with anderson cooper sunday at eight every sunday one whole story one whole hour. on cnn. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you. share your day with us explosions in the sky. spacex is largest, most powerful rocket ever gets off the launch pad, then blows up just minutes into its mission. plus mike lindell learns the hard way. don t offer to write checks. your conspiracies can t cash mediators order the election denier to give an expert $5 million they did for debunking lindell s election live and an i. r s agent says he can blow the whistle on the heart to biden investigation. the allegations are both unproven and stunning that the president s team is mishandling the investigation into his son that the attorney general eric garland, lied to congress. first, though. spacex s starship rocket exploding in midair 33 engines. you see them there. 33 engines fired at full force to get that unmanned 400 ft tall behemoth off the ground. basics c
out what s right and what s wrong. they and they were so successful today. they got all engines lit, cleared the launch tower up through the maximum stress on the vehicle. they got faster than the speed of sound. they get up to the high atmosphere. i mean, it was way more successful than i thought it was gonna be so huge kudos to spacex. this is a really good first step on the way to orbit and not the way to the moon. that s an interesting perspective. so let s tap on that test pilot experience. in the sense that when you test a new fighter jet, or you re testing something new in the weapons sector, you tend to do that in private. you do it on an air force base or your you know nobody s watching. i mean, the experts are watching, but the public s not watching. so the public sees this. play out. how important is it? then? you heard ed layout. the timetable elon musk, saying in his tweet. he thinks that in a matter of months, they could have test number two in terms of the timetable to g