Today on Velshi, a split-screen political landscape is unfolding in front of us with Joe Biden

officially launching his reelection campaign against a gathering Republican field that is still dominated

by the twice-impeached ex-president who is subject of multiple ongoing criminal investigations

and currently a defendant in a civil case playing out

in New York City this week. If we are gearing up for a 2020 rematch, it'll be a very different

scene this time around. Plus, the U.S. conducts its first mass evacuation of American citizens

trapped in Sudan amid deadly fighting. We'll get the very latest.

And it was no accident that the lawsuit seeking to ban abortion pills across the United

States arrived in front of one particular ultra-conservative Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas.

The anti-abortion plaintiffs in that case did what's known as judge shopping, and another

conservative coalition is doing it again with the same judge.

I'll have the details on that case, and I'll talk to Democratic Senator Maisie Hirono about

her plan to put a stop to it.

Then, new evidence of the deadly reality on the ground in post-Roe America, in one state where women live under

strict abortion bans, most hospitals could not explain their own emergency abortion procedures.

Velship starts now.

And a very good morning to you. It is Sunday, April the 30th. I'm Ali Valshi.

Exactly four years after announcing his campaign for president. Joe Biden made his bid for reelection official this past Tuesday, setting up the possibility of a rematch against his

2020 opponent, Donald Trump. But a lot has changed since the two men were last

up for election. And at this early stage of the 2024 election cycle, they find themselves

in vastly different circumstances. For one thing, Joe Biden's got the upper hand this time,

as he's the incumbent and he's using his position to help frame his message, which his campaign

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