. >> mason: cbs news senior space consultant bill harwood says a couple recent spacex launchpad failures, last september and in june of 2015 -- >> we appear to have had a launch vehicle failure. >> reporter: -- appeared the raise the stakes. >> they think they've fixed their problem, but they've had two failures in their last 30 launches. they need a string of success es. >> reporter: for the third time the booster returned to earth for an upright landing. >> stage one, upright confirmed. >> reporter: the secret the space travel lies in reusing rockets. >> whatever you want the try to achieve here is to make mars seem possible. >> reporter: musk wants to send an unmanned mission to mars in 2020. >> they have to be able to show the falcon 9 rocket is a safe and reliable launch vehicle, and with every successful launch, confidence is going to go up that they can, in fact, deliver on these big promises. >> reporter: that cargoship that's in orbit now, planning to dock with the space station this wednesday, will deliver 5,500 pounds of supplies and experiments. anthony? >> mason: glad baby c

cbs news space expert bill harwood. >> talk is cheap. launching a mission like this safely is a tall order. >> reporter: the company has not released what the week-long journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moon's surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 200 to 300,000 miles. they'll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for "60 minutes" his friends were dubious. >> i had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. >> pelley: what did they tell you? >> one good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. he just didn't want me to lose all my money. >> reporter: in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. still, musk is known for making bold predictions that don't quite come to

. >> bill harwood is the senior space consultant for cbs news. >>> nasa has high hopes that spacex as well as boeing will be able to launch astronauts to and from the space station. the wild card in all of this is what the trump administration plans for nasa. >> after sunday's success, spacex has reason to be flying high. tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. >> morgan: u.s. backed iraqi forces launched another all-out assault on isis today. they're trying to drive the terror group out of iraq's second-largest city -- mosul. jonathan vigliotti has the latest. >> u.s.-backed iraqi troops moved in swiftly sunday retaking at least five villages in western mosul -- setting their sights on the city's airport. leading up to the invasion, iraqi planes dropped millions of leaflets warning people that the assault was imminent, and calling on islamic state militants to surrender. iraqi prime minister al-abadi announced the aggressive new operation this morning on state-run television saying the mission is two-fold: to first liberate civilians and reclaim territory from the islamic state. >> we cal

. >> reporter: cbs news senior space consultant bill harwood says a couple of recent spacex launchpadlures, last september and in june of 2015 -- >> we appear to have had a launch vehicle failure. >> reporter: raised the stakes. >> they think they've fixed their problem, but they've had two failures in their last 30 launches. to instill confidence in their customer base, they need a string of successes. >> reporter: for the third time the booster returned to earth for an upright landing at cape canaveral. >> stage one, upright confirmed. >> reporter: tweeting "baby came back." knowing the secret to space travel lies in reusing rockets. >> whatever you want the try to achieve here is to make mars seem possible. >> reporter: musk wants to send an unmanned mission to mars in 2020. >> they have to be able to show the falcon 9 rocket is a safe and reliable launch vehicle, and with every successful launch, confidence is going to go up that they can, in fact, deliver on these big promises. >> reporter: that cargo ship that's in orbit now, planning to dock with the space station this wednesda

bill harwood is the space consultant for cbs news. >> nasa has high hopes spacex will be able to launch astronauts from the space station. >> reporter: spacex has listen to be flying high. tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. >>> u.s. and iraqi forces launched another all-out assault on isis today, trying to drive the terror group out of iraq's largest city, mosul. jonathan vigliotti has the latest. >> reporter: u.s.-backed iraqi troops moved in swift think sunday, retaking at least five villages in western mosul, setting their sights on the airport. iraqi planes dropped millions of leaflets, calling on islamic state militants to surrender. the prime minister announced the aggressive operation this morning, saying the things is twofold, to liberate civilians and reclaim territory from the islamic state. "we call on our brave troops to start the push to liberate the rest of the city and people from the oppression and terrorism of isis," he said. as many as 600,000 civilians live in the western part of the city. the assault is taking place amid new concerns about the conditions they've been

cbs news space expert bill harwood. >> talk is cheap. >> reporter: the company has not released what the week-long journey will cost, but it says it will take the amateur space travelers near the moon's surface and further out to space before looping back to earth, a distance of 300 to 400,000 miles. they'll be aboard a fully automated spacecraft with no human pilot. three years ago spacex founder elon musk told scott pelley for "60 minutes" his friends were dubious. >> i had so many people try to talk me out of starting the company, it was crazy. >> what did they tell you? >> one good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made we watch those. he just didn't want me to lose all my money. >> reporter: in fact, spacex added to the collection of explosion videos with two spectacular failures, but recently the company has had a string of successful launches and landings. still, musk is known for making bold predictions that don't quite come to pass. in 2011 he vowed to puop in space in three years. that

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harwood has details. john. >> reporter: bill, as you know, a few days ago president trump signed an executive order accelerating the deregulation process requiring that agencies revoke two regulations for every new one they pass. we have now had the first action by congress in a concrete way on the deregulation agenda. the senate has just passed a repeal under the accelerated procedures, called the congressional review act, of what is known as the stream protection rule. the house has previously passed it. this is a regulation requiring coal mine operators to report what was going into streams adjacent to coal mining operations. the coal industry complained that this was a job-killing regulation. of course, environmentalists are in favor of it. it will go to president trump. there are other proposals on deck. we'll be watching those, too. >> all right, john. thank you very much. >>> let's continue our conversation now. charles with ariel investments. they are deregulating, as promised, the trump administration. that was part of the bold thesis. do you like to see these kinds of moves? >> this one is completely

harwood, chief white house correspondent for cnbc. let's play what congressman darrell issa said on bill maher last night. >> we're going to ask intelligence committees in the house and senate to investigate -- >> independent prosecutor. >> you're right, you cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, who was on the campaign and who is an appointee. you're going to need to use the special prosecutor's statute and office. now, we have to work with them. we don't have to trust them. we need to investigate their activities. and we need to do it because they are bad people. >> he's obviously talking about the alleged ties between trump operatives and russia. amy, how big a deal is this? >> it's a pretty big deal. this is a guy who supported president trump all through the campaign, was a really staunch supporter. we've noticed a little bit of daylight, since president trump took office, this is -- darrell issa has come out and contradicted, said the president was moving too quickly on executive orders, that he should slow down a little bit. he wasn't too pleased with the immigration ban. he said as much. this is kind of the third ti

bill gross, janus capital. a pleasure as always. thank you. >> thank you very much. >>> news alert with john harwood. john?headlines from the white house briefing, which is ongoing with sean spicer. a rare appearance by national security adviser michael flynn. and the general said that iran was officially on notice as a result of that missile launch that has been confirmed recently. he said the obama administration has been inadequate previously in responding to provocations from iran. no indications spelled out of what the administration might do. but that's worth watching. secondly, spicer announced that the executives of harley-davidson, who the president had been scheduled to visit in milwaukee tomorrow is instead coming to the white house. the president feared protests in milwaukee. sean spicer said that was not the case. >> it was easier for the executives to come here. considering the weekend and all the activity that's been going on. we're concerned about american jobs, moving this economy forward and we're excited to welcome them here to washington to talk about the great work they do and the many

harwood caught up with him. john? >> reporter: kelly, in two different white houses chicago mayor rahm emanuel adapted to the needs of a globalized economy. he helped billa and president obama with the tpp. emanuel wants to know why pro trade american businesses aren't complaining. >> i have to be honest, one of the things that's surprised me in the past weeks, you know for president clinton i worked with bill davis spearheading that. in congress on trade deals i supported president obama's asian pacific deal. i supported it and went to the white house and helped him get the korean. >> yes. >> how is big business silenced about this? president's been talking about tpp and you would act like it was -- it's like an unfortunate -- >> accident. >> but i'm a little surprised given the energy that they think about, the importance they see from globalization how they've -- maybe it's the lure of the tax cuts. i have to be honest, i really want to know how sincere you were about how important globalization is. i still believe in the promise of globalization with real investments in infrastructure, training, et cetera. >> reporter: now president trump may be mod