reviewed for privileged materials before prosecutors got ahold of them. all right. two riders were taken to the hospital after getting stuck on a ride at the knott's berry farm amusement park for more than two hours. riders stuck some leaning sideways with their legs dangling in the air. you know you've seen this vision before in other places. luckily, no rides appear to be hanging upside down during all this time. park mechanics were able to crank the ride down to the ground, and they let people off. it's unclear what caused that ride to stop in the first place. all right. dramatic video out of columbus, ohio shows a police officer rescuing a man from his burning pickup truck. take a look at these pictures. the man called 911, saying that his truck had brake trouble, and he slammed into a highway pillar. take a listen. >> my truck is on fire. can you get it? >> are you ready to get out of here can you get out of it? no

i can't. >> where are you >> that sound of that poor man struggling at one point during the six minute, 911 call, the man asked the dispatcher to send a message to his wife fearful that he was going to die. a minute later, officers arrived and were able to pull him from that burning truck. he was taken to the hospital where he is recovering this morning. all right a new hour of cnn news central starts right now his self-titled mandate with an attorney general pick that has many in congress saying they have questions. >> sources tell cnn donald trump is 100% all in on matt gaetz. the reality of getting him through the senate, though still a bit more complicated than that this morning. a

resolution by a republican member of congress to ban transgender women from women's restrooms at the u.s. capitol, and the response from the first transgender woman elected to congress, calling it a manufactured culture war and a hawaiian woman has vanished after she missed a connecting flight more than a week ago. her family, now desperate for help after they received suspicious text messages from her phone. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central legal day for president-elect donald trump. >> will a new york judge toss out trump's criminal hush money conviction? he could release his ruling really? any time now let's bring in cnn's kara scannell. the decision was expected last week, but then there was a delay by the judge. walk us through what could happen here. >> so the most important thing

that we're expecting today is the district attorney's office to say what they think should happen in this case and as many people as you talk to who get as many different possible outcomes and answers here. >> so it's really going to be in the wording and what they say. at one extreme, they could say legally they don't think there's a way forward because trump's team has said no president is immune. there's a transition in place a state judge shouldn't have any say over an incoming president some of these are unanswered legal questions but the da's office could say we don't think there's a legal way forward and then put it in the judge's hands. who would decide whether or not to dismiss the case? they could say, we do think there is a legal way forward here. there is so much uncertainty in the law. let's move ahead and then again, though, it's in the judge's hands to decide what to do if the da's office wants to proceed i think we'll see trump's team try to step in there, but there's still so much that's unclear. it's about proceeding. but does that mean the judge will issue his decision on immunity? what does he say, if anything today about sentencing, which is currently scheduled for next week? so a

lot in the air and certainly unprecedented times. we say it, but it truly is something here that people just they can't even figure out when you're talking to people who are very informed on this there's no clearly identifiable path forward. it's a lot of analysis that they're doing there's no precedent for this as we as we have been talking about for a very long time. >> but this is a very pivotal day potentially for this particular case. kara scannell, i know you're watching it all. all of the twists and turns appreciate you, john. >> all right. breaking news. this morning ukraine has fired longer range u.s. missiles into russia. that is according to russia's defense ministry. it comes as russian president vladimir putin signed a new nuclear doctrine. he announced he's lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. it's in response to president biden's decision to allow ukraine to use those longer range missiles, which now apparently are landing inside russia. with us now, cnn's clare sebastian claire. talk to us about these strikes yeah.

>> john, at the moment, the only confirmation that we have is from the russian defense ministry that says in the early hours of tuesday morning on the 1,000th day of this war, ukraine fired six of these atacms army tactical missile systems, long range missiles at an ammunition facility. >> they call it a military facility inside russia. now russia claims to have shot down five of those missiles. they they tend to do this. they tend to claim that they have averted the majority of ukrainian attacks. they say that the sixth missile was damaged and that fragments fell on this military facility. so they're saying no casualties and no damage. ukraine isn't saying anything at all about it at this point, but i think it makes sense that they would want to move quickly. this is now two days since the news broke via u.s. officials not officially, of course, but via officials that they had given permission for these long range weapons to be used on russian soil. and, of course, they have the uncertainty hanging over them, over what will happen to supplies of u.s. aid when the

second trump administration takes office so i think, you know, that is the calculus there for ukraine, for russia, though, this is a major blow. and i think it's no coincidence that we see president putin signing that decree. also, this morning, updating the nuclear doctrine. it's a little vague. it's a little debatable, but it seems to broaden the definition of what would justify under this doctrine, a first strike by russia and the kremlin is very much painting this as something where they say that any potential adversaries should see this as the inevitability of russian retaliation if they are subject to aggression. so they are rattling the saber here, as they have done so throughout this conflict. >> i mean, clearly he wants to send a message by signing the doctrine. it's not as if he needs to sign anything new but he's clearly doing it to get the public, the public aware of it. look, this is the thousandth day since russia's most recent invasion of ukraine. small question. what's the situation in ukraine for ukrainians now so this is a

very dangerous time, john, for ukraine, they are losing territory on the eastern front slowly but surely, albeit at an immense cost to russian troops. >> they are facing an exponential rise in drone attacks. over the weekend we saw one of the biggest attacks involving missiles and drones in months by russia targeting the energy grid. the lead up to this bleak milestone is 1000 days has seen an uptick in civilian casualties. so they are facing challenges on multiple fronts. >> clare sebastian thank you so much for sharing your reporting kate. >> also happening right now testimony has resumed in the murder trial against the man accused of killing georgia nursing student laken riley moments ago, the judge ruled that a recorded jail phone call between the man and his wife will not be allowed as evidence in the trial. cnn's rafael romo has much more outside court in athens, georgia. what is the latest? what does this ruling mean kate, it is a very interesting ruling by superior

court judge judge h patrick haggard, because the prosecution chose to play that recording in court because it felt it was significant that the the wife, the estranged wife of the defendant, jose ibarra had a lot to say about what happened and how surprised she was about some of the facts in the case, as you may remember, and we reported this previously she was urging the suspect to number one, tell the truth, and also she said in that phone call that she felt that it was crazy in her words, that they had only found her husband's dna at the crime scene. >> and then at one point she had said that she finds it unbelievable that someone can see a person die and not call 911. well, the judge said that admitting admitting this in court would have been it would have violated the defendant's rights to confront a witness. specifically, the judge said

the following after hearing the translations, i do find that it was more than contextual and therefore violates the confrontation clause in the sixth amendment. so those rulings those those recordings are not going to be considered for the verdict also, the judge ruled out several videos. there were selfies, essentially, of jose ibarra the defendant, spanish lyrics. the judge reviewed them overnight and he decided that they were not relevant to the case. now today, the prosecution may rest their case. the defense has said that it's going to take about half a day for them to finish. so this trial is moving much, much faster than anybody anticipated. kate rafael, thank you so much, sarah. >> all right. new details on how donald trump and elon musk are all in with their attempts to leverage matt gaetz as the country's next attorney general. as we hear from a lawyer describing what his clients say happened when it

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two witnesses from that report, now speaking out to our erin burnett she testified to the house that representative gaetz did not know her friend's age at the time they had sexual intercourse and when he found out about her age that representative gaetz stopped having sexual intercourse with her and he only started the sexual intercourse interactions later on when she turned 18. >> the testimony before the house was, yes, that representative gaetz paid my client both of my clients for sexual favors throughout the summer of 2017, all the way to the beginning of 2019. all right, let's get right to cnn's alayna treene. >> what are you hearing about trump's attempts to really rally support around gaetz, who couldn't be more controversial at this point, especially listening to what his attorney is saying that the house ethics committee heard right. >> well, i think the thing to keep in mind here sarah, as we look at all of this, is just how important donald trump

views the attorney general role. he had hand-selected matt gaetz to serve at the top of the justice department. and we're told that he is not backing away from that. he thinks the attorney general is going to be the most important cabinet position in his future administration. and because of that he is now putting pressure on republicans in congress privately calling them up. over the past couple of days and telling them that he needs their support because this is a decision that he does not want to back away from now. i think what's also interesting is we know that behind the scenes as well, that donald trump and his transition team recognize how hard of a chance gaetz is going to have, particularly in light of whatever we learn, whether or not this house ethics report is released. but also in general, there is no question that there is a lot of uneasiness in congress right now, particularly among republicans in the senate, about how to move forward with this and that's why you're seeing the former president now, president elect, call them up personally and tell them that he is committed to getting

gaetz through. now, one thing that i also found noteworthy is that elon musk. we know, of course, how important and influential he has been to donald trump, not just as an ally but someone who is also really making his opinions known to the former president as well as publicly how he feels about certain transition picks. they are very much aligned on a lot of what donald trump wants to do in his second term. this is what he posted really early this morning. i'm going to read for you what musk wrote. he said quote, i'm talking about the allegations against against gaetz. he said, quote, as for these accusations accusations against him, i consider them worth less than nothing under our laws, a man is considered innocent until proven guilty. he went on to say, case closed so clearly donald trump is not moving away from this. nor is musk, who the two are also going later today to texas for the spacex launch. sarah. >> all right. alayna treene, thank you so much for your reporting, john. >> all right. with us now, paul begala, cnn political commentator, and, terry sullivan, former campaign manager for marco rubio's 2016

presidential campaign. maggie haberman and jonathan swan reported overnight that privately, donald trump is saying behind the scenes he thinks that gaetz has less than a 50% chance of being confirmed. and i was just on twitter, whatever the hell it's called now. and erick erickson, conservative broadcaster, just wrote it, is increasingly unlikely that matt gaetz can make it through a confirmation process. terry, let me just put this first to you. what does it feel like to be senator thom tillis, for instance today from north carolina having potentially to vote on matt gaetz yeah. >> well, look, he's had four luxurious years of not being asked about donald trump's tweets or other comments or decisions. >> so, you know, it's time to this is the new normal now. >> and the reality is, is that donald trump was elected to blow things up, to blow washington up. and that's exactly what he's doing. and anybody who's surprised by it now wasn't paying attention

and didn't believe that he was going to do what he said he was going to do. >> he said that last time he thought that he picked too many conventional picks that weren't loyal enough to him he said he was going to have loyalists, and that's what he's doing. >> and so for a thom tillis, you're going to have to decide, are you going to really be willing to stand up to the president who, you know, not only won electoral college decisively but the first republican in decades to win the popular vote? and i don't think a lot of these senators are going to have that much backbone. they're just going to sit and wait and hope that the time that it takes to get to the nominee or to the actual confirmation process, more information comes out. >> paul, is my memory right on this? it was zoe baird right. whose nomination for attorney general blew up because she didn't pay taxes, payroll taxes for nannies or something that wasn't a nanny or a cleaning. cleaning woman. yes. got it. so so so combine that bill clinton was about as attorney general. so. so that

compared to what we heard on erin burnett last night with this lawyer saying, yeah, matt gaetz paid my clients for sex. um i don't know. i mean one sunca nomination will the other >> i i think terry makes a very good point you will never lose money betting on congressional republicans to be feckless, supine and pusillanimous. >> that would actually be a good law firm for republicans. um they will bow to the dear leader if they can. if mr. trp believes he can't get gaetz confirmed he'll go around the confirmation process and go around the fbi background check, go around the committee and go around the senate and install him as a recess appointment. and the republicans my i have a bigger question. why why fight for matt gaetz like this, right? he's not a judge like michael mukasey or alberto gonzalez or the current

attorney general. merrick garland. he's not a career prosecutor like eric holder. i politifact looked at his his legal record eight years in a law firm most of which he was a state representative in tallahassee. so he wasn't free to do much lawyering. they found seven cases. maybe there were more, but politifact sounds seven cases, a couple of speeding tickets. uh, he had a cool case where a farmer wanted to let skydivers skydive on his farm. he won that one. so he's pro skydiving, and he represented the crab trap in fort walton beach in a worker's comp case. the crab trap, which is great. you know, they have an early bird special i think trump would love. there's a lot of fried food there. uh but what the hell why is this the guy? he has no experience. he has no qualifications. set aside these astonishing allegations by the way, which the biden justice department said there wasn't enough evidence to pursue. i don't like matt gaetz but i think in defense of matt gaetz, you've got to put that in the record that that the biden justice department didn't find

enough evidence to pursue it. but what the hell qualifications does he have? he might not be a child molester. okay good terry. yeah, but look, look first of all, i had to look through my thesaurus to follow what paul was saying at the beginning there, but i finally figured it out. the the, um. look, he has more legal experience than one president who named his 35 year old kid brother, who was his former campaign manager. >> when jfk named named robert f. kennedy. i'm not saying that matt gaetz is robert f. kennedy. >> so don't don't claim that but he has more experience than previous legal experience than previous nominees. >> and the president gets to pick whoever the hell he wants. >> that's that's he won. and that's how this process works and the senate gets to advise and consent. >> yeah exactly. that's that's the second part that sometimes people who are just want to rubber stamp always forget. yeah, the senate the president can nominate whomever. absolutely. they can nominate whoever they want. but the senate gets a vote in it. and it's about how they choose

to exercise that vote and to, you know, paul's question why? why do you want matt gaetz to be the hill that you die on when one thing that every president i've covered you know, the one thing they all suffer from after they get elected is hubris. i mean, there's some way they go too far, and then they invariably lose seats in one of the houses, you know, in the midterm gaetz terry, look because donald trump is is amazing at communicating and and basically drawing the other side offsides he's amazing at it. >> he does it repeatedly and does it well we're here talking about matt gaetz. >> there's a lot of other pics that are pretty controversial. i mean, you know, rfk might be a controversial pick. >> there's some other ones that are pretty, you know, tulsi gabbard to had dni might, but we're not talking about that. so he threw out the red meat on this one. >> and everyone's hyperventilating about it. >> and everybody else is getting a pass that he nominated. >> so so paul, since we have a football metaphor here, hook em horns drawing them offsides,

you know, that means you get a free play on offense. is trump getting a free play here? basically with robert kennedy jr. pete hegseth tulsi gabbard because of the matt gaetz nomination >> i think terry makes a really good point that's exactly what's happening here because there's only so much metaphors remember in amadeus when the emperor says there's only so many notes the human ear can absorb? he didn't like mozart because he gave him too much music okay? there's only so much um, baloney that we can eat and and or so many scandals. by the way pete hegseth and kennedy have also been accused of serious improprieties of a sexual nature so there's sort of a pattern here um, why trump, who himself was adjudicated in a civil case for being liable for sexually abusing and defaming e. jean carroll why he has such affinity for people who have been accused of really awful sexual misconduct. i think is a bit of self-evident. i think we know why he feels he feels a

kinship perhaps. >> all right. paul begala, terry sullivan, thank you for all the metaphors. as i understand it, mozart's bologna will draw you offsides. appreciate it. okay thank you john. >> coming up for us, she vanished after missing a connecting flight in los angeles. and now her family is desperately seeking answers after getting suspicious text messages from the woman's phone. and breaking overnight, ukraine has fired american long range missiles into russia for the first time, just after the biden administration gave the green light for ukraine to do to go where it had previously deemed a no go. much more ahead the hash truck's back and it's better than ever to the rescue. >> this year, the hash st. roch year, the 60th anniversary has fire truck with car and motorcycle comes with lights, sounds and a huge ladder only at hess toy truck. >> dot com with free shipping and batteries. >> new projects means new project managers you need to hire. >> i need indeed indeed you do

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>> made long range missiles into russia. president biden had okayed their use in a major policy shift in response. putin updated russia's nuclear doctrine because of biden's decision, which now lowers the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons. joining me now washington post columnist josh rogin. i want to talk about these two things first and much more. first, when you hear from russia that it has changed its nuclear policy, is this just bluster or is this a nightmare escalation scenario that stopped the biden administration from allowing these weapons to be used in the first place? >> right. i don't think that we should totally discount these russian announcements. at the same time, we have to remember that vladimir putin has used nuclear brinksmanship and threatened nuclear weapons. you said every stage over the last thousand days of this war and at every time the biden administration came to some decision about planes or ships or tanks or missiles, they threatened nukes and then

didn't follow through. >> and i think we just have to understand that that's what they do. >> they use this nuclear brinksmanship to stop the united states and the west from helping ukraine defend itself. and there are really good reasons to believe that vladimir putin won't use nuclear weapons, mainly because if he did, that would be the end of his regime as he knows it. so he's deterred. but it doesn't mean we shouldn't we should totally ignore it, but we should just understand this is just what vladimir putin does. >> josh, why now? why now? did the biden administration decide this when ukraine has been asking to use these atacms for many many months as they lose territory to russia right. >> well the administration's explanation doesn't really make sense because if they were if they thought these weapons were provocative last year, then they would still think that now what everybody knows what's really going on. trump is coming back he's threatened to take away ukraine's funding and its support. and the ukrainians are in a dire situation. they're losing ground they're

outmanned and outgunned and they have about, you know a month and a half before they could lose all of their support from the united states, a pretty big deal. so this is the biden administration scrambling to give them any chance to do a little bit better. and also to respond to the influx of 19,000 north korean troops they're about to attack ukrainians. so i think they're they're grasping at straws for how to help the ukrainians on their way out the door. >> now to politics at home while while a lot of people are paying attention to the controversy surrounding matt gaetz and his nomination for ag, you wrote about tulsi gabbard's nomination for dni, saying gabbard's lack of judgment and flights from reality are disqualifying. you are certainly not the first to put this out. the wall street journal also wrote something very, very similar. why do you say that? and do you think people need to be paying more attention to the gabbard nomination? >> yes, i think that it presents a danger for us

security to have someone in charge of 18 us intelligence agencies who's shown a very long record of believing russian and chinese and syrian propaganda above, that the claims of the u.s. intelligence community. she's nominated to lead. and when russia attacked ukraine. tulsi gabbard said it was the ukrainians fault and she said the ukrainians were just a corrupt autocracy, no different from the russians. and then she parroted russian propaganda that the u.s. is funding biolabs in ukraine, which was used by putin to justify that very aggression. and the list goes on and on. and you know, as a private citizen, tulsi gabbard is more than entitled to have any view or follow any russian propaganda or chinese propaganda or syrian propaganda that she wants. but can you imagine what could go wrong if the person giving president trump, who's already inclined to sort of believe conspiracy theories and disinformation, the person giving him that daily intelligence brief, is someone who believes the russians more than the u.s. intelligence agencies. it's a

recipe for disaster. and i think that, you know, the senate is just sort of overwhelmed with so many other crazy nominees that they haven't even had a chance to contemplate what that would really mean for the intelligence community internally. it would be a total chaos. and for the us credibility with all of our friends and allies who depend on us to have a clear view of what the democracies are and what the autocracies are and what's fact and what's fiction and what's russian propaganda and what's the truth. >> yeah, there are so many things to think about, but the barrage of nominees are coming fast and furious we'll see if the senate gets to or decides to confirm them josh rogin, thank you so much. appreciate it john. >> all right. this morning, house republican nancy mace is proposing to ban transgender women from using the women's restrooms on capitol hill. and it comes as sarah mcbride from delaware just became the first transgender woman to be elected to congress. let's get right to cnn's lauren fox on capitol

hill. lauren, tell us about this proposal and what happens next with it yeah, i mean, we with south carolina representative nancy mace, who's digging in this morning. >> here's what she said last night sarah mcbride doesn't >> i mean, this is a biological man. >> he does not belong in women's spaces. >> women's bathrooms, locker rooms changing rooms. >> period. full stop elected to congress. >> the first transgender woman to do so. and she was responding yesterday to nancy mace saying, quote, this is a blatant attempt from a far right wing extremist to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions on what americans are facing. we should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care and childcare, not manufacturing culture wars delawareans sent me here to

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has heard from hannah. her friends say that they have received strange messages from her phone, though that said she didn't feel safe that someone was trying to steal her identity. here's one of the messages a friend received a message saying, i got tricked pretty much into giving away all my funds followed by a message saying, for someone i thought i loved the fbi has now gotten involved helping the lapd with the investigation and her family is now asking for the public's help for any sign of hannah. joining us right now is hannah's aunt very much for coming in to speak with me today how are you and the family doing um we're tired as can be expected. >> um we are trying to keep hope and, uh but we're we're we're scared. >> understandably so. can you talk to me about these messages that family and friend received from her phone what doesn't

sound right? what didn't feel right about them um. >> well, hannah, hannah is a, you know, she's a communicator. she talks to us and you know, emojis and cute things and sweet messages. um, and these messages were alarming because basically, it was saying things like, you know, i'm scared. um, someone's trying to steal my identity. someone you know is looking to steal my funds. you know just that word. funds. um, it was all very strange and out of character because up until this point, the messages that we were receiving were extremely positive. i love you, i can't wait to see you. i can't wait to come to new york. and then it basically just took a complete right turn. >> what was she was she was planning a trip to new york. what was she going to do so she was planning to come to new york, to new york city to see her aunt my sister jordan. >> um, it was a bucket list

trip. she had been planning for it, you know, for months. she also had gotten her first photography gig. you know, she's she's an aspiring photographer. so she got her first paid photographer gig, which she was super excited about. um and she was going to be there until yesterday or until sunday basically just seeing sights visiting family. um you know, and also going to one of her favorite djs, a dj called tycho. >> yeah. um so what i'm hearing is everything about this is just completely out of character for your hannah. i mean, she doesn't. i assume that because i was going to ask you, does she does she. is she someone who, you know goes silent or goes dark for long periods of time? it sounds like that's the antithesis of what hannah's like. >> yes. hannah's hannah is that is that friend you know and if you have a problem, you know who can i call? who's going to pick up? and that's hannah. um, she's always in contact with her mom. with her

sister, you know, with with her aunt. um, you know she she wouldn't. you know, she wouldn't stop communicating. she wouldn't have told us like, hey, i can't make it. i'm going to stay in l.a., you know just for instance, i'm going to stay in la. i like it here. i'm going to, you know she would have communicated with us. her character is trusting, loving, kind compassionate, depending trustworthy. you know, so that is why when she went dark, it was so worrisome. >> and what i hear is she also wouldn't want you all to be left feeling how you're feeling right now. scared and desperate to get any sign, any sign from her. police have been tracing some of her last known movements through video and security footage. and just. i was just going through it with our team. hannah was seen at lax on november 8th. her sister then says that hannah was seen in the background of a youtube video from an event at the grove on the 10th that's in la.

then sunday i saw that her sister posted that the family has surveillance footage showing hannah around a downtown la metro train station with another person, though the way her sister describes it is that hannah did not appear to be in good condition. what does all of this mean to you so, um, it's confusing. >> um, you know the word that keeps coming. it's bizarre. um, you know, she was cited and where she was cited at the grove. it seemed like she was. you know, she was in good spirits. she was probably just waiting for a standby flight. and in her personality, she does explore. so you know, going to that grove. we have spoken with people, and they said that she was in good spirits she actually charged her phone at one of the stores that we made contact with, and he said she was lovely. she even filled out a mailing form with her address in hawaii and said, you know, she would like to get information. um, and then on november 11th, we have been made aware of video surveillance of her. um, you

know, getting on you know, a metro and with an unknown individual um, that you know, she didn't talk to us about. we haven't heard about. we haven't you know what i mean? she knows no one in la. our entire family? no. no one in la. >> what is your heart and your head telling you right now about what's going on and what's happened um, you know >> um, we're trying to keep hope alive. um, but it is now been, you know, basically a week and a day since, you know november 11th, when she was last spotted with this unknown person and didn't seem to be okay so, um, we're we're our mind is now going to you know, abduction. and i hate to say the word, but, you know, trafficked. um, so we we're doing the best that we can, but the family at this point is now um, we're having to come to

the reality that those things could be a possibility if hannah's listening if you can get a message to her or someone who has seen her or is with her is watching. >> what is your message to them lori um hannah, we love you. >> um, we are all here. your mom's here, your sister's here, your father's here. um, the entire world is looking for you. um, if someone has hannah, um, i want you to know that she is the kindest, most beautiful soul in the entire world. um. and please don't hurt her. please just give us back to her. no questions asked. um, just just just don't hurt her. please. >> i'm so sorry, lori. that your family is going through this. thank you so much. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for your time. >> let's put her picture back up. hannah kobayashi 30 years old. her family is desperately

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possible at all for this giant booster to be caught right back on the same launch pad where it had just lifted off from by those two chopsticks, or as president-elect trump likes to call it, a big hug. >> right so that flight test back in october was really a proof of concept this time around. for the sixth flight test, spacex says they really want to fine tune this. they want to get a bit more precise with that booster catch if it's possible, but they also want to get more precise with the starship's uh, splashdown into the indian ocean. that's the piece that breaks off from the booster, goes almost around the earth, and then splashes down. so what we're really seeing is what spacex describes as one more great big step towards what they believe is the rapid reusability full reusability of this rocket which is what they're aiming for. the ceo of spacex, john, says that she believes there will be 400 starship launches within the next four years. >> so, kristen, i don't think

there's any question right now that the relationship between elon musk and donald trump could reshape the country, but how could that relationship impact space exploration? >> well, elon musk's biggest gripe so far with the federal government when it comes to one of his companies, spacex has been that regulators and in particular the faa, is just moving too slow in terms of granting spacex its new launch licenses to get this starship up on these test flights. they say that this rapid iterative development is absolutely critical to helping nasa achieve its goal of returning american astronauts to the moon as part of the artemis program and beating the chinese in doing so. so what this partnership could potentially mean is that, you know, we know that that the president elect likes to and talks a lot about deregulation, getting rid of all that bureaucratic red tape. he could very easily do that for elon musk and his companies

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