sunday. live picture from the kennedy space center in florida where in just 90 minutes from now four passengers will lift off on a private mission to the international space station. the crew on board the axiom 2 mission includes the first woman to command a private space flight and the first saudi arabian woman to travel to space. much more on this historic mission later on this hour. first, we continue to cover the fast-changing developments in the high stakes talks to avoid a looming debt crisis. just a short time ago president biden and speaker of the house kevin mccarthy agreed to meet for another round of negotiations on raising the debt limit. and staff level talks between the two sides will resume in the next few hours. the two men agreeing to a one-on-one meeting after what mccarthy called a productive phone call today with the president, as the president flew home from the g7. so before departing, biden painted a grim picture of the talks telling reporters while the
the argument that mike pence was making was the best one legally. so i think what we re really looking for is when could we see mike pence in front of a grand jury and sarah cnn s learning that former trump national security officials from the department of homeland security , chad wolf and ken cuccinelli have testified to a federal grand jury about trump s efforts and desire to seize voting machines. after the 2020 election. they said that they told the president and his team that he had no authority to do so. this really speaks to how special counsel jack smith is zeroing in. on the various ways . trump tried to overturn his election loss. that s right. i mean, this is excellent reporting from my colleagues at cohen sort of looking at how the special counsel is digging into a bunch of these schemes the trump team considered to try to overturn the 2020 election. of course, we know that one of these sort of crazy ideas under consideration was seizing the voting machines, and
the focus of events to start things off in france this week. it is the city, the first city to be liberated by british troops after d day, so it is a hugely significant location for france to begin its d day commemorations. have you seen pictures from the cathedral, i have come back from the service of remembrance been held there, a service designed to reflect the shared history between the uk and france. there are also prayers and said for peace and to honour the heroism and courage of the d day veterans attending that service at bayeux cathedral. this evening, events shift by care to the extraordinary bayeux memorial ceremony, and when you come into 70 like this, you cannot be helped but be moved by what you re seen, the perfection of the graves, the way they are set out here, it is quite something, particularly when you know the loss of life here was so brutal and difficult. events will switch here this evening once that cathedral service is complete. there will be a vigil
taking astronauts to the space station, if boeing s freight goes well. ., , ., ., well. having competition with two roviders well. having competition with two providers providing well. having competition with two providers providing nasa - well. having competition with two providers providing nasa with - well. having competition with two providers providing nasa with a i well. having competition with two i providers providing nasa with a way to and from the space station should bring down costs which is important for nasa and other space agencies like the european and the uk. because we are spending taxpayer s money on these flights to get our astronauts to the space station and we want to get best value for money. but regular missions to the space station will depend on there being no further serious technical issues. with so much at stake, it will be a big win for boeing. it is time now to digest the day s election campaigning. obviously we will do the political fallout f
mission i boeing said today s success came as a relief. a lot of eo - le success came as a relief. a lot of people say success came as a relief. a lot of people say i success came as a relief. a lot of people say i need success came as a relief. a lot of people say i need to success came as a relief. a lot of people say i need to smile - success came as a relief. a lot of. people say i need to smile more and i m smiling, believe me. it is little bit of controlled emotion because there are a lot of phases of this mission when we just completed the first one. prelaunch and launch is just the first part of this. we now have to get to iss and doc and do docking operations and undock into reentry and then re land. starliner is a brand new spacecraft that sits on top of the rocket. this is its first test flight with a crew on board. it has been built to transport crew, cargo to and from the international space station. it will take around one day to get there and the mission will las