Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour after three months in space the overdue return to earth for boeing starliner capsule, the capsule left the international Space Station last night, but without its two Test Pilots on board, the Treacherous Process Of Reorder Orienting the vehicle in earths atmosphere could have heated its exterior to more than 3,000 degrees fahrenheit. But the landing was tactically successful just after midnight eastern time, making it the first u. S. Made capsule to land on the ground rather than splashing down in the ocean Cnns Kristin Fisher has more on what comes next for nasa and the Starliner Crew boeing breathing a sigh of relief. This morning after starliner successfully landed in white sands, new mexico, shortly after midnight, and all of the issues that starliner suffered while in space the thruster failures, the helium leaks, did not prove to be a problem when it did the deorbit burn pump, the brak
guards will throw them out. i m the president. [ bleep ] you. i m challenging all of it and the judges we re going to are judges i appointed [ bleep ] you. you re not stealing the election. why was he so sure trump was going to lose? and here s roger stone after january 6th on plans for a pardon for himself and for others who were involved in plotting to overturn the election. talk b about how many i think 132 congressmen voted with trump. that s 132 right there. big or small as you want. it s a way of saying this is so you can t run your switch on two. i m going to deal with movie poster, witch hunt 2 with a big picture of merrick garland. has it been pitched to the president? yes, it has. i believe the president s for it. the obstacles are these lily livered, weak kneed bureaucrats in the white house counsel s office and now they must be crushed because they told the president something that s not true. lily livered, weak kneed. in a statement, stone says he t
please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
and i mean club quite literally, because they have signed pledges. that may sound extreme, but nordquist s powerful groups has won that policy battle in his party. a conservative activist named grover nordquist. americans for tax r, noted for the afternoon-tax pledge. he also has the hear of powerful golf leaders who won t act unless he s signed off. he s an libertarian ideologue, that believes washington is controlling our lives. we want it down to the size, to where we fit in the bathtub, and then we can worry about what we re up to. joining me is wilbur