here joe, you'll be live primetime tonight, is that 8:00 p.m. joe scarborough presents you a number of interviews. >> we'll be talking to president biden, bill clinton, hillary clinton, jerry adams >> tony blair. >> former prime minister tony blair, about the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreements, brings peace to ireland against all odds also will be talking about how the republicans continue their war on democracy. >> you and john heilemann will break down the politics of the day. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now ♪ ♪ hello on this monday hope you had a wonderful weekend. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york the 2024 race coming into sharper focus this morning, maybe with a little 20/20

vision we have brand new reporting on what president biden's campaign launch could look like and who will lead his team with his re-election announcement expected to come as early as tomorrow this as a new nbc news poll shows a vast majority of republican primary voters stand firmly behind former president trump despite the criminal charges and the looming legal challenges he faces. are we headed for a rematch? steve kornacki is here to break down all the um numbers for us the race to evacuate is under way in sudan american forces rescuing personnel from a u.s. embassy in a nighttime mission, as fighting the africa's third largest country enters a second week we have more on the incredible mission to get them to safety. what about the 16,000 americans still on the ground there in sudan? an american travel writer stuck in the capital describes chaos in the country >> the city is so tense right now. a lot of people are fleeing left and right. i can see the cars outside

i'm just preparing to go it alone and figure out how i can get myself to safety >> later kim potter released the former minnesota police officer served just 168 months of her two-year sentence in prison for killing daunte wright during a traffic stop in 2021. how wright's family and the community are reacting to her early release. we begin with a race for the white house, and a flurry of news this morning about president biden's re-election bid which he could launch as soon as tomorrow, officially that is. joining us from the white house is nbc's mike memoli mike, what are you learning this morning? >> reporter: that's right, to say official, because president biden has certainly been hinting for some time that he intends to seek a second term now we're less than 24 hours potentially from seeing that announcement made official it's going to come in the form of a campaign video that our white house team, monica alba, kristin welker and others are

reporting, just in the last few weeks when the president biden returned from ireland and rehoboth beach, delaware, we expect it to be familiar with what we've heard over the last few months, this idea that he needs time to finish the job he will be touting what he thinks is a revitalization of american manufacturing, an economy that works for the middle class -- goes from the middle class out, not from the top down we'll see the president then build on those themes in a public event tomorrow where he'll speak to a major union yup here in washington union workers, the middle class has been the backbone of the president's political support. we'll also see tomorrow vice president kamala harris doing a rally on reproductive rights which is going to be another major issues in 2024 just as it was in 2022. that's what the principals are doing. what does the campaign itself look like? our colleague john allen saying the president is set to tap

julie chavez rodriguez as his campaign manager, currently the head of the office of enter governmental affairs, served as deputy campaign manager for president biden in 2020, also a political director for kamala harris' 2020 campaign. she's quite familiar to the biden team and has campaign experience whoever had that title of campaign manager is going to be working very closely with the officials still here behind me in the white house a lot of decisions in these last few stages before the announcement andthose to come are also going to be coming from people like jen o'malley dillon, who was biden's 2020 campaign manager as well as anita dunn, making arrangements for the announcement tomorrow. >> let's bring in nbc's steve kornacki to break down the numbers. also standing by former democratic senator from alabama doug jones, and rick tyler, republican strategist and msnbc

political analyst. great to have all of you here. i want to get right to steve with first the outlook for president biden here obviously it's really early, steve, he's caught some headwinds. >> there are some troubling numbers here if you're joe biden and the democrats. of course, the silver lining would be there were troubling numbers last year heading into the midterm. they may need to pull off something similar in 2024. the bottom line, biden is poised to announce his re-election bid, job approval, just 41% approve of the job he's doing as president. a majority, 54% say they disapprove the trend, not favorable here either at the start of the year in january it was 45/50 he's further under water now than he was several months ago specifically you talk about the issue of the economy this one has been a drag on biden's numbers basically from the get-go you can see less than 40% continue to approve of how he's

handling the economy we've been seeing numbers like this for biden for a while, asking people the basic question, should he run for re-election? look at this only a quarter of americans, 26% say he should run. 70% say he should not run, that includes a substantial number of democrats. age we find in our poll could be a factor biden, if re-elected, would be 82 years old when sworn in for a second term. what that adds up to, when you pit biden against a generic republican, biden or a republican, who would you vote for in 2024, that leads to biden trailing by six points of yours, no party gets to field a generic candidate. there will be a name here running against biden in 2024. if there's a silver lining in this polling data for biden and the democrats, it's this when you start to put names

here, for instance, the front-runner on the republican side, you find these are the positive and negative numbers, just general impressions voters have in their candidates and parties, biden is not popular, 38 positive, 48 negative donald trump is a lot less popular, 34% positive and outright majority, 53% rating him negatively that number, that trump unpopularity is what saved democrats to a great degree in 2022 it may be what they're counting on to save them in 2024. >> senator jones, 70% of americans, even the majority of democrats, 51% in this recent poll, are saying they don't want biden to run again how does president biden win over those democrats, or perhaps more importantly, independents those democrats. he's won over those democrats. a poll is just a damn poll right now. it means absolutely nothing. with all due respect to steve, a complete waste of time at this

point about what people might want to see in another year and a half the fact of the matter is that joe biden has coalesced the democratic party all the way from the center to the left. he has done an incredible job for the united states of america. he's done an incredible job for working families, for those seeking jobs, looking for jobs, bringing back manufacturing, lowering health care costs everyone is going to coalesce aroundjoe biden going forward. there's just no question about that remember, ana, people didn't really want joe to run in 2020 people said that he peaked at the time of his announcement the fact of the matter is you always count joe biden out, and what's happening now is a surge i think for him as going forward, as his accomplishments for 2020 through the last two years are going to come to fore and people are going to start feeling those accomplishments as they get closer to november. >> okay, we'll see

that's the starting point in the polling as we look ahead to the 2024 election which is still a year and a half away, right, before voters go to the polls. on the republican side, too, we want to lay the groundwork here. it's not a clear path for anybody right now. let's go back to steve how are voters feeling about trump and other gop contenders >> aswe say, it won't be a jan eric republican that biden is running against. we asked republican voters who do you want to be your candidate in 2024? in our poll donald trump with the lead here. the only one of these other proponents or perspective opponents getting traction, ron desantis, 46% for trump, 31 for desantis there's a big divide, an education divide republican voters with college degrees a little more supportive of desantis. those without college degrees a lot more supportive of trump we've seen that education divide this is a lot of words here, but

basically this is what we asked republican voters in this poll all the legal investigations involving donald trump right now. do you view them as a distraction, and dulz it mean that maybe because of this somebody else, somebody knew should be nominated who can focus only on beating joe biden. we asked republicans that. or do you view the investigations as politically motivated to stop trump and that no other candidates like trump so we must support him to keep his opponents from winning are the investigations a distraction or are they plightly motivated or is it time to rally behind trump those are the options we gave them 70% say they view the investigations as politically motivated. that's important to keep in mind over the next year the investigations will continue to make headlines. this is the kind of reaction it generates among republican primary voters just very quickly, we showed you that number. not a lot of voeks want biden to run. it's true for trump as well.

only 35% of all voters want trump running. >> rick, take a listen to what one republican governor had to say about the idea of trump being at the top of the ticket again. >> we want a winner, right republicans want someone who can win in november of '24 donald trump is a loser. he has not just lost once, he lofthouse seats in 2018, he lost everything in '20. we should have 54 u.s. senators right now. we don't because of his message. donald trump is positioning himself to be a four-time loser in 2024. we need candidates that can win. >> okay. governor sununu is already considering a 2024 run rick, do you think gop voters agree with him, that trump's political defeats make him a loser? >> if i were a republican candidate for president, i would change my name to jan eric republican and i might have a chance of winning. i think it's very troubling that the republican party has rallied

around trump who is twice impeached, one time indicted, facing tremendous legal problems sununu points out what republicans should be measuring against. politically he is a loser. he's lost the house, he's lost the senate twice, and he lost the white house. he brings nothing but defeat this is the worst choice the two candidates combined have a combined age of 156 years old. age is being cited as one of the reasons why they don't want biden to run 51% of democrats don't want biden to run trump is actually more unpopular than biden this is the worst choice since 2020, which is the worst choice since 2016 i won't make any predictions at this moment because politics is likeness and history proves us wrong all the time nobody knows what's going to happen in this race, but the republicans ought to figure out that the past is predicated --

you can predict the future by what someone has done in the past trump has lost a lot of seats for republicans, and i don't know why they want to do that again. >> quickly, senator jones. if you're president biden, are you hoping for a rematch against trump or would a different gop candidate be more of the dream >> i don't think joe cares who he's going to run against. joe is going to run on joe's record it is a tremendous record. every candidate that republicans are at least contemplating right now do not have anywhere near the kind of record he has for the american people. he is going to run his campaign on his record which is not something he had necessarily in 2020, but he has been able to stay the course, do the things for the american people that he said he would do, and that's what i think he'll run on, regardless of who the republican nominee is. >> former senator doug jones, steve kornacki, rick tyler, my thanks to all of you. nbc news has exclusive news on movement inside the biden administration we just learned susan rice is

stepping down from her post as president biden's domestic policy adviser this move is expected to take place at the end of may according to multiple current and former senior administration officials. rice has been a part of much of president biden's most significant achievements in the first two years including actions on health care, gun safety and student loans much more in 60 seconds including a high-stakes rescue in sudan inside the emergency evacuation of americans from a live war zone as that country is ripped apart by chaos also right now, quote, thirsting for violence the government's closing arguments happening right now in the seditious conspiracy trial of five proud boys in connection to january 6th we're at the courthouse. plus, a new scare in the air. shocking video of a plane catching on fire after takeoff and a royal feud the drama bubbling up again between meghan markle and the royal family ahead of the king's

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we're back with new details about the dramatic rescue of americans from dusan chinook helicopters and u.s. special forces lifting american personnel from the u.s. embassy in khartoum this weekend many of america's allies rushing to evac eight their citizens as the fierce internal battle for control of that country enters a second week. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is following the developments on the ground what more do you know about what unfolded this weekend and what's happening this morning >> well, it is an extremely chaotic situation and one of the worst scenarios that any country could find itself in, trying to evacuate personnel from a country that is at war with itself the army and a breakaway

faction, another military faction, are vying for control they're fighting at the airport, fig fighting on the streets. this weekend the united states managed to evacuate dozens of personnel in the u.s. embassy. many other governments have followed suit, all trying to get their officials out of the cou country. after cease-fires collapsed, sudan's capital khartoum this morning is an open war zone. there's fighting on the streets and at the airport which remains closed there's no power or running water. phone and internet service are largely down it's a nightmare scenario as nations around the world struggle to evacuate personnel france, italy, germany, spain and others carrying out successful flights, bringing out their citizens and some americans. this weekend, the united states launched a rescue mission to the u.s. embassy in khartoum which is now closed.

u.s. special operations flying 800 miles from djibouti to sudan landing just after midnight sunday where three chinook helicopters evacuated 80 government personnel and their families it took around and hour. no reports of injuries or incidents. there are still roughly 16,000 american citizens in sudan, many dual nationals, sheltering in place. for now there are no plans for a rescue this woman is stuck and managed to send this vitt i don't this morning. >> the city is so tense right now. a lot of people are fleeing left and right. i can see the cars outside i'm making arrangements to try to get to an area outside of the city that is safer i have no power, running water and the most difficult thing is there's been internet blackouts. i'm not feeling too great about the help i've received from the embassy at the moment.

i'm just preparing to go it alone and figure out how i can get myself to safety. >> the fighting is over power, two of sudan's top generals who took over in a coup and promised to transition to civilian rule are battling among themselves for control of the country rich in oil and gold. there's a risk of state collapse and a return to civil war. >> so many people are trying to figure out what they can do, how they can get to safer areas, but there's price gouging. prices are much higher than they were just a few days ago for everything from gasoline to bus tickets out of khartoum. people are running low on cash it is a desperate situation that people are finding themselves in as they don't exactly know where is safe, how to get out of khartoum, and the fighting is not only in khartoum, but several other smaller cities. >> really appreciate your reporting, richard engel, thank you. i want to bring into our

conversation ambassador susan hayes, the first u.s. ambassador to sudan, and msnbc military analyst jack jacobs. colonel, the u.s. got people out. it was not easy. by ground would have been too dangerous. the airport is totally inacc inaccessible can you put into perspective how difficult this mission is and what it must have entailed >> the good news is that everybody was located in the same place so you didn't have to go all around the people and marshal people into one pickup zone they were all in and around the embassy. that made it easier than it otherwise would be but, all the aircraft came from an assembly area in djibouti djibouti is far enough away from khartoum so that it is very nearly at the extreme range of the helicopters that were used to pick up the 'embassy personne

which means that on the way back they had to refuel, otherwise they wouldn't get out of there the interesting thing is this went completely according to plan the force was on the ground less than an hour and nobody was hurt so a textbook example of what can be accomplished when you know in advance where you're going, where you're coming from and who you're picking up, ana. >> ambassador paige, we heard from richard how complex this war is how do you see these evacuations impacting the dynamics on the ground and any potential resolution to the military conflict in sudan? >> thank you for having me first of all, i would just say that i agree with the colonel, it seems as if therescue mission, the evacuation went off without a hitch, but the fact that the airport is closed and that so many foreigners are evacuating, sudanese are also evacuating and many of them feel

like they've been abandoned. i think that, on the one hand, it could make it more difficult for the generals to reach a solution because there won't be as many eyes on the ground watching them. but i think that everyone has to continue to try to at least get the situation calm enough so people can sit down. >> again, colonel, these were american diplomats and families evacuated. our understanding is there are thousands, perhaps 16,000 more americans left behind in the country. at what point would you expect more widespread evacuations? is it even possible? >> it's going to be extremely difficult. people are scattered all over the place. even though the majority of them are in khartoum. khartoum is not a good place to be i think our experience in other evacuations, some of which did not work out very well indicates -- it probably

predicts we're not likely to see a large-scale use of the military instrument to support the state department to get out american citizens and those who are dual citizenship out of khartoum things are going to have to quiet down a great deal before the administration i think decides and the state department decides it's going to try to effect an evacuation, ana. >> earlier on "morning joe" today, national security council coordinator john kirby was asked about the u.s. presence in after kachlt here is what he said. >> we're investing very heavily in the african continent and we'll continue to do that. we know, as you just said, that russia and china would like nothing better than to diminish our influence in the african continent for their own selfish purposes. >> ambassador, what do you see as the u.s. role in trying to resolve this conflict and in broader issues in the region >> i think it's important that we don't put everything in the frame of great power competition

with russia and china. we have long been involved in sudan and the region there are other countries -- of course, all the countries have their own interests. but i think it's important that when we think about what the u.s. is doing, it is trying to advance peace in the region. and i think it's important that we note that they are working with others as well, not just the quad, the uae and saudi arabia, but also with the u.k., the african union, the united nations, and the way that we align are not always in agreement. so it's still important, though, that we try to work with others and keeping first and foremost in mind the civilians in sudan who really were behind leading this charge to ba share and get to a democratic transition.

>> thank you so much for joining us, ambassador susan page and colonel jack jacobs. appreciate your perspectives, expertise and insights here. if air turbulence and pilot shortages weren't enough, you can add bird strikes what experts are saying about this wild phenomenon. first, after 16 months behind bars, kim potter convicted of fatally shooting daunte wright has been released. the reaction from wright's family when "ana cabrera reports" returns oh, my daughter gives the best hugs! we're just passing through on our way to the jazz jamboree. [ imitates trumpet playing ] and we wanted to thank america's number-one motorcycle insurer -for saving us money. -thank you. [ laughs ] mara, your parents are -- exactly like me? i know, right? well, cherish your friends and loved ones. let's roll, daddio! let's boogie-woogie!

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we are following some breaking news this morning former minnesota police officer kim potter is out of prison after serving about 16 months for fatally shooting daunte wright during a traffic stop potter was convicted of first and second degree manslaughter for killing wright in april 2021 she said she mistakenly drew her handgun instead of a taser

she will now serve the remainder of her sentence under supervised release. joining us is nbc correspondent jesse kirsch jesse, why this earlier release and what are you hearing from daunte wright's family >> just to rewind and remind people of what unfolded here she was sentenced to two years by a judge in 2022, sentenced to two years by a judge prosecutors wanted much more they wanted around seven years the family felt that this fell far short. however, in minnesota, the way the rules are set up, according to the state when they put out a release today, people serve two-thirds of a sentence in prison the last third is always served on what's called supervised release. they don't have a parole board people don't get off early for good behavior. that's a term we talk about in some instances whatever she was sentenced to, she was only going to be serving two-thirds of that again, the judge sentenced her to two years prosecutors and the family wanted far more. here is part of the reaction of

the family of daunte wright when the sentence was announced >> kim potter murdered my son, and he died april 11th today the justice system murdered him all over again. >> that was reaction at the time of the sentence being announced. we haven't seen any updated reaction from the family yet we're obviously watching for that officials were also watching for the possibility of protests. they said specifically they were worried about the possibility of violent protests upon potter's release. they did this under the cover of darkness they kept it secret of when she was going to be released because of concerns for potter's safety as well as the safety of others at the prison facility we were told she was released at 4:00 a.m. local time, central time this morning and she will be serving her supervised release in wisconsin, ana. >> jesse kirsch, thank you

quote, thirsting for violence, that's how prosecutors described the five members of the proud boys on trial for their role in the january 6th attack it comes after more than 50 days of testimony from more than three dozen witnesses. joining us now, nbc justice reporter ryan reilly, also the author of the fourth coming book "sedition hunters" and with us, tally weinstein. this started back in december. boil down the closing arguments for us what are you hearing >> reporter: like you said, prosecutors are arguing that essentially this group was organizing for action and preparing for violence ahead of january 6th. what they told jurors is there doesn't have to be an explicit plan ahead of time, that individuals that went to the capitol that day and decided to participate in pry lens might have formed an instant k

conspiracy they're pointing to messages that the proud boys generated including from defendant ethan nor dean who talked about how they should fascist the f out after the 2020 election didn't go their way there's all this violence in november and december. the prosecutors are pointing to this ultimate storming of the capitol. >> ryan, of course, the most serious charge is the seditious conspiracy charge. remind us of the others. >> obstruction of an official proceeding is one of the other charges we have here, along with conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging any duties, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and aiding and abetting, and two counts each of destruction of government property as well as two counts of assaulting,

resisting or impeding certain officers during this event additionally defendant dominic pa seoul la faces an additional count of robbery of personal property of the united states. that's related to the police shield he stoem, using the police shield to break through the window during the first breach of the capitol building on january 6th that led to hundreds of other rioters invading the capitol building on that day. >> tally, do you think the prosecution has done enough to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt >> i think, ana, they put an extraordinary amount of evidence over the last 50 days, as you said, of testimony the track record of this united states in cases involving the violence of january 6th is pretty great they've brought about 1,000 indictments, gotten about 600 convictions and one acquittal so far. it seems that they do know what they're doing in these cases. >> while the defendants are

facing several charges, ten counts all torks is a difficult shows conspiracy is the most serious one, if they don't get conviction on that charge, tali, was it a win for the justice department >> yes, of course. i think any accountability is a win here one thing that i'm watching is that the leader of the proud boys, tarrio, who is on trial would be the first person who was not there physically present on that day who would be convicted of a conspiracy charge that would widen the circle of accountability as we make our way through what happened on january 6th. >> tali weinstein and ryan reilly, good to have you bother. thanks very much for joining us. now to pittsburgh where this morning jury selection is set to get under way in the trial against the man charged with shooting and killing 11 people at the tree of life synagogue in 2018 robert bowers is facing 63

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welcome back this morning the faa is investigating two separate incidents of plane engines catching on fire if columbus, an american airlines engine caught on fire yesterday due to an apparent bird strike. it then returned to the ground meanwhile, in charlotte a plane's engine caught on fire on the run weigh. nbc news correspondent tom costello has what you need to know tom. >> reporter: good day. these crews did everything right to get their planes back on the ground bird strikes are not unusual, but birds taking out an engine, that is very unusual in fact, i can tell you that pilots train for this all the time, and it is not unusual -- in fact, planes can fly on a single engine. in columbus, ohio, on sunday, some anxious minutes during takeoff. >> we lost the number two engine on the bird strike with high

vibration. >> reporter: an engine on an americans airline flight headed for phoenix, caught fire mere moments after taking off, apparently after striking a flock of canada geese. >> everybody started panicking, freaking out. >> reporter: flight attendants prepared the cabin for an emergency landing. marty calistat took this video from her seat. >> it was truly frightening. i didn't think i was going the make it. >> reporter: also charles and felicia meadows fresh from their honeymoon troop t. boeing 737 safely returned to the airport in a statement they called the incident a mechanical issue. the faa reports strikes against all types of fire strikes are increasing, more than 15,000 reported across 708 airports in 2020 alone. >> large bird strikes are increasing the industry is constantly

grappling with this. >> reporter: bird strikes became a top safety priority after the miracle on the hudson. everyone survived. >> experience can literally make the difference between success and failure of life and death. >> reporter: last thursday, another possible engine fire, this one on the runway just before takeoff in charlotte. passengers safely deplaned back at the gate and the exact cause is still under investigation but aviation experts stress these two unrelated incidents should not worry travelers >> the majority of your commercial flights have two or more engines when you think of the few failures, it's an amazingly safe system. >> airports have upped their game trying to mitigate the bird threat they use cannons regularly, use netting. they also use dogs to scare birds away and use bird radar to

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nbc business and data reporter brian cheung is here to help us figure out what it means for shoppers now first, talk about what happened here >> we've been hearing headlines about bed bath & beyond for a while. they were already going through a pretty tumultuous year in terms of paring back their business, but now it's basically throwing in the towel for the 360 or so stores and also the 120 buy buy baby locations they'll be in the process of liquidating that brand they could sell it to another buyer. all this is a culmination of the transition to e-commerce people don't really need to go to the store to buy those things they're not going to bed bath & beyond when they're in a pinch, they're going to target, big-box, one-stop type shops. you think about rise r us, sears, a lot of iconic brands going up. >> some stores have closed already, but not all

can people get good deals right now before the rest of them close? >> you mentioned the coupons i feel like we all have a stack in our houses. those coupons will only be good today and tomorrow effective wednesday, the coupons will no longer work. they expect to begin liquidation sales on wednesday you might find better discounts if you stop by your local store on that day. in the middle of may, they'll stop honoring gift cards. >> okay. so use them before it's too late that's the idea. let's pivot to disney, set to announce some lay-offs. how many jobs are we talking >> they're doing this in waves essentially we're in the middle of the second round of lay-offs. this is part of the overall efforts to trim about 7,000 un news cnbc they've laid off 4,000, as well as disney entertainment. broadly speaking this is just part of the overall issue in the media industry with advertising dollars drying up.

disney has a pretty substantial parks business so you know, again, it's not just disney. you see in the tech sector as well, a lot of layoffs happening in this economy. >> ride share lyft is set to cut about a thousand jobs. what does that suggest to you? >> the estimate is that's about 30% of the work force. that's very serious. it's not just lyft it's really a lot of these tech-focused companies as interest rates have risen, they've really paired back on the more aggressive hiring they did during the pandemic. during 2020, a lot of these tech companies said we expected our businesses to grow a lot faster than they ultimately did lyft has a new ceo these layoffs are the first step in them trimming back that company, really prioritizing cash flow in this tough environment. >> thaunk you for making sense f it all for us. we have some sad news to bring you this morning, len goodman, the long-serving judge on dancing with the stars has died former dancer, a british champion he helped revive the popularity of ballroom dance on both sides

of the atlantic. after 15 years as the head judge on dancing with the stars, goodman retired from the show in november the cause of his death was not immediately clear, but his agent said he, quote, passed away peacefully goodman was 78 years old right now, secretary of state antony blinken is speaking let's listen in. >> of our team, most of whom are now on route back to the united states i especially want to express my gratitude to secretary defense austin, chairman of the joint chiefs milley, and the men and women of the u.s. military who executed the evacuation operation with their usual extraordinary precision and skill. they once again demonstrated that they are the finest in the world. the decision to suspend operations at the embassy, remove our personnel from their 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 securities conditions in khartoum posed an unacceptable risk to keeping our team there at this time. i want to be clear that even as we have temporarily suspended operations on the ground in khartoum, our diplomatic and consular work in sudan continues. indeed, in just the last 36 hours since the embassy evacuation operation was completed, we've continued to be in close communication with u.s. citizens and individuals affiliated with the u.s. government to provide assistance and facilitate available departure routes for those seeking to move to safety via land, air, and sea this includes americans who are traveling over land to the u.n. convoy to port sudan we continue to coordinate with allies and partners who are conducting their own operations, and to leverage those efforts to include americans. we're taking further steps to support americans and are exploring options to return a diplomatic and consular presence in sudan as soon as possible we've also continued to engage directly with general burhan and

hemedi to press them to extend and expand the cease fire to a sustainable cessation of hostilities that prevents further violence and upholds humanitarian obligations the sudanese people are not giving up on their aspirations for a secure, free, and democratic future, neither will we the united states will work with all parties in coordination with regional and international partners to bring an end to the fighting and a return to the transition to a civilian government kenya, under president rue toe has been a strong partner in this effort. kenya is a security leader throughout the region. that's evident not only in its commitment to resolving the current crisis in sudan but also in its support for united nations and african union peace keeping efforts and the counterterrorism mission in somalia and its partnership to reach the november 2nd cessation of hostilities agreement in ethiopia and in stewardship with

the nairobi process to advance peace and stability in the democratic republic of the congo. >> we're going to continue to monitor the remarks from secretary of state blinken he started the remarks talking about the situation in sudan, the evacuations from the american embassy that occurred over the weekend skand he's givn remarks about kenya because he's meeting with the kenyan diplomat he did say as far as the sudan situation goes, the diplomatic work does continue even with the embassy evacuated and they're working with partners and allies to determine next steps as the civil unrest in sudan continues. up next, new reports about drama in the royal family ahead of the coronation of king charms stay with us you're watching "ana cabrera reports. (screaming) defeat allergy headaches fast with new flonase headache and allergy relief! two pills relieve allergy headache pain? and the congestion that causes it! flonase headache and allergy relief. psst! psst! all good! okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition.

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. the countdown to the coronation of king charles is on with less than two weeks until the big day. nbc news foreign correspondent cally cobiella has the latest from london. cally. >> reporter: we know that prince harry has rsvp o'd that he does plan to attend the coronation, the most important day of his father's royal life and that his wife meghan will be staying home in california with their two children but a new report questions the reason behind that decision. the royal family keeping busy as the king's coronation date closes in and scrutiny of prince harry's visit ramps up this morning katherine, the

princess of wales visiting a child care center and giving a british tv host hints about what she'll wear. >> i said i feel like you're going to wear blue, and she was like there is a hint of blue. >> reporter: the royal family releasing birthday photos. this new picture of william ask k and kate's youngest son prince louis who turned 5 on saturday this picture of the queen with some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren at ball moral castle in scotland king charlts and camilla spent the weekend at queen elizabeth's favorite retreat in scotland, surprising the locals. a fan taking this video of the royal couple stepping out to visit a new restaurant though prince harry is said to join the rest of his family in less than two weeks, he and his wife meghan, the duchess of sussex continuing to attract distracting headlines. meghan who is not attending the may 6th coronation now publicly responding to an article that

claimed after that bombshell oprah interview two years ago, she had an exchange of letters with king charles that left her unhappy about some of her allegations of unconscious bias in the royal family. a spokesperson for the sussexes calling the story false and, frankly, ridiculous, saying in part the duchess of sussex is going about her life not thinking about correspondence from two years ago related to conversations from four years ago. and we encourage the tabloid media and various royal correspondents to stop the exhausting circus that they alone are creating we reached out to buckingham palace, they declined to comment on this new report, and it's interesting to note in that statement from the sussexes' spokesperson, there was no denial that a correspondence took place between king charles and the duchess of sussex, meghan it simply wasn't the reason she decided to stay back in california with her kids

and miss the coronation on may 6th. may 6th, otherwise known as prince archie's fourth birthday. >> nbc's kelly cobiella, thank you. now to a sports underdog story with a hollywood twist this weekend the rexam football club in wales got promoted after 15 years in the lowest class of the uk's professional soccer team you can see the celebration. their win comes three years after actors ryan reynolds and rob mcelny bought the struggling team and showed their efforts to turn it around to the show "welcome to rexham" a real life ted lasso story giving fans a chance to believe. that does it for us today, josé diaz-balart pickings up our coverage right now. >> and good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart breaking this morning, changes at the white house as susan rice plans to step down as president biden's domestic policy chief. we have new details about the president's expected