happening now, an urgent crisis in sudan where thousands of citizens remain on the ground as a new cease-fire is announced. we ll have the latest on what the biden administration is doing and not doing to help civilians escape after u.s. diplomats were evacuated. also tonight, a major shakeup over at fox news, primetime host tucker carlson is out. stand by for new details on the timing of his exit and the potential impact on fox and the republican party. president biden is finalizing his 2024 campaign plans on this, the eve of his expected announcement. most americans don t want him or donald trump, for that matter, to run again. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation. out of country the state department and others were working very hard to secure a cease-fire between the warring parties. first of all, perhaps indeed primarily. in osh der to evacuate the large numbers of people who want to get out of
described the proud boys on january 6th in their closing argument to jurors today former minnesota police officer kim potter now out of prison after serving time for the de deadly shooting of dawunte wright any minute now we re expecting to hear from pentagon officials after that high risk evacuation of the u.s. embassy in sudan what s left for the 16,000 americans still stranded inside that war-torn country. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we start with the beginning of the end for the historic trial against five former proud boys members in washington, d.c., in connection with the attack on the capitol ryan reilly is outside the courthouse where closing arguments are underway ryan, take us inside that courtroom. what are both sides leaving jurors with? that s right, so the government spend the morning laying out the case for how the proud boys sort of formed after that or how this plan rather sort of formed, starting they start
i don t know. let me just say, we i don t want to lose the point. we have you are saying that you guys are responsible entirely for getting aid into gaza, which you admit is not enough. let me 150 trucks in the last three weeks. let me make clear. pledged $100 million for it, not nothing, but not 14.3 billion. what i meant by the comments, not the united states providing all of the food, water, medical assistance on those trucks. hold on. you just said that united states of america you said let me explain. united states of america there is no shortage of countries in the region and international humanitarian networks and organizations who want to provide humanitarian assistance in they have stepped up and the united states have as well. they have. but what the united states was able to do is secure agreement with the israel and the government of egypt. that has been the breakthrough we have been able to achieve. not the only question of the
ugandans trying to get out of the country, a bus convoy many have gone out over land to egypt. a big effort to get people over land to port sudan. the numbers that can be lifted in an airlift without one large secure airport at least are very limited. sam kiley in nearby djibouti, thanks very much. let s go to the pentagon and cnn s oren liebermann. ahead of this newly announced cease-fire, the u.s. said it was actively facilitating the exit of americans who remain in sudan. you were at the pentagon briefing earlier. what more are you learning? wolf, the pentagon has 24/7 surveillance up in terms of drones over and near sudan to keep an eye on the situation on the ground. ha is to monitor the land routes out of the country, convoys trying to get to port sudan and get on a ship. the u.s. navy sending in ships, one now off the coast of sudan and one headed that way right
too dangerous, the large scale evacuation of americans from sudan. but the u.s., we literally just heard from national security adviser jake sullivan at the white house briefing saying that they are providing some sort of effort to actively facilitate the exit of americans. now, i made a couple of calls trying to figure out exactly what that means. there s two things they re doing. number one, they have put some drones overhead to help with any convoy that might go to the port of sudan, which is a place where some people have been able to leave the country from as of now, the number of convoys that they ve been able to actually monitor from overhead is extremely small in addition to that, they have some u.s. naval assets, some ships not far away, if there needs to be a large scale evacuation of americans. the reality at this point is there is no effort underway to get the rest of those americans out. courtney kube, thank you for that update. appreciate it. we re continuing to wait to