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ago, when the republican led by ten points. joining me now, senior political correspondent from the hill, amie parnes. good morning. good morning. let s talk about this. you ve seen the poll numbers. early voting, i believe, is already under way in ohio, and looks like the democrats, at least number of ballots that have been cast so far, more democrats. so, how worried should republicans be? a little worried. i mean, donald trump won this area by 11 points. republicans outnumbered democrats 2-1 over there. so i think this was sort of a safe seat for them. i think that it came as a big surprise that it was very close, but you know, o connor, the democrat, has been really trying to make inroads in appealing to people who have been a little bit upset with the way the trump administration has handled policy, the tone and tenor of his administration. and so, he s really tried to A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. they can pack e-mails, which i ....
statement, meaning at one point the president told the country the trump tower meeting was about adoptions yet today he s tweeting to the world that it was to get dirt on his opponent, and that there s nothing wrong with that and there s nothing to hide. so why the changing sortories fm trump s story? here is what that same lawyer, jay sekulow, said about it today. i had bad information at that time. i made a mistake in my statement. i talked about that before. that happens when you have cases like this. i think it s very important to point out that in a situation like this, you have over time facts develop. that s what investigations do. cnn without correspondent boris sanchez is in berkeley heights, new jersey, where the president is spending his summer break. boris, why are we again talking about this trump tower meeting? reporter: hey, ana. because that trump tower meeting is central to the rush The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabr ....
Frustration, what does that feel like? well that s right. because in the past every other launch scrub was due to a problem with the vehicle or with the rocket. and this time the rocket, the vehicle we re fine. and then at the last moment, of course, we had the problem with the ground computer. these things happen, it s happened several times similar things in the shuttle program over its 30 your life, you get down to the last moments, even there have been shuttle missions that were scrubbed in within the last minute where you had a failure of a handover because the ground launch sequencer computer, same similar computer, different launchpad, but it s, it s frustrating. there s no question about it, but like i said, they re constantly officials. there s a procedure they have to dive into once there is a launch scrap and safe the vehicle up to safe the vehicle before they get the crew can come in and get them out. but it s frustrating. you go back to crew quarters you haven t burger a ....
I was the one who could have should have and could have owned that story in a way that potentially even might have changed the course of events. i definitely failed at my job. just like they failed at theirs. and so, i m part of the problem. [ applause ] -ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. - in 2010, the space shuttle, after nearly 30 years of duty, will be retired from service. -the minute columbia evaporated over texas, the shuttle program was ready to be retired. that s when i felt like, wow, was all this in vain? no more shuttle program. they died. what did he what did they accomplish? there was not a lot positive at that point in time. ....
I had put together a report about the foam loss and the damage to the solid rocket booster. and i presented the case that said, that amount of foam, that mass, in one chunk coming off shuttle atlantis this was the vehicle telling us something is wrong, here s your warning. at risk of being insubordinate, i said to the heads of the shuttle program sitting around the centre table, i was adamant at that meeting, either fix the problem or don t fly an external tank on the next launch, which is impossible. from that meeting, i never heard any discussion of let s get a better understanding of this before we schedule the next launch. -in other words, again, they were thinking it was more of a turnaround issue. and so, it wasn t preventing shuttle flights from going forward. ....