♪ the race to replace kevin mccarthy hits a speed bump amid backlash over a planned speaker's forum on fox news, the potential successors all pulling out of that event, but congressman jim jordan did seal a big endorsement from former president donald trump, and the opposite of an endorsement from former congresswoman liz cheney. meantime, the former president reportedly discussed sensitive nuclear sub secrets with an australian billionaire

who then shared that information with dozens of foreign officials, journalists and employees. and we are weeks into the uaw strike against the big three auto makers. at any moment we will find out if the union is going to expand the strike again. we are following all of these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." ♪ uncertainty and intrigue on capitol hill, surrounding who will be the next speaker of the house. both the leading candidates jim jordan and steve scalise are working their divided conference, trying to shore up support for next week's critical vote. right now neither congressman has the votes they need to win the gavel, but former president donald trump is putting his thumb on the scale by backing jim jordan's run. let's get more on today's back door maneuvering from cnn capitol hill reporter melanie

zanona. melanie, this contest obviously far from settled. what have you been hearing about who might have the edge? >> reporter: boris, you're exactly right, this race is far from settled. in fact, there is concern that no candidate at this point is going to be able to get the 218 votes needed to become the speaker on the house floor. both steve scalise and jim jordan have been furiously working the phones over the past few days, meeting with members, trying to make their pitch. i am told that scalise has centered his argument on the idea that he has the leadership experience and the institutional knowledge to be able to govern with this unruly house republican conference, and he's also pointed out in his conversations with members i'm told that he has campaigned for nearly every single vulnerable house republican which could go a long way in winning their support. then with jim jordan his argument has centered on the idea that he is best positioned to unite the fractured conference right now and in part that's because he has the ear of the house freedom caucus, a

group that he once founded and a group that has been behind a lot of the chaos we have seen on the house floor this year. our manu raju caught up with jim jordan earlier today. here is what he had to say. >> what is different between you and steve scalise? >> i think it's just that this race comes down to two questions, i said this yesterday, hope to unite the conference, who can also unite -- maybe three questions. who can unite the conference, who can unite conservative republicans in our party around the country. i appreciate the president's endorsement, i think he's going to be our next president. >> reporter: of course a donald trump endorsement could go a long way with the far right and conservatives, but jordan is still going to have to win over the moderates in his party who will be a key constituency and many of them are still skeptical of jordan's flame-throwing brand of politics. also to give you a sense of how chaotic and messy things are right now, we were told this morning that the speaker candidates were going to be on a fox news joint televised

appearance on monday, but i started hearing a lot of concern from other men's in the party about that idea. they said it was going to be a circus and this was a horrible idea and they shouldn't be airing out their speaker drama on tv before they addressed members behind closed doors. it wasn't long after that both candidates decided to back out of that event. i'm told they had a conversation together and decided it wasn't a wise idea so that forum is no longer on. but house republicans will hold their own speaker forum for all the candidates next tuesday and then they will hope to hold an internal leadership election on wednesday. it remains to be seen, though, if and when they will be able to go to the floor with a vote. >> all eyes on capitol hill this week and into early next week. melanie zanona, thank you so much for the update. pam? thanks so much, boris. incidentally the congressman who lost the gavel, former speaker kevin mccarthy isn't saying who he supports in this race. let's discuss what's happening

with doug heye republican strategic former rnc communications director and maria cardona host of the podcast "hot mics from left to right." doug, how much will this fight hinge on the more moderate members of the republican conference? >> that's a part of it but what you're seeing in what we just saw is you're making two different cases. jim jordan is talking a lot about what he's going to do, steve scalise is talking about what he has done. meaning i've gone into your congressional districts, conservative, moderate, wherever you are in the caucus. these are different approaches they're going to take. i think if you're scalise the moderates are more likely to go to you, but steve scalise is not going to position himself as a moderate. when he came into congress he quickly joined the republican study community which is a much larger group of house conservatives, eventually ran that which is what put him in leadership. >> what do you think, marie? >> the problem with that is that neither one is really talking about what they have to do and what they have to do is to bring

together two very separate and hugely far apart factions within the republican party, the extremist magas that we know what they're capable of and what they will do if the speaker and leadership does not do what they want and then the more moderates. let's remember there are 18 republicans that are -- that have their -- are in districts that biden won and they are very concerned about what it is that they're going to have to do in order to elect the next speaker. i don't see how they thread that needle and the way that they also have to, i assume, be talk about this, though it's a danger zone, is that in order to get anything done for the american people they are at some point going to have to sit down with democrats, negotiate with democrats and in a bipartisan way move forward. most notably in the few very few weeks in order to avoid another government shutdown. i don't know how that needle is threaded and from the looks of it with just what happened and

everybody kind of putting together their coalition toss run for speaker, it looks like a banana republic after a coup trying to get together and if they don't do that they're going to continue to be similar to a failed state within the house of representatives. >> let me say real quick about house moderates in the republican conference we often hear house moderates are going to flex their muscles. the reality is we hear it all the time and nothing usually happens. they don't know where the gym is to build the muscles to flex them. this is a flash point for not just the conference but the republican conference. this can be their moment to make a real impact. >> i'm wondering how donald trump factors into all of this. of course he does. now he's endorsing jim jordan, he does not like to sit on the sidelines although he did with the ouster of kevin mccarthy now he clearly wants to be front and center in this. i'm wondering how you think this plays into everything. does it actually help? does it matter? does his support matter or are there republicans who don't want a future speaker who is beholden

to former president trump. >> all of the above. anybody who wants to be speaker would like to have donald trump's support but let's remember two things, one, as we saw in the last campaign, donald trump would endorse somebody, they would get a burst of momentum, they might win, they might lose, they might win with a third of the vote, 32% here, 35% there. it's not determinative. no matter where you go on the capitol you see signs members only, you could be a leadership staffer, you could work on the capitol hill if you are not a member you don't get to vote. that's why when it's talk about it might not be a member, the speaker is going to be a member. >> it's interesting because scalise and jim jordan they're catering to republicans, they're trying to build a coalition of republican support to win the speakership they're not really catering to democrats, maria. on that note hakeem jeffries penned an op-ed in the "washington post" saying a biep

coalition is the way forward for the house and he is calling with republicans to break with the, quote, maga extremism and join the democrats in a coalition leadership. is that at all realistic? >> well, i don't think so and that goes to exactly to what i was just saying because no one is talking about doing that and that is exactly what needs to be done in order to do what the american people frankly hired them to do, right? and to doug's point, if only the republicans in congress and the house of representatives felt that way, felt that they weren't completely beholden to donald trump, because i think that has been the problem all along. none of them or very few of them have shown the backbone to stand up to somebody like donald trump because they are afraid of his supporters. they're afraid that they will be primaried back at home, except for maybe the 18 who won in biden districts. and so when you have that it's very difficult to find a way forward, to find a way specifically through the center

because bipartisanship, compromise, negotiating with the democrats has become a very bad word within the republican conference. how do you get work done if that's the case? >> and actually in some of those republicans in the districts where biden won like rep walleder of new york they're not so happy with democrats not getting on board with saving mccarthy. the question is would democrats, would they be willing to get on board with some of those more moderate republicans in terms of, you know, voting on the next speaker? would they be willing to do that do you think? >> i think they would if they would go to the democrats and talk about what is the work plan? the problem with mccarthy is that he could not be trusted. democrats tried to work with him, did work with him in may with the white house, with democrats, kevin mccarthy came to an agreement in order to raise the debt ceiling to focus on spending levels in order to avoid exactly what just happened and why did what just happened

happen? because he went back on his word. when he started getting pressure from the matt gaetz and maga extremists he was like, you're right, i'm not going to do that anymore. that's why he boxed himself in with the corrupt bargain that he went into in order to get speaker's gavel. you can't do that if you are going to actually lead with values and with trust and be able to go to the opposite party which we know in divided government you have to do in order to get things done. if the next person who is up for speaker has the backbone to say i am going to lead no matter what it takes, i'm going to work with my coalition to figure out how do we move forward and then i'm going to work with the democrats to get things done for the american people, then i think, yes, democrats would be able to work with that person. >> all right. maria cardona, doug heye, great to see you both on this friday. thanks for offering your perspective. boris? thanks, pam. look, no matter who becomes the next speaker, a top issue they will likely have to address right away is immigration.

as officials report a surge in migrants crossing the southern border, the biden administration has taken some controversial steps in the last 24 hours that seemingly contradict their own policies and promises. the biden administration yesterday announced that they are laying the legal groundwork to expand former president trump's border wall by roughly 20 miles. to do that the department of homeland security is going to waive some 26 laws mostly about the environment to build additional border barriers in the rio grande valley, something that dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas said in a filing was an immediate need. in fact, let's get into that specific portion of the filing. it says there is presently an acute and immediate need, acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of united states in order to protect or rather prevent unlawful entries. after intense blow back over the move the secretary appeared to contradict that yesterday in mexico city.

listen to this. >> there is no new administration policy with respect to the border wall. from day one this administration has made clear that a border wall is not the answer. that remains our position and our position has never wavered. the language in the federal register notice is being taken out of context and it does not signify any change in policy whatsoever. >> you saw the context of the filing. meantime, president biden is answering to claims that he broke this campaign promise. >> there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. >> so how does the white house explain this move? cnn's kevin liptak tried to get answers from the press secretary yesterday. here is his exchange with ra recent jean-pierre. >> he said in 2020 as a candidate so after this law was passed in 2019 that there will

not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration. how can you say that he's not breaking that promise? >> what i can say is that there is a law that the dhs is complying with. we believe in the rule of law and that's what we're moving forward with. >> there is truth there, in 2019 under president trump congress appropriated funds specifically for border construction in the rio grande valley, nearly $200 million had to be used for the project by the end of the fiscal year that just ended on september 30th. so essentially it was use it or lose it. that's the argument we heard yesterday from president biden in the oval office. >> the border wall money was appropriated for the border wall. i trying to get them to reappropriate to redirect that money. they didn't. they wouldn't. and in the meantime there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. i can't stop that. >> do you believe the border wall works? >> no. >> well, in theory if you don't believe a border wall works you

could have let that money go unspent, right? president biden reiterated that stance again today from the oval office. we should note the president is right about his administration trying to get congress to use those funds for something else, which they did and congress essentially ignored in 2021, but let's remember some important context. democrats held both chambers of congress for the first two years of biden's presidency. so he argues that his hands are now tied, but for two years democrats had the key, notably on an issue that both sides have been hounding biden to act on for months and that no doubt will be central in the race for president in 2024. speaking of that presidential race, we have some new about former president donald trump. he reportedly shared sensitive nuclear secrets with an australian billionaire at mar-a-lago. we're going to speak to one of his former press secretaries about that in just moments. and we're nearly a month into the auto workers strike against the big three. we will speak to a uaw leader

about where negotiations stand going into the weekend. plus, we are down to the final 24 hours of the largest health care strike in the country's history, but negotiations are not over and another bigger strike could soon be on the way. you're watching "cnn news central." stay tuned.

the auto workers strike centering it's fourth week and many are expecting the strikes to expand to even more facilities owned by the big three auto makers. the president union auto workers giving an update right now on the strikes as we speak. and in the meantime general motors claims the strikes have cost the company $200 million in its first two weeks but it's still selling plenty of pickup trucks, suvs and cars reporting that sales rose 21% over last year's. uaw president shawn fain is speaking right now. he has said they're making progress. hear to discuss this is the president of the uaw local 14 in toledo, ohio. shawn fain speaking moments ago said that gm made a major concession about electric battery manufacturing and that the strike is working. tell us what that means.

why is this so significant? >> thank you for having me, pam. it's very important because we're talking about the future. you know, we know what today looks like, but these battery facilities are so important to be in our agreement. when you look at electric vehicles they don't take engines and if they were to close the engine facility where would those workers go if not to the new technology, which is batteries. recently right now we have a lordstown facility that makes batteries. in 2019 general motors closed lordstown and those members were sprayed all across the country, but it would have been nice for them to be able to stay right there at home and work in that battery facility. so general motors didn't want arlington assembly to go down today and it's good news that we are making progress at the table. this is a game changer to get these battery facilities in our master agreements. >> so you say it's a game

changer. how is morale, though, now that we are three weeks into the strike? how are the workers doing? >> you know, i think the unintended consequence for this strategy is a lot of anxiety. i'm sure, you know, i'm looking now there's 60,000 people tuned into this facebook live that's taking place with the international president shawn fain because they want to know what their future is, not only long term for having these battery facilities in our agreement but the very short term of am i going to be out on strike next week. a lot of anxiety but we know we deserve a fair deal and hopefully these ceos understand that and start dealing with us on a fair level. >> general motors and ford are laying off an additional 900 nonstriking workers between them, blaming that on the expansion of the strike last week.

what are you hearing from members about that? well, that happened to us. we make transitions for the dancing delta township facility, we were signing members up just yesterday for strike pay. so that has a real impact on my members here in toledo, but, you know, they know what we're striking more. you know, these corporations have been taking advantage of us for the past 16 years. we had a concession naer contract in '7, the bankruptcy in '9, couldn't strike in 2011 and then we had terrible leadership in the president's position the last two contracts. so, you know, the time is up for these bad deals and these corporations taking advantage of us. the economic environment is good for us to have a fair deal now and today is just representation of the fact that it's working. >> all right. tony to ttty, thanks for coming on. to the largest health care

strike in u.s. history in its third and final day. 75,000 workers are expected to go back to work tomorrow morning for kaiser permanente but union leaders warn they will call another round of strikes if they don't get to a contract next week that will bring workers better pay and fixes short staffing. natasha chen has more. are workers feeling upbeat about the way that talks are going? >> reporter: boris, there haven't really been talks in the last 24 or 48 hours at least that we know of. the union just put out a statement today saying that the next scheduled bargaining sessions aren't until next thursday and next friday. i just spoke with one of the strike captains here who said that she's not really that surprised that that's the case that there hasn't been a lot of motion in the last day or two based on how things had been progressing, but certainly disappointed. right now what you're seeing

behind me are runs of people from the sunset boulevard location here in los angeles listening to one of their union leaders addressing them here on this final day of the scheduled three-day strike. they doing back to work tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. but, like you said, since there doesn't seem to be an agreement pending here they can call another strike. they have to give ten days' notice and those bargaining sessions are scheduled for next week. now, we talked to some patients about how this has affected them this week. some of them had some issues with getting the services they needed, but a lot of them here coming out of this facility had zero problems. one person that we talked to yesterday went to the er because she had severe abdominal pain, yet she's also a health care worker at a different hospital system and she got really emotional talking to us about how she understands their efforts here. >> you want to just try to respect that, but at the same

time it's -- you are in an emergency situation so you have to choose also your health. i get it and it was like -- i cried when i walked into the threshold of the hospital. like i teared up and i cried and i felt bad and i even told the personnel there, i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. i felt bad. >> reporter: the one thing that i'm hearing pretty consistently from a lot of patients is that they do have an ongoing problem getting appointments and seeing providers in a timely fashion. one person i spoke to this morning, a kaiser member, said she couldn't get an appointment until next year for an annual and for her daughter's follow-up psychiatry appointment. so they actually do understand what these workers are saying when it comes to understaffing. the health care system, kaiser, has said that they have offered

wage increases and i think we can show you the percentage increases that they are offering versus what the union is asking for. the union is asking for a bit more. the union is also demanding that this issue of understaffing gets solved and that they're very concerned that kaiser may be outsourcing or wanting to outsource some of their jobs. we will continue to track and see how these negotiations go, boris. >> natasha chen, thank you so much. russia targets civilians once again. destroying a residential building with an air strike just a day after dozens were killed in an attack on a storefront. still ahead, a live report from ukraine. plus, an imprisoned iranian activist getting the mow bell peace prize. we will bring you her story in just a few minutes.

court is going to hear arguments on former president donald trump and his co-defendants' motion for a stay of his fraud trial, as well as a stay of the judge's order to dissolve trump's corporate entities. this is coming at the end of week one of testimony in that civil trial. the former president has been trying to get all of the court cases against him either delayed or dismissed. separately, trump is facing additional scrutiny today after a major new report on his handling of nuclear secrets. abc news saying, quote, months after leaving the white house trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about u.s. nuclear submarines with a member of his mar-a-lago club.

an australian billionaire who then allegedly shared that information with scores of others. that sensitive information allegedly included the exact number of nuclear warheads that u.s. submarines typically carry and exactly how close u.s. subs can get to russian subs without being detected. trump allegedly made that disclosure to anthony pratt, the head of u.s.-based pratt industries, one of the world's largest packaging companies. here is how trump described him back in 2019. >> a lot of people don't tell you about anthony, but i will tell you about anthony. he is the most successful man in australia. he is a great man and he's my friend and i appreciate it. >> joining us now is sarah matthews, a former trump white house deputy press secretary. sara, thanks for sharing part of your afternoon with us. this reporting from abc news about trump sharing sensitive information with members of the mar-a-lago club, you worked pretty closely in his office for

years, does that coincide with what you've seen from him personally? >> i didn't personally witness him handle any classified information so i don't want to, you know, mischaracterize anything, but i think that it's been very clear in the testimony from folks in the white house and then the reporting that we've seen that he was very careless with classified information. hearing this new report that he shared some of our most sensitive information relating to nuclear warheads on submarines with a foreign national is extremely concerning, and i think that in the reporting from abc it also said that this australian billionaire then went on to share that story with 45 other individuals. so that is what is really concerning, too, is that trump has no regard for our nation's top secrets and is willing to blab them to anyone just to try to look impressive, and then who knows who those folks are going

on to share it with. it shows that he has no regard for our nation's secrets and this is showing further that this case is rock solid in terms of the evidence that they have. >> sarah, you alluded to the other instances, the other allegations of trump acting carelessly with highly secret material, yet this doesn't seem to be a major concern for republican voters. trump is head and shoulders above the competition in primary polling. >> that's correct. and i think that a lot of folks know that trump -- his presidency wasn't necessarily the norm. he definitely did things his own way and so i think to some folks they hear this and they are not necessarily surprised by it, but i think that we should be concerned about it because him leaking this to an australian billionaire is one thing, but what if that got into the hands of someone in a did not have our nation's best interests, and we've heard the reports, too, that mar-a-lago is crawling with folks from nations like china

and other things, undercover spies who are trying to get this exact type of information from the president or folks who are there. so that is what's really concerning, and i think that the evidence in this case is rock solid, but i think that voters might not necessarily understand the gravity of it, just because they're used to trump operating in a way such as this. >> sarah matthews, thanks so much for sharing your time with us. appreciate it. >> yeah. thank you. so moments ago amazon just launched its first internet sate satellite, a major move to compete with spacex. we will bring you the very latest details when "cnn news central" returns.

russia unleashes another deadly attack in ukraine. today in kharkiv where a missile strike on residential buildings killed a 10-year-old little boy and his grandmother early this morning. dozens more were left injured. the strike follows an overnight drone attack in odesa damaging port infrastructure, trucks and a grain silo. meanwhile, the damage is still being assessed in the small village of hroza. more than 50 people were killed there yesterday when russia aimed a ballistic missile as people gathered to mourn a local soldier. that building was destroyed, hroza has no military assets, its small population is entirely composed of civilians. cnn's senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joins us from hroza. you have the kremlin saying, fred that is correct it is not targeting civilians, but clearly the evidence shows otherwise. >> reporter: yeah, and ukrainians, pamela, say that

there were absolutely no am i will tear assets in this village. we haven't seen any military installations, we haven't seen troop concentrations or anything like that. it is a very small village. i can show you once again the extent of the damage here in hroza. one of the things that you mentioned is he extremely important is that there was this second attack today in kharkiv, which is a big city very close to here and that used the same type of missile as the one that was apparently used on this building here, which completely destroyed the building. the missile is a medium-range missile with a massive warhead. we can see here now that the debris has been cleared but there is basically nothing of this building standing. there's a few walls here, you can sort of see where the impact site appears to have been where the floor has kind of given way, but other than that this place has absolutely been reduced to rubble and something that's a big concern to the ukrainians where they say missiles like this obviously cause a lot of carnage among the civilian population in small places like this but of course also in

larger places like kharkiv which was struck today. the ukrainians are saying the only thing that can help against this is further air defense systems for them, it's something they've been pleading for. they say that this is something that is direct help to keep their citizens alive. we've had some pretty tragic encounters here today, pamela. we talked to one gentleman who lost his brother and his brother's wife in the attack, but they had a list of the people who were killed here and pretty much everybody here in this village has lost someone who was close to them. i spoke to one lady who was in tears as she spoke to me, also talking about the loved ones that she has lost. just to put the whole thing into perspective, there were more than 50 killed here in this village and the population of this village at the time of this attack was about 150, so a third of this village has been wiped out by this attack, pamela. >> so incredibly sad. fred flight again, thank you. live for us from ukraine. boris? now tomorrow so of the other

headlines we're watching this hour. this year's nobel peace prize has been awarded to nar jess mohammadi. the committee made the announcement saying she's been recognized for, quote, her fight against the oppression of women in iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. mohammadi has continued her activism despite facing numerous arrests. iran denounced the committee's decision calling it, quote, biased and political. mrs. rudy giuliani's florida condo is now under a federal tax lien with the irs saying the former new york mayor owes more than half a million dollars in unpaid income taxes. it was listed in palm beach county on september 1st and first reported by the daily mail. we should note this is just the latest of giuliani's financial struggles as he faces millions of dollars in mounting legal bills, fighting a number of lawsuits and criminal charges. and this painting was valued at $15,000 just a couple of years ago but now it's expected to sell at an auction for up to

$18 million. it's been identified as the atoration of kings, the work of rembrandt which been virtually unseen since the 1950s. it was previously thought to be the work of a student or artist close to the famous painter. it's believed to be one of his early paintings dating back to around 1628. still to come, the body police camera footage showing the moment they arrested the man allegedly connected to the murder of rapper tac shakur, we will show you what he says and why it matters. stay with us.

we have some remarkable new footage to share with you showing the arrest of the

suspect in the 1996 murder of legendary rapper tupac shakur. las vegas police release this had body cam video and it shows how calm duane davis was. an arrest that breaks open a cold case that some say should have happened nearly three decades ago. >> hey, keffe, metro police, come over here. thanks, buddy. come on over here. appreciate your cooperation, okay? stand right here in front of my car. hang on. put that down for a second, all right? >> cnn's josh campbell has been tracking this story in l.a. josh, what does the body cam video reveal about the arrest? >> well, according to duane davis, which was captured on that body camera, he appeared to know exactly why law enforcement was there on friday just to set the scene for our viewers he is out for a walk, he is then swarmed by undercover officers

and these unmarked forward f-150s, they take him into custody without incident and take him over to another vehicle and what's interesting is we can hear on this video this exchange with the officer, the officer himself appeared surprised by who was in the back seat. have a listen. >> what they got you for, man? >> biggest case in history. >> oh, yeah? >> yeah. >> like recent? >> no. september 7th, 1996. >> oh, no [ bleep ]. wow. that was a long -- that was a long time away. >> [ inaudible ]. >> yeah, not a detective quite yet, but yeah. >> [ bleep ]. >> well, i mean, that's what court is for, right? >> now, he was indeed in court

earlier this week, that arraignment was postponed. i spoke to his personal attorney here in los angeles who said they are currently work to go obtain him a criminal lawyer in the state of nevada. >> so, josh, you got your hands just now on transcripts from the grand jury that decided to bring down the indictment. what do they reveal? >> reporter: you know, this is interesting. the pieces are starting to come into play here. this has obviously been nearly three decades since this incident. there's been this question about what took so long, members that sh shakur's family has been asking as well as fans. authorities say he was well aware of making these public statements over the past several years, admitting to being in the vehicle at the time of that shooting, he never admitted to pulling the trigger but in the grand jury testimony we heard from a detective saying that there are, quote, hours' worth of public videos that authorities were aware of. the detective was asked by a prosecutor what he thought the motive might have been to publicly talk about a case that authorities will not yet solved. that detective said that he

believed potentially financial gain. finally the district attorney told cnn that they also are well aware of those statements but they wanted to gather corroborating information before bringing a charge. they say, boris, that there are, quote, other witnesses that have since come forward in the last couple years. we will see what they said if this actually goes to trial. >> josh campbell, we look forward to the next developments in the case. thanks so much. well, moments ago amazon launched a super long distance delivery sending its first internet satellite from cnn political analyst -- cape canaveral, florida, into space. what exactly is this satellite for, kristen? >> these satellites are to amazon what starlink is to spacex and that is a massive mega constellation of small satellites that operate close to earth in lower earth orbit and they are to blanket tearth with

wifi coverage. we saw the first two prototype satellites, they call it project kypher. if today's launch is successful in getting the satellites out what we could see the goal is to get about 3,500 satellites in low earth orbit and then you compare that could what starlink already has, starlink already has about 4,000 active starlink satellites in orbit. so it's well ahead of the competition and of course that's meant that starlink essentially has monopoly in lower earth orbit in terms of internet connectivity. we've seen what happened on the ground with the war in ukraine and how critical those starlink satellites have been to the ukrainian military's operations. so what today's launch signifies is essentially the beginning of the end perhaps to spacex's monopoly on internet connectivity in lower earth orbit, but they are so far

ahead, amazon has a very long way to go to catch up. so this is great, you know, for earthlings who want wifi but there are some down sides. astronomers hate the impact this is having on astronomy, thousands and thousands of satellites this close to earth it interrupts and interferes with their observations. and then there's just the issue of space junk. >> i was going to bring that up, yeah. >> the government is having such a hard time regulating so many satellites that are up there and there's a real threat that some of these satellites could collide and create a pretty devastating coalition. there's some good and some bad, like most things in space. >> it's not all good. thanks for giving us the big picture. appreciate it. after a fierce republican backlash all the contenders for house speaker pull out of a fox forum. we will explain why just ahead.