miss, tweet it to us. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and thanks to all of you who are watching. i will see you right here next week. happening now, the march across the bridge, past and present democratic presidential candidates including senators cory booker and bernie sanders in selma, alabama marking the historic civil rights march in montgomery alabama. we're told some marchers are being met with some protesters. but the march is going forward. we will have a live report in just a few moments. eric: meanwhile, the united states and south korea, ending their large scale spring military drills. those have been a cornerstone of our defense strategy and long appointed message of our strength to kim jong-un's regime. this comes of course just days after that second summit between

the president and the north korean leader ended with no deal. welcome to a brand new hour of america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. arthel: i'm arthel neville. the u.s. and south korea eliminating the drills in an effort to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the nextn nuclear crisis -- north korean nuclear crisis. the president and chairman kim were unable to reach an agreement at the summit in vietnam. but national security advisor john bolton says that isn't a bad thing >> this president said sometimes you have to walk away, and i think he made a very important point to north korea and to other countries around the world about negotiating with him. he's not desperate for a deal, not with north korea, not with anybody, if it is contrary to american national interests. arthel: ellison barber live at the white house with more on this. >> critics are saying that the decision to suspend large scale military exercises amounts to a big win for north korea. the president disagreed. at the singapore summit

president trump announced that the u.s. would stop what he called the war games, and it surprised the pentagon, but ultimately they did suspend some exercises. north korea does not like these drills. they have long wanted them to end. critics say now for a second time the u.s. is offering to stop something north korea hates while north korea gets to keep its nuclear weapons. president trump tweeting, quote, the reason i do not want military drills in south korea is to save hundreds of millions of dollars for the u.s., for which we are not reimbursed. that was my position long before i became president. also, reducing tensions with north korea at this time is a good thing. the president's national security advisor also down played the significance of this. ambassador john bolton says the u.s.'s greatest leverage are economic sanctions. >> it's not like some new decision has been made. the president made his decision on the exercises back in the summer of last year and those continue. i think what the united states gets from this is we show again the potential for the opening of

north korea if they are prepared to denuclearize. we'll let the north koreans evaluate what happened. we're going to take a look at ways of making sure that our maximum pressure campaign of economic sanctions continues, because after all, it is the sanctions that brought north korea to the table in the first place. >> pentagon officials tell fox news that smaller less visible exercises will still continue with the south koreans. arthel? arthel: thank you. eric? eric: we have known for a couple of weeks now that special counsel mueller's russia investigation report, well, about to come out and reportedly near an end. but even before it does come out, debate is now growing on capitol hill, whether or not that final report should be made public. meantime, congressional democrats now threatening to ramp up investigations into the president's finances and his business, after last week's explosive testimony by his former attorney michael cohen. >> they are on to basically every single one of donald trump's business ventures that he was ever involved in.

>> yeah. >> it's gotten way of control in terms of this is no longer -- this has nothing to do with russia anymore. this is just like going after trump, which is not the job of the intelligence -- eric: mr. cohen will be testifying this week on capitol hill. garrett tenney joins us with what we can expect. >> democrats are no longer relying solely on the special counsel's office to investigate the president. they claim to look into everything, from the president's campaigns and his business dealings to his tax returns taking multiple avenues to lay the groundwork for impeachment. tomorrow the judiciary committee will take its first steps with investigations by issuing document requests to more than 60 people from the white house, justice department, the trump administration as well as the trump family. on abc's "this week", committee chairman said at this point they are a long ways from impeachment but he made it clear they are hoping to find enough evidence to get there. >> before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the

american public that it ought to happen. you have to persuade enough of the opposition party voters, the trump voters that you are not just -- >> it is a very high bar >> it is a very high bar. we may not get there. but what we have to do is protect the rule of law. >> republicans argue these investigations have nothing to do with the rule of law, though, and today house minority leader kevin mccarthy criticized democrats for trying to build a case for a problem that doesn't exist, simply because they want to take president trump down. >> i think congressman nadler decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election. >> no collusion, so they want to build something else. they want to persuade to go some other place >> the president's former attorney cohen will be back on capitol hill to testify on wednesday. this next week will be another busy one for investigations. that is not likely to change soon with democrats aggressively investigating the president and his administration on a whole host of fronts now.

eric? eric: in a few minutes we will talk to two former prosecutors about what exactly the southern district of new york investigation could mean for the president. thank you. arthel? arthel: now we want to take you back to the march across the bridge, as we mentioned, past and present democratic presidential candidates including hilary clinton and senators cory booker and bernie sanders in selma, alabama, marking 54 years since the historic civil rights march to montgomery. that day now known as bloody sunday, after law enforcement officers attacked unarmed marchers at the bridge in 1965. jonathan serrie has more from selma. jonathan? >> hi, arthel, back then the biggest obstacle was law enforcement. today the biggest obstacle was weather. there was a heavy downpour. at one point midday we heard tornado sirens go off. minutes before the bridge crossing was to begin today, the rain stopped. the sun popped out briefly, and a large crowd easily in the high

hundreds, possibly low one thousands crossed the historic edmund pettis bridge in commemoration of the bloody sunday march. the event has attracted past and current democratic presidential candidates including hilary clinton who spoke earlier today at a sunday worship service. let's listen. >> we're looking toward a new presidential election, thank goodness. but it's not going to make a difference if we don't bring the lawsuits and win them; right? >> new jersey senator cory booker who announced his candidacy for president last month was also invited to speak. >> it is time that we dream again bigger dreams in america, that healthcare is a right, that poverty is a wrong, and where the days of our children dying from gun violence are long long

gone. >> also in town vermont senator bernie sanders who announced his second presidential bid back in early february, and ohio senator sherrod brown. brown says he will decide within the next month whether he's going to run for president, after considering what impact the campaign would have on himself and his family. so arthel, 54 years after bloody sunday, civil rights activists still consider this town to be hallowed ground and that is something that is not lost on many political candidates. back to you. >> 54 years ago, not a long time ago. jonathan serrie thank you. tragedy striking mardi gras celebrations in new orleans. at least two people were killed and several injured after a car suddenly plowed into be pedestrians and bike riders on a busy street right near the french quarter, happening last night. we are learning more about the suspect that police have in custody. we have this story from our newsroom.

>> the suspect is the son of a new orleans police officer. he is now facing several charges including two counts of vehicular homicide. police say the 32-year-old was likely impaired. the crash spanned three blocks near the french quarter right near the city's largest mardi gras parade. witnesses say they saw the driver swerve into the bike lane hitting several people and parked cars. he then got out of the car and tried to run without his shoes on. witnesses held him at the scene. >> he ent with out of control -- he went out of control and went swirling around, you can see the marks around the median, it looks like he did about three dozens. he jumped out and ran. after i heard that, there were two people murdered up the road, he was speeding 70, 80 miles-an-hour trying to get away from the scene of the crime. >> a man and a woman, both around 30 years old died on the street. five people taken to the hospital. three of them in critical condition.

another person initially refused treatment but later went to the hospital as well. victims ranging in age from 28 to 65. the crash happened about two years after a drunk driver rammed into a crowd in new orleans mardi gras parade, hurting 28 people. city officials said this time the city is shaken. >> upon arrival, immediately rendered a prayer to our two individuals that lost their lives here, and so our hearts absolutely go out to the families as well. >> the bond was set at more than a half million dollars. eric? eric: thanks, jackie. arthel? arthel: severe storms slamming the south right now. the northeast is gearing for a big blanket of snow. meteorologist adam klotz is tracking all of it from the fox weather center. hey, adam. adam: hey there, arthel. that same system, both in the south and the north depending on how cold it is, this is what

we're paying attention to, some rain and some snow at this point. it is beginning to work its way into the mid-atlantic across the midwest and then further south. that's where we're looking at more of a severe threat now moving through portions of atlanta, central georgia, stretching across the gulf pan handle. all areas where you could see severe weather from now through the evening. everything highlighted in the orange color, particularly there in portions of central and southern georgia, all spots to be paying attention to, as we can see big storms, hail, strong winds, but to the north, this is going to be a system that maybe affects the morning commute even more. on the back side, it affects a whole lot of temperatures. current temperatures behind this system, getting into the northern plains, with feels like, that's with the windchill getting into the negative teens and 20s. there is some cold air behind this system. out in front of it, here's the snow. you can pay attention to it in the future radar, time stamp behind me. i think the heaviest snow as you get into philadelphia, new york and boston. that will be happening overnight tonight into early monday morning. so it is going to affect the commute tomorrow morning. this is such a fast mover, it's

been hard to pin down. it's already gone by this time tomorrow. as far as the snowfall totals with this system, they do range a little bit, but we are looking at widespread areas from 4 to 8 inches of snow, new york city, connecticut, farther to the north, that's where the heaviest snow will fall with this one. these are some of our more recent models. i have seen some other numbers that get us close to 6 inches in new york city. boston closer to a half a foot. because this is such a fast mover, it is one that could surprise a little bit but one to pay attention to tomorrow morning. arthel: thank you, adam. >> uh-huh. eric: new details emerging from last week's deadly amazon prime cargo plane crash that happened near houston killing all three crewmembers on the board. investigators from the ntsb are finding the second black box from the boeing 767 that went

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the russians did begin hacking clinton's servers right after the president's call later that same day. meantime the president's former lawyer, michael cohen testified before the house intelligence committee who is going to do it again this week for a second time. this comes as former new jersey governor and federal prosecutor chris christie says mr. cohen could help another investigation into the president, one led by the federal prosecutors of manhattan at the southern district of new york who are apparently are investigating possible campaign finance violations and dealings in the trump business empire. >> these guys of the southern district can look at anything. they have two tour guides now, guys. they have michael cohen and rick gates. nobody wants their lawyer and the former executive director of their inaugural cooperating with the government even if you did nothing wrong because they are incenti incentiveized to do it. >> a criminal defense attorney is joining us. also former senior investigative

counsel. both of you guys know this by heart. let me start with you. you have a southern district investigation could be focusing on the financial dealings in the trump organization. could that be more perilous potentially than even the mueller investigation? >> it could, absolutely. one thing about financial crimes which i don't think people recognize enough is they will often be black and white. there will be a money trail, documentation to back up some accusations. when cohen goes to congress and brings a check signed by the trump organization, that's some -- it shows some of what he is saying is true. in a financial investigation, you have that tenfold, twelve fold where you will see a lot of documents, those investigators are going to walk through them and make a really potentially damming case if they have one. eric: chris, why were these not looked into before, if indeed there was something wrong? >> well, it depends. that raises another question. if michael cohen, what he's saying is true, it is important that whether it's the southern district of new york or congressional investigators, that they verify it because obviously he's a convicted

felon, so it's unclear as to why this wasn't known before. maybe michael cohen hasn't disclosed it before and now it will be investigated. >> meanwhile the democrats say they want to start to now subpoena basically 60 people, among them trump associates, people who work at the trump organization and perhaps even ivanka and jared and others. here's what the chairman of the house judiciary committee democrat jerry nadler of the west side of manhattan said about this. >> crimes and impeachable offenses are two different things. they can be crimes that are not impeachable and impeachable offenses that are not crimes. we have to lay out for the american people and we can't depend on the mueller investigation for this. eric: alex, are we any place where let's say they do find potential crimes, how does that affect the presidency? >> well, i mean, we are in a completely different era. you know, ten years ago, 20 years ago, things would have been very different. the testimony michael cohen gave in congress i think would have sunk any other presidency.

we are at a different time. as they start to come out with more and more evidence i think that's what chairman nadler will try to do is put before the public really a long record of illegality both in the trump administration and the president's business dealings to say essentially this man is not fit to be in the presidency. eric: allen weisselberg -- >> are either of them going to say i can't talk because i know i was involved in illegally activity, particularly the cfo is susceptible to doing that. the way cohen said they manipulated numbers could be considered wire fraud and financial crimes. when he opens the book metaphorically about what the trump organization and the trump foundation were doing, i think there's potential for a host of

crimes there. eric: will they say this doesn't have anything to do with the presidency, and the president could say he's relying on his accountants and the lawyers, it's a big business there. >> everybody blames the accountants and lawyers. i'm sure he will. if mr. weisselberg decides to cooperate, that's bad news around. that's assuming there's any there there in the first place. if the southern district starts digging around and congress continues to investigate, and they can cooperate these allegations and the cfo cooperating, that's not good news for anybody. >> cohen claiming it was standard practice in the trump organization for the president to inflate the values of some of his properties and then to deflate them for tax purposes and this is what he said under questioning from queens new york congresswoman ocasio cortez.

>> to your knowledge, was the president interested in reducing his local real estate bills? >> yes. >> and how did he do that? >> what you do is you deflate the value of the asset, and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction. >> thank you. eric: alex, is that kosher or is it fraud? if something is inflated to get a bigger loan, would that be against the law? >> it is against the law if you are telling one person one thing and one person the other. i had a client convicted a few years ago exactly that having to do with real estate. historical context here, a few decades ago the republican house members were looking to impeach president clinton at that time for a land deal. came down to thing tas happened before the presidency -- things that happened before the presidency, had to do with numbers and him lying about it. there's pretty clear evidence that president trump has been involved similar sorts of activities. the question is how will the republicans in the house respond to that? if he's manipulating his numbers

to cheat a bank, investors, tax authorities, that's problematic. the question is politically how do they respond to it? eric: nothing came of white water except for the mcdougals who refused to testify. finally, what do you think is going to happen? >> well, i think what's going to happen, and i think you may have mentioned this in your introduction, these investigations, when the mueller investigation is over, there's still congress. there's still the southern district of new york. there will be investigations now all the way through the 2020 presidential campaign season. i'm sure of that. eric: well, that means it is with us for quite a long time. alex and chris, thank you. we will be reporting on when the mueller report comes out, if anything comes out of the southern district. thank you. arthel: speaking of 2020 campaign season, bernie sanders rallying support in brooklyn saturday. >> we are on the brink of not just winning an election, but transforming our country.

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democratic contenders keeps growing with washington state's governor jay inslee jumping in saying his campaign will focus on fighting climate change. that issue of course is central to the green new deal, proposed by far left democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez. and one of her colleagues telling chris wallace on fox news sunday she's reaching out to ocasio cortez. >> we've got to be very smart about running this election. i'm a pragmatist. i'm for universal healthcare, medicare for all, but i want to get there. if you don't have the vision, you're not going to get there. we've got a problem with global climate change. i went to aoc and said aoc, we want go to a carbonless society. will you work with me? she's coming to detroit. she's going to work with me. arthel: amid ocasio cortez and sanders are pulling democrats too far left. former vice president joe biden could be a game changer if he decides to get into the race.

let's bring in a white house reporter right now. >> thanks for having me. arthel: good to have you. we're going to get to biden at the back end of this discussion, but let's start here, why is the 2020 race starting so early and what will it take to fuel their stamina? fund-raising dollars, or the ability to connect with americans, where they live, meaning lots of travel? >> it is a number of all those things. i think it is really early what we're seeing. there's so many democratic candidates who are crowding the 2020 field, and part of it is because so many of them are jumping in so early. people are worried that if they are not running as early as these other candidates, that they are going to take a lot of the fund-raising dollars and get big name donors to sign on, but really, i mean, if you think about it, in the 2016 election cycle, president trump or then candidate trump hadn't even announced he was running till june. it is still fairly early. and fund raising is a big part of this. then also i think one thing that is really going to be key is who can get that media attention.

that's something that donald trump as a candidate was really good at getting, and it is going to be interesting to see who will win that fight this time. arthel: but do the democrats run the risk of burning out potential voters with an extended campaign? and then can president trump take advantage of the early start to the democratic race to unseat him? >> well, there is that concern that people are burning out, and stealing too much of each other's attention. that is any kind of concern. when we were in 2016, we saw similar concerns about the large field of republican candidates who were all fighting for the nomination. so there is a way that i think that president trump can kind of win when there's so many candidates this one pool, they do crowd each other out, and i think that's why we're seeing a lot of people almost the waiting can be helpful because it does make it a bit more fresh and we're seeing a lot of people still kind of waiting on the sidelines. it is funny, though, a lot of the candidates we have seen so far have been the diverse,

young, fresher faces and looking to see some of the more white males who will maybe throw their names into the ring, like we just saw governor inslee announced he's running, mike bloomberg, former vice president joe biden. it will be interesting to see what the next rounds of candidates looks like at least from the outside. arthel: let's look at this poll. it is a quinnipiac pal, of texan voters which might offer insight into the general election. three democrats in texas, if they were going head-to-head with president trump, vice president biden, former congressman o'rourke and bernie sanders, a statistical tie among the texan voters. trump versus biden 46, 46. trump versus o'rourke, 46, 46. president versus sanders, 46,

45. let's talk former vice president joe biden, what is his strategy at this point as he's deciding if or when to run? >> well, i think his numbers are -- to go back to that poll really quick, i think that it's really enlightening, i think it is something that president trump and other people in the white house are worried about. sources have told me that texas isn't a place that the president thought he would have to go and campaign, he may have to be forced if someone like o'rourke runs or former vice president biden. if we learned anything from 2016, it is that whoever wins the democratic nomination will have to transcend party politics and appeal to independent voters, more moderate voters and be appealing in some of these both blue and red states. that's something that former vice president joe biden can do. and he does appeal to those more moderate voters, and so i think that he is definitely more of a dangerous candidate to the white house at this point. arthel: i wanted to correct

myself. i think senator sanders had 45% to president trump's 46 in that poll. let's not leave out castro, who had 41%. kamala harris, senator harris, 41%. and warren, elizabeth warren had 41%. so those are strong numbers, but again, this is just way -- >> very early. arthel: sort of a fringe poll at this point. did you tell me will vice president biden will be the game changer if he does get in? >> it could be. that's what poll numbers are showing. someone like him, i mean, he does have a huge -- universal name recognition. he has a strong donor base in over the years. -- from over the years. he can pull from former president obama's voter base when a lot of voters are nostalgic for the obama white house and that presidency.

he has a lot of things helping him in that sense. for a while, his family was one of the reasons was maybe holding him back from announcing he would run. recently he publicly said that his family is urging him to do so. i think we can expect in the coming weeks that he may end up announcing he will run. i think he will be a game changer in this candidacy, especially given the timing and the difference, you know, a lot of the candidates who have announced so far, are running on progressive policies and make someone like biden seem more centrist and mainstream. it will set him apart from the others in running. arthel: i understand he's making phone calls to donors to see how much money he can drum up if he gets in there. >> right. arthel: nice to talk to you. >> thank you for having me. arthel: eric? eric: u.s. backed syrian forces are making what we are told could be their final push to defeat isis in that country. we're told they need to take back one small village in the

east. our reporter is in jerusalem now. hi, trey. >> eric, the final major battle against isis is underway in the syrian city. democratic forces there do say that the group should be defeated within days. the syrian democratic forces say the remaining isis territory is filled with land mines and tunnels making it difficult to clear out the last group of fighters. according to reports on friday, numerous civilians were evacuated from the area, before isis engaged in an 18-hour battle with democratic forces. once the last strip of land is retaken, the international community faces a new battle, figuring out what to do with isis prisoners and their families. if fighters are ultimately released, like leaders such as president trump has suggested, they could regroup. analysts warn that extremists are gathering in a syrian city and there is concern that isis could resurge in as little as six months. throughout syria, military action continues as the assad regime engages in battles against opposition forces near

countries such as israel, runningback targets in the south. israeli prime minister netanyahu spoke at his weekly cabinet meeting today to review international meetings he has held regarding the fluid situation in syria. >> translator: last week i met with russian president putin in moscow as i promised the focus of our discussions was the iranian issue. i made it very clear that israel will not allow iranian entrenchment in syria. i made it very clear that we will continue to operate militarily against them. >> with isis cells still active in syria, iranian backed forces operating across the country and government troops still fighting tooth and nail to regain territory within their own country. war is still a reality in syria. but there is a new phase of conflict that the country is facing. eric? eric: the eradication of vices could not come soon enough. trey, thank you. arthel: after the north korea summit ended with no deal, president trump facing backlash

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days after that high-stakes summit, with the president and g kim jong-un in vietnam ended without a deal. the president refuses to face backlash for refusing to blame kim jong-un for the death of warmbier. he died after authorities say he was tortured, beaten while imprisoned in north korea and sent back home in a coma to die. joining us is a studies specialist on north korea, a professor in boston, we welcome him back. professor, first on the deal, is no deal better than a bad deal or in your view, was the summit premature and just simply not sufficiently prepared? >> the summit was premature but it was the right thing to do for the president to walk away from it. think the north koreans were taken aback. kim jong-un probably in his life has never been snubbed like this. he's treated as a demagogue in

his own country, and the north koreans showed a little bit of panic when they held that late night impromptu press conference, and the foreign minister said that all that they had sought was sanctions relief, for the sake of the people of north korea, which is ironic, that were passed at the u.n. security council as of 2016. but that's like saying all i asked was 99% or sanctions to be relieved, to be terminated because before 2016, u.n. sanctions were very weak and defensive. after, as of march 2016, they'd become quite meaningful targeting north korea's various industries like minerals, exports, steels, textiles, coal, seafood, also blocking north korea's access to national banking services. that was a bit disingenuous. his deputy said something that was unwitting omission of lying all these years. he said this is the most

comprehensive package that we've ever offered historical she said. in 2005 for instance north korea in writing said it is committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing programs. so they were in a state of disarray. eric: being in disarray, leaving that in the dust like that, do you think that plays to our benefit? >> for now, but -- and it's right, you know, the national security advisor, mr. bolton is right in that the u.s. should approach this as the long game, over several years of tough sanctions enforcement, and i think it was premature to hold a summit in the first place. leverage, national pressure, it is very hard to compel north korea to give up what it considers to be the one panacea that it can use to overturn all the state inferiority, vis-a-vis, the richer south korean state, but it was the right move. the long game is that like the obama administration, for example, five years of tough

sanctions enforcement against iran levying fines in the billions of dollars on major international banks that are in violation of u.s. sanctions laws continue to do business with iran. that kind of financial pressure sustained over time is necessary, so mr. bolton is right in that regard. however, north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs in the meantime continue to grow in their totality. eric: they are continuing and not giving up on that. meanwhile human rights was not really raised. we have the controversy over otto warmbier, i spent some time with his parents recently in my reporting. this is the statement they issued last week. we have been respectful during the summit process. now we must speak up. kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son otto. him and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. no excuse or lavish praise can change that. you weighed in on the federal lawsuit this they were

successful against north korea. what are your chances that kim did not know that an american was being held, that he was being tortured, that he was being beaten to the point where he was deaf and blind, sent home to die and that kim just didn't know anything about this? do you think that's possible? >> and that would be in early january, 2016. otto is detained on january 2, four days later, north korea conducted the nation's fourth nuclear test two days shy of kim jong-un's birthday and did another one in september. having a u.s. hostage would have been useful to the north korea state in trying to have a diplomatic encounter to the united states. the chances are zero. i think the warmbiers --

[inaudible]. you know, the federal case that the warmbiers won, the bar was set very high. the plaintiffs sought to establish that north korea was guilty of hostage taking torture and killing. the federal judge, the chief justice of the u.s. district court for d.c. ruled favorably on all three accounts. that's a firm record that we have. you know, it is all out there in public, anyone who is interested, anyone commenting on the case, in a fact free kind of fashion can check it out, can read the documents. >> in fact, the judge said that he was barbarically tortured to extract a false confession and then basically was a show trial all meant to maintain and continue north korea's foreign policy objectives. we will not forget otto warmbier and what he represented for our country and our values. professor, thank you. thank you for the work you do. we will continue reporting on auto's case and we will be right back. ♪ limu emu and doug.

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the first commercial spacecraft designed to bring astronauts to the international space station, docking with the iss after it was launched from

cape canaveral in florida yesterday. the dragon was unmanned for this flight, but this joint mission with nasa marks another step towards renewed human space flight. robert gray has more now from our los angeles bureau. hey, robert. >> hey, arthel. this test mission taking americans a step closer to being back in the business of space flight with astronauts. now, it successfully docked with the international space station at 6:00 a.m. eastern this morning. it delivered some 400 pounds of supplies to the space station crew. also on board, a test dummy wearing sensors and named ripley, after the main character in the alien movies. dragon flew autonomously and was able to link up with the space station at high speeds all by itself. the capsule demonstrating its maneuvers abilities. it followed commands first to back away from the space station before docking without help from the robotic arm that typically

guides spacecraft into position. >> capture confirmed. [cheers] >> these amazing feats show us not how easy our mission is but how capable we are of doing hard things. welcome to the new era in space flight. >> nasa administrators ek echoing that, hailing it as a new generation of space flight. it was developed by elon musk's spacex company under contract with nasa. the first u.s. built spacecraft able to carry crew into orbit in eight years. now, since the space station -- space shuttle's last mission in 2011, the u.s. has been depending on russia for rides to and from the space station. now, if this mission splashes down successfully on friday in the atlantic ocean, two astronauts may blast off aboard dragon as soon as july, but before then, boeing is slated to launch an unmanned starliner

capsule mission in april, and then possibly send a crew into space in august. arthel, back to you. arthel: pretty fascinating, don't you think, robert gray? >> very cool stuff, and developed just, you know, 11 miles south of our bureau here. arthel: got to love it. thank you. eric: would you want to blast off? arthel: i knew you were going to ask me that. you answer it first. eric: okay. i would do it if i could report from up there. arthel: all right. that's a good answer. that's reasonable. i will go with that. eric: i haven't heard from you yet. arthel: i second what you just said. that motion. eric: okay. would you go up? arthel: thank you for joining us. eric: hopefully they have the fox news channel. talk to you soon. those? oh, pierogis? and this is the avery's wondering if eating out is eating into saving for their first home. this is jc... (team member) welcome to wells fargo, how may i help?

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