Efforts, 60 miles high to the edge of space. Cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh joins us now. What do we know about what went wrong . Were still pulling in details about the exactly what happened. But heres what we can tell you. Ntsb have launched their go team. The National Transportation safety board . Correct. They have a team headeded in that direction to investigate. The faa is investigating this. As far as what happened, according to the faa, things went wrong at around 10 00 pacific time. That would be 1 00 our time here. They say Ground Control essentially lost contact with spaceshiptwo. We should remind folks at home that this is an experimental flight vehicle. On board were two pilots. We have the unfortunate news that one of the two people on board did not survive this. A little bit more about this vehicle, its intended as you mentioned off the top, the big picture here is to eventually take people who want to go and who can afford to go to space. Space tourism, its calle
One pilot killed, the other seriously injured after he managed to open his parachute. Investigators will try to figure out what happened. We have more from tom foreman. Ground control lost contact around 10 00 pacific time. The half billion dollar rocket craft could seat six passengers. During the test flight, two pilots on board. The spaceship is carried beneath the airplane. There was a huge explosion. It didnt occur. I didnt see it. Reporter the company says the mission was going as planned. They were trying a new rocket fuel mix there were no signs of trouble until the massive failure. Flying a rocket loader today that had been thoroughly tested on the ground and through a qualification series. Reporter what went wrong is anyones guess. The ship is designed to fly 62 miles above the earth. The wreckage a problem. Authorities say one pilot was killed and the other seriously injured. Its a large area. The aircraft is in several different pieces. We found one person who obviously was
Jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, his Senior Adviser got big loans for his Family Business after he met with top wall street executives at the white house. Thats according to the New York Times. Kushner also described as acting paranoid. A cnn source says he feels everyone is out to get him after losing his top secret security clearance. And in the middle of his pitch battle with chief of staff john kelly. A white house insider saying the president is increasingly frustrated with all the enemies general kelly is making. And also the latest crisis of the president s own making. The president s public shaming of his own handpicked attorney general. The president tweeting today, why is ag Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive fisa abuse, will take forever. Has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on comey, et cetera. Isnt the i. G. An obama guy . Why not use Justice Department lawyers . Disgraceful. To answer questions, Michae
Berated hicks for admitting she lied and asked her how she could be so stupid. The president s son in law, his Senior Adviser got big loans for his Family Business after he met with top wall street executives at the white house. Thats according to the New York Times. Kushner also described as acting paranoid, he feels everyone is out to get him after losing his top secret security clearance. In the middle of his battle with chief of staff john kelly. A white house insider saying the president is frustrated with all the enemies general kelly is making. The president s public shaming of his own handpicked attorney general. The president tweeting today, why is ag Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate massive fisa abuse, will take forever. Already late with recalls on comey, et cetera. Isnt the i. G. An obama guy . Why not use Justice Department lawyers . Disgraceful. Michael horrow its is investigating because thats his job, and none of this is really what the presiden
Committee today that adam schiff released is the Inspector Generals work hard to try to open the door for the whistleblower to go straight to the committee and eventually the Inspector General just had to tell the committee that hes reached an impasse with the acting director and the acting director is blocking the way with the support of attorney general william barr. Yeah. And schiff is now warning that the Inspector General himself i might not be protected from prosecution or reprisal from the Trump Administration here as he tries make this thing known. Its not even his complaint. Hes just trying to take care of it and protect that whistleblower. He may himself be in their legal crosshairs by doing so if they continue down this road. Its dystopic. And we have a former Inspector General joining us tonight. E so we will get a view from someone whos been there about how to make sense of all of this. Excellent. E thanks, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. We have so much ground to cover for y