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neil: all right, this was a visit to the border historic by not only a sitting u.s. president, but the guy who had the job right before him. they were if 00 miles apart -- 300 miles apart, and it caused quite a sharp contrast as to who will do what if he gets a chance at, well, being in the white house again, either one. we have right now the very latest from the border. give griff jenkins is, i believe, in mission, texas. griff. >> reporter: that's right, neil. good morning. this is part of the rgv sector where brownsville's also a part of. and just seconds ago i got the latest border numbers for the last 24 hours. more than 7,000 across the southwest border. the leading sector was out in tucson with more than 1800, second behind it, san diego. but yet president biden went to one of the least popular, least trafficked areas, least busy in the rgv sec to have they average

barely 30 on any given day -- 300. you can see here most of these migrants were from central america. a few that i spoke to where from venezuela. and the reason why the numbers are so low, neil, is because texas has put up miles and miles of obstruction and razor wire. look at this video we shot, right there near a place called camp monument which was the epicenter just nine months ago, in may of 2023, in brownsville, texas. after the president spoke at the brownsville border patrol station, we talked to the vice president of the border patrol council, chris cabrera, not too impressed by the president's visit is. listen here. >> there's bigger fish to fry. arizona and san diego are getting hit real hard. here it's down to a trickle. it seems like he's a day late and a dollar short. >> reporter: meanwhile when, former president trump 300 miles away over in eagle pass, he

wasted no time taking shots at his competitor. listen here. >> you looked at arizona -- [inaudible] hair governor hasn't done a thing -- their governor hasn't done a thing, and the governor of california hasn't done a thing. people are flowing through like nothing, and texas is very secure and it's going to be even more secure by the time you finish, which will be soon. >> reporter: so finally back out here in mission, rgv sector, this is the part of the story, neil, that's so fascinating is that the president came, president biden, that is, to one of the least trafficked areas which is secure now because of efforts that texas took to secure it. a little bit of irony there. i can leave you with this thought, a texas judge has ruled against texas' latest bill, statewide bill, that would make it illegal for them to even cross, and they could arrest them. we'll see where that goes as this all plays out. neil, we'll send it back to you.

neil: thank you, griff. great reporting, my friend. griff jenkins there. i i want to go to the white house right now. the president's in camp david right now, but this is going to be a centerpiece of his state of the union address. we just don't know what he's going to detail, right? if. >> reporter: that's right, neil. before putting his finishing touches on that address, the president took a question from our own carolyn mckey. >> reporter: why are you waiting to take executive action on the border? >> because we need more forces on the border. i don't have the authority to do that. here's what i would say to mr. trump. instead of playing politics with the issue, instead of telling members of congress to block this legislation, join me or i'll join you in telling the congress to pass this bipartisan border security bill. we can do it together. >> reporter: and once again the white house is saying it's congress that needs to act, not the president. >> i mean, it's congress' job to legislate.

it is their job to legislate. >> reporter: -- afraid of legal challenges for things like student loans. i mean, you use executive order when you want to. >> we have taken action. over the last three years, on the border -- >> reporter: shaming people for not acting -- >> i'm so sorry, that is so false. he has taken action. he has taken alaska. republicans rejected it because of the last president. >> reporter: now, the migrant flow continues at its current rate, neil, this could be the largest mass migration of people to the united states in history. beginning in 1881 and for more than 30 years, 10 million immigrants came to the u.s. from europe. many democrats now acknowledge the border's a problem. >> i as a democrat, you know, am willing and eager to go stronger than the border deal that was here. >> reporter: and just moments ago, neil, we've learned that u.s. air force cargo planes conducted its first air a drop of meals into gaza. neil?

neil: you know, while i still have you, lucas, the president says it's up to are republicans, he can't do anything without them de, but he is considering reversing some executive orders that he signed i believe his very first day in office. so he does have that power, as did his predecessor, because this president pretty much undid a lot of those executive orders with orders of his own. >> reporter: that's right, neil. you just saw the president boast about taking action on student loans. he said not even the supreme court could stop him. many republicans and critics of the president want to see him undo those executive actions that he did day one. we've been hearing about these executive actions for many days now, neil, we don't have any specifics. perhaps they'll be in his speech next week. neil: georgia governor kemp was looking into this very issue, lucas, and his argument has been, mr. president, you do have executive in order. -- authority. but to be fair to the president on this, a lot of those republicans have been criticizing the president for not consulting them when he

exercises it, so it's like a chicken and egg argument. >> reporter: no question, neil. immigration's a hot political topic. it's the number one issue that voters say is on their minds when they go to these polls in these primaries, and certainly going to hear that again before super tuesday. the president's taking a lot of criticism from republicans. neil: got it, my friend. lucas tomlinson. now to the aforementioned georgia governor kemp who i had a chance to chat with earlier this week, and and he says right now don't make this a republican-democrat problem, make this a commander in chief problem. which is kind of the same thing. take a look. >> it's just a no-brainer to secure our southern border. we've seen governor abbott do things that work, we've seen the previous administration in the white house do things that works, and this president in his, you know -- and his, you know, border czar have literally just ignored this. the buck stops with the white house and with president biden. finish. neil: the backdrop for that,

sadly, was this suspect in the death of a young woman, of course, on the university of georgia campus. that was an illegal migrant who did that, and if that is true, it's something that we've seen a number of times right now and that my next guest has worned about. brad coe is the kipny county -- kinney county, texas, sheriff. always good to have you. you had both presidents at various parts of the border this past week. who resonated more with you in. >> good morning, neil. i think former president trump did the best job. he came to an area that was a hot spot. he made his statements, and he moved on. of course, or biden showed up to the place that has the least amount of traffic. andif you'll notice in the picture when biden is talking to the press, the folks standing behind him don't look happy. they didn't want to be there. he had, like, you know, we were talking about his authority. he reversed every executive

action that president trump put in place, and they were bragging about it. they bragged about taking away, redoing the remain in mexico, the public charge, etc., etc. and this is the result. he has that authority to put those back in place and seal this up. neil: he also has the authority to restart the wall that he stopped day one of his administration. now, a lot of people at the time were say, well, that's good, mr. president, because we're not too keen on the wall. the majority felt that way. now it's just the opposite. a healthy majority say, yeah, we need much, much tiger border security. what do you think? >> well, if you'll remember when president obama was putting up the wall, everybody was for it. trump came into office and he was going to extend it, wild it faster -- build it faster, they rejected it. can and now if all of a sudden president biden wants to step in and do the wall because of governor abbott's efforts with the concertina and razor wire that you've seen, it works.

you build that barrier, it works. neil: so what happens now? there's been talk that if donald trump becomes president, he's going to crack down on this, continue building the wall that was stopped when his successor took office on the first day. he's also going to stop this easy way he can go about -- you can go about claiming asylum. what do you make of those potential moves? >> that, well, that's one of the things we're going to have to really look at if and when he gets into office. is it going to be doable, are we going to be able to afford it, do we have the manpower to do it. he mentions that he's going to conduct the largest deporration program in the history of -- deportation program in the history of america. with as many people that have entered illegally that are embedding themselves in chicago, dallas, fort worth, detroit, wherever, at this point in time i don't think the federal government's got the manpower if or the funds to conduct that type of operation. neil: you know, the millions who

have come into this country illegally and and a lot of them have been processed, not all, certainly far from all a, what happens to them, sheriff? >> unless if something drastic happens, they're just going to blend into society and live in the shadows for the next to -- 20, 30, 40 years. neil: so i'm just expanding on that, sheriff. if you are looking to get into this country, you're going to be more inclined to get going now, right? because you feel that an envelope could be closing for you, right? >> exactly. the time to strike if you're going to enter illegally is now through arizona and california because they're not doing anything. neil: amazing. i always learn something, sheriff. of thank you so much. have a very good weekend, if possible. >> thank you, sir. you have a good weekend. neil: you too. we're going to be exploring this with oklahoma senator markwayne mullen, there. -- there's a lot of blame game,

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as congress approved a stopgap measure that at least keeps the government's lights on for a couple of more weeks while they sort this and a host of other issues out. markwayne mullin, nat armed services committee member, much, much more, kind enough to join us. 9 good to have you back. >> thanks, neil. thanks for having me on. neil: what do you think happens now? >> well, right now we're still trying to get a bipartisan bill through that will secure the border and also do national security. there's a lot of poison pills that was put in late by the white house when. keep in mind, james lankford if, when he started negotiating this in the senate, we started this in late september, first of october. the white house didn't even engage with the senate or with james lankford until the week before christmas. the bill before that, that we had negotiated a little bit with kyrsten sinema and a bipartisan manner was pretty workable. i think it was something that would have got a lot of things done that we need to do that

reversed the executive orders that biden put in place day one. but when the white house got involved, they started insisting on things that we just couldn't accept. i mean, we saw the package out there. my thing when i go into negotiating is i want 110%, i'll negotiate down to 70 and walk away at 69. this wasn't even 50-50. this was leaning way towards what the democrats wanted, and that was to not secure the border. keep in mind, they've had three years to secure the border. in the first hundred delay -- days, president biden reversed all the policies that trump had in place, and when trump was in office, we had one of the most secure borders we've had in decades. so for him to blame it on us now is nothing but playing politics. he wanted the bill to fail so he could do just exactly what he's doing, blame it on republicans, when he could do it today if he wanted to and secure the border. neil: you know, senator, you're far more attuned to this than i

am, but i talked to a border official earlier in the past weak who certainly blamed both parties, more the president to his point, but he did blame a lot on mexico. that they give us lip service hen they talk about trying to control all the a masses coming here. he's hopeful that a new presidential election might change that, that the two women who are vying for calderon's seat is, he's limited to one seat, will be open to working with the united states. he's not optimistic. what do you think of that? >> i don't disagree with anything that he's saying, but we don't have to wait on mexico to play politics with this. we could simply put back in place, biden could put trump's remain in mexico. or how about the agreement we had between canada, the united states and mexico right now where we have safe country status where they could, they have to claim asylum in the first country they come to if it's a safe country. and mexico considers itself a safe country. we could reinstate that today, and and what would happen?

all these individuals that's crossing through mexico into the united states wouldn't be able to enter. for instance, the 21,000 chinese illegal aliens that crossed last month. every one of them would have had to stay in mexico. the venezuelans, 18,000 that are mostly criminals that crossed into the united states last month would have had to stay in mexico. you think about it, we had over 100,000 illegal crossings last month if, and only 18,000 was from mexico. if we just -- if the president just simply reinstated safe country status where they have to claim it in the first country they went to, we would cut by 80% the illegal crossings at the border. that's such a simple thing he could do, and it's already in law. neil: isn't that complicated, senator, by the countries? i was surprised countries like venezuela, you know, will not accept those who we want to push back or deport back there. one of them was this guy who was

maybe behind the killing of this poor woman in georgia. i can't fathom that. in other words, we're saying we're going to deport you, and the country in question said we don't want 'em. how do we deal with that? >> well, how we deal with that is we don't let them come into the country to begin with -- neil: well, let's say heir already in. i get what you're saying, senator. they're already in. we want to say you've got to go, and the country in question isn't taking them. >> well, i have a hard time really understanding that too because they're going to have a hard time stopping one of our flights from landing and kicking the people out and taking back off again. they're going to have a hard time explaining why they would shoot down a plane if we did that. i know that's not politically correct, but i'm just saying that i -- the politics behind that, i don't quite understand either because if they are enter our country illegally, we should easily be able to push them right back out and deport them. at the very least, we should be rounding these individuals up.

these states now and these cities that are claiming sanctuary cities, at this point it's such a joke. we need to be rounding these individuals up. but we could take away one large incentive too. we could end the taxpayers subsidizing these illegal aliens. end the funds that we're giving to them. end the automatic parole process. neil, do you realize that right now 85% of the individuals that cross the southern border are automatically paroled? 85. what i mean by parole is they're given a court date to show back up in 6-10 years, and at that point they're legally inside the united states and legally able to apply for our s. new mexico a.p. programs and social security -- s.n.a.p. programs and social security benefits. we're funding these individuals to the tune of 10 million people inside the united states here illegally, that's twice the population of oklahoma. it is absolutely ridiculous, what's happening right now. and biden could fix it today if he chose to. neil yeah. most of those 10 million probably not going anywhere for

the time being. senator, thank you very much. have a safe weekend. >> neil, thanks for having me on. neil: all right. in the meantime, let me be brief. if you want to know about this upcoming presidential candidate, it's all about the legal briefs. there are plenty of them between the present white house president and the guy before him. we're going to sort out what's at stake, who's at take and something called running out the clock, after this. because of your credit? here's great news. at newday we've been granted automatic authority by the va to make our own loan approval decisions. in fact, if you've had credit challenges and missed a payment along the way, you're more than five times more likely to get approved for the newday 100 va cash out loan. no one knows veterans like newday usa.

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neil: there's always a great deal of focus on donald trump's legal cases, but the president of the united states, joe biden, still has some potentially he could be facing that's going to make this a crowded legal docket calendar, if you will. madeleine rivera has the latest from washington. >> reporter: hey, good morning, neil p. as of now, it remains unclear if former president trump's two criminal

cases will move forward before election day. judge eileen cannon did the not make a decision friday as to when the trial involving trump's handling of classified documents will begin. special counsel jack smith wants it to start july 8th, days before the republican if national convention. trump's team says holding a trial before the election is unfair, but it's suggesting august 12th as an alternative date. smith's other case regarding trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election is also up in the air. the supreme court is set to hear arguments in april on trump's claim that the he shouldn't be prosecuted for actions he took while in office. >> if you don't have is immunity for a president -- and i'm not talking about only me. if you don't have immunity for a president, you're going -- you will not be able to function properly, you will not be able to do the right hinge for the country. >> reporter: president biden is playing defense this week too after his son hunter gave a closed or door deposition as part of house republicans' impeachment inquiry. he says he's never had any

interactions with his son's business partners. >> -- every single witness. these guys gotta stop this -- >> reporter: but you did interabout with their partners. >> i did not. >> reporter: you didn't is have dinner and hunch -- >> reporter: during his testimony thursday, hunter admitted to putting his father on speakerphone with his associates but said the conversations were, quote, nothing nefarious. he stresses his father was never involved in his business dealings. neil. medical school neil all right. thank you very much, madeleine. let's go to my friend tom dupree on all of this, former deputy assistant attorney general. tom, you know, i do remember a time when the president said he and and his son never talked about his son's business affairs at all, it didn't even come up in passing. now we've learned that's maybe not quite the case. i'm always wondering whether this simmering issue of who knew what and when, you know, might not be such a over and done thing. what do you think?

>> i don't think it's over and done by any stretch, neil, and for the reason you mentioned. the white house's story on this well thing has evolved. it's really been a shifting narrative that began with the president had no involvement in hunter's business dealings, and now it's morphed into, well, he wasn't directly involved, didn't have direct contact and that sort of thing. and it's just creating enough smoke to continue this investigation and to continue warranting bringing witnesses in, hearing from hunter biden himself to figure out if there's actually fire there. i think hunter biden's deposition, frankly, gave the investors more -- raised more questions that the investigators are going to want to continue to pursue. neil: in the meantime, i want to switch with to the former president, donald trump, that he might be just benefits by legal timing that could push some, if not all of the remaining criminal cases back. and i'm talking about the supreme court, i guess the oral arguments will be heard the next to last week in april. that will delay a number of trials potentially, potentially.

i'm just wanting to get your sense of that. >> yes. and here the big point, neil, is that delay is trump's friend. if trump wins the election in november, the legal land scape changes in a heartbeat. the two federal prosecutions will go away and the moment trump is inaugurated, he will direct the department of justice to drop the cases. i think the supreme court's announcement they will take on this immunity question is another benefit for trump. at a minimum, it is going to delay the january 6th trial by several months, and i think it will make it exceedingly difficult for the government to bring him before a jury in washington, d.c. before the election in november. neil: and you think about the florida documents case the president was in force pierce -- fort pierce yesterday dealing with that, the judge there who certainly is indicating that this could be pushed off. i know the trump folks want it in august. there's this 10-week plan where you push that off before really things get started which means it could be a postelection event

if it happens at all. so looking at all those cases, where do you see the one problem or one issue for donald trump? if. >> well, i think the big question right now is what happens with that classified documents case. if that can be tried before the election. to your point, the trump lawyers made what, to me, was somewhat of a surprisingen concession, that they said they'd be willing to have a trial on that case in august. that was a bit surprising. i thought they were going to take a hard-line position, no rile before the election, full stop. they've created the opportunity for the judge to schedule an august trial date in that classified documents case. that said or, even if the judge schedules an august trial date, i think there's a very good likelihood that that date would get pushed back because the sides, the parties are going to have to look through reams of classified documents and do all the work that goes e into preparing a federal criminal trial. neil: i should having plained, but the supreme court is taking up this issue of immunity where donald trump says as a

president, he's immune from all the things that are coming up right now, the charges that are coming up. there's say the supreme court ultimately agrees with with that. if it gets to that. then aren't all these cases automatically potentially shelved? >> absolutely. if the supreme court if accepts the former president's arguments, which i should emphasize are very aegressive, are broad, but if the supreme court agrees with it, then, yes, that would be a complete game changer because it would basically immunize trump from virtually any prosecution arising there if actions that he took while he was in office. another possibility is the supreme court will rule in trump's favor but on narrower grounds. they might if say, well, there is some immunity, but maybe or maybe maybe not, it doesn't go so far as to address these these charges. but in that case, i think what would happen is if you'd have more delay because the judges would have to hold it up against what the supreme court has said the is is immunity standard and decide which of the charges can

actually move forward. neil: i don't know how you keep track of it all. i'm dizzy when i follow this. tom, thank you very much, my friend. tom dupree. by the way, i do want to update you on this aerodrop aid for the united states. joe biden had anticipated that it was on, and it is apparently on. apparently, we carried this first air drop in aid for gaza, more than 30,000 meals parachuted in by three military planes. this will continue, we're told. there's been ors or you know, some back and fort between the biden administration expect netanyahu administration about how far to go. benjamin netanyahu says this complicates efforts to clean up gaza, as he likes to put it. the administration has made clear that he's going too far with this, and the back and and forth continues. we'll have more after this. 's be. america's best. they have one of the nation's largest groups of optometrists! oh, you're... very welcome. actually, the exam may cost less than your usual doctor.

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♪ neil: all right, ahead of super tuesday it's, i guess i would call it kind of super saturday. caucuses in idaho, missouri and michigan. the republicans are having a state convention there to divvy up the remaining tell gates from that state's primary -- delegates. you have three states doing their own thing and, of course, the big thing is on tuesday when you have 874 republican delegates at stake. bill melugin following all of this and how the candidates are traversing in a raleigh, north carolina. bill. >> reporter: hey, neil, good morning to you. we are days away from the all-important super tuesday when

voters in 15 different states are going to head out to the polls. that includes the state of north carolina, both donald trump and nikki haley here in the tarheel state today. that they're both going to be hosting an event. take a look at this video from last night, nikki haley was in charlotte, north carolina, where she's coming off two key endorsements from alaska senator lisa murkowski and maine senator susan kohl -- can collins. she watted down rumors -- swatted down rumors that she's interested in a no labels, third party candidacy. she feels there's a swath of voters out there who don't want trump or biden. take a listen. >> we can do better than two 80-year-olds running for president. [cheers and applause] we need someone who can put in 8 years, day and night, focus on the solutions of tomorrow, not the negativity, not the baggage,

not the vendettas, just results for the american people. . >> reporter: meanwhile, former president trump is fresh off his border trip to eagle pass, texas. he is going to be hosting an event in greensboro, north carolina, later today. he is making a pitch to conservatives, republicans and his supporters essentially saying if you come out for me on tuesday, this can be a knockout blow. take a listen. >> if every single conservative, republican and trump supporter in these states shows up on super tuesday, we will be are close to finished with this primary contest. republicans will then be able to focus all of our energy, time and resources on defeating crooked joe biden, the worst president in the history of our country. >> reporter: and here's where we stand as of this moment when it comes to the delegate count. you need just over 1200 to secure the nomination. as of this morning, donald trump

has 122, or nikki haley has 24. and back out here live, brand new new york times-sienna if poll spells some potential trouble for president biden. ask voterses, head to head matchup, who do you prefer, donald trump, joe biden? trump leads biden by 5 points. it also shows him winning hispanics by 6 points, neil. that could be very key as we move forward towards november. we'll send it back to you. neil: very interesting, bill with. thank you for that. bill melugin. want to get the read on this politically, the fallout, from two darn good pollsters, lee carter, charlie cooperman. if lee, first of all to you about what donald trump wants to do here to make the election seem inevitable, at least his nomination buoyed by these national polls in the potential general election that has him doing well, up 5 points over joe biden. that it's no longer a risk to vote for him, that, in other words, nikki haley's argument is

sort of crashed on that notion. what do you think? >> well, it seems to have. i mean, "the new york times" polling a lot of people have questions about it, but it looks really good for donald trump. and if also in all of the latest polling that focuses on those key swing states, the seven states where this election's going to be decided, donald trump performs really well. he's wrong in saying he's got a good chance at beating joe biden, and that does undermine one of naval nikki haley's biggest -- nikki haley's biggest arguments. neil: you know, carly, it's still early. this border issue has evolved as one of the biggest central issues ever in a campaign. it was, i think, four or five back in 206 is, carly, but right now -- 2016, whether you're talking in iowa, in new hampshire, in south carolina, michigan -- and, again, time and again it becomes the central issue. and it seems like democrats were caught off guard by that. the president looks like he's

floundering or desperate to come up with something to address that. how does he get ahead of this issue that a lot of voters, fairly or not fairly, are behind? >> i think president biden's well aware that this is a problem right now. a lot of recent polls have shown immigration as the top issue for voters, and he's responding by that, he's talking about how republicans just killed what would have been the strongest immigration bills that had been put together in a bipartisan effort. he's going to be making the argument a right now as he has, and he's to going to continue, that he wants to do something with that and republicans are shying away from it. which is obviously a strategy from the trump -- wants to continue to make that a problem, it's a strong the point for him going into the election. and the biden administration's also looking into what kind of executive orders they can put out there to try to take some measures to address this because it's 100% a weakness for biden and something he's going to have to take head on going into november. neil: you know, lee, if i could

switch gears with you, one issue that's quietly cropping up is this incredibly strong stock market. and i mention it only in this context, that there are a variety of reasons for that. some say the federal are reserve is done raising interest rates, the next move might be might be the cut interest rates, stocks like nvidia, of course, that soared, you know, as artificial intelligence game looks to be a real moneymaker and something that will be real long lasting. but it could be the wind at joe biden's back. he can point to the markets. but it's sort of like a conundrum for him because, genre, democratic candidates don't like to brag or talk, discuss the markets because they say that it's not part of main street when you talk about wall street. that's not true, of course, but what do you make of that? >> i think the biggest issue facing americans though isn't necessarily the stock market, it is inflation. it's how far their paycheck goes. it's can they afford the things that they used to be able to afford, are they feeling like they're getting ahead. and the problem is right now they're not. even though inflation might have

flattened out some, people are still looking at the price of goods, the things that they used to buy at the grocery store, the price of their energy, the price of homes, all of the things that they measure themselves against, and they're saying i can't afford the same things that i did just a few years ago. my paycheck doesn't go as far even though i've gotten some increases in salary. so the bottom line is people aren't feeling good about the economy. yes, their 401(k) balances and their balances -- and they see the market might be improving, but their day-to-day experience is tougher than it used to be. and when you ask people if they feel better off than they did four years ago, they're going to tell you that they feel worse off. neil: investors certainly feel better right now, carly. if you were advising the president, would you tell him to brag about it? >> yeah. look, i -- [laughter] i think biden needs to be able to point to any positive news he can regarding the economy because this has been such a pain point for him. neil: right. >> he has good news to share, and that is one piece of it.

he is, though, making the point, you know, he's talking about inflation coming down, and he's trying to connect with voters in understanding that even though he's got strong numbers to talk about in terms of low unemployment and high -- [inaudible] these are still things that people aren't necessarily feeling in the day-to-day. and so he's going to try to strike a balance of -- he should. he should talk about the good news, and he's got to connect to voters about the pain points that that they're still feeling. neil: yeah, that' a tall order. we'll see what happens. guys, thank you very much. in the meantime, it's not only the markets that are rocketing. so will eight human beings be tonight on a spacex vehicle. they're going to the international space station. man, oh, man, if anything is happening in space, it seems to start with elon musk. we're on that after after this.k if no is a rate based on you, with allstate. not one based on paul. you don't want to ride with paul. or sarah, not today anyway.

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like you're seeing a major launch, manned or unmanned rocket, every other day that's a little bit of exaggeration on my part, but this latest one is a spacex crew. eight a astronauts ready to make their way to the international space station tonight a little past 11 p.m. jonathan serrie, our space expert, is there at the kennedy space center. jonathan. >> reporter: thank you for that, neil in. forecasters say there's a 40% chance that the weather will cooperate with tonight's scheduled 11:16 eastern time launch. the concern is not just conditions here at the launch site, but out in the atlantic, potentially emergency landing sites if something were to go wrong. a spacex dragon capsule named endeavor will be carrying three nasa astronauts and one russian cosmonaut to the international space station where they will spend about six months performing roughly 250 experiments including studies on how long-term space travel affects their bodies.

research in lower earth orbit is setting the stage for more distant missions. nasa is increasingly relying on private sector spacecraft such as intuitive machines' o disus moon if lander to survey potential astronaut the missions to the -- sites to the lunar south bowl. >> now we leverage the few little -- that we have by getting the commercial industry to foot some of the bill. >> reporter: and so that has dramatically reduced the cost. look at this graphic. the inflation-adjusted cost of sending an astronaut to low earth orbit has come down dramatically since you and i were can kids from $390 million for nasa's apollo 7 in 1968 to $170 million for the space shuttle, to just between $60-67 million if per seat aboard a spacex crew drag gone like the one -- dragon like the one that we hope will launch tonight.

neil, back to you. neil: got it, jonathan. thank you very much. hope all goes well. jonathan serrie on that. in the meantime, rising food costs got you perplexed what to do for dinner tonight in instead of that sizzling steak, how about cereal? why the ceo of kelloggs is under fire for essentially recommending, well, frosted flakes over just eat cake. after this. line, we do them this way. this way has people who start early. people who care and inspire each other to do things the way they should be done. this way uses technology (♪) and goes the extra mile (♪) to deliver your promises on-time, every time. this way is why we're the number one national ltl carrier for quality. for us, this way is the right way which is why it's the only way we go.

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i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. he's the hundred-percent pro-trump candidate for u.s. senate: republican eric early. always supports trump and the maga agenda. republican eric early. endorsed by the california pro-life council... ...opposed to all abortion. and eric early loves the second amendment. eric early. way more dangerous than steve garvey. he dodges trump. garvey even said he might vote for biden. republican eric early for u.s. senate. too maga. too trump. too dangerous. neil: all right, food costs and the rocketing food costs at that beginning to ruin your appetite? well, the ceo of kelloggs has a suggestion for you. talk a look. take a look. >> when i say cereal, you say dinner. ceil crag -- cereal -- >> dinner.

>> chicken! >> you can have the night off, chicken. >> okay. i'll go mare name. marinate. neil: all right. that might strike some of you, some, as a let 'em eat cake moment here. if you can't afford solid stuff, a bowl of cereal's a lot cheaper, off you go. kat timpf is following all of this with great can curiosity. author of "you can't joke about that." we're all in this higher food cost environment. we hear the administration if brag about the fact their -- they're not rising as much as they were, those costs, but here you have the ceo of kelloggs saying, well, try a bowl of cereal. what do you think? >> yeah. the thing about a commercial like that or any commercial really is that a lot of people are involved in the process of making that and actually getting it to air, and not even one might, you know, step in and say the tone of this might be a little bit off where we're essentially saying, hey, you know, things are tough, so you can have cereal for dinner and

then we can have the money you do have. it was a really allow look especially with the comments from the ceo himself. neil: he probably meant to step back and say, well, you know, cereal is a lot cheaper than the alternative here, real, more solid food. actually, cereal's quite expensive, and cereal costs remain rising at about a double-digit rate. so it's not as if your d you're getting a huge break, but it is cheaper. and a lot of people might already be doing that. >> yeah. the costs are rising, for sure, and people even buying brand name cereal especially. but interview, the fact that he gave it standing in front of what appears to be some kind of mansion in, i believe, it was boca raton, florida, a lot of people are watching that and saying, how dare you. and he doesn't realize how tone deaf it comes off. but i think everyone else watching it kind of did. neil: yeah. new york i agree with you there. but we don't know, kat, whether cereal was being served in that

mansion. but i did catch that as well. where does this go? you know, obviously,ing there were a lot of people involved in this ad, and maybe it started with the best of intentions. i'm not calling it a budweiser moment, but it could be. >> yeah. i think a lot of us already know, right, that the people running these corporations live a very different life than everyone else does, essentially. but so rarely do we see it in our face like that, especially, i mean, this has been going if on for a while. food is so expensive, it's getting worse, and i think poem wan to see the end in sight, not someone who's wealthy telling them to eat cereal for dinner. neil: well put. kat, great seeing you. by the way, we did reach out to tony the tiger, but apparently he did give us a response. this is not great! [laughter] basic cable. best i could do. we'll have more after this.

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