♪. leland: doubling down on his election claims, you are watching video from last night in washington as they were late night clashes between trump supporters and counter protesters who both arrived in washington, those one for a good couple of hours before the metropolitan police and right teams were able to move in and separate the groups. welcome to "america's news headquarters" from washington i am leland. gillian: i am gillian turner, great to be with everyone. the president is tweeting a vengeance, going full speed

ahead. leland: one tweet started with meeting he won, joe biden and then it changed from there. gillian: he's basically saying despite the string of setbacks in the court and states for michigan, pennsylvania, he is moving on forward with a lawsuit, he has no intention of backing down. to break down the details on all of these efforts, we are joined by david spunt at the white house this morning -- this afternoon i should say. reporter: many people asking when and if president trump will concede at this point it does not appear so in classic trump fashion he took to twitter today and as you mentioned when speaking about president-elect biden he put up a curious tweet and it came out this morning, he won because the election was rigged, no vote watchers or observers allowed, but tabulated by a radical left privately owned company dominion, you see the blue spot at the bottom, twitter pay me misinformation about election fraud is

disputed, that's been happening with the president's tweets. president trump does not need to formally concede for president-elect biden to become the 46 president of the united states. he is the president-elect and when the votes are certified in the coming weeks you will be inaugurated even if president trump does not concede. about 20 minutes after that he one tweet, the president added he only one in the eyes of the fake news media, i see nothing, we have a long way to go this was a rigged election, that was also flagged by twitter. this morning the president's attorney claimed he will not concede, rudy giuliani said the president was being sarcastic. >> no, far from it, what he is saying, i guess you would call it sarcastic or a comment on the terrible times in which we live. reporter: as far as any corroboration between team trump and biden as part of the transition, there is none, the trump administration keeping

biden's team from getting access from briefings and other government tools, this morning doctor anthony fauci with the national institute of health said the transition is needed if the vaccine is getting ready to rollout in the next few months and some positive news, president trump of the rose garden on friday two days ago said vaccines will be available to the masses by april and for those vulnerable folks in the united states vaccines could come in the coming weeks and coming months. at a time of great division, everybody happy to hear about the vaccine news. gillian: a silverlining, something for all of us to look forward too, david spunt at the white house. leland: president-elect joe biden is spending the weekend working on his cabinet in speculation who we may pick for secretary of state. jacqui heinrich with who is on the short list, one familiar name from the obama administration. reporter: good afternoon, expectations are rising for president-elect joe biden to announce his pick for secretary

of state, sources told foxnews the former national security advisor susan rice is being pushed by former president barack obama, rice has already been embedded as a member of biden vp short list and brings institutional knowledge and clearances that could lead the impact of it delayed transitioning for she warned of growing peril writing without access to critical to information, no incoming team can counter what they can't see coming. she may face a confirmation hurdle and she has computation and former decking. state tony lincoln and william byrd also senator chris murphy and chris coons who is actively buying for the job but on issues from the transfer of power to who will be on his staff, obama says biden is self sufficient. >> he does not need it but i will help them in any way that i can. i am not planning to work on the white house staff or something.

reporter: the transition team says it's on track for 4000 appointed positions but a week after his projected when the service of administration says they have not unlocked access to funds to reach full speed, it's having a significant impact on plans to combat coronavirus. the transition team is coming up with its own mass distribution plan for potential vaccine because they have been locked out of discussions with federal agencies like the department health and human services which is planning a vaccination campaign for february and march, biden's team is having to reach out to distributors in many factors alike to ensure when a vaccine is approved americans can giv get it. leland: the trouble administration has said they have been working on the same thing with the same distributors. gillian: yesterday in washington used saw thousands of trump supporters take into the street, these folks came from all across the country to be here in the capital, everything stayed

mostly peaceful and happy during the day, at night things did get violent, joining us to break it down as trump 2020 communications director tim murtaugh, think you're joining us in taking time out a very busy few months for you guys. what i want to get from you is a sense of whether the campaign, whether president trump has a plan to de-escalate the tension we are seeing in the streets. presumably, who you blame for the violence in washington last night presumably the president, the campaign does not want americans stabbing other americans in the streets, they don't want them watching fireworks at the mother having dinner, right? >> of course not, that's what the president has said, this is an issue through the campaign, violence in the streets in american cities, it was the leftist mobs that were causing

it. what we saw in washington was thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people celebrating their love for this country and their support for president trump and the trump supporters were peaceful. this is an organic spontaneous display of support that we saw. and when you see the violence, i saw the video, it's antifa thugs sucker punching people and getting them from behind. i hope the d.c. and d.o.j. are looking at that evidence. gillian: what is the plan to de-escalate so it does happen tonight or tomorrow. >> people have first amendment rights, is not your first amendment right to sneak up behind somebody and punch them in the side of the head which is the video evidence that i saw on social media evidence per the people in the streets in washington, d.c. have a first amendment right to be able to express their political views that they support donald j trump as president of the united states. we saw people marching in the streets and blm protest in city after city and everyone was fine

with that and the media and even tried to make excuses for them when they burn cities down the beginning minneapolis. president trump supporters are not the ones, they are not the reason why buildings in downtown washington, d.c. boarded themselves up in advance of election day, let's remember who was causing the violence here, they are not trump supporters threatening to burn down american cities. gillian: tim, i want to get your take on the lawsuits going on, take a listen to ken starr on fox news this morning. >> our system is designed to check, let's check it out, the united states we allow the jury to hear all the evidence and that is what is happening right now. don't rush to judgment, it's important especially given the facts that so many tens of americans feel right now, disenfranchised, let's get the facts and, allow the litigation to run its course. gillian: let's allow the

litigation to run its course, rule of law is something all americans can get behind. we all went to see the way the lawsuits shakeout but of course, the but here is, what i haven't heard anyone asked the campaign, why the president can't move forward with these lawsuits and still allows the incoming biden team access to classified briefings, let's give it the benefit of the doubt, in the event that the biden transition teams becomes a meditation on generate 20 if they can hit the ground running and be able to protect the homeland, isn't that something that president trump and the campaign want? >> must be clear i represent the campaign and not the administration, we don't have anything to do with any briefings. we are pursuing the rule of law, we have excellent cases in michigan and pennsylvania and in michigan 243 pages of affidavits, sworn affidavit under the penalty of perjury say they saw stacked the ballots

being counted and rented the skinners multiple times, giant batches of ballots, 60% all contained the same signature in pennsylvania. gillian: what i'm trying to get, doesn't the campaign care about the national security of the united states if president biden takes office on generate 20 or, do you want him to protect americans? >> of joe biden and his campaign want to complain about the peaceful transfer of power i think i would refer them to 2016 without the incoming trouble administration getting ready to take power they try to use the lows logan act as the incoming national security advisor and set him up and frame him because he was having a conversation. gillian: retribution? >> these people no room to complain because of what they did was joe biden himself who suggested the use of the logan act against michael flynn, to hear them complain is ridiculous. the selection is not over, we have very good case in michigan, and pennsylvania we have very

strong argument that it was a violation of the 14th amendment the equal protection clause in the way that the election was conducted in pennsylvania. the selection is not over. gillian: we got it, thank you for taking time out today, we appreciate it. leland: joined now by the honorable dean phillips, minnesota congressman number of the house financial committee. we appreciate it, you are in d.c. as are we, i'm guessing you didn't spend last night out and 16th, but we did see the video of it. pretty disturbing, we sell the video to play that we were targeted tim murtaugh about. does tim murtaugh have a point and does the president have a point that the vast majority of political violence over the past six or so months that we've seen been coming primarily from the left? >> minneapolis is my hometown, i represent the district to the western suburban minneapolis and anybody who looks at the facts

can identity identify that most of the violent acts and burning was not done by leftist and i gotta say it is time that we all set aside this nonsense and come to the same conclusion, this is united states of america, people should be able to gather safely and protest safely. gillian: there doesn't seem to be an argument about that, you remember after charlottesville, the media as well as the democratic party as a whole demanded over and over that president trump name and shame, white supremacist groups, the proud boys, any group by name, same both sides, violence on both sides is there any normalization or equalization the way you are doing it right now was not acceptable, when antifa and the more violent parts of black lives matter are responsible for the violence in your city, why is it so hard for democrats to name and shame them? >> what i'm trying to tell you i

don't believe blm was responsible for a lot of the damage or minneapolis. let me make it clear, no matter your politics we should condemn violence no matter where it comes from, when i see evidence, from the left or right. gillian.leland: if people are wg swastikas we call them neo-nazi, the way black lives matter sure to writing and looting and punching people in the back of the head like they were last night watching fireworks with people having dinner, why not name and shame them by the same label? >> i will tell you one reason people wearing black lives matter shirts are trained to fight for equality, people wearing neo-nazi shirts are fighting for the death. gillian: so they should be protected from being named and shamed? from any violence? because of what they say they represent? >> violence against any human being is wrong i don't care what your politics are, there should not be burning or looting or violence against anybody no matter how hard it is for some of us to digest the rationale

sometimes for peopl peaceful protesting i don't want to see it on any side. i speak for democrats probably when i say that and republicans. leland: i understand that point but i'll try one more time, when there is political violence on the right, there was a demand over and over for president trump to denounce white supremacy, denounce neo-nazis, over and over again during his term, why isn't it fair to demand that the left denounce by name antifa and by name violent elemental black lives matter? >> on make it really clear, the president should condemn white supremacy and neo-nazi. leland: he has a number of tim times. >> and he should condemn violence. >> they used antifa by name. >> democrat should condemn violence wherever it comes from, we can about long discussion

about what antifa is we don't have antifa the democratic party, i don't know anybody affiliated, let me just finish. i don't want anybody who shows up to protest policy or a politician or advocate. leland: i want to move this really quickly, and when mark questioned the issue of how this affected democratic politics, we heard over and over again defend the police and the violence that we saw and political violence hurt democrats at the house level in the senate level as well. do you worry about that going into 2022 and as you represent a moderate district and people holding you responsible for the defunding the police and the violence that we see? >> defend the police was one of the worst marketing messages i've ever encountered. the reality is, this is the biggest problem of politics, not always binary. there have been acts against people of color through history in our country, the other truth

is every american should feel safe, democrats, republicans, rural dwellers, urban dwellers, everybody should feel safe in this country. what i'm think a lot about, as an american we should all be concerned about the underlying over democratic institution. we should all unite behind. leland: there is a lot to unite behind you make the point well and it came on the program to talk about that, we appreciate it. in your marketing expertise could be used in a lot of things we know you been successful in the business world and you share that in politics as well. thank you. >> let's come together everybody. gillian: coronavirus infections and now sadly hospitalizations are surging across the united states friday we saw a record-breaking 180,000 cases, new confirmed cases in just a day. we are tracking the numbers in atlanta, georgia.

reporter: the u.s. has shattered records for daily new cases almost every single day this week averaging 140,000 new infections from day to day and cases continue to surge and were seen state and local officials are increasingly moving to nightly restrictions including places like north dakota where the governor just implemented a mask mandate among other surging cases that have overloaded the state hospitals. on monday the state of new mexico will begin the stay home order, nonessential businesses will close and the governor has urged people to avoid unnecessary travel, doctor anthony fauci she says this is the reality that we face if this country can get the virus under control. >> i think we will start seeing in the local levels being governors or mayors at the local level will do as you said very surgical type of restrictions which are the functional equivalent of a local lockdown but we will not have a national

lockdown. if things really get bad and you put your foot on the pedal and still you have this urge, you may need to take the extra step. reporter: with the spike in new cases among states and northeast, new york governor andrew cuomo say he and the governors of other states in that region would need to figure out how they can align policy to fight the latest wave of infection, if we continue on the same path, the cdc is projecting that we could as a country add an additional 40000 deaths to the death toll by the first week of december. gillian: that is horrific. charles watson a atlanta. leland: nasa is now preparing for a historic launch, crew one and it will take off in just a few hours, it is still at the kennedy space center before goes out. reporter: this is a big launch, six hours from now right

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gillian: counting down the hours until for astronauts launch the international space station, the first operational mission for the spacex crew dragon, phil keating's life with an inside look. >> no technical issues have arisen and for now, the weather is beautiful, blue skies and sunshine. however, although that could change as we get towards the launch time, rain and thunderstorms in the forecast meaning the launch on launchpad 39a stands at about a 50/50 sh shot, looking live at the pad there is the spacex falcon 9 rocket with the crew dragon castle named resilience for this

launch scheduled to ignite and lift off in six hours, spacex drone team went out, showing you pretty pictures, launch time set for 6:27 p.m. eastern time, the nasa spacex crew one mission a far bigger deal than any other launch here since the last space shuttle in 2011, thursday all for astronauts suited up and rode out to the launchpad sat inside the capsule for one final dress rehearsal, they did every step of the launch and document the space station, before it landed from houston a week ago and has been encouraging a sense, nasa this crew marks a historic's depth going from test flights to certified flights to 100% nasa flights and russian rights to american contractors doing the job. >> the whole goal here is to commercialize our activities in low earth orbit, nasa wants to be one customer of many

customers in a very robust commercial marketplace for human spaceflight and low earth orbit. reporter: the crew 1 crew mission specialist shannon walker, commander mike hopkins in the japanese space agency. the final test flight for spacex was the first crew to launch from florida the space since the last shuttle, nasa and spacex are fired up, the test flight for the most part went flawlessly. the other future carrier of astronauts in the space for nasa will be boeing in the star letter capsule, that is done one empty test flight and expected to take astronaut to low earth orbit late next year. the crew will have a 27 hour ride up to the space station and get there late monday night, they will have plenty of time to sit in explore the capsule and make sure and determine if it's

cramped, we shall see. once they get there they will do a full six month of science and research of above us and also this evening vice president pence and his wife will fly down here and watch the launch in person. back to you. gillian: very exciting, think about spending 24 hours inside the capsule is making me claustrophobic and i am not claustrophobic. leland: is that it behind you? is that the capsule that four people for 24 hours. reporter: yeah 27 hours actually. the last time they did the test flight, a couple of hours when they got into the flight, they took up their suits and they shot some videos with a little dinosaur floating around, we are hoping that happens again this evening. gillian: god bless. phil keating, thank you for joining us. leland: we will keep you updated

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leland: we are learning more about the clashes between pro-trump rally and anti-trump protesters in washington last night, they got pretty violent at times, lauren is here with the video. reporter: the million maga march was peaceful during the daylight hours but it was a powder cake, that's when things got ugly when the sun went down, they were separated by a line of police downtown washington. members of black lives matter and antifa as well as far right militia groups like the crowd entered proud boys shouting at each other.

[shouting] reporter: overnight things got violent, fistfights to all-out brawls in the early hours this morning, two officers were injured and last night the d.c. mayor's office said 20 arrests were made for disorderly conduct, assault, assault on an officer and firearm possession. during one confrontation a man was down multiple times and taken to hospital, he is expected to be all right, the president and his allies are declaring far right groups as scum. >> weatherby the d.c. police were the d.o.j., there has to be immediate crackdowns like antifa, this is not how the house divided is supposed to work. reporter: the deep-sea chapter of black lives matter not too happy with d.c.'s mayor, they say she did nothing nor did she have the police do anything about maga supporters who were tearing down signage along the fencing outside of the white house, we have no comment from the mayor.

leland: warm winter, thank you so much. gillian: the battle for the control of the senate is raising millions of dollars and getting poured into the georgia runoff, the state is in a recount of ballots also going on at the same time, steve harrigan is in atlanta with the inside scoop. reporter: some of the hand count going on behind me all of crossed georgia, their hand counting 5 million presidential ballots, it is a simple operation, two election officials at a table they read the ballot out loud and then count the stacks, the state has to certify the balance by november 20, this point joe biden has a 14000 vote lead, that is .3% lead in the two senate runoff races in georgia are in full swing that is for a january 5 runoff, both sides seem to agree on how crucial the two senate runoff races are for the future of the country. >> six and a half million

americans have pulled themselves out of poverty, that will all get undone if we lose both of the seats in georgia that's why we know where the last line of defense and were fighting hard to make sure it's done legally and we get this done appropriately. >> what were feeling for the first time in four years is hope, recognition with trump departing that we have the opportunity to define the next chapter in american history, to lead out of this crisis but only by winning the senate seats. reporter: early voting in the two senate runoff races begins next month. gillian: thank you so much. leland: we bring in politics and government reporter for the atlanta journal constitution, greg bluestein. we appreciate the time we know you're heading off to war socket a couple of hours, how much the two of them, the democrat time in their fortunes together and how much our locker and purdue tying their fortunes together. >> they cannot avoid it, these

two are really one race combine, i expect very little crossover voting tapping, maybe a few thousand, we saw kelli loeffler and david perdue have a joint event this past wednesday -- i'm sorry friday, this'll be the first joint event of the runoff cycle. leland: is anything that we can learn from the exit polling from the demographics of the general of who is voting it's weird because doug collins and kelly loeffler, can we learn anything about how they are going to message for this runoff? >> yes they are both appealing to their bases, it's a continuation of the final week of the presidential campaign where it's not about persuading undecided, it is generating base turnout and the magic marker for democrats is 30%, that is the number of white voters, the 30% white voters is a major that they hope to achieve, they get around there they are pretty

confident in winning. leland: those white suburban voters were key in switching georgia conceivably to former vice president biden, now the president-elect biden, that race has been called that he's ahead, here is warnock talking in a w way. >> no matter what happens next month were a third of the nation that would go along with this is reason to praise come america needs to repent for its worship of whiteness. leland: that was october 20, 2016, that cannot be a way to win over suburban white. >> that's going to plan to republican arguments, you already see kell kelly loefflers too radical for georgia, and any article that they have made first many years, he was not faced with these attacks in the general election campaign, he had the field to himself as the republicans were attacking each other. this is a new phase in the battle for him.

leland: we seen as going after him about reverend right among others and charges he was soft on anti-semitism and other things, this is an interesting, what happened in atlanta the shooting overcharged brooks in the burning of wendy's in the protest in downtown atlanta the turnberry violent, are the suburbs of atlanta shaken by this violence, does running on a law and order to get as purdue and kelly loeffler will change things? >> it motivates the republican base, the suburbs continue the trend towards democrats in november. leland: i'm asking for an opinion about how much was because joe biden was on the top of the ticket and how much because suburbs are going left? >> it is a great point there was under vote, 100,000 democrats voted more for biden, that's a

big challenge for his campaign, try to generate that enthusiasm that the top of the ticket got for democrats and he is trying to re-create that right now. leland: a much narrower margin than 100,000 votes between president trump and joe biden. greg bluestein on his kids birthday weekend, happy birthday kids, thank you for sharing your dad for a minute. gillian: those are good ages, a last-minute shakeup from president trump of the pentagon and the intelligence agencies, he has a lot of government officials worried, next up president trump former national security chief on deck, he will tell us what the moves are about. ♪ introducing the all new chevy trailblazer. here? nope. ♪ here.

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transition. president of the center for national security policy fred flight joins us in an national security chief of staff, fred, they give or take a time for us today. i want to put politics aside for you and really dig in to what should we be scared up during this transition, during any transition, we know it terrorist threat is sharper, we know threats from foreign adversaries become elevated during this time, what are we looking for generally? >> it's great to be here i don't want to talk about personnel change because i'm working with the white house on postelection issues but i've been thinking a lot about security threats between now and inauguration day and i have two major thoughts on that, i don't think there's enemies and adversaries are going to try anything because they know that president trump is unpredictable and he could respond with military force, i think they're laying low and

assuming that joe biden is going to win the election and scope out what his national security team would be like his policy, his influence of policies and influencing people who biden would bring into the administration. gillian: interesting, you feel like maybe our enemies, russia, china, iran, our enemies and adversaries are looking forward to a couple months and how they can get a foothold established inside a biden a administration, inside washington is that right? >> i think so, they're looking for return to the obama years which were predictable when the u.s. worked for coalitions in the un, and the united states that was easier to dominate, easier for europe to dominate and adversaries to dominate, i think that they believe a biden a administration will be quite weak and they will take advantage of it and i think that everett has already started. gillian: we heard from the biden folks, we heard from the

national security lineup that they want to get in the ironically deal and do it as soon as possible, is there a way for him to do that but also maintain leverage over ironic the same time? >> this is an opportunity for real leadership for joe biden if he becomes president, to join the deal as soon as possible because it was one of obama's most significant achievements, there is a belief that donald trump got out of it despite mr. obama but i don't think is true europe wants us to get back into it, the problem the facts on the ground have changed, there is substantial information of our iranian cheating and ironic back out of the agreement and the iranian government says it will not renegotiate under any circumstance, although biden staff is saying we will fix the deal and rejoin it, i don't think that is possible, i hope

biden if he becomes president will be open to staying out of the agreement unless iran agrees to fix it. gillian: last question for you used to read the intelligence reports for a living, the threat assessments, when you look at us today this is a big picture question, are we safer are americans abroad in foreign countries safer than we were four years ago? >> yes, james jeffrey who was a trump's special envoy for isis recently resigned, he said all of our era ballets do not want trump's to go because of his achievements in the middle east. he is urging abiding a administration to build on trump's accomplishments, not just dismiss because they don't like mr. trump, that is the way to get ahead in the interest of our country and i hope president biden will listen to ambassador jeffrey. gillian: i have to say as reasonable as you sound it would be a lot easier for an incoming biden a administration to learn from and pull from president

trump's foreign-policy achievements if the trump administration would talk to them. but i know you've got to go and i've got ago, thank you so much for joining us, we really appreciate it. leland: we are hours away from a historic launch a bipartisan american achievement at back to the international space station from u.s. soil on a u.s. rocket. one astronaut who will ride the rocket when we come back. ♪ like cordless phones.

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or call during business hours. will. >> three, two, one, 0. ignition, lift off, crew dragon, go nasa, go's spacex, godspeed. leland: i was supposed to wait for the countdown. the demo to launch last may the test mission restored spaceflight in nearly a decade, coming up the first official crew mission that blastoff in a few hours, for astronauts on board who are a little busy so we caught up with sunita williams who will be on the next mission.

leland: asked her not sunita williams thank you for joining us, an exciting day, i think back and remember the first time something happened and it was so exciting to watch the first spacex go up, are we at the point where it is routine. >> i think that would be a stretch, every long rocket launch is exciting and there's always things that could possibly go wrong just because were operating on the edge of the envelope all the time with rockets and specifically putting people into space. i won't say routine, i think the word is operational, this is a contract with the companies to deliver people to the international space station and were at that point where the faa has signed off in these other rockets. leland: how does it change, you were on the final space shuttle missions and now we transition to this, a private company, how does that change things? >> it is a new era and spaceflight with the company taking over, there is more than

one company, a number of companies that are working to get people into space and with their competition, their innovation, their creativity and the safety that they put into the spacecrafts, we are hoping this opens the door for more people not only professional but other people to go to space, we have a job to do, this is the first contract to deliver people to the international space station so we have a pretty specific job in the sky is the limit in the end imagination. leland: if you think about virgin galactic which is trying to launch rockets into battl satellites, you think about the history of the u.s. space program and the two iconic moments would be neil armstrong walking on the moon in ten years before that president kennedy giving the challenge, take a listen. >> we choose to go to the moon. we choose to go to the moon and

do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are willing to postpone and one we intend to win and the others to. leland: going to the space station of putting people there seems to become something we've understood, what is the next hard thing? >> nasa is contracting these companies so we can do what we do best which is exploration mentioned by president kennedy, we want to take the next step, go back to the moon sustainably, were springboard enough the technologies and industries that is making the brand under brand-new spacecrafts to put into the program for the orion spacecraft to take it back to the moon. that will set the stage for the next generation to go to mars.

we are always searching, reaching for the next g goal and this is the next way to do it. leland: we know you'll be part of the next mission not the one going up now but the one coming up and looking forward to having you back to talk about that in the moon mission as well, interestingly enough this is a bipartisan issue one of the few in d.c. that president trump and president-elect biden say they're pretty well aligned on the need to continue american excellence in space, suni williams we appreciate you being with us. >> thank you, go dragon. leland: ally picture of the dragon capsule and the rocket on launchpad 39 a at the kennedy space center. the very top and evidently therefore astronauts will spend 27 hours inside, just the two of them. the two hours on the set with me you're ready to run. you've got to really like each other there. gillian: something i was thinking of, it was a great

interview. really well done. leland: are you gearing up for the 27 hours are supposed to spend together. gillian: this is incredible because we are seeing a public private sector collaboration in an area, historically it's very difficult to get that done in this country. leland: you think the apollo mission built by private contractors. gillian: but they were not brought in every step of the way, the spacecrafts were built that way but the missions were handled by nasa astronauts. leland: this goes up at 7:27 p.m., live coverage as it happens, we have phil keating from the kennedy space center. tm is located in your gut? to boost your immune system: try align gut health & immunity support. align's quality probiotic strain, adds more good bacteria to your gut, to help strengthen your immunity. try align today. in connemara.

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