a.m. eastern. connected to the international space station for the second time. >> there are still a few steps to complete before dragon is securely attached. >> soft capture ring retraction in progress. the ring retraction is happening. ring retraction happening as expected. after the ring retracts, 12 hooks will lapse, six at a time, to perform a hard capture and officially made --mate dragon to the international space station. an awesome view of dragon as it is connected to the port currently making progress on hard capture. >> soft capture ring retraction takes some time. it is continuing at anticipated speed. things are looking good. this is the first in a series of steps to officially mate dragon to the station. we the callout for soft capture confirmed at 2:08 a.m. pacific time, four: oh 8 a.m. eastern time. 264 statute miles over the south indian ocean. we are retracting the soft capture ring and anticipating proceeding with the hard capture sequence, where 12 hooks will officially mate the

a.m. eastern. you're watching live coverage simulcast of tv here on c-span2. megyn blows kisses -- ready for their ride to the space station. and here they come -- the crew two astronauts taking first steps outside before their journey to space. [applause] i love this moment. they have opportunity to wave good-bye -- departure on schedule. right so we just heard that announcement that the crew has departed the operations and checkout building on schedule. and we can see the astronauts inside the crew access arm. commander shane, there he is climbing inside -- crew dragon "endeavour" call this process -- crew member get buckled in as you can see side hatch is closed -- five, four, three, two, one -- liftoff. "endeavour" -- "endeavour" launches once again four astronauts from three countries on crew two now making their way to the one and only international space station. goes peaching down range from an engine -- hearing good calls -- and performance so far. falcon nine. >> good morning, and thank you for joining us -- earlier today at 5:49 a.m., nasa and space

a.m. eastern on fox. start smart every weekday 6 - 9:00 a.m. ou will start your day with us. th i i i i it for us for now, they keep her being with me. have a great rest of the weekend. also you next time. ♪ ♪ ♪. gerry: hello and welcome to the wall street journal at large. the outcome of the derricks open trial would be a case of heads we win, tails you lose for the components that america is stem oakley basis. if he had been acquitted of murdering george floyd, it would've caused the justice system is irreparably racist. the riots that were

a.m. eastern, on c-span2, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the c-span radio app. you can watch anytime on demand at c-span.org. joining us now is associate professor of journalism richard lee. interesting class you had, project that you recently had. your students did report on questions asked at white house briefings. tell us about this project, what you ask them to do and why you did it. guest: thank you, paul. this is a seminar course i teach in media and democracy where we explore the relationship between media and democracy. one of the projects i do is called media tracking. we keep questions asked by white house reporters so that when we have a discussion on a topic, we start with some facts with some hard data. when i was looking for something to do a project on this year, since the press briefings were back on a regular basis and back to a normal sort of briefing and the transcripts were online, i thought it would be interesting to keep track of what the press court is asking about and see how -- press corps. looking at the president's agenda. i asked the

a.m. eastern time for the final rendezvous and dock and will make contact 5:00 to tenten a.m. eastern with the final docking around 5:23 a.m. sol a busy time as they look over dragon and as i said dragon is doing very well today the weather cooperated we moved the launch windy and looked at the abort weather and it was not very good for thursday. we moved that launch within day and the weather just cooperated great today. you know this the vehicle improvements that spacex embarked upon for this flight adding capability to handleon shore winds today was difference really in getting off with the onshore winds with the vehicle we had for crew one and deem know two we would not have gotten off. the countdown was smooth and we worked a couple of things and checking out the consider on the draco thrusters to making sure it was ready to go and the scantdown was extremely smooth today. a lot of people worked very hard to put that together. then, as kathy alluded to. it is busy time for us. we'll get the crew docked on saturday then after we get them safely onbard and start to focus on

a.m. eastern on fox. start smart every weekday 6 - 9:00 a.m. will start your day with us. th hello, everyone. i am larry kudlow. great pleasure to be here is as always. we are going to do infrastructure this past monday, president biden in the white house with the bipartisan group of congressional books, most of whom were former governors and mayors. on the senate side, two republicans were there, met romney and john hogan. we are told the meeting was cordial but frankly expectations for a bipartisan deal should remain low. why is this? i figured two big parts. one, gop does not want

a.m. eastern on c-span. at 1:00 p.m., vaccine hesitancy. from the center for strategic and international studies. on c-span two, at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the trial continues for former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin who is charged in the death of george floyd. ♪ >> c-span's long-running series book notes is back as a podcast. notes plus. here compelling interviews. -- hear compelling interviews for you this week, on the inaugural episode, find out which u.s. presidents were, in sex scandals. author eleanor herrmann joins us to share those stories from her book sex with presidents. a new podcast from c-span. subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and get your information about all the c-span podcasts at c-span.org/podcasts. ♪ >> president biden announced four actions aimed at preventing gun violence. he was joined by vice president harris and attorney general garland in the white house rose garden. this is about 40 minutes.

a.m. eastern. at 11:30 a.m., the world bank president holds a 11:30, the wok president holds a news conference as the international monetary fund begins annual spring meetings, followed by president biden in the afternoon, giving a speech on his infrastructure plan. at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, democratic senator chris coons speaks about climate change and environmental policy. then at 10:00 a.m., the trial continues for former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin who is charged in the death of george floyd. next, look at truth misinformation, and the future , of democracy with washington post columnist, jennifer rubin and strategy director, jennifer kavanagh, author of the book "truth decay." i'm pleased to welcome you to america at a crossroads. if it's wednesday night, and

a.m. eastern live, start smart every weekday 6 - 9:00 a.m. eastern with "mornings with maria".s. ananananank you for watching. ♪ ♪ ♪. larry: hello everyone welcome back to "kudlow", i am larry kudlow great to be with you this evening fox today closed higher across-the-board another new record for the dow and s&p 500, the economy is booming

a.m. eastern and if you missed any of our live coverage watch it at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi stressed the importance of passing covid-19 hate crimes legislation. joining them at the news conference senator mazie hirono and grace meng and andy kim. >> ok, good morning, everybody. i am so pleased to be joined by of course oured great speaker nancy pelosi, senator mazie hirono, representative meng from mike great state of new york and represented cam so thank them all for coming. i want to thank senator hirono and representative meng for leading the charge on the legislation. i want to thank speaker pelosi and congressman kim for coming and lending their great support for this as well.er we all know over the past year there's just been an awful rising tide of violence and discrimination against asian americans. it's driven by fear. it's driven by misinformation. it's driven by age-old prejudices, from shouted insults to racial slurs to actual physical assaults. i attended five or six rallie

a.m. eastern. h live coverage of the trial on c-span2, on my neck c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. watch at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2 and any time on demand at c-span.org. announcer: also today, the energy secretary briefed reporters about the administration's clean energy agenda. >> hi, everyone. hey. we have another member of the president's jobs cabinet joining us today. secretary of energy, jennifer granholm. secretary granholm is just the second woman to lead the department of energy, where she will help america achieve president biden's goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. she'll do this by advancing cutting edge clean energy technologies, creating millions of good paying union, clean energy jobs, and building an equitable clean energy future. secretary granholm was the first woman elected governor of michigan, serving two terms, from 2003 to 2011. as governor, she successfully led efforts to diversify the state's economy, strengthen its auto industry, preserve

a.m. eastern on c-span. at 1 p.m., the discussion about the pandemic and vaccine hesitancy from the center for strategic and international studies. on c-span two at about 10 a.m. eastern, the trial continues for former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin who is charged in the death of george floyd. >> book tv on c-span two has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. saturday at 8 p.m. eastern, the columbia university professor looks at america's approach to individual rights in his book " how right went wrong." saturday at 9 p.m. eastern, the bowling green state university professor talks about free speech and the free exchange of ideas in his book " why it's ok to speak your mind." sunday at 9 p.m. eastern on afterwords, illinois democratic senator tammy duckworth talks about her life and her life in the military in his interviewed by politico. watch book tv this weekend and be sure to tune into in-depth sunday, may two at noon eastern on book tv on c-span two. >> president biden announced for

a.m. eastern on fox news channel was sunday morning futures we have a newschannel john barrasso, ken paxtonary chad wolf joining us this weekend, start smart on fox business every weekday from 6 - 9:00 a.m. eastern with mornings with marie on fox business 6 - 9 i hope you start your day with us every weekday. that will do it for us, thank you so much for watching i hope you have a wonderful rest of the easter to all, i will see you next time. ♪. gerry: welcome to the wall street journal at large while joe biden was launching a multitrillion dollar spending this week a new rallying cry to the political lexington, in california the first lady doctor jill biden gave a rousing speech to what appeared to be an audience of hostages tied to their speech but closer inspection a performer could in a field she told them presumably in a language she thought they would understand about the importance o

a.m. eastern, takeoff scheduled for 5:49 a.m. eastern from nasa's kennedy space cren for the florida. live coverage on friday on c span 2, online at c span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> sunday night on "q&a," a conversation with "usa today" washington bureau chief susan paige about her biography, "madam speaker," on this epolitical career of nancy pelosi. >> not many people knew this but she was planning once hillary clinton was elected, as so many people, i put myself in that camp, thought she'd be elected, nancy pelosi was making plans to step down. she was 76 years old, had nine grandchildren, had other thing she is wanted to do. but that election night was shock for her and for so many others. she said that once she realized donald trump was going to win the election, it was like a mule was kicking her. physically. she didn't say this metaphorically. she said she felt like a mule was kicking her over and over again. by the end of the night she decided she wasn't going to go anywhere. she was going to stay, try to stand up to donald trump and also to protect democr

a.m. eastern live, start smart every weekday 6 - 9:00 a.m. eastern with "mornings with maria".us. y y y y y y y y y y y y you foe a great rest of the weekend. ♪ >> welcome to the wall street journal large, are you feeling the unity yet, three months after joe biden took office promising to unite the nation the democrats continue their assault on institutions that define american democracy. lawmakers unveiled a plan to expand the supreme court from the current nine to 13 justices. that is known as court packing. the idea is to cement a

a.m. eastern. at 11:30 a.m. eastern, david malpass codes and -- hold a news conference as the imf begins their annual spring meeting. that's followed by president biden in the afternoon giving a speech on his infrastructure plan. at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two, democratic senator chris coons speaks to punch bowl news about climate change and environmental policy. at 10:00 a.m., the trial continues were for minneapolis police officer derek chauvin who is charged in the death of george floyd. congress returns from their holiday recess next week. the senate returns monday at 3 p.m. eastern to continue work on the nomination of polly trachtenberg to be deputy transportation secretary, the number two post under pete buttigieg. senators then begin working on more nominations including wendy sherman to be deputy secretary of state and gary gensler to chair the securities and exchange commission. the houses back tuesday for legislative business and members are expected to work on equal pay for women legislation as we

a.m. eastern time this morning. this after the s&p 500 hit an all-time high, finishing above 4,000 for the first time ever yesterday. markets were driven by big technology and energy stocks. and to asia overnight, green across the board. shares in japan seeing biggest jump, nikkei jumping more than 1 and a half percent. kospi and shanghai composite higher as well. president biden's 2 trillion-dollar infrastructure plan facing a tough battle in congress. republicans criticizing the tax increases and even some democrats now say the massive package, it's not enough for them. mornings with maria live right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ cheryl: good friday in new york city. some of the top stories we are watching for you this morning. georgia's house of representatives voting to strip delta airlines of a multimillion dollar tax break. this moves comes in response to ceo's recent criticism of the state's new voting law. the tax break for jet fuel reported $35 million a year. georgia state senate has not brought the measure up for a vote. pr

a.m. eastern on fox news channel was sunday morning futures we have a newschannel john barrasso, ken paxtonomeland security secretary chad wolf joining us this weekend, start smart on fox business every weekday from 6 - 9:00 a.m. eastern with mornings with marie on fox business 6 - 9 i hope you start your day with us every weekday. that will do it for us, thank you so much for watching i hope you have a wonderful rest of the ♪♪ >> hello, everyone. welcome to kudlow. a great pleasure to be back with you. i want to begin with more class warfare from the biden white house. i've talked about this but of got to talk about it again. in particular, i want to target a new york times story that ran over the weekend. the headline? under biden, democrats are poised to raise taxes on business and the rich. policy to policy and was article, mistake after mistake. one hundred pinocchio's. the only truth i could find

a.m. eastern live. plus every day, weekdays 6-9 a.m. ness, join me for "mornings with maria." that'll do it for us this weekend. i'll see you again next time. ♪♪ gerry: welcome to the "wall street journal at large." in the sports world, all eyes are on georgia this weekend where the final rounds of the annual masters golf tournament is taking place. wait a minute, did i just say georgia? i thought georgia had been canceled? ostracized? banned from hosting big sporting events because of its racist voting laws. a week ago, major league baseball withdrew its all-star

a.m. eastern on c-span. at 1:00 p.m., a discussion about the pandemic and vaccine hesitancy from the center for strategic and international studies. then on c-span2 at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the trial continues for former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. he is charged in the death of george floyd. >> next, a discussion about economic policy with the financial leaders, and federal reserve chair jerome powell. the discussion is 50 minutes and begins with remarks by the imf managing director. >> it is great to be bringing some good news. we have upgraded the growth projections for the world to 6%, and it is on the basis of three things. one, vaccinations advancing, two, major economies putting in more stimulus, and the united states recently did that, and three, lockdowns do not cause the same decrease in economic activity, but there are two things to watch. one, the virus is mutating and still roaming around the world. therefore, we have to concentrate on vaccinations everywhere for everyone, a fair shot

a.m. eastern live, start smart every weekday 6 - 9:00 a.m. eastern with "mornings with maria". we hope will start your day every weekday, that will do it for us. y y y y y y y y y y y y you foe a great rest of the weekend. ♪ >> welcome to the wall street journal large, are you feeling the unity yet, three months after joe biden took office promising to unite the nation the democrats continue their assault on institutions that define american democracy. lawmakers unveiled a plan to expand the supreme court from the current nine to 13 justices. that is known as court packing. the idea is to cement a left-wing majority in turn the entire judiciary into a rubberstamp whose job to enshrine in law every radical progressive major the democrats can come up with. and to abolish the filibuster and overrate states rights and elections and other matters and all the things we have in common is a progressive goal of a narrow political majority gets its way he wants to do, the very opposite of the true democratic idea in which the united states is founded, it is a very opposite of the uniting

a.m. eastern live. plus every day, weekdays 6-9 a.m. aria." ♪♪ >> hi there, everyone. welcome back to kudlow. i am larry kudlow. thanks for being here. the threat rapid overspending and higher taxes from joe biden's large in the background. the biden white house proposed increasing corporate tax rate from 21% -- 28% as a key source of revenue for his so-called infrastructure plan. i'm glad you call it revenue. the president himself yesterday opened the door slightly to lowering the 28% tax hike to 25%. >> i'm willi