taken them, so they re now four years behind spacex. i think now that they have gotten this flight off, i agree with derrick, this was a critical mission not just for nasa, but for boeing to demonstrate, to give them confidence to demonstrate they have the capability to do this. we re far from complete. we have got to get off the centar, do some tests on the cst 100 over the next day and tomorrow hopefully we ll have a perfect docking, spend eight days on the international space station and then undock and come home. the ultimate test is how does the spacecraft handle the intense heat and pressure of re-entry, and then as the landing out in the desert, does it go the way we want it to go. only once they have touched down out in the desert ten days from now or eight days from now will we be able to take our breath and say we had a successful flight. such a good point as we watch these live images and they continue their mission, their journey into space at this very moment.
executive action president biden just signed to tighten the border. any moment the president will explain his big, new plan. we re live at the white house and at the u.s./mexico border, to dig into how this could be an immediate game-changer for people crossing into this country. the seasoned fbi agent who has been investigating hunter biden for months, will resume her testimony at the trial of the president s son. the text messages included in the indictment that have not come up in court. and, quote, i will not be intimidated. right now, attorney general merrick garland going toe-to-toe with members of congress, from everything from donald trump s criminal trial to a reality check to crime in america. our nbc news reporters are following all of the developments. we start with aaron gilchrest. this aclu challenge is something the administration had to be challenges. how do we know about how they ve been preparing for the legal challenge to this order? you re right, chr
place. they learned about it this morning, from me and other reporters here on the scene. now, the fact that they are here tells you the way this is being talked about in washington as a shutting down or a sealing of the border is not exactly accurate. migrants can still set foot on american soil, they have to be an hended, and processed through removal proceedings. crucially because this executive action does not include any kind of new agreement with mexico to accept summary expulsions back into mexico without due process, it is likely that the immediate impact of this will be somewhat attenuated. if there is a substantial drop, it is probably not because of the executive action itself. it is probably because often migrant smugglers on that side of the fence in mexico, when there are big policy changes on the border, big crackdowns, they take a wait and see approach. this is what happened after title 42. they take a step back, don t send any migrants across the border as they try to
to implement the significant increase in summary expulsions that we would see if this order goes into effect. it s possible this will filter down to the officials that will be implementing it. those officials, do not know, what that s going to look like. that s one of many questions. there s going to be a huge gap between what this executive order looks like on paper and how it gets talked about in washington, d.c. and what it actually looks like here on the ground. how it affects migrants that are actually crossing the border. and how it involves people acting in mexico on the other side of the border. not just officials, but also cartels, smuggling networks responding to this. i heard from sources into the border. it s possible that s an indication that smuggling networks are pushing people to cross quickly before this executive order goes into effect. will that continue to happen
forcefully. i m pissed. i m unhappy. and i m not just unhappy with the cowboys, i m unhappy with the administration. we are following the trump policy. what we witnessed takes us back hundreds of years. what we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery. haitian lives are black lives and if we truly believe that black lives matter, then we must reverse course. those are democrats taking on the biden administration. outside of congress over 30 independent civil rights groups are writing to the biden administration saying plainly, responsibility for the suffering and deaths resulting from summary expulsions and removals falls squarely on your administration and they must be granted legally assured chances to seek asylum. nbc news reported today thousands will be allowed a greater asylum process according to at least two government officials. nbc also reporting the biden