thoughts. to get to the mars you have to land on the moon they say. any way of going directly without landing on the moon? well, we will use the moon as a proving ground. when we go to mars, we will have to be there for a long period of time. we have to learn to live and work on another planet. how long the trip to mars? 7 month journey there. the challenge is earth and mars are only the same side of the sun once every 26 months. what do you think? we come back and try again. yes. how do you feel about it? mars direct. you like it direct? yes. it seems to me mars direct. who knows better than these people? martha: when there is a controversial subject the president does a master play. we gets everybody to weigh in. michael collins said no, mars
or is he just irrelevant to this? or is there some secret master play there i haven t quite figured out? all three? no, look, it was port to note this was a congressionally driven deal. but this was driven by the four corners. this was driven by the budget staff that has been working on this for months. very clearly. the craziest thing yesterday was when the president said that, i was in the middle of the senate stakeout every tuesday at 2:00 p.m. the senate majority leader and the senate democratic leader come and give their press conferences. the most optimistic i have seen the majority leader and senator schumer about anything they agree on, at least in a year, about this deal. as they re doing that, i m getting text messages from that white house talking about a shutdown. it was just a bizarre split screen. congressional aides were worried for a little bit. will this throw off a very fragile deal? but it s the president doing what he does.