. >>> jeff basos, founder of amazon, of course, billionaire and now a space cowboy. he's one of a handful of wealthy businessmen investing a lot of money to explore the final frontier. jane wells has more on the man shaking up the space race. >> reporter: the space symposium in colorado springs is usually a state affair but the business of space is changing and the new players are not stayed. >> i've been obsessed over rocket engines and space flights since i was 5 years old. >> reporter: amazon's jeff basos the star of the show so far, billionaire funding a space venture. blue origin, a rocket company he founded recently launched a rocket sent to the edge of space and safely landed it three times. basos thinks rocket reusability is crucial to bringing down the costs of space and lower costs are necessary to unleash the entrepreneurial explosion the internet has seen. >> i want to go into space but i want to do if in vehicles and even though i do want to go into space, a personal thing i'd like to do that, it's not what's important to me. what's important to me is lo

he criticized jeff bay soes a few months ago. basos said he'll reserve trump seat in space.ven one who suggested he might suggest for hillary clinton. trump is speak in about one hour. it's getting more heated. you have a couple hundred protesters. i saw a trump supporter get in a shoving match with some of the protesters. we're going to be here and brick you guys more headlines as they come. >> we'll check in with you a little bit later on. josh limiten in california. thank you. >> let's turn kayla to larry cud ler who is with us. what do you make of the idea that people in, i'm not sure that those were really silicon valley people. those were people who largely from the african american community don't like some of his rhetoric. does he have a problem in tech land, born of the idea that, oh, my goodness they make a lot of these devices overseas? >> he may. i think in some cases he may. i think in some cases he may be right. in other cases he may be wrong. i'm more or less a free trader. i don't like protectionism. as far as i know, the tech guys love his corporate tax cuts