starship inaugural test flight indigenous 2.5 minutes after takeoff. the rocket had no crew members onboard tumbled out of control what spacex called a rapid, unplanned disassembly. spacex also said it learned a tremendous amount from the test and called it quite a show. the effort comes after years of explosive tests regulatory hurdles in public hyping from musk. news continues. let s hand it over to pamela brown and cnn prime time. pamela anderson. thank you so much tonight the race for the white house getting clear on one end and more dramatic on the other sources say president biden is ready to formally announced his reelection bid as soon as next week for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that wo
one year ago, president volodymyr zelenskyy stood defiantly with his cabinet in kyiv as russian forces attacked the ukrainian capital. ukraine has defied expectations and showed the world tremendous tenacity over the past year, fighting back russian forces time a time. today, there are no signs that europe s biggest land conflict since world war ii will end any time soon. we will be covering this come somber anniversary throughout the morning. at home, we re following the federal response to the train derailment in east palestine, ohio. transportation secretary pete buttigieg toured the scene as investigators appear to pinpoint a possible cause for the crash. he certainly had challenges for donald trump, as well. yes, he did. well, i m glad he came here. if he is now ready to join us in stopping the deregulation of dangerous trains like this one, then, yeah, we can work together. we ll have more of what he had to say and what is in store for east palestine today.
i ll be watching you from my office at nine a.m., sunday show, 9 am for the saturday show. i m always in my office getting ready for the show. so, we ll be with me two days a week. so, that is good. silver lining, it s all good. yes. very excited about it. okay, my friend, have a good weekend, enjoy getting ready for both days next weekend. thank, you jonathan. thank you. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, new questions and concerns this weekend after the u.s. military shot down a high altitude object for the third time in a week. canadian prime minister justin trudeau today said recovery teams are looking for the cylindrical object after a u.s. fighter jet shot it down over the yukon territory on his orders yesterday. canada s defensive history describe the object of smaller but potentially similar to the chinese spy balloon shot down off the carolina
that is more than a smattering. not just for the pictures. if is not number one she said she will schiff me in the kidney. she means the good one. i wonder, can you live with zero kidneys? i know for a fact you can live for years without a brain. and to be successful. now that that is out of the way, a new gallup poll shows a record number of americans are identifying as politically independent. 49% compared to 25% who identify as republicans and another 25 who identify as female competitive swimmers. that is shocking since just two decades ago independence accounted for the lowest percentage of voters as scene in this easy to understand graph. i drew that on the way home last night. you might be asking yourself, self, what happened since 2004? other than joe biden s hair plugs turning 60. gala points to the disillusionment with the political system. u.s. institutions and the two parties which are seen as ineffectual and too extreme. you can say people are fed up with two par
it s not me. we re not destroying our country. it s the president of the united states who is destroying our country. it s the u.s. senate that is destroying our country. it s the news media. it s the democratic party, academia, hollywood, wall street, and many of our big corporations. wow. florida senator rick scott starting his cpac speech with a light hearted and optimistic tone. whew. bulgaria. plenty of maga messaging at the conference, just as you can see. not a lot of people there to hear it. not a lot. that was dark. that was really dark. donald trump will take the stage tomorrow. very reagan esque. that s where he said oh, wait, he said we re a city shining on the hill. right, for all the world to see. no, that was not that. tone is a little different there, okay. incredibly different. anyhow, this trump appearance tomorrow is following a campaign announcement clearly influenced by florida governor ron desantis. we ll explain what s going on