from that wall street journal reports claiming president biden is slipping. the white house and democrats pushing back hard and boeing s starliner successfully lifting off. now headed to the the international space station. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here the cnn news central some dramatic testimony in court today as former romantic partners of hunter biden take the stand in his federal gun trial. hunters former girlfriend so casten just finished testifying about hunters heavy drug use, including, she says, just weeks before he bought the gun that s at the center of this case? she also described hunters efforts to get sober, including how we moved to california to work on his recovery, but then ultimately relapsed. and this morning, hunter biden s ex-wife, kathleen buhle, told jurors about finding drugs and paraphernalia in his car on multiple occasions. including in 2018, when he bought the gun, cnn s paula reid is outs
everybody here breathing a sigh of relief that this mission finally got off the launchpad. it s not over yet though, guys, this is a 1011 day mission. they still have to dock with the international space station, and then they have to get back to earth. so a successful start, but it s not over yet there was a press conference, a post launch, preska conference, about two hours ago, and i asked the head of boeing s starliner program what he makes of the last decade in this competition between spacex and boeing ever since nasa doled out these dueling contracts between these two companies to ferry its astronauts up to the international space station. i also asked him about that tweet from elon musk. here s what mark nappi said we don t see it as a competition. we ve got two providers that are going up to the international space station and