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
it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs
if you paid any attention to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the last three years, there s a good chance you ve heard the phrase, better than expected. you ve probably heard it again over the last few days following the latest job in december. 216,000 new jobs were created. much better than expected for cnbc. back in the old days, weeks 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now 100 one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. well every available job is not matched every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more jobs than it has available workers. that s just the fact. december s 2100is not anomaly either. that s largely been the trend of the biden presidency since the office in 2021. you can find similar headlines about better than expected numbers for june 2021, january 2022, june 2022, september 2023, for example. this has been one of the top achievements of the biden presidency. it shows that he s been able to
a federal indictment of donald trump could be eminent. nbc news confirms the doj told trump s lawyers and he is a target of this classified documents investigation. moments ago, a key prosecutor in the special counsel s office was spotted at the miami federal courthouse. so is that probe rapidly reaching its conclusion with the former president smack at the center? plus loyal no more. mike pence kicks off his 2024 bid with his strongest rebuke of trump yet. president trump also demand ed that i choose between him and the constitution. i chose the constitution. and i always will. we will have a live report from the red hot campaign trail. and more than 120 million americans enveloped by dangerous wildfire smoke. postponing national sports games, canceling school activities and prompting delays and ground stops at multiple airports. the transportation secretary will join us and have more on how to stay safe and when relief could come. just a few minutes ago, senior sp
the chatgpt, testified before us congress to say that artificial iintelligence should be regulated. us lawmakers questioned tech entrepreneur sam altmann about the benefits the technology can bring and the threat it could pose for humanity. my worst fears are that we cause significant we, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. i think that could happen in a lot of different ways. it s why we started the company. it s a big part of why i m here today, and why we ve been here in the past, and we ve been able to spend some time with you. i think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. and we want to be vocal about that. we want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. but we try to be very clear eyed about what the downside case is and the work that we have to do so who is sam altman, the man in the hotseat today and at the forefront of this emerging technology? he s an influential investor and entreprene