nasa has released remarkable images of its space rover landing on mars, the first ever of their kind from the planet. it shows the final minutes of last week s tense descent with clouds of dust and grit being blown around as the vehicle is lowered to the floor of the crater. the rover, called perseverance, was sent to an ancient crater lake to search for signs of past life. our global science correspondent rebecca morelle has the story. the parachute has deployed. from the release of a supersonic parachute, to the shedding of a heat shield. first look at the surface. an out of this world view mars as never seen before. as the rover nears the surface, the dust is kicked up, then a change of camera as perseverance is lowered on ropes before touchdown. touch down confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars! ..and the landing system is jettisoned away. we can t test it on the earth, so this is the first time we ve had a chance as engineers to actually see what we desi
book published. and the media frenzy around the amber heard/johnny depp trial and alerts are unavoidable. first, one of the biggest scoops in american journalism history and it was about one of the most polarizing issues in history. we knew the supreme court would be ruling on abortion this summer. we knew the conservative joert could kol back roe v. wade. we knew it could be a big story through mid-june. but through sensational scoop, it landed early. this report from monday night about the draft majority popinin dated february is by far the most far right view in political history. it s still dominating news nearly a week later. so we re going to hear several unique voices, including a former reporter turned planned parenthood director. but let s begin going behind the scenes with the political bombshell that started it all, one of the politico s top editors, dafna linzer. she s the top head iter and with me now. dafna, when you found out your editors obtained this draf
gala. photographers were allowed and to make sure that the elite didn t get dressed up for nothing. and what a glorious spectacle of people gallivanting like clydesdales in drag, starving themselves on cigarettes and diet coke. the breakfast of supermodels. fun fact, that is how the wife of mr. ed died. all right, there is katy perry, she seems to have lost her mask. they asked her who she was wearing. and then there is kendall jenner. she has her mask and her eyebrows. talk about lucky. and i wonder where they were ended up. [laughter] greg: talk about moving up in the world. she looks permanently surprised, like she accidentally sat on a poor person. and then look at tara delaveigne. she looks like a bowling trophy with breasts. and of course, she had no mask either, how else would anyone recognize her. and then there is the flowing down, not the kind that bill likes. [laughter] greg: i am referring to amtrak. all right, underrated. and you can look at her smile. of cou
cnn. naturally, cnn, is looking at reality and bracing for the worse from the leftist lunatics. i stand corrected. my producers are saying we are not right on that. i m getting word these aren t the people cnn is worried about. looks like what they are really scared of are the violent republicans. capital police warning that far right calling for violence against the religious group planning to rally for abortion rights. they are closely monitoring social media chatter that suggest that there s a potential for violence against abortion clinic providers, abortion clinic staffs. what we know after january 6th and what law enforcement knows is that social media chatter can manifest into actual violence. just your friendly cnn reminder that republicans are going to start targeting supreme court justices and innocent civilians now for potentially overturn roe v. wade. right wingers are just furious that roe v. wade is about to beover turned. jorg to according to cnn what n
erected days later. now senate democrats are planning a vote next week to codify abortion rights into a federal law. here s what you may have missed in the leaked opinion. in a footnote, justice samuel alito notes that supporters of abortion rights really just want to suppress the size of the african american population. justice samuel alito goes on to suggest that because of roe v. wade a disproportionate percentage of fetuses is black. the man who helped get a voting rights and uphold white racial innocence is now moved to protect a black lives. he offers no context here because while brevity is the soul of what it is also clearly the soul of the dim-witted. we will offer context and a second. shout to the republican voters who paved the way for this very thing to happen. do not mind us. we are still here cleaning up this mess. the mess on our hands now is the trump appointed judges who helped create the conservative majority. now, they are empowered and emboldened at a tim