i paid for my student loan, and everyone else should too. neil: the price tag for president biden s student loan handout growing and so now is the pile-on, and it s not just coming from republicans. some swing state democrats are coming out swinging against it as well. why someone here that a alone might want to tell taxpayers what they need to know and maybe worry about. and still what we don t know in this battle two wean the justice department and former president donald trump. we do know that his legal team is making a new request for a special master to look at everything the department of justice and the fbi, all those documents that it had because of that heavily redacted affidavit that really isn t showing much. meanwhile, the current white house is still insisting it was in the dark about all of that from the very beginning. jonathan turley on maybe what we could read from that. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. lots to tell you about including the loan forgiven
from space shuttle columbia as columbia continues to orbit the earth at an altitude of about 150 statute miles. columbia, houston, laurel, you re loud and clear on air to ground one. -the second day, i drive in to work kind of euphoric because another launch, another successful launch. you know, the flight director s office and the mission control center in houston is working with them. they re everything s good. i walked into the analysis lab to start reviewing film from the launch. we started the film at the beginning. [ rockets roaring ] we re watching this liftoff. you see the roll maneuvers, beautiful blue sky. we do the normal review, and we start pointing out all the things that we normally see. and we got to 81 seconds, and then we see this object come off of the external tank area. it moved down, and then striked the vehicle and explode into a white cloud. my reaction was, oh, shit. - you ll always find me sunny side up you ll always find me sunny side
-for the second time in nasa s history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we d heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today s problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn t have the answers. in every public forum i m gonna have to be in, how am i gonna explain this to anybody? at this time, we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground. -nasa never wants to look stupid. nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. -my thoughts are on what we missed, what i missed to allow this to happen. -but if you overlook something, it will come to bite you one day or anot
-when we completed the analysis, none of the scenario showed a fatal outcome. -i felt some relief. i thought we were in good shape, i believed him. -that s what you want to hear. you don t want to hear, we re going to lose the vehicle. -what s missing in that is we should have had in boldface at the very beginning, these are engineering assumption cases. we do not know without extra data whether these are actual representations of reality. a turnaround issue, what they meant was some level of repair. -so when columbia comes back? -when it comes back, but nothing really bad. that bad. just local repair.
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.