achievement for the company and space tourism jeff paul is live on-site at truth or consequences, what can you tell us. not only an incredible moment that happened but that it happened safely have a billionaire like richard branson who is shy of turning 71 years of signals if someone like this can go up into space and come back down 90 minutes later that the future of space tourism and other people can also follow those exact footsteps. there was a bit of a hiccup early this morning i weather delay due to high winds overnight but that was really the only major setback once they got through the 90 minute delay. everything went basically as planned the space plane took off enough fashion that you would be accustomed to see that normal airport once it hit the 50000-foot mark that s when the space plane detached from the fuselage and shooting straight into the air, climbing more than 60 miles we are told about the new mexico that s when the crew got a good view of planet earth
as early as this week. secretary of state blinken is meeting virtually with members of the european union right now as the united states is trying to coordinate its next move with our overseas allies. while all of that is going on, the administration is not taking any chances with the americans still inside ukraine ordering diplomats families to start leaving the embassy and giving the diplomats themselves the green light to come home. let s discuss and bring in nbc s josh letterman covering the white house, matt bradley inside ukraine, matt boughner covering the russian side and joe rubin, former assistant u.s. secretary of state. how close are we to sending real troops to eastern europe? closer than we were a few days ago, stephanie. president biden hovering over the weekend with his national security team. he was briefed via secure video conference by lloyd austin about potential options to shore up u.s. military resources in the region, including, according to our coll
in targeting of schools and hospitals. it is still not clear what accusations that israeli military is facing but this decision, if taken, will put more pressure on the country s authorities. unsurprisingly, there has been a strong reaction from israeli officials. prime minister netanyahu said the un added the of history saying the israeli military was the most moral in the world. they have been reports saying both hamas and islamichhad will be added to this list and there has been reaction from the palestinians as well. a spokesman for the palestinian president the reuters news agency saying that this decision was a step closer to holding israel accountable for its crimes. meanwhile, us secretary of state antony blinken is set to make his eighth visit to the middle east since the october 7th attacks. for more on all this, i spoke to michael oren, the former israeli ambassador to the us to get his reaction to the un s report. outrageous, unacceptable. the israeli army is do
A strong uptick in hiring defying expectations. numbers from the us department of labour released on friday show employers added 272,000 newjobs last month over 80,000 more than expected. wages also saw some unexpected growth rising to 4.1% over the last year. but, concerns over the economy persist. consumer confidence is trending low during a critical election year where some voters say the economy is their top concern. for the political implications of the new report, here s our business correspondent erin delmore. the white house is celebrating today s report. they are saying job growth and job gains are good for all americans but the question at the heart here is whether americans care more about the number ofjobs being added or if they care more about how inflation is impacting their family s budgets. this is something we see a divide eye on looking at president truck versus front president biden. biden hovering around 40% approval and in battleground states, think about i
States. you re exactly right, stephanie. it another it s a shocking document to read. there were tons of things being trafficked through the white house funneled through former chief of staff mark meadows and onto the president s desk. source wes spoke to, the president rejected in of these conspiracy theories. we are still trying to further contextualize this document in particular. we don t know who authored this. there are tons of people in this fringy outer legal circle that was helping the president from sidney powell to phil waldren, a former psych ops military trying to figure out ways to seize these vote mag sheens to preserve the evidence that they claimed proved their theory of voter fraud.