space center where an all-european mission to the international space station will be taking off later on this hour featuring an italian astronaut on board. a lot of you are saying you re only saying this because there s an italian astronaut on board. that italian co pilot would be the tenth italian in space. a lot of you have been saying, you re only saying that because he would be the tenth italian in space. you re actually correct. but it is a beautiful day for a space launch on this spacex mission, which would be the third commercial crew flight. there s a way that the italians look at this by talking about a beautiful day for a space launch. [speaking italian]. that means it s a beautiful day for a space launch. we ll take you there in 49 minutes when this gets going. meantime, another big story right now, and it is getting bigger by the second, the border and what to do about. is a deal close? some republicans say for any deal to happen, there better be big improvements
of course, you are sitting in iowa and you have republicans flocking in fast and furious to try to win iowa and get ready for the caucus as biden is trying to seize the national stage here. it is hard to imagine either side getting a lot of credit from the country for what is happening this week. it s a significant development. for the president, for doing what he said he would do, work with republicans and for speaker mccarthy as well. he has been underestimated throughout the first part of this year. the white house never thought he would be able to keep his republicans unified. that is what happened. i can tell you, being out here for several days talking to voters on both sides, there s not a lot of applause for washington. there s not a lot of credit for averting a crisis from happening. there is no doubt president biden despite if he doesn t on a friday night, how we consume the news now and everything that is chopped up and shared, this will get into the bloodstream
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we re less than 40 minutes to the launch of axiom two. it s the second mission to the international space station. on board is a former space station commander who has spent more time in space than any other american along with a pilot and two mission specialists from saudi arabia. we ll bring you that launch live in about a half an hour. and negotiations will resume over the debt crisis. they will set the stakge for a high-stakes meeting tomorrow. the president is flying home from the g-7 summit in japan. here s what mccarthy had to say about that conversation. i believe it was a productive phone call. and so at the end of the phone call, what we need to do is, we re going to have patrick mchenry get back together with he s going to ask his team, get back together. so we can walk them through literally what we ve been talking about. i think some of the challenges here they might not completely understand h
it s over. it is over. and the kansas city chiefs have won it. whoo! it s my hometown! okay. so i was really torn about this one. you know why, right? i love mahomes. and joe burrow. i like both of them. i was really torn. i just kept rewatching it and rewatching. we re not talking about the vikings. i know. are you a mind reader this morning? how long have i known you? patrick mahomes did that on one good ankle is incredible. did you see him hopping around. he had that high ankle sprain eight days ago. amazing he played that well. we re on tv right now. good morning. good morning, everyone. for the first time in super bowl history, two black quarterbacks will lead their teams in the big game. so who s the favorite and who s the underdog? we re going to have much more on this story. we ll have that in just a moment. also, taking a turn here, new questions this morning in memphis. will the death of tyre nichols lead to actual federal nationwide police
investigate the death of a pro kremlin blogger and an explosion in st petersburg. and a return to the moon with the return of artemis to. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s newsday. it is eight in the morning it s newsday. it is eight in the morning here - it s newsday. it is eight in the morning here in - it s newsday. it is eight in - the morning here in singapore and eight in the evening in new york where donald trump is spending the night ahead of his arraignment on tuesday. i want to show you the scene live in new york and as we understand that he is in his suite in the trump tower in and hatton, presumably conferring with his lawyers for what will be an unprecedented moment in us legal history. that s before never that is because never before has a us president sitting or previous face criminal charges. we will be looking at what could happen nextin looking at what could happen nex