that april 2019 the military removed president obama alba, sheer from office of to billy 30 years in power. 4 months later, after accusations of use of violence against protest, as the military agreed to form a civilian lead transitional government. the new cabinet took office in september on the prime minister, abdullah hum dog as part of a 3 year power sharing agreement that says speak to work. generally, i met a sudanese activist who joins us live from washington, dc. good savvy with us, what's your reaction to what's happened incidentally? thank you so much for having me on the program. you know, it really began last night for us in the diaspora. we were watching the news. we were actually speaking with members of our family. i was talking with a cousin last night who was absolutely horrified at the sounds that she was hearing . she lives very close to the main stretch of highway that same cartoon crying on the phone and asking how this could happen, how they could be abandoned in such a way were heart broken or utterly devastated. you know, we, we were incredibly impressed and e

alba. and also with us chair of the financial times editorial board. and also former republican congressman david jolly is joining us. as does robert gibbs, former white house press secretary to president obama. so the white house can still point to job growth. a number of aides have been texting the "new york times" story with the headline that the job numbers are still pretty good, but this was not the report that they were hoping for. >> they were bracing for better numbers. and even last month that is exactly how president biden did react when those lackluster numbers came out from the month of august and the president said look, i wanted to see something better here. we all did. acknowledging that because of the surge in the delta variant at the time that this was the economic picture of where we are. but that is something that the white house has been stressing all summer long, that these jobs reports are a snapshot of where we are and it is important to add context to what was going on and what was driving what is this weaker report. and what we are seeing clearly here is that as students were going back to the classroom, as some parents were going back to work, because of the number