and the nbc news poll released over the weekend found that a majority of the americans do not believe he should seek a second term and within his democratic party, a little over half of the democrats don't believe he should seek re-election, and looking at the breakdown of the people who don't believe that biden should run in 2024, 48% say that his age is a major issue. president biden is 80 years old and he would be 86 at the end of the second term if he were to win, and the advisers believe that democrats would be coming on board to support the re-election, but it is all challenges facing the president over the next year and a half. >> certainly. good to see you, arlette. john? >> hunter biden is fighting back against the republican investigations in congress.

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here is what is on the radar right nowers and the faa is investigating what happened when an engine on the american airlines flight burst into flames after a bird hit the engines. it turned around and no one was injured. the airlines blamed what it called mechanical issues. this week, disney slaying off several thousand workers and the second and largest wave of workers as disney is going to slash the workforce by several thousand employees to save 5.5 billion. it is going to impact espn and disney parks and the experiences and product division. former "dancing with the stars" judge len goodman has died. he passed away over the weekend from bone cancer. he was well known as a judge on "dancing with the stars" until

last year and also judging the british version called "strictly come dancing." john. >> may his memory be a blessing. and on the house, kevin mccarthy wants to unite his party to pass a plan to raise the debt ceiling by 5$5.5 trillion in exchange for deep spending cuts. mccarthy says he is bringing the plan up for a vote this week. he invited president biden to discuss the debt ceiling with him, but the white house says it will only accept a clean proposal meaning no cuts. raja manu is on capitol hill this morning and so, does the speaker have the votes? >> that is the question at the moment. at the moment, he does not, but they do expect come the middle of the week when we expect this vote on the floor he will, and that is the word from a number of people close to the speaker in the last couple of days. they have been on the phone all

weekend long with the members of the republican conference to get them on board. he has little margin of error. and so they need 218 to pass this bill and meaning they cannot afford more than four republican no votes, because we expect all democrats to vote against it, because in the most part, the democrats are in line with clean vote and no conditions attached. but the republicans want cuts across the board with agencies and providing new work requirements for safety net programs like med k5id and provisions like blocking president biden's student loan program, and among a slew of programs to raise the debt limit into next year, but behind the scenes, some concerns, including from some midwestern states and cutting back on tax breaks from ethanol and other members from the freedom caucus who want to

toughen the worker requirements for social programs like medicaid, but there is an expectation among the republican leaders that they will get the votes later in the week, but then a big question, what happens next? because right now, the white house is maintaining that there is no conditions whatsoever to a debt limit increase. and the senate democratic leaders are also on the same page, and mccarthy is making clear there has to be many conditions including spending cuts, and john, as soon as june is when the nation could experience the first ever default if the budget limit is not raised. >> thank you, manu raja on the capitol hill. and now, president biden is learning why a former trump aide had his banning records, and they are also learning why they

are going after marjorie taylor greene, and is this team being more aggressive than we have seen in the past? >> they are, sara. as the criminal investigation of hunter biden has stalled, and the republicans took over the house, the investigation has taken a more aggressive and litigious track. and there is more look into how garrett zeigler came to obtain sars into hunter biden and how there is a conspiracy to post these online and they point to a podcast with steve bannon and helping to obtain the records through jpmorgan. and they say that zeigler is a primary focus of the biden team,

and they filed a lawsuit against him saying that he was harassing members of the legal team. we have reached out to zeigler's attorney, and we have not gotten a response. the other response is for a ethics review to marjorie taylor greene about statements about the president's son, and the personal issues with the addiction and the personal life have spilled is over into possible legal action and different investigations and litigation, but they have alleged that the comments she has made in public amount to defamatory statements and conspiracy theories and they say it sounds and reads like schoolyard insults rather than the work of a member of congress. the white house cannot comment on this and the congresswoman's office has not returned our request for comment. >> paula, a meeting expected with the doj this week, and what is expected to happen there. >> yeah. sara, we broke this news friday learning that the justice department is to meet with the

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at this hour, jury selection is happening at the trial accused of carrying out the deadliest anti-semitic attack in history at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh where 11 people were killed from three different jewish congregations that day.

we have danny freeman following this for us. what is happening in court so far? >> well, kate, court kicked off before 9:00 a.m. and already, we have been through a couple of jurors so far, and both sides of the attorneys have been questioning the jurors, but i can tell you that already, we are going to see that it is an emotional trial, and one of the jurors teared up when asked if they could impose the death penalty in this case, and that potential juror started to be filled with tears because this is a place of worship and it should have been a safe place. this is october 27th, 2018, and four and half years now, and that is when robert bowers arrived at the tree of life synagogue with multiple guns and members of three different jewish congregations were there at that time, and at that time, bowers came in and started to fire outside and then inside indiscriminately and then saying things according to the criminal

complaint that he wanted to kill jews, and there were things in the post that were anti-semitic as well. so that leads to today. 63 felony counts and 23 do carry the felony death penalty here. and this case, they are trying to argue against the death penalty, because bowers has hired defense attorney judy clark here on this tieam, and se has defended other death penalty defendants such as joe joesar

tsarnaev and the unibomber and this is what is going to be for the week and months to come, kate. >> bringing back so many horrible memories. thank you. >> and also, daniel franklin is representing squirrel hill where you were there and i was there, and the community is showing up in a huge way with the candles lit, and i wanted to ask you how this means for the community as it has been 4 1/2-plus years since the attack and now a trial. >> yes. i mean, it is a very emotional day for me. it is an emotional day for our community.

it is traumatizing to have this trial taking place, but it is necessary. and our community is very resilient. i have a number of families, of survivors here and the victims and it is a very moving day, moving day, emotional day, but at the same time we have an opportunity to do some things to make sure that this does not happen again. >> let me ask you about the opportunity, because there are a few changes in pennsylvania. there was an attempt to ban assault rifles, and you are trying to do some other things, and trying to change things, and can you tell us what it is that you have brought the families together if they are with you on this, and the changes that you would like to see made in your state. >> so sure. one of the things that we have been trying to do for years is to update the pennsylvania hate

crime statute. we believe that we need to provide our communities better tools in order to confront what has apparently become normal throughout our country is targeting people because of who they are, who they love, what they believe in and we are woefully short of having the tools to be able to address this. so we want to update the current laws to provide more significant penalties, provide a civil court of action to educate the law enforcement folks of how to identify and prosecute hate crimes so as many hate crimes that we know are taking place, and the epidemic in the country and epidemic in pennsylvania. our law enforcement folks don't have all of the tools that they need, and we want to provide them. we know also that we want to provide our college campuses with tools, because we know that our college campuses are hhotbeds

for hate groups, and we want to protect our young people who are both victims and objects of being recruited on the campuses. so this is a package of bills to give our communities tools to help to prevent something like what took place on 10-27-2018 to not happen again. >> the shootings whether it is a synagogue, a church, a school, and these are sake redcred plac whether it is a place of learning or prayer, and there have been laws whether in the country or in your state as well, and are you frustrated by this, or do you think that there is an avenue where we will see some sort of change that may make a big difference eventually? >> well, okayly, you know, the best way to do this is to do it at the federal government side. we are going to, this week here

in pennsylvania on wednesday, our judiciary committee is going to kick out four gun safety-related bills. this is the first time that a committee has brought that legislation to the floor in my 25 years. i co-chair the p.a. caucus which is advocating for sensible gun laws in pennsylvania since columbine, and i believe that we have at least the opportunity for a discussion, and the bills will be coming out of committee, and we will be debating them on the floor, and my expectation is that the pennsylvania house will paz them a pass them and work with the senate and across the chambers to see if we can do something along these lines. that is another aspect of what is going on here. to have the hate groups who have access to weapons of mass

destruction, and you know, we have to prevent that from happening. so, this is another aspect of dealing with the aftermath of not just tree of life, but as you noted, mass shooting of vulnerable groups in the country, and whether it is charleston, south carolina, or the sikh temple or the pulse club in orlando, florida, and we have to do something as elected officials to stop something with the normalization of hate crimes and violence and we have the opportunity to do that here in pennsylvania by passing hate crime legislation and comprehensive gun safety legislation. >> thank you, congressman frankel, and tell the families we are thinking of them. john? >> a stunning announcement in the world of media. fox news and tucker carlson are parting ways. digging for details. stay with us.

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right now more evacuations are taking place in sudan as tens of the thousands of people are trying to escape the violence unfolding there. sam kiley is live on the tarmac in djibouti where some of the evacuations are taking place there. sam, what is happening there? >> kate, joining me from djibouti international airport which is a civilian airport, but it is also particularly in the last 24 hours has become the center of an extraordinary military operation, a series of operations. what you can see behind me is a

number of hercules transport planes, the workhorses of the nato military, and some of these are spanish, an just beyond them is a french air base where they have similar aircraft and you can hear it in the background, one has just landed. beyond of course is the military or just the other side of the military aircraft are these civilian ngos who have been based here. they are actually the aircraft, they are based with the humanitarian operation in yemen. the djiboutiians are here in the center of the e vabation effort focused on sudan, and in the distance, we can't show you anymore details, but that is the american heart of the special forces operation involving people from as far away from japan all of the way to south korea, india, egypt on into europe and of course, the united states. it was the united states that was in the vanguard of the effort to remove the diplomats

from their embassy in khartoum, the capital of the sudan, but very close on their heels the french forces and the british forces, and indeed, the british were taken in with the americans, and this aircraft has been used twice local officials are telling us as part of the shuttle operation of what the french are saying close to 500 people they have been able to evacuate and not just the diplomats, but it is the united kingdom and the united states who have been criticized for just evacuating the embassies and the french have been going longer with one more cycle, and just beyond the aircraft, the ethiopian airliner landed in the last half hour, and they say that there is only one airstrip here at this airport, and they are running the entire operation all of the air traffic control, and they are insisting it is a

zorn djiboutian air space, and that means they are going to be diverted from the sudanese air space and going around sudan into this air space which falls under djibouti, and so this is an extraordinary hub of activity and that is going to increase because you have 16,000 americans or so, and some of them are dual nationals still in sudan, and you have people from all over the world still stuck in sudan, and many thousands of foreign nationals and some of them are being evacuated over the land, and the safest route out, because of the sheer size of sudan is if they can get to the mustering point in particular to the capital of khartoum, but the point is that the fighting is in pockets all over the capital. there are air strikes being conducted regularly in khartoum, and that means that even when you get the aircraft into the air and when you do manage to

get them into the sudanese air space, and imagine that the aircraft is going to have to fly through the air space that is being used simultaneously by the sudanese government bombers to attack the rebel general positions inside of the sudanese capital. it is that kind of complication that makes this such a dangerous operation. but here we have another, i think that this is a c-17 coming in -- i'm not quite sure if it is taking off or landing. i think it has just arrived. this is the long distance workhorses and very much the center of the international forces operation out of djibouti international airport. back to you. >> it is amazing to have that look on the ground. sam kiley there in djibouti for us. thank you, sam. all right. this is just into cnn. tucker carlson is out at fox news. the right wing network have just announced that the two have parted ways and the cnn media

reporter is just in with this. he is out on friday and will he say good-bye? >> no. this is stunning news coming from fox. they they the last show was april 21st, and they put out a short statement saying that they thank him for his service, and that it is. that is all we know right now, and this is coming days after last week. you remember that fox news seas settled this massive lawsuit with dominion with the election laws paid out $787 million and the highest defamation settlement ever publicly known, and this is days after that, and unknown if it is related but it is hard to imagine that these things coincidentally happen, and he was so in doubt over the u.s. election results up until the last few weeks, so possibly a relationship there, and really big news. i should point out that they have stuck with them through quite a lot. like he has promoted conspiracy

theories about the vaccines and said things that are just blatantly anti-immigrant and promoted doubt about the 2020 election and they have stuck with him throughout all of this, and really shocking news that he is no longer with the network. >> the big question is why, why now? fox has let their number one people go before, and bill o'reilly. >> bill o'reilly. >> they pushed him out when he was number one and now with tucker carlson and we talk about this happening in the wake of the dominion decision. it is interesting with carlson which is that it wasn't his show, or his show that dominion was suing over necessarily for promoting false news, but it was some of the behind the scenes stuff that was legally problematic for fox, but he is not one of the people who helped to get him in trouble with dominion. >> no, he was not the main culprit who spawned the lawsuit, but it is not to say that other hosts could not be eventually leaving network, and this is

leaving questions if the network is potentially to at least rein in some of the more extreme people on the channel, and of course, tucker carlson is the most extreme on the channel. i should note, john, why it is important, because tucker carlson outside of donald trump was the person commanding gop, and directing it. you saw republican lawmakers prominent lawmakers gravel at his feet. >> ted cruz. >> because they were afraid of going on his primetime show and lashing out at them. this is not only huge news in the world of media, but also in the world of politics, where he was pushing the gop in that extremist direction. >> and it is also, just to that point, it is also, his show was also a place where the republican lawmakers or anyone who wanted to speak to donald trump would go in order to send their message, because test. their message because they knew

donald trump would be watching and closely tracking that show. are they going to say this was the end of his contract and they just wanted to try something different? >> i don't know. i have been reaching out to tucker carlson and everybody trying to get more information. this is a very short statement. there is no statement from tucker carlson. it doesn't seem if i have to guess that they parted ways amicably. we'll be looking for more information. >> it is not just about this defamation case already settled. there is more to come. there is more legal action, and it does make you wonder if this is something to do with that because it is so abrupt and doesn't seem amicable at this point with that statement. >> there is a lot more legal action on the way for fox news. they have the smartmatic, 2. #please billion dollars lawsuit also making its way through the courts, a $2.7 billion lawsuit making its way through the court. it is possible fox news has had enough. they maybe needed a scapegoat, someone to throw and say look.

we got rid of this guy. they do have other problems with shareholders probably upset that they had these election deniers go on air and knowingly spread falsehoods. there's a lot of things at play. >> there is so much -- that was happening for so long before we got to this point, right? >> now they had to pay someone $787 million and have shareholders not happy about that. that is a lot of money. >> we'll see. look, it is hard to imagine fox all of a sudden just changing the way it does business completely. they've had to do payouts before. let me just read this statement because it is so short. it says, fox news media and tucker carlson agreed to part ways. we thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor. mr. carlson's last program was friday, april 21st. that's really incredible in its brevity there. as for tucker carlson, this may sound outlandish to some. but there are people who suggested that maybe he would become a republican candidate

himself. >> that is because of the firm grip he has exerted over the gop in the last few years. i mean, i should say this. he is the top rated host not only on fox but really all of cable. he was commanding a huge audience and was very influential over that audience. a very loyal audience. if you look at the ratings they would spike on fox news specifically for tucker carlson. he has a huge sway over gop primary voters and i think that is why those questions were raised whether he would potentially run for president one day. you know, doesn't seem like that is probably why he is leaving given the statement and the way this ended here. >> we decided to part ways. it is not the way you send off your top rated anybody on any show for any reason. you don't cast them aside or part ways with them unless something was wrong. he was on the list for possible witnesses when it came to the

dominion voting trial. >> he was supposed to be one of the first witnesses that they called to the stand and of course that got averted when they had that settlement. we should also point out, too, he is so extreme. i mean, the things that he was doing on this program make sean hannity look like a moderate. it started off more as a main stream conservative figure but he has really been radicalized in recent years and also radicalized his audience. the things promoted on his show used to be what you would see on info wars, which is that far right company hosted and founded by alex jones who was also facing over a billion dollars in legal problems. it was being main streamed to the fox news audience, which is obviously very dangerous. potentially possible that fox thinks they can get away with someone more like sean hannity who promotes a lot of conspiracy theories himself but a little more main stream, not as radical as tucker. >> they've let this go on for years.

it is not new. it is interesting the timing of this. we'll have to wait and see what he says. i'm sure something will be coming out from his side of things. >> that is an interesting question though. what we do know when it comes to fox and when they part ways with someone, just ask -- the nondisclosure agreements. >> and is he free to jump to another network if he wants to? news max, which is that smaller, right wing channel that fox news was really worried about in the wake of the 2020 election, the audience i'm sure would follow him over there. is he free to do that? is that something he wants to do? is it possible he wants to do something like glen beck and start his own media empire. there are a lot of different options depending what his contract is. >> the legal problems for fox are not over. they have the smartmatic lawsuit, suing fox for more than dominion did. now you have a potential disgruntled ex-employee tucker carlson as a witness there. >> we should say this, too. last week after this dominion

lawsuit was settled you saw tucker carlson kind of poke the eye of everyone when he went on his program and was just talking about, can you imagine a media company openly lying to the viewers. it seemed like a subtle reference to what fox news was accused of and him trying to make it about the rest of the media. so, you know, he really was someone who didn't seem bound by the normal rules over at fox and now his time is coming to an end. >> all right. keep us posted. i imagine there will be more coming out. thank you all for joining us. this has been cnn news central "inside politics" up next. chieve financial freedom. we're proud to serve people e everywhere, in investingng for the retiremet they envision. from the plains to the coastst, we help americans investst for their future. and help communities thrive.

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