breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
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drugs to use cash as opposed to other means of pants. so we re seeing the prosecutors are going to put together other types of evidence in order to get ahead of the defence timeline issues. so that s why you see the defense focusing so much on state of mind because if the prosecutors are able to throw in that circumstantial evidence, in addition to the real documentary evidence, will then the defense can rely on state of mind as a defense all right. we will watch this develop today. one of the most interesting aspects will be the cross-examination of people who will one point were very close with hunter biden, the choices the defense counsel has to make here will be fascinating. misty marris. thank you very much this morning, a third attempt to make history after computer glitch stopped history in its tracks this weekend, nasa, boeing are preparing for the launch of the starliner spacecraft today after two previous attempts were scrubbed at the last minute, we just saw astronauts wal
starliner to carrying nasa astronauts to and from the space station, boeing, long believed to be the favorite, slipped behind. and so there is now so much on the line for boeing, they ve got to prove that they can do this and make good on the contract that nasa first awarded them back in 2014 when nassib really made a bet and a gamble that s paid off to outsource the ferrying of its astronaut to the international space station to private companies so that nasa can focus on bigger things like sending nasa astronauts to the moon as part of the artemis program. but kate, as we sit here today, you can really feel the excitement building. let s just hope that that pesky ground company cuter, doesn t cause any more problems today, and that we are go for launch because i know these two astronauts and everybody on the boeing nasa, and united launch alliance team want to see this thing fly absolutely, chris, and it s great to sue. thank you so much. john was
bleeding worry for life watchman, it s one time for a lifetime even weekend in washington. and this is cnn we are minutes away from a rocket launch. we re looking at live pictures ahead of boeing s historic first crewed launch. with me now, for this historic mission, space and defense correspondent kristin fissures at the kennedy space center for us and former nasa administrator, charles bolden is back with us. okay kristen, we re t-minus 14 as i like to say, i m only going to use astronaut lingo for here. for the rest of the morning but also tell us about these astronauts that we re looking at well you know allison, there are space lights and then there are test flights. and for every nasa astronaut a test flight is kind of the thing that you always aspire to because it is