Coast to watch. The biggest crowd since the last Space Shuttle flight. And then once this thing was 37 miles up, 60 kilometers up in the sky, two of the boosters rockets, the two on the side, they split off and started a control flight back to earth. It went up to 90 kilometers, 56 miles up and then the core booster, the Center Booster broke off, too. Now, the core booster was supposed to come down on a drone barge in the ocean. As it was coming down, we lost the feed of that one and we couldnt tell from the video whether the core booster, the central booster actually landed or not. You could on the broadcast, you could hear a voice at one point say we lost the center core. We thought that probably meant the core booster was lost. Elon musk later confirmed that the center core booster did not survive the landing on that drone ship. But remember, there were three of them. And those first two that broke off, side boosters that were supposed to come down not at sea but on land, boy, did t
In the situation room. Breaking news, john kelly is revising his description of President Trump whom he said was embarrassed by the russia investigation. After that med headlines, kelly said he meant to say distracted. That comes adds the white house refuses to ie poll skies for an aides truly shocking joke about senator john mccain. Well talk about that with congressman Ruben Gallego of the Arms Services committee and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to seep your White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. You talked to kelly about that rema remark. It was striking, the comments from kelly who does few interviews. He told npr the bt is somewhat embarrassed about the mueller investigation. He said every time World Leaders come to the white house, they want to talk about it and that occupies his attention but we caught up with kelly briefly. He said not embarrassed but the president is distracted by the russia investigation. President trump is either embarrassed or di
Lose health care coverage. Subpoena dunk, the House Judiciary Committee is about to raise the stakes for a number of current and former trump aides preparing to issue subpoenas to president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner and former attorney jeng Jeff Sessions and others. Will they comply . And unleashing on the u. K. President trump attacks Britain Ambassador to the United States calling him a very stupid guy after leaked Diplomatic Communications revealed critical remarks by the ambassador. And now Britain Foreign secretary jumps in calling the president s attacks unacceptable and wrong. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, a federal Appeals Court wraps up a hearing on a Trump Administration backed challenge to obamacare and two of the three judges suggest they may favor striking down the entire health care law. That could be millions of americans could lose coverage. Also tonight, President Trump is defending labor secretary
Yesterday. I think theres spying that did occur. Spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal. Neither barr nor the president have provided evidence to back up their claims. Although barr has since softened his language. Multiple sources familiar with his thinking now tell nbc news the attorney general of the United States does not see a semantic difference between spying and surveillance. Joining me nbc News White House correspondent peter alexander, justice reporter, former federal prosecutor, and Msnbc National Security and Intelligence Analyst nick rasmussen. Thank you all for being here. Peter, i would like to start with you. I mean clearly the president taking a little bit of a victory lap on this with barrs comments. Has there been any concern internally or is the white house simply glad that the attorney general backed up the president . I think the president is the white house and he was glad about it. He really sort of treated this like it was a political gift, you know. If w