buildings and clean power are the long-term solution to our being essentially at the whimsy and mercy of saudi arabia. john podesta, always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you very much, sir. have a good thanksgiving. good to see you, chris. happy thanksgiving. we ve covered at length the multi-faceted attacks on american democracy. i know it seems bleak out there. coming up the case against political despair, or as i call it, the bad feeling. don t go anywhere. ba d feel ing. don t go anywhere. o) urteen , subaru and our retailers have been sharing the love with those who need it most. now subaru is the largest automotive donor to make-a-wish and meals on wheels. and the largest corporate donor to the aspca and national park foundation. get a new subaru during the share the love event and subaru will donate two hundred and fifty dollars to charity.
and trying to encapsulate all that means. i wanted to do a little bit of whimsy. you talked about william shatner being on star trek, and of course, i was a star trek fan growing up, but i was also able to be on star trek: the next generation after i had flown in space, so this whole generation of where stories and reality influence each other is really important, because star trek started after we already had a space program going. and it helped to reinforce all that could occur and people s excitement and involvement. scott kelly, watching this, how do you feel about this personally? did you think in your lifetime, we would see this private industry? there right now, you are watching jeff bezos close the
0 i wouldn t say all of it is aimed towards that. of course, any commercial veteran needs to turn a profit in order to stay in business. so it s partially about that. it s partially about helping jeff bezos realize his big picture dream of colonizing what we call sis lunar space, the area between low earth orbit and the moon. this is a small first step for jeff bezos and blue origin, showing that they can launch people successfully into space and they have other rockets and bigger ambitions on the drawing board. if you want to take really big picture view of it, in jeff bezos mind, this is all about saving planet earth by helping to move industries off planet. but in the shorter term, the company needs to turn a profit in order to keep going. and you can see right now, jose i want to point out, you can see, in addition to looking at the four astronauts to the left on your screen is jeff bezos. he, of course, is not going to be aboard this craft. i interviewed him after the last