plane back here on the earth s surface any moment. joining us now to discuss from new mexico is cnn innovation and space correspondent rachel crane. rachel, the astronauts have just touched down after the historic virgin galactic flight. sum it up for us. reporter: that s right, jake. i m just a few hundreds yards away from unity right now. hopefully we ll see richard branson and hear his emotion and what this experience was like, after he took his historic space flight for him and his team. everyone has been pegging this as the billionaire space race. today richard branson they got to where they wanted to go. it was a sub orbital flight. richard branson passed the 50-mile mark and will receive his astronaut wings. that s a ceremony we ll see in a few moments, him and two additional mission specialists on board. they ll be receiving their astronaut wings today. blue origin, their direct competitor in the suborbital space, they re set to make their first cruewed flight o
he also founded craigslist, the online bulletin board where i sell my discarded swimwear. last night, tucker revealed the study was in fact no study at all. can we get some numbers on that, and why you? no, actually, we can t. in the words of the study, pinning down precise proportions of censorship is impossible because twitter doesn t release sufficient data. are you following the reasoning here? their conclusion, twitter is not biased and we can be certain it s not biased because twitter refuses to release the data on who it bands. greg: in other words, a fake study for a guy who claims he doesn t like fake news. it was designed for the media so they wouldn t have to do their jobs and investigate the actual claims, but the research is about as a researchy as turning on the lights to your living room to assess the existence of whales. yep, no whales there. really, having a big tech lib fund a study on whether big tech is biased, that s like me finding a study on how
it was just a year and a half ago that the president of the united states put in his state of the union address that we are going to launch american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. he looked at me and said you are going to make that happen. here we are a year and a half later. and the help of elon musk the spacex team, we have delivered. but of course, the president s agenda is just beginning, there is so much more. he turned around and re-created a moon program. he said we are going to go to the moon for a purpose, because we as a nation are going to get to mars. agency we call nasa is excited about it. i want to tell you a quick story. i m here to introduce the president, but i have to take a moment. it was about nine years ago. the space shuttle atlantis landed right here for the last space shuttle mission in the history of the u.s. the next day, 2000 pink slips went out. over the course of the next two years, this area went from 15,000 jobs down to 75
will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of troy d. edgar of california to be chief financial officer of the department of homeland security, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of troy d. edgar of california to be chief financial officer of the department of homeland security shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, the yeas are 62, the nays are 31. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report th