Good tuesday morning to you. Craig melvin with my hallie jackson. Back with our special coverage of the blue origin rocket launch and a new space race that just took one giant leap forward a short time ago. Jeff bezos carved out his own slice of history at the edge of space. It s part of the first unpiloted sub orbital flight with an all civilian crew and it came some 15 years to the day of that apollo moon landing. Any moment we expect to hear from bezos and the folks that went to space alongside him. His brother mark bezos and two others, 82yearold wally funk, she trained in the 1960s to show women could qualify for the astronaut core, but was ult patly rejected because she s a woman. And an 18yearold also along for the ride. He got his seat after an auction winner had had a scheduling conflict. They both just became the old est and younger people ever to make it to space again on the 52nd anniversary of that lunar landing. Let s get to morgan chesky on the ground. We should point ou
Thinking about this. You are thinking, this one was so obvious it will not look like i am taking any credit at all for staying with everybody else saw including 99% of the rachel matter show audience. Yes. That s exactly right. Well, what i said was i could ve told you that and so could have anybody else watching or something like that but even phrasing it in that way actually said a line of hives up my spine which i now have to go home and have to cope with in terms of me having said i told you so. But here we are. And it is where we thought we were gonna be which is okay. Nothing from the kind of intent to compromise with republicans, now there s discussion going on with ad hoc group of senators, democrats, and republicans. President biden negotiating directly with them. Calling up some of them directly and so now we re at the second stage of an attempt at some form of bipartisan and then the third stage if we get to it is some way of doing it with democrats only and joe manchin says
obtaining a defense attorney to the nursing home scandal who once represented harvey weinstein. the green light has been given to independently investigate him and to make new york mayor bill de blasio is piling on calling for cuomo to resign if those claims against him are true. if these allegations are true, he cannot govern them. he would not be able to govern and it s as simple as that. you have to have trust from the people and if you can t maintain that trust and then you can t govern. john: the new york post again going after governor cuomo again this morning and its own inimitable passion, compassion. the title reads pansy andy. bryan llenas is reporting live on this. hi, john. all eyes are on this photo which was provided by anna rock to the new york times. this was a moment at a wedding in 2019 when the cuomo put his hands on the 33-year-old s face. when she removed it, governor cuomo called her aggressive and then asked if he could kiss her. she said sh
hello and welcome. let s start in the united states, where the us attorney general william barr, appointed by mrtrump, says no evidence has emerged of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the presidential election. this comes despite repeated claims made by president trump that the election was stolen. last month, mr barr issued a directive to us attorneys across the country to pursue any substa ntial allegations . he is one of the president s most ardent supporters, but his patience appears to be wearing thin. there s a growing tendency he said, to use the criminal justice system as a sort of a default fix all, and if people don t like something they want the department ofjustice to come in and investigate. 0ur north america editor jon sopel is at the white house. what william barr has done is com pletely what william barr has done is completely undermined president s argument. he has looked at this and so there is no widespread evidence of widespread forward
you re even feeling this yourself at home. it is playing out in a variety of ways, and i want to walk you through what we re seeing. now all across the country workers are making it clear that they are tired of the old way of doing things and they want a better deal. on thursday of this week more than 10,000 union workers took to the picket line said outside of 14 different john deere factories located mostly in the midwest. that is of course the farm equipment company, and it has had an incredible year. in fact, it s expected to report record profits of almost $6 billion and the workers who kept the company running during the pandemic they now want a bigger piece of that by. they overwhelmingly voted to reject one contract offer from the company and they re holding out for a better deal. it s important to note they re not uh-uh loan. last week 1,400 workers at kaling cereal plants went on strike. over 2,000 nurses and hospital workers are on strike in buffalo. and in massach