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jeff bezos is about to lift off to the edge of space and back. the flight comes on the anniversary of another historic mission. it s one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. more than five decades after neil armstrong mesmerized man with his step into space, space tourism and beyond that, the privatization of space. this is a project 20 years in the making for bezos. the founder of blue origin and amazon will be the second billionaire to blast off from earth in his own spacecraft. richard branson and his virgin galactic soared to the skies from new mexico earlier this month. the youngest and oldest humans will be on the blue shepherd rocket along with jeff bezos and his brother mark. wally funk was trained to be an astronaut in the 1960s. part of the group known as of the mercury 13. they never made it to space because only men were sent at the time. women proved they could pass the rigorous physical requirements that nasa had set up. also aboard today, a ....
the having mask mandate on planes need to follow that they can t preach one thing and do something else. anti-cuba protest continue over the weekend. thing that liberals never seem to understand as did you go down to key west is the rafts are all going one direction. right here. [cheers] didn t take long for put his name it will brian: according to reports that is the name of our show. we will go with that throughout the show. fox & friends. and we re on the second floor. that is a wide shot. that is a shot from way above the sky. steve: it s a drone. ryan brian i don t know how we do it. ainsley: take friends away like you did with radio? brian: because it was kilmeade and friends. ainsley: kilmeade show we should call fox and brian. steve: brian and friends. brian: i would think. fox & friends is the franchise seven days a week. good news is that we re back for another three hours and we have a lot to discuss today. this might be the show that weigh do ....
bill: for more on the intrigue let s go to chad pergram on the hill who begins a new week for us. good morning. good morning, bill. this is an optics nightmare for texas democrats. they came to d.c. to block the texas legislature from passing a voting bill. five have tested positive for covid here in washington they tweeted a photo of themselves flying maskless with a case of beer to washington met with democratic lawmakers all week. the offices of senate majority leader chuck schumer and joe manchin said those members were not exposed. they met with vice president harris and she went to walter reed medical center sunday as a routine doctor s appointment. concerns about where the nation stands with covid. this pandemic isn t over. we have to be cautious and we have to do everything we can to get people vaccinated. that stands as the single most effective pathway we have to keeping people safe, protecting their families and ending this pandemic. many congressiona ....
happening and what you need to know, all of this following that stunning announcement this morning from the olympics, just four days before opening ceremonies, a member of the women s gymnastics team, one of its most high-profile teams competing, testing positive for covid. you ve got two more team members now in quarantine, just the latest setback for team usa. we ve got it covered with a busy start to the day here on this monday for you in washington. nbc news team is following the developments on covid overseas and at home. cal perry is in l.a. county, dom chu is watching wall street. stephanie gosk in tokyo, matt bradley in london. cal, the news on the air about mask guidance for students. this is something that i think a lot of parents are very interested in, because state to state, even district to district in some cases, places are doing their own thing when it comes to masks at school as we get ready weeks from the start of a new school year this fall. parents ....
painted a rosy picture of what s going on before he took a total four minutes of questions from the press. watch. turns out capitalism is alive and well. record growth, record job creation. workers getting hard earned breaks. look, we ve brought this economy back from the brink. martha: brought it back from the brink, says president biden. art laffer is here with us. working on this economy and advising our presidents of the united states. always good to see you today. at one point president biden said, you know, he said the market has gone gang busters. if the former president were still here in the white house, he would be telling you that every day. he doesn t think the market is a big indicator of the u.s. economy. what dew say to that, art? i don t think that s contract at all. the market is very important indicator of what will be, not what is or has been. while everything the president said is true and it was true, it s misleading. growth, this huge growth ....