is starting to unfold its sunshield, in a complex process involving hundreds of moving parts. all of the motors, pulleys and cables have to trigger at the right time and in the right order or the telescope, which cost $10 billion and took 30 years to design and build, simply won t work. 0ur science editor, rebecca morelle, has the story. and lift off! the moment of launch for an astronomy mission like no other, as the james webb space telescope blasted off. then the rocket casing opened up, and the telescope was released into the darkness of space, with a million mile journey ahead. but, as it travels, it has a fiendishly difficult task to do unfolding. it s so big, we didn t have any rocket that s big enough to launch it, you know, fully deployed. so, we had to build this telescope to be folded up, to fit inside the rocket. this is really, really difficult engineering. but, you know, nasa has never shied away from doing hard things.
wake-up call. unlike the clinton administration. they ve got to make some changes here, a 33% job approval, you can be talking about a historic wipeout in the mid-terms unless they change staff, change policies, change direction. i see holding a press conference for the first time since march. you can t paper over the same old thing. that won t work. martha: let s put up the top staff at the white house. as i said, you see a changing of the deck chairs. nobody wants to say it s me, i m the problem. so they tend to look at the policy makers first. these are the people that fill those roles. ron klain is indicative of the policies. tony blinken. do you expect any changes? i don t. to this point, martha, there s not been any changes. think about afghanistan. if nobody was fired after that, that is a problem.
the james webb space telescope launched on christmas day is starting to unfold its sunshield, in a complex process involving hundreds of moving parts. all of the motors, pulleys and cables have to trigger at the right time and in the right order or the telescope, which cost $10 billion and took 30 years to design and build, simply won t work. our science editor rebecca morelle has the story. and lift off! the moment of launch for an astronomy mission like no other, as the james webb space telescope blasted off. then the rocket casing opened up, and the telescope was released into the darkness of space, with a million mile journey ahead. but, as it travels, it has a fiendishly difficult task to do unfolding. it s so big, we didn t have any rocket that s big enough to launch it, you know, fully deployed. so, we had to build this telescope to be folded up, to fit inside the rocket.
this decision and roll back the clock on really many, many decades of idea that countries could determine their own path. it s this concept of self-determination. there have been numerous international agreements including the u.n. charter that indicates countries should be able to choose their own path. whether nato joins is a different story, but i think that s just a signal. if we say they can t join, that s just a signal that putin has a free hand in ukraine. yeah, so you re saying the sanctions won t necessarily work. offering no ukraine membership of nato won t work. joe biden is saying there s no way troops will get involved, not american troops. where does that leave us? that leaves us with very few options. i think the things that can work are notions this is not the opportunity that vladimir putin thought it was when he started to build up these forces. and those notions are closed off by really locking in this idea of very, very severe
conflict. no task is more important. joining us now is the co-author of that op-ed, retired colonel alexander vindman, a former director of the council and author of the new york times best seller, here right matters, director of the initiative. thank you for joining me. people say the biden threat of sanctions against putin and his underlinks won t work, sanctions aren t good enough. you write in your piece, that s not necessarily the case. previously explain why. well, actually, i don t think the sangs are necessarily going to be, sanctions by themselves will in the be a sufficient term. the fact is they are reactionary. they ll snap into effect potentially after russia s incursion. even then, there is probably going to be a deliberation.