if it ain t broke, don t fix it. you believe there is nothing broken about the agency right now? i don t believe that we re going to solve our problems by taking a shot in the dark and hoping that some commercial entity is going to be able to do what the government has been doing successfully for half a century and commercial entities have never done anywhere in the world in any country. so ideally then what would you like to see happen? i know of course the priority is to keep folks with a job, keep them employed, the many thousands who could be affected by any changes or cuts. i think that the augustine commission had it right. we should be fully funding the constellation program, the aires program, fundsing the things we need to take the next steps into space, fully funding them. are your opinions based mostly on the fact that obviously you are a congressman in florida and if you have constituents know their families affected by job loss they re going to hold you accountab
makes it easier to move forward with the legislative agenda. brian: you re right on that. the legislative agenda could come to a screeching halt depending how the nomination goes. malini wilkes, good to see you. thanks a lot. this thursday the president will hold a space summit in florida. can he sell the plan to the state when 9,000 kennedy space center workers will possibly lose their job? joining me is leroy chow, former astronaut and member of the augustine commission that advised the president. good to have you here. thank you for joining us. look, i ll be down at the announcement on thursday. when the president lays out the vision for the future. do you have an inkling of what the vision will look like? i don t have insider information if you will but i suspect it will be along the lines of what has already been announced and i hope and i think there will be more details. that is the problem, a lot of uncertainty because there was not a lot of details released in the last few
of giving him the boot. there had been a handful of people who put out the suggestion that there should be no confidence vote, but the truth is no one is waiting in the wings to take over for him in the next election for r.n.c. chair until january. so his appearance today is more shoring up support rather than worrying about the critics. always going to have them as party chairman, no matter what party. brian: right. carl camercameron, if new orlea. thank you. we ll go back to talk to mike pence and then later texas governor rick perry. stay with us for us. nasa managers were extending the mission of the space shuttle discovery by a day to give astronauts time to perform detailed inspection of the shuttle heat shield. they are resting up for what is the second of three spacewalks. this is one of the last shuttle missions that comes as the president prepares to unveil his vision for the future of the u.s. space program. in about 15 minutes we talk to a former shuttle astronaut who is