Around the world. This is cnn newsroom. Hes around the world. This is cnn newsroom. Hello, everyone. We are just five hours away from seeing the worlds richest man blast off into space. The 11 Minute Flight is the latest attempt to really up the stakes in the race to make commercial Space Tourism a reality. Bezos will be the latest billionaire to space, Richard Branson flew there nine days ago. Joining bezos is his Brother Mark and 82yearold Wally Funk who was one of mercury 13 women, and also 18yearold oliver daemen. And it is not coincidence that t is on the anniversary of apollo landing. Here is a preview. Reporter at blue origins arid testing ground, the 60foot Rocket is slated to take off at 8 00 a. M. Central time. Command start, two, one reporter just as it has already in more than a Dozen Test flights like the one seen here, A Million Horsepower Blast from the liquid fueled engine will start the journey. The astronauts will be strapped into a ring of futuristic space sheets, ab
in washington. lots of movement on president biden s cabinet nominees, on the covid relief effort. one of those days where it seems like you re trying to watch a dozen different story lines at once. the major event of the day at the u.s. capitol, still under lockdown, surrounded by national guard troops in the wake of the january 6th attack on the capitol, today was the first investigation. the first congressional hearing into what happened that day. what went wrong at the capitol on january 6th that allowed the pro trump violent mob to storm the capitol building, interrupt the certification of the election, and come within just steps of the lawmakers in the building that day, whose blood the mob was crowing for. today, two senate committees took testimony from the officials in charge of the capitol security that day. should i tell you, we ll speak to the chairs of both of those committees this hour. the witnesses at today s hearing were the acting chief of the d.c. metropoli
that we ve together a narrative of what led to the insurrection. democratic congressman, and january six committee member jamie raskin said, quote, it will really blow the roof off the house. the committee is setting the bar high for what people can expect to come out of these hearings. especially, as more bombshell to revelations continue to leak about the conduct of the key gop figures. in the past week, audio recordings and text messages between republican members of congress, members of the trump administration, and other conservative firebrands have exposed the extent of the right-wing coordination to deny joe biden the presidency. they have also exposed disunity and rancor within the republican party in the days after the insurrection. that was most apparent in the comments made by house minority leader, kevin mccarthy. this happened just days after trump supporters breached the capitol. listen to this. let me be very clear to all of you. i am very clear to the presid
dana: we wish her the best. thank you. now fox news alert. white hot spotlight highlighting one of the biggest liabilities for president biden s reelection campaign, his age. as we await today s testimony by robert hur concerning the president s mishandling of classified documents. the committee hearing is live. jim jordan already there. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: good morning. here we go. bill hemmer. good morning at home. today s testimony coming as fox news obtains the written transcript of president biden s recorded interview with special counsel robert hur. it went for five hours. there is a lot there. opening statements will get underway in moments as the house judiciary committee takes a deep dive into hur s testimony. in a moment we ll hear from jordan. word there are protestors inside that room from code pink. they might be cleaning everything out and resetting as we speak. anyway, hur will explain why he declined to rec
his son passed away. cnn s evan perez, he read that transcript. he s joining us now. evan talked to us more about what you saw on this transcript and what it shows you know, that that episode that interaction between rob hur and the president is the one one that really made all the headlines from that 388 page report. there was released a few weeks ago and what we got to see from looking at this transcript is a bit of the context of how this came to be. and so what we know is that there was a discussion between the president and the interview you re worried about where he kept papers that he was working on when he left the vice presidency. and as he was trying to melt and he was mulling his future, including any political future sure and he is the one that brings up. he says a timeframe is 2,017.20, 18. and then i ll read you just a part of what he says. he says, remember, in this timeframe, my son is either deployed or die. again, he s the one that brings up beau biden, an