so i think he wants to do this as a sign this time i m serious. now, my guess, and it s a guess, is when we do get the financial disclosure this will not be a fountain of transparency by donald trump. my guess is there s going to be very wide variances in terms of what he owns on privately held companies that we re not able to dig into as much as we d like. so i worry that we re sort of ramping up for al capone s vault and we re going to get al capone s vault. not as much as we think is in there is going to be in there. jean do you think we ll get al capone s vault? yes. and what will be hard to figure out is how much money did he give up with all the endorsements that he s lost. that will be really interesting. espn, nbc, nascar just to name a few. chris, jean, thanks for being on the show. we appreciate it. and now a turn of turns of donald trump to pluto. phone home. what did nasa learn about the
awesome event, not only for nasa but i would argue just mankind. humankind. extraordinary. how are we able to do it? to me the first thing i thought of is how is this craft able to have the energy to go that far? is this solar powered, does it run off of gravity? you certainly don t have gas for 3 billion miles. there is no atmosphere in space, so when you take off on a rocket and you break the surly bonds of earth, once you ve done that, there s nothing to stop it. it is a constant movement. here s what s interesting. this was the fastest rocket nasa has ever launched. 32,000 miles per hour as it sped through space. and then it got the sling shot action around jupiter, propelling it on towards pluto. so also on board are these radio isotope thermal generators. that s what s helping the spacecraft make minute moves and
one. if you ve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. that s the first step in getting data. okay. copy that. we are in lock with telemetry with the spacecraft. nasa style celebration last night as the new horizons spacecraft phoned home safe following its historic fly-by of flute owe. nasa took this photo after a nine-hour journey over 3 billion miles, the spacecraft is sending back a trove of measurements and observations from its close observation of pluto, considered a dwarf planet.
it s using plutonium pellets to generate heat. but the bottom line is this is a complete, intact vehicle that is self-propelled at this point and it has enough of this we expect, this kind of plutonium-based energy to keep it moving for the next 20 years or so. and real quickly, this is your beat, nasa. and nasa has had some tough encounters over the last few years. they faced a lot of budget cuts. they haven t had a lot to put forward such as look at what we are still capable of doing. how big was this for nasa? i think if you talk to most people who observe space and are passionate about space, they say this is what nasa should be about. we ve done low earth orbit for the past 30 years in terms of the space station and in terms of the shuttle, but going deep going big, exploring, finding out what is in our solar system this is what nasa should be about.
it revolves around the same sun but it also crosses the orbit of neptune for 20 years. no other planet does that. that s embarrassing. if you re a planet you should not be crossing other people s orbits. oh tom. nbc s tom costello covers nasa and joins me now. that was a great interview lester had with that gentleman. i was part of a facebook group when i was in college that said i remember back when pluto was a planet, that s how old i am. but now it s gotten this iconic status after this nasa mission. what have we learned? pluto is all the rage. you ve got donald trump and al capone s vault and you ve got jeb and hillary. are you ready to have your mind blown? let s do it. because that s what we re in for here. think about these numbers. you just rattled them off so casually. nine-year, 3 billion miles this thing has traveled all the way to the outer stretches of the