good morning i'm jo ling kent. it's 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west. here's what's happening right now. weekend meltdown. 190 million facing excessive heat warning. how hot it will get and when we'll get a break. >> tanker seized. iran making a move and ramping up tension. is it still all about the

economy? how big a role it will be in 2020 and the democrats plan to counter it. plus 50 years after the first men walked on the moon. new this morning two-thirds of the country dealing with sweltering temperatures all weekend from the midwest to new england. the excessive heat warnings feel worse because of that high humidity. chicago has seen temperatures in the 90s but feels like 111 degrees. the dangerous heat has left one person dead and former nfl player mitch petric died from heat stroke yesterday after spending the day working outside. nbc's kathy park is in new york city where the heat is so bad the city cancelled its triathlon. let's get first to jessica webb. when do we get a break. >> we have a cold front making its way through the upper midwest. over the next 36 hours steaming hot for two-thirds of the

nation. the problem is the heat index. the air temperatures are really going to however in the 90s this afternoon but when you factor in the dew points that's the moisture in the atmosphere, right now this morning st. louis at 84 degrees. so this is overnight for most folks. that's going to steadily increase throughout the afternoon. you can see this expanding here heat warnings, heat advisories for 190 million, over 40 states involved with this. looking at daytime highs, yes, records will be broken this afternoon from washington, d.c. all the way into philly. look at this heat index for new york city, 109. the moisture really not going to back off. can you spot the cold front? there it is for the upper midwest. i promise you that will sweep across the midwest from the ohio valley to the northeast by late sunday into monday afternoon. really not going to back off too much here from detroit, pittsburgh as well for sunday

afternoon but look at cincinnati. 94. that's the air temperature. you factor in the moisture in the atmosphere. our bodies really don't respond well with temperatures over 95. you factor in the dew points. that's oppressive air, jo, in the 70s. you got to be safe. stay hiydrated. get to these shelters where you can get help. >> drink more water. that's the takeaway. kathy park is live in new york city. kathy, we're hearing the city cancelled some big events because of this heat, right? >> reporter: jo, good morning. that's right. the mayor made that decision yesterday. in fact cancelling the new york city triathlon and more than 4,000 participants were expected to take part in this annual event. he obviously mentioned it will be dangerously hot. the heat index is supposed to be

somewhere between 110 and 111. another event at central park a cultural event a two day event was cancelled because of this dangerous heat. going back to that triathlon an event that a lot of threat ofs look forward to. they train all year for. one athlete was upset he wasn't able to participate this weekend. >> the race starts at 6:00 a.m. it's going to be hot. it's hot every year. done in july every year. we deal with the heat every year. always an issue. i'm not sure why they keep doing it. it's not for me to decide. they shortened the course before. this time they just cancelled it. >> reporter: now event organizers told the athletes they will be honoring the registration, the cost of the registration, but as you know a

lot of these folks plan in advance for this type of event. something to keep in mind, because of this extreme heat that's starting to descend in new york city the mayor has asked these tall buildings right here in midtown manhattan, for example, any building over 100 feet or taller, they are asking the managers, building managers to keep the thermostat at 78 degrees or lower to make sure that the power grid isn't overheat. as you know last weekend the city took a big hit, widespread black out impacting thousands of customers. we were in the dark for several hours, so con edison the local utility has been taking more heat in more ways than one to make sure the power grid isn't affected. they said they will have thousands of employees on stand by in case something goes wrong. hopefully that's not the case. >> i was looking behind you. it says it's 86 degrees at 7:05 here on the east coast. when i walked out this morning

it felt really humid. how does it feel to you? >> reporter: you're right. 86 degrees. i have this cool app, a heat index app that says it feels like 90 degrees when you factor in the humidity. a stifling heat. tough to breathe. you want to heed those warnings. stay hydrated. stay in the ac if possible. one of those weekends where you want to hunker down and find that shade. >> and check on your neighbors. thank you so much. now to breaking news escalating tensions in the persian gulf. iranian state media saying iran seized a british flag oil tanker. yesterday a spanish court extended the detention of the iranian vessel by 30 days. iran says another british operated tanker also detained yesterday has since been released but uk officials are warning iran of serious

consequences if they do not release all of those tankers. also new reports that a member of congress has become the most high ranking u.s. official to meet with iran. president trump was asked about that yesterday as he left the white house. >> rand is a friend of mine, and rand asked me if he could get involved. the answer is yes. if other senators ask me to get involved i'll probably say yes depending who they are. we'll see what happens. i have many people involved. and iran is going to work out very nicely. >> the president saying iran is nothing but trouble. what's the clarity? what's the message here on whether the u.s. and iran are closer to conflict or negotiation? >> reporter: well, jo, the reality sireal j reality is iran and u.s. were having conversations during the obama era. first time in decades that the

two sides sat across the negotiating table and spoke directly. since president trump came into office conversations between tehran and washington are in very short supply and heated rhetoric on public air waves is all too familiar these days. now, we are in a cycle of tit for tat between iran and america for every drone shot down the u.s. want to shoot down an iranian drone. for every tanker seized the iranian wants to take another western tanker. this is happening with alarming frequency over the last few months. incredible volatile few months. a lot of threats bandied about by both sides. but if you ask me about this situation a year ago i would have said we would have been at war but amazingly enough both signs have shown a level of restraint and that's why i don't

think today we ought to think of war but there's also no meaningful dialogue today between the united states and iran. both sides have made sort of very modest offers to talk to one another but none of that has materialized. the united states has had some very, very strong -- excuse me, some strong rerequisite for iran to come back to the negotiating table. iran says listen, there's just too much pressure being piled on them for them to talk to america, ease those sanctions, let iran sell its most important commodity oil and they will come back to the negotiating table. but there seems to be a massive gulf between the two sides and there's no signs this is going resolve itself any time soon. thank you so much. hans nichols is near the

president's bedminster, new jersey residence. what's the reaction to these developments? >> reporter: we have a rhetorical response. they are weighing additional sanctions easily. we haven't had anything officially in terms of how they will mediate this dispute as it relates to oil tankers. you heard from the president before he left yesterday was more of the same and that is that iran is hurting economically. ultimately going to work out fine because donald trump is negotiating all this. at the same time iran is in big trouble. now talking about having rand paul potentially serve as sort of interlocker, some sort of mediator. rand paul is on the dovish side of things. john bolton the president's national security adviser is very much hawkish on this. to the extent president trump is listening more to ran paul and less to his national security

adviser that's an indication negotiations could potentially be one way out of this. jo, there's two issues, there's the oil tanker issue and then the issue of the nuclear issue. the oil tanker the president will work closely with his allies but they don't have a written agreement just an informal conversation. we'll see how this develops. it doesn't seem as though they settled on a response. >> the president is up tweeting the this morning and stepping up his attacks on the four democratic congresswomen. what's the latest? >> reporter: on twitter talking about how he was just at this crowd, this rally where they clearly were going it a. i did nothing to lead people nor was i particularly happy with their chant. the baby trying to split the baby. not aware of what was happening with the tweet but not endorsing what they are saying. what he's doing is doubling down

on his criticism of those four lawmakers. have a listen. >> these women have said horrible things about our country and the people of our country. nobody should be able to do that and if they want to do that, that's up to them. but i can't imagine they are going to do very well at the polls. and i say this. if the democrats want to embrace people that hate our country, people that are so far left that nobody has ever seen anything like it, if they want to embrace people that are so anti-semitic and anti-israel, they want to do that, that's up to them. but i don't have to do that. >> reporter: you know, jo, the test on this is how the president's crowd react the next time there's a rally where the president is at. in a lot of ways the president speaks directly to his base. i was talking to one much his advisors look those tweets weren't meant for us those of us in the media it was meant for his base.

we'll see if they repeat that chant the next time the president tries to rile them up. >> thank you for keeping track of it. joining me now chief washington correspondent for bloomberg news and white house reporter for axios. guys thanks for getting up early for us this morning. kevin, this president disavowing those chants on thursday saying it made him unhappy but defending the crowd and tweeting this morning. what's with the change in tone back and forth? >> i'm not trying to talk about the change of tone of the president's rhetoric with the squad. the racial rhetoric has engulfed the country this week and really captured the attention and debate in american discourse, the bottom line is that congr s congresswoman alexandria occasio-cortez and ilhan omar have an amplified message. they grabbed hold of the microphone and align themselves

together and become in many ways a stronger messaging arm within the democratic party. that is going to have lasting implications for house speaker nancy pelosi, it's going to have lasting implications on 2020 democratic presidential field now and every candidate has been asked about this. and it also is going to have implications for how the president is going to be crafting his messaging into the 2020 cycle. >> does this actually weaken the case for 2020 candidates on the democratic side to have this conversation shift so fully back into the hands of congresswomen? >> i don't think it weakens their case. if anything it gives them an opportunity to show how they will be presidential, especially compared with how president trump has been addressing this. but it is quite a foil. we've seen the president and from a lot of conversations i had with people in the white house this was a calculated move these tweets and we've seen it

carried out through the rest of this week now. of course at the rally on wednesday where people were reinforcing what he did in this race baiting message. they were chanting and said he wasn't for but he didn't quite jump in and tell them to stop either. this will be especially as we look ahead to the debates in the coming weeks in detroit we'll have an opportunity this will definitely come up during those debates and have an opportunity to show how they would handle the situation in a way and contrast with the way president trump is. >> sorry for mispronouncing your name earlier. kevin, i want to talk to you guys about the gop reaction. only four republicans in that house and that lone independent justin amash voted with democrats to condemn the president's remarks earlier this week. nbc news learned that a group of house republican leaders told vice president pence at a breakfast meeting on thursday they were disturbed by the chants and urged him to ask trump to rein it in. why aren't more republicans

speaking out against this publicly. >> president trump chose his foil. president trump decided that congresswoman alexandria occasio-cortez and ilhan omar and the squad, that is who his foil is going to be. last cycle hillary clinton, this cycle it's the squad. that calculation, that calculation has lasting implications because for joe biden, for example, now the center force within the democratic party is for lack of a better term is the squad. that's the foil he'll be campaigning against. everything else is just noise around it. >> let's talk about that debate coming up here. we saw the lineup. we see the head-to-head for both nights of the debate. what do the democratic candidates need to do to actually make mark in advance the conversation on this front and on so many other front? >> as it relates to this front but a lot of eyes will be on

we'll see another rematch almost between former vice president joe biden and kamala harris and we saw race be a very big issue during that second debate night a couple of weeks ago where, frankly, biden wasn't totally prepared but one of the most predictable confrontations of the night especially given his comments on working with segregationist senators in the past. he didn't do a great job of messaging on this so i think definitely in the conversations identify had with people in his campaign he's been preparing for this and what we've seen come out of this this week and race baiting from this administration, there will be a lot of preparation from every candidate on this. then also just in the debate we'll see a match-up between senator bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. i think that will be a chance for them to also, you know, elevate this conversation from the squad or those four women of color that the president has been attacking because really i

think sanders and warren know they are going at it for the more activist base of the party, the democratic side of the party where these four women fall as well. >> thank you both for being here this morning. >> thank you. any time. a rousing reception for a hometown hero. the popularity of ilhan omar in her district t. n her district t or your digestio. so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. eh, not enough fiber... chocolate would be good... snacking should be sweet and simple.

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ilhan omar is one of for you congresswomen fendsing off attacks by the president. she was greeted by chanting supporters when she returned home to her district after they defended her from trump's smears. >> it's commonplace with this administration. >> it's sad we have somebody like trump in the white house as a racist. >> not to be surprised. >> my next guest wrote a new profile on the congresswoman and her district detailing how ilhan omar rose from refugee to trump's top target. joining me right now the "time" correspondent elana abrahmson. good morning. >> good morning. >> president trump is calling that quota tiny stage crowd what you saw there in minnesota. but you tweet odd march's hero welcome in minnesota is not surprising if you know the

contournament of rosco contours of her district. what do you mean >> the most surprising thing i found about congresswoman omar when she came to her district, she's a hero in the somalia community. a lot of people there, for them she's a beacon and a way to say oh, you know, we can -- if she can ascend to congress i can as well. i can't tell you how many women, particularly young girls came up to me and told me she's such an inspiration, she's fighting through everything and because she's fighting through it means for me my path will be easier. >> omar also says that she accepts she's a target for the president and his allies. she said quote the right-wing trump, the republicans want to block immigrant, refugee, women and with her they have all that in one box. is she really the radical

villain as portrayed by the trump administration. tell me where her politics are, given her background and this dominating the public discourse. >> i think she's definitely not the villain that's portrayed by the right-wing. i think her policies are incredible y progressive. democrats say she doesn't represent the mainstream of the party. they are seizing on her because she's a target she has all of that in one box. if you continue to support democrats you're going to get people like omar. at her core it's complicated. i think that she has these progressive policies they are seizing on and then she also, you know, represents everything she likes to say the republicans are scared of and i think that makes her an easy target. >> president trump's rally back in north carolina on wednesday, those send her back hadn't going on for 12, 13 seconds.

listen to the supporters there that defended the president's tweets before he took the stage. listen to this. >> i don't think it's racist. >> political correctness has gone way too far. >> i don't think he meant it in a racist way. >> the point is if they hate it so much go somewhere else. >> so this isn't just reflective of supporters. you have this in the gop the wider party as well and in your latest piece you wrote how republicans are condemning the sends her back chants but still defending president trump. where should republicans be drawing the line here? >> so i think for republicans they are drawing the line at these comments, you know, they are saying these have no place in our country. i spoke with several republicans who refuse to outright call them racist, but they do say that they are not appropriate. several of them noted they didn't watch the rally. but i think they are drawing a line at the rhetoric, that they

are refusing to give the president any responsibility. i would like to note not all republicans are drawing that line. i spoke with former senator jeff flake who told me the president can't avoid responsibility for this. the chants at this rally were coming from his tweets. it depends on the republicans. i think that a lot of them are drawing activist rhetoric but refusing to say the president has any role in it. but i think republicans who are more critical of the, of trump are saying this is definitely his fault. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. great piece of reporting. >> thank you. have a good day. a big if that could determine if president trump gets four more years. that's ahead. years that's ahead

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now today's morning headlines. sweltering temperatures across much of the country could break heat records. temperatures here in new york city climbed so high the city has cancelled its tria the thlon this weekend and the heat wave is expected we hope to break by

monday. a brooklyn man accused of going overseas to join isis is facing federal terrorism charges. the man was a naturalized u.s. citizen and left the country in 2013 to help train isis fighters. he could face 20 years in prison. 4,000 passengers on a cruise were left in the dark after the power went out. the coast guard and tugboat helped the cruise ship get back to dock. and the president stoking controversy with his focus on race but for some voters the economy outweighs everything. a new report in axios shows big takeaways from a focus group. some swing voters told us even though they hate president trump's behavior they will place more importance on the state of the economy and their personal financial situation when deciding how to vote in 2020. joining me now is democratic

strategist stacy kerr, and ashley craft board member for republican women for progress and an nbc contributor. good morning, guys. so, does this mean president trump can get a pass on what he's doing here because they want to talk about the economy and they want to know how good it's going to be potentially in a second term? >> that's where i find this very, very interesting, right? we're seeing trump very much at odds with people who are americans. which we've seen his tweets, everything leading up to this is not shocking behavior for him but the way in which he's messaging opinion it's an us versus them mentality and that's resonating with his base. what that does not resonate are people who are very in the middle, centrist voters, swing voters. we're looking at people who voted for obama, who voted for him a second time, who then voted for trump in 2016 in those rust belt areas that do care about the economy. they might be able to put some

of that aside except for fact when he goes to these extremes it's a turn off for those voters. i do think that there is a lot of headway that can be made in the way of centrist democrats. if you look at candidates like mayor pete buttigieg or vice president biden, you can play to that middle base crowd. you can speak to blue collar voters who are just more intyphooned with their finances, who care about the economy and don't care about some of these extreme issues that we're seeing on some of both sides, both the right and left. i do think it's going to be interesting moving forward. i mean the same saying is always true, it's about the economy stupid, but at the same time as he panders more to his base with these extreme things he's going to really need those swing voters to get him over the edge to get re-elected and i think that he's now putting himself in a position to lose a lot of those voters. >> stacy, axios is pointing out

every incumbent president since fdr who avoided recession in a lead up to an election year has been re-elected. how big of a hurdle is this for democrats. do they have a strategy for countering it here? >> if this really was all about the economy, we would see the president only talking about the economy. and he's clearly not. so, i don't think anyone is going to win in 2020 on one single issue. so as it relates to democrats what you've seen this week in the economy democrats in the house passing a minimum wage bill. you know a bill that can help millions, literally tens of millions of workers in raising wages to $15 an hour. i think those are the types of things that people in the swing districts that ashley is talking about is really thinking about when they sit around at home at their kitchen tables and hearing talk about the economy, i think

they are looking at their own bank accounts and their own paychecks and what that means for them. and i think that's what -- when you talk about democratic strategy, i think that's why you saw democrats passing a bill to raise the minimum wage for millions of american workers. >> actually we also know that there's a lot -- a major bank ceo or chief investment officer came out this week saying that there may be a 10% correction this year in the markets and then you also have this report saying u.s. manufacturing is in a recession, a growing number of businesses are citing greater risk aversion largely because of tariffs and they see that as a reason for not making more purchases or capital investments here. could this become a problem for president trump as he continues to go out and rally his supporters >> yes, because to the point that stacy just made, right? he's not talking about the economy when he's going to these rallies. he's talking about his very

basic extreme issues. at the same time he's smart at times when his advisors tell him to stay on track and talking about this is the best economy we've seen whether or not that's true, he's still espousing that on the campaign trail or making public statements which his base and other people can see. now whether or not people are seeing an increase in their paychecks that's a completely different story. but i do think at this point, obviously, some people in some of these rust belt areas are seeing some jobs come back but we're also not seeing that as a consistent trend throughout the country. when tariffs are being imposed on other countries we know this will be a tax on the american consumer. i think the more that democrats play to that type of messaging and really show how this will affect american consumers here at home they have a stronger leg to stand on. i do think moving forward democrats need to be in a position to one criticize anything he's saying that's

outright or blatantly false or racist or sexist but also focus on the issues when it pertains to the economy and i do think if they find a middle ground there can have a winning message against the trump machine. >> is the economic message that part for the democratic candidates about how wage growth continues to be relatively week and the economy isn't good for everyone. we heard that from some candidates like warren. >> absolutely. i think, you know, one thing to remember is that in november of 2020 there's certainly a presidential election that's consuming a lot of the energy. but there's also an election for control of congress. and a real likelihood that democrats could retain control of both the house and capture control of the senate. so, while there's a lot of conversation and sometimes noise around the national landscape, it's really important to also remember what that means for

districts around the country and whether congress will be won or lost. in particular 31 districts -- 31 house districts that are currently held by a democrat that trump won in 2016. so, you have to also think about, you know, a lot of the large national conversation and how that's really playing out in these swing districts. >> all right. we'll be watching those swing districts really closely. thank you both so much. >> thank you. 50 years after the moon walk the first moon walk the big takeaways from the man who made history. that's coming up. 's coming up whoa. travis in it made it. it's amazing. oh is that travis's app? it's pretty cool, isn't it? there's two of them. they're multiplying. no, guys, its me. see, i'm real.

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we're taking a look at the campaign trail today. joe biden has managed to maintain his lead in various polls his polling average has seen a noticeable decline. biden holds 13.5 points over bernie sanders. on may 11th biden peaked at 41.4 and led sanders by 27 point. president trump's focus on the border appears to be making it a central issue. in the new nbc survey monkey poll immigration was the top issue with 22% of registered voters say it matters the most to them right now up 15% from last fall. jobs still getting 21% of responses and environment 14%.

so now to some growing political crises that we watch out of puerto rico. unprecedented protests and more u.s. elected officials are calling for the governor of puerto rico to resign amid corruption allegations. the last straw for puerto ricans appears to be a leaked group chat in which the governor and his inner circle made sexist and homophobic comments including a joke about cadavers accumulating after hurricane ma ray. the governor has apologized but refusing to step down. i want to break it down with our reporter with "the washington post". she's covered puerto rico extensively and joining us live on the phone this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. how are you >> i'm good. help us put this into context what we're seeing in puerto rico. you've spoken with protesters there on the ground. what's behind the massive protests? what was the tipping point here?

>> reporter: so, this is an accumulation of lots of different things. hurricane maria. the dead. corruption. remember that these were precede by a number of arrests by the fbi including secretary of education. people are fed up. they are fed up with the state of politics on tiled. they are fed up with what after hurricane maria and really from trauma of having lost family members, not just the fact people having moved away and school closures and a bunch of other things. what you're seeing trauma spilling out into the streets. >> the protests largely have been peaceful, right? >> reporter: for the most part, yeah. past a certain hour students get pretty heated, a couple of things get thrown at police and police call an end to the demonstration and tear gas gets deployed. in the early morning hours it's

a bit tens but for the most part these are peaceful. >> president trump claimed congress quote foolishly gave puerto rico $92 billion for hurricane relief. but a fact check congress allocated $42 billion for puerto rico and the island has received less than $14 billion. you and your colleagues are reporting the distribution of the needed federal aid could be at risk here. you've seen lingering effects of hurricane maria. how does impact the crisis recovery? >> reporter: well, just that. recovery is still sort of hobbling along. to get the electric power grid into shape so it can with stand another hurricane. most of those things have not happened yet and it's extremely frustrating. people look around. they look at their community.

they see deteriorating roads and wonder when will this get back to shape. >> we heard president trump and his rhetoric use when talking about puerto rico when he visited the island right after the hurricane, listen to this. >> what's your death count right now. 17. 16 people certified. 16 people versus in the thousands. you can be very proud of all of your people all of our people working together. the job that fema and law enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico, i think was tremendous. i think puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. i have a great relationship with the people of puerto rico. it hasn't been fair the way they treated us from the standpoint of their leaders because they complain they want morgan. >> president trump implying puerto rico is a foreign country. that's not true.

how does president trump influence the relationship between puerto rico the government there and the federal government for getting this aid? >> reporter: well, i think puerto ricans, the ones i have talked to, felt very much disrespected by the president and his comments in the past. money has been appropriated. but he has the power to delay or the agencies that work for him to put on new restrictions and oversight on that money. but at the end of the day what most puerto ricans are focused on is the governor and the comments he makes. it's one thing to get comments from the outside but another thing to be mocked by your own government. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> reporter: thank you for having me. >> 50 years ago today a man on the moon. next a look at the miracle that made jfk's moonshot happen. t has

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the ladder now. >> those are pictures from 50 years ago today when neil armstrong and buzz aldrin became the first to walk on the moon. 650 million people around the world were watching. the astronauts were on the lunar surface for 22 hours. they collected rocks, soil and deployed experiments to study particles, magnetism and gravity. joining me now is the author of the book "the mission of a lifetime: lessons from the men who went to the moon." good morning. what goes through your head when you see that? >> good morning. thank you for inviting me. >> what goes through my head is what an extraordinary accomplishment it was. to think we had six missions that went to the moon. 12 men walked. nothing went wrong. that's quite something. there were 400,000 people who were working, engineers, 20,000

contractors altogether trying to make this happen. it was a lot of folks. a national effort. of course president kennedy had the vision, made sure the funding was there so it could happen. >> let's talk about the 12 astronauts you interviewed who have been to the moon. you talked to them about their courage to go on their missions, especially so early on in the space program. how did they find the courage to strap in and go do that? >> well, it was a couple of things. they all believed in something called the common good and believing in something greater than one's self. of course duty, honor, country. so they soummoned those virtues to get on top of those rockets and to make sure that they had the right stuff, so to speak. >> yes. >> as tom wolf had famously said. typically we think of the right

stuff as this fearlessness, almost a daredevilish quality. frankly there was nothing further from the truth. most of these men, more than half of them, were engineers with masters degrees, ph.d.s. what separated them from everyone else was their attitude towards calculated risk. so they weren't just jumping into spacecraft or supersonic testing aircraft. they were very, very careful in making sure that they knew their machines inside out. and they trained and practiced and practiced in the simulators, which is what helped them conquer their fear. >> you also describe in the book it took big management miracles to get the men on the moon. they used a flat organization at nasa. explain what you mean. >> they wanted as few layers of

management as possible between the engineers on the front lines and people up at the top. so that if you had a very good idea, it would surface quickly. but also if there were mistakes being made, they wanted those surfaced in realtime. mistakes, of course, could wind up in the death of the astronauts. and they had something called the triple nines, 99.99% reliability rate. that meant if 0.1% went wrong, 5,600 parts on the apollo spacecraft and saturn rocket could go wrong, where they had 5.6 million parts there. so they wanted to make sure that mistakes would surface quickly. you know, that flat organization made that happen. >> one last question for you quickly. where are we now with the space program? we want to go to the moon in 2024? >> we do.

and, you know, i don't know that the money, the funding is there. if you think about it, it was 5 $25 billion to get to the moon back in the owe apollo era. in today's dollars that would be ten fold. and the commitment and the dollars need to be there. right now they're not. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. man has made his mark on the moon beyond the footprints. the "wall street journal" saying all the missions to the moon left behind more than 800 objects including spacecraft, flags, plaques, and 97 personal objects. we can't forget the 622 pieces of scientific equipment and tools. so cool to look at where we are right now. ahead on "up" a house divided. the pearls facing nancy pelosi as she tries to maintain a united democratic front. ratic f. apply that same speed to the ford hurry up and save sales event.

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