orbit the moon with astronauts board and artemis iii for 2025 will land people at the moon s south pole. joining me now is kristen fisher live at the kennedy space center in florida. i love the nod to the program, calling this artemis. what s the significance of this mission if we ve been to the moon before? reporter: you know, a lot of people say that. the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon with the artemis program is two reasons one they want to leave behind more than flags and footprints. they want to build a base on the moon. one that astronauts can live on permanently. and part of the reason they want to do this is because china also has plans to build a base on the south pole of the moon, so there s a political competition element to it. and the other reason is they want to go to mars. nasa officials stress the moon is a proving ground and stepping point to some day get to mars, christine? how are the weather conditions there? is it likely to lift off in the t
track to pass a major part of the biden administration. it would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history and make big changes to healthcare policy. republicans are fighting gagaint it right now, but it appears that all 50 democrats are on the same page. si sinema offered her support this week. jessica dean is on capitol hill for us. we ve learned there has been some pretty serious movement. i guess getting this ball down the field. what s happened? absolutely. get it rolling. this is breaking news that we ve just gotten in the last five minutes or so. that is that we have bill text and we have a ruling or the congressional budget office has come back and said this is all good, that they can move forward. so now what we re expecting is for chuck schumer to go to the senate floor and make some remarks and begin this first step. they re using a special budget process. the first step will be a motion to receive that requires just a simple majority. all 50 senat
his party so desperately wanted. in particular the climate piece, in particular changes to precipitation drug costs going forward. all of those of things are things that unite the party, causing president biden s approval ratings to lift up a little bit. and finally the behavior of republicans themselves led by donald trump. we re seeing the specter of donald trump grossly violating records laws by taking records to mar-a-lago that he should not have had. some of them highly classified and top secret and that controversy playing out with the president s strong resistance to it is underscoring the point that joe biden has been making about exreek retreme republican the danger of republican rules, all of that changing the climate for republican. not favored to win the house but not impossible either and getting in a stronger position to hold the senate. images of biden as feeble,
tax credits to fossil fuel companies to encourage them to invest in clean energy manufacturing. for the next decade, any new wind or solar energy protection on federal land can only be approved if a new lease is approved for oil and gas drilling as well. joining me now is bill weir. bill, you know, the sausage is being made as we speak here in washington and there was plenty of horse trading along the way. that s the best i can do to use some cliches here in washington. they re trading cows for chickens at this point. what do you think of this bill? that is a massive number. we were pointing this out earlier. in climate money being spent to get this under control. right. well, if you look at the original dream farm that joe biden had ran on full of chickens and pigs and cows and all these different programs, the climate piece of the barn
going to bet money in vegas on it, given past deadlines being broken, but they re probably going to get it. i would guess that s what the europeans believe will happen. but again, that raises a question long term. for instance, the climate piece that have, a big deal. the g20, as well as the climate summit he ll be at next week. does that commitment last through the next guy, the next president? obama put us in the paris climate accords. trump took us back out. biden put us back in. are the iran nuclear deal and other things surviving this administration? we ll see what kind of answers the president provides. it s good to live history with you, brother. one other issue is how we handle the pandemic. what they want is access to the vaccine. what we re struggling with at home is that we have access and we don t want it. we don t want to take it.