still too cowardly to take a stand against insurrectionists ex president. the idea of political violence is being normalized. he held newspaper published a piece this weekend underlying its stark terms what this new post trump post january 6th world looks like. the number threat in vests launched by u.s. capitol police in 2021 was 100 and 50% higher than it was in 2017. trump s first year in office. lawmakers who are critical of trump remain among those most frequently targeted for violence. the long and diverse listening clues republicans who voted for an infrastructure bill he opposed. democrats who manage the former presidents impeachments. republicans who supported his ouster after the january 6th capitol attack. and most recently, the nine lawmakers on the select committee investigating the 2021 a riot. all of whom have around the clock security details. end quote. president biden addressed the normalization of violence this week in his soul of the nation s speech. y
republicans hope will win their party control of congress. we are going to hold the majority in the house because we have a plan to fix the problems are countries facing the other side has only a ploy to win back power from shelves and rip away our constitutional freedom, reproductive freedom, it has awakened millions of voters. if democrats want to make abortion the main issue when every poll we have seen says that the economy and the cost of living is the number one issue, good luck to them trying to defend their extreme position. i guess he hasn t seen all the polls. meanwhile we are still being the key decision that could be made any moment, as a judge determines whether to grant trump s request for a special master to review what it was seized from mar-a-lago. earlier today both sides the aisle gave way to trump s handling of the documents. the process for declassification. the president is in a very different position than most of us in the national security
and can you see the countdown at the top of your screen. look at the vice president and her husband will be there to speak. this is the first time a woman and a person of color has gone to the moon. steve: that is ultimately the goal. this particular flight though will be unmanned. they will have three test mannequins strapped in to figure out what radiation effects and everything else. you will see it live if it goes off on our show. it s all about the heat shield, they say because it s a test flight. the idea is to make sure that the heat shield can protect the people inside and they really won t know that until it comes back. brian: yeah, i mean, you got to you are going to watch two rockets disengaged and then ultimately just be the orion craft that will go into the moon s orbit, whip around a few times and then come back octobe. so that s a 42-day mission. and we ll probably cover all 42 days. steve: you know what, brian, you are probably right. we will mention i
cnn s pete muntean and cnn aerospace analyst myles o brien joins me now. pete, let s start here. what is the latest on what is happened with the suspect and do we know anything new about what they were doing up there. reporter: sessentially the pilot lives to tell the tale, but likely in a courtroom. from two different government sources that the plane that was stolen earlier this morning, around 5:00 a.m., from the tupelo regional airport, according to the tupelo, police, crashed near ashland, mississippi. it flew around the area for about five hours. police in tupelo say they initially got a phone call at 5:00 a.m. central time from the person on board this airplane saying that they were threatening to crash the plane into one of the walmarts in tupelo, mississippi. according to flight aware, the plane flew around for about five hours, north west of the area and then over the holly springs national forest. we heard from sources that a king air like this, a beechcraft, sea
gravestown, mississippi. around 10:00 a.m. local time. int not all that far from where it took off around 5:00 a.m. this morning. you could see a beechcraft, a twin engine commuter, seats about six or eight people and we know from authorities in tupelo that this plane was stolen by what appears to be an airport employee. police received a call around 5:00 a.m. central daylight time where the pilot of that plane, actually we don t know if it is way pilot. but the person flying that airplane called 911 and said they were going to steal the airplane and crash it into one of the local walmarts in tupelo. the plane circled for about five hours above the area. not only above that walmart, but also above nearby neighborhoods and also over a nearby national forest. what is going to be the big question here is what ultimately brought the plane down. i spoke to folks who have flown this type of airline and they say it holds between four to six hours of fuel when it is loaded so that is