actually in certainlies of turnout, several districts in new york that we looked at. not as much in florida last night, to the point that mike is making. in florida last night, i think republicans probably feel good about the turnout they saw relative to the turnout produced. what we re showing you in that 19th district special election, saw that in nebraska. saw that in men. there were pockets demographically similar to olster county and the turnout level and enthusiasm level for democrats was kind of through the roof. i just there are a couple of examples. there are two, really, since the great depression of a president s party defying history. and actually picks up house seats in midterm elections. they were in 1998, bill clinton was president. and there was a backlash to the republican drive to impeach him. and it was 2002, george w. bush
of dateline. i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. first up on msnbc, history has been made. the four civilians aboard a spacex s crew dragon are back on earth, proving space is not just for professional astronauts anymore. the coup splashed down off the coast of florida last night, embarking on one of the most ambitious launches yet. high security, police and media outnumbered a small pro trump crowd rallying near the capitol in support of the insurrectionists.
fight that we had to go through to bring us to last night. wasn t it amazing to watch? the take off as well as that splash down, yesterday. you know this sort of stuff. as we mentioned, you ve been to space several times. and you served as the first black nasa administrator. what was it like for you, personally, watching this milestone? kendis, and i started out as the healthy skeptic. i was not at all in favor of going to commercial assets to get people to and from space. but overtime, as i got to meet the folk from spacex, blue origin, seer nevada and a number of the other private companies, i recognized the fact that we can learn a lot from them, if they allow themselves to learn from us. and that s what they did. we spent two years reaching agreements and were standards we were going to use, what regulations or rules we would
follow. particularly with reference to human spaceflight. that flight that you saw yesterday. and in the end, we learn from each other. we became incredible partners. i cannot thank people like blend shocked wealthy, as the president and chief operating officer of spacex. elon, who kind of left the team alone and let them do their thing. they have been an incredible team with whom to work. and i think what all of our work has paid off, with what you saw yesterday. i won t even call it amateur crew, because they were just a non professional astronaut crew, but they worked really hard over the past few months to get trained. i have two other really quick questions that i need to get. to what does it mean next? does this mean that the rest of us are going to be able to go to space fairly soon? you know, you all talk to leroy chiao last night and they kept emphasizing cost, cost,
they held celebrations of life. candace? we re back here on the space coast. let s cue that opening that, beautiful opening. we re back here on the space coast were near cape canaveral. where we saw the historic return for that mission. that ll civilian mission. [applause] the cheers all around from the spacex crew. you can understand why. the dragon spacecraft smashing down off the coast of cape canaveral last night, in the atlantic ocean, carrying those four members of the inspiration for crew after their three-day journey. you see them there, all smiles, all suited up as they were getting ready to head out of the capsule.