So outer space still remains almost impossibly far away. Thats very sad. But that wasnt the only option. He also offered one other next best option for humankind. He called it, quote, much more realistic than space travel. He declared that what we humans must do at this point in Human History is that we must move into the sea. We should become sea dwellers. Quote, between cyber space and outer space lies the possibility of settling the oceans. We may have reached the stage at which it is economically feasible or where it will soon be economically feasible. It is a realistic risk. I eagerly support this. The idea was that we should basically build new teeny, tiny personal cities, citystates, unlike Shipping Containers that are floating in the ocean. Impossible and the only way that human sorry, humans can ever be free again is to move into space, presumably with no girls allowed. If we cant move into space, we have to move into the oceans. Weird dude, right . That is why i thought it wa
yesterday. jon: not a good thing to happen less than a month into a new administration. peter baker, new york times, thank you peter. jenna: back to capitol hill where we re watching voting for another cabinet appointee for president trump. this is for the person that would head the small business administration. linda mcmahon. you ll recognize that last name. former wrestling executive. all former senate candidate. and now we expect her to be confirmed in the senate as voting is taking place. peter ducey is live with more on what s happening. reporter: the cabinet confirmation process that democrats have slowed to a crawl does continue right now and this afternoon. we know dr. david schulkin is going to be sworn in by the vice president this afternoon. the person the trump white house hopes will head up the small business administration, linda mcmahon is up for a vote by the full senate. we should know what happens with
at the national security council? tonight, we have a new treasury secretary, a new va secretary. tomorrow we ll get a former wrestling executive confirmed as yet another cabinet secretary. in california tonight, nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated in the face of very worrying failures at the lastest dam in this country. and the national security adviser might be getting fired. the acting attorney general before she was fired warned the administration that the national security adviser might be vulnerable to russian blackmail. we ve got that story next. there s a lot to keep an eye on. but on national security, on the potential for military conflict with other countries, this white house is short circuiting and starting fires all over the place and careening incoherently from one position to another.
this is not part of you get ght with god and you can live forever. this is you get to live in san leandro for the rest of your life. you get to be 1,000 years old and look 30. they re working on it. that s apparently who trump is considering to run the food and drug administration. that happened today. the incoming administration also announced today that linda mcmahon who is a wrestling executive, also a very wealthy republican donor, she donated $6.5 million to the trump for president effort. she was announced today as the trump administration s nominee to lead the small business administration. transition also announced that the long serving republican governor of iowa, terry branstad will be the incoming administration s new choice to be the ambassador to china. the transition announced a name to head up the epa. that s an interesting one. we ll have more on him in just a
that would be sort of undoing the whole process of the fda. even as a person who kind of cares about the fda, i am a person who cares about the drug approval process, i find it hard to care about that statement from him. i find it hard to focus on that statement about the futility of clinical trials. when he made that statement in the context of a broader overall speech of how we really all can live forever, mwah-ha-ha. this is not part of you get right with god and you can live forever. this is you get to live in san leandro for the rest of your life. you get to be 1,000 years old and look 30. they re working on it. that s apparently who trump is considering to run the food and drug administration. that happened today. the incoming administration also announced today that linda mcmahon who is a wrestling