Publicprivate partnership. This is 90 minutes. The subcommittee on space and aeronautics will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess on at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitled returning to the moon, keeping artemis on track. I would like to acknowledge i appreciate the witnesses being here today. Mother nature is proving to be somewhat challenging this week as you can see by the turnout of membership. This has been hearing thats been much anticipated by the members in a very enthusiastic way, but you have to physically get here, and that is a challenge and the subcommittee chairman is in the air somewhere between here and houston, so the moment he arrives we will have a proper chairman to preside over this process. With that, i want to recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and welcome everyone to the science committees first hearing of 2024. Its fitting we are kicking off of the hearing on artemis given its importance to the
2023. Tonight, were coming to you from times square in the heart of new york city. For so many, this is the place where new years begins and ends. Im tom yum. We fake you for joining us tonight. Were covering the top ten stories from this eventful year. Plus, look at the people in trends which to find the last 12 months. As we look to close the chapter in 2023, we take a look back at the air that was. Heres nbcs joe fryer. How do you define a year like 2023 . Was that the year of the strike . [crowd chanting] or year of the swift . Didnt offer a glimpse of the future with the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence and the Weight Loss Drug ozempic . Or a Blast From The Past . Hi barbie i can with the pink coated resurgence of a classic doll. Was it the year a speaker was booted, or simply a prelude to 2024 . The Campaign Trail lined with pit stops in the courtroom. 2024 you can be defined in so many ways. So much of the world, it was a year headlined by war in the middle east. Major Brea
that is new york city mayor eric adams again calling out the republican governor of texas and the biden administration. we ll go through the mayor s executive action to address the busing of migrants from the border as the tension continues to grow between the democratic mayor and the president of the united states. this all comes as secretary of state antony blinken met yesterday with mexico s president to discuss what can be done about the surge of migrants with another caravan moving toward the border. also ahead this morning, nikki haley making headlines this morning for her response to a question about the civil war. it wasn t a hard one. we ll show you that exchange from a campaign stop in new hampshire. plus, another warning about donald trump s plans for a second term. this time coming from ron desantis, one of his opponents for the republican primary. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. with us, host of
plus, israel is barring refugee camps as part of new efforts to find hostages. the head of the idf insists the war will go on for months but some critics think that will not be enough time to wipe out hamas. and jack smith calling on the d.c. court to do something that sounds almost unthinkable. stop donald trump from injecting politics into his election interference trial. we re going to start with secretary of state blinken. all right. we re going to start with blinken and dhs secretary set to meet with mexico s president as we speak. the two countries grappling with what the u.s. is calling quote unprecedented levels of migration as well as security challenges on both sides of the southern border. now, these discussions taking on even more urgency as a massive new caravan of roughly 8,000 mie migrants or more are making their way to the united states. the u.s. is already struggling to deal with a record number of migrants. nearly 50,000 arriving last week alone, overwhel
pope francis is present today at the vatican s easter vigil after being absent from some good friday event. the job market cools. why there s still good news for workers. plus, treading water. play suspended again at the soggy masters. there s one jacket the golfers are still chasing. and later, it s the best seat in the house for the crowning of britain s monarchs, a historic royal relic. the historic royal throne getting spruced up for the coronation of king charles. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. tonight, nine months after the supreme court overturned americans constitutional right to an abortion, providers are once again scrambling. at issue, use of a key abortion medication after two conflicting court opinions. last night a federal judge in texas blocked the federal government s approval of mifepristone, rulingerly tested. another judge ruled the drug is safe and should remain available in a swath of