Be back in the embrace of earth s gravity and your family s arms. It may sound far fetch bud branson is on a quest to make the final frontier a little less out of reach. He s approached today s journey as part joy ride, part market research. The last week i ve had my notebook with me. I ve written down, you know, 30 or 40 little things that will make the next experience for the next person who goes to space with us that much better. And the only way sometimes you can find these little things is to get in a spaceship and go to space and experience it. But having said that, 99. 99% was beyond my wildest dreams. Kristin fisher is at the space launch site. Richard branson celebrating tonight after achieving this lifelong dream of seeing planet earth from space and finally becoming an astronaut. He got his wings after a successful test flight. The ship returned in pristine condition. The crew returned safe. And what this is, is really the fulfillment of 17 years of tough work and a few setb
Team at virgin galactic have been waiting for for nearly two decades, and we have release, brian. We have release. The rocket engine has ignited. This is the moment that branson and his team have been waiting for. Brian, i gotta pause. I gotta take this in. This is really an incredible moment here. So it was an hourlong trip. And there were a few minutes of weightlessness as well, but the journey to get here was decades in the making. Not only did branson make this happen, but he in spectacular fashion brought all of us along with him. And making sure that we could see and hear from him while it was happening. One day to be able to experience this. It s a complete experience of a lifetime. Now i m looking down. Congratulations to everybody for creating such a beautiful, beautiful place. Congratulations, all our wonderful team at virgin galactic, for who 17 years had hard work to get us this far. Branson s flight making him the first billionaire space barron to travel into suborbital sp
Desantis, nome, pompeo, pence, and the former president who called in to sunday morning futures ahead of his speech in a few minutes, and he says he has made up his blind about running. Mind about running. Well, i do know my answer, but i can t reveal it yet because that has to do with campaign financing and everything else. You know that. But i absolutely know my answer, and we re going to do very well, and people are going to be very happy. Eric: well, he may say more about that in a few moments. Casey strigl live in dallas steigel live in dallas, what can we expect? reporter: it s hard to say if he ll elaborate further on that comment here at the cpac convention, although it s unlikely at this point. Eric, you did mention that straw poll. It s a 20question survey, and registered attendees of the conference are encouraged to complete it. And it not only includes a mix of policybased questions, but it also tries to gauge how well received, in fact, some people are in the conservative
Do you guys think the election was fair? no, he didn t win fairly. I mean it was rigged. I got to have the evidence. I ve got to see it. We no longer live under a system of justice. I m pamela brown in washington. You re live in the cnn newsroom this sunday. One small step for a daredevil billionaire and a giant leap for space travel. Sir richard branson becoming the first billionaire to reach the cosmos on a spacecraft made by his own company. Look at this. Virgin galactic s unity spacecraft detaching from its mother ship and roaring to the edge of space. Here s cnn s rachel crane reporting on that breathtaking moment. You can hear the crowd cheering behind me. This is that historic moment that richard branson and his team at virgin galactic have been waiting for. And we have release, brian. We have release. The rocket engine has ignited. This is the moment that branson and his team have been waiting for. Brian, i ve got to pause. I ve got to take this in. This is really an incredible
O er the ramparts we watched were so ball gallantly streaming then the rocket s red glare, the bomb s bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o, say does that starspangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free, and the home of the brave pete what is old and is new. Pete hegseth, rachel campos duffy, will cain. Good morning. Rachel: i like the country version of the starspangled banner. Will: it was. Every weekend we can see witch versions of the national anthem we can come up with, we can play. Pete: i suggested one while they did the patriot awards, which is a bunch of great country singers as well. I think we have enough to have us covered. We re glad you re here. I m so glad that tradition was revived. Rachel: we did that yesterday. I got great feedback. Thank you producers. Maybe we ll keep doing it. Pete: if you watch our channel there is big conference going on texas is arguing why cpac ever in d. C. To begin with? they are putting on a goo