john glenn called fireflies. as a result, they lost sight of the fact that they had to have fuel after part of the mission. john got a little wrapped up, the retro too, on rockets, a package that had to be kept on because of a fault signal that would say they detached when it turned out they had not. that became a traumatic art of john's mission. they almost ran out of attitude control fuel. the is no reason to do that. so, i went to great lengths to after drifting for a while, i put it back into automatic control. which did not go over too well. [laughter] navigating the spacecraft, using the stars. talk about that a little bit. where did you get this knowledge of what planets to look for? capt. schirra: there is some state on the east coast that has the planetarium -- north carolina. >> couldn't resist. [laughter] all right. i gotcha. capt. schirra: we were taken to the planetarium at chapel hill. tony was our instructor. tony is long gone now. he told us every trick in the trade, how to get checkpoints so we c

then we got to john glenn who made it quite clear who he was. he was a marine. he was really a neat guy, we became very close, and john took over some areas we needed to take a close look at and worked on them very hard. he worked on the flight control system as well as deke. deke always complained about not having runner pedals. he wanted runner pedals and we couldn't have them. gus grisholm is probably the guy that hasn't been portrayed very well. >> gus. >> gus was an intense person, and his intent was to get things done right. although gus could be a lot of fun. we played gotchas on each other all the time, tricks, of course. i guess my favorite gus one was later when we were trying to do a gemini vehicle and we called it the gusmobile. that's kind of where gus was. he inserted himself and was so intent it was obvious it was going to be his vehicle. we called gemini the gusmobile. he was trying to fly a vehicle that would come down in a little parachute like a hang glider and almost didn't live through it. we said, we're not going to do that. anybody else hav

not john glenn, john young always said, you're not an astronaut till you fly in space. it was always expected that we were going to do these missions. actually it turns out guys that were selected somewhat after us still flew a lot of those lunar missions. t there was a time after the fire when deke sat down with out a dozen of us and said that, look, you guys right here , you're the ones that are going to -- we're going to fly you guys, you're going to make the first lunar landing, you know, we don't know what all is going to happen after that. but yeah, i felt like i was fortunate to be part of that little group, but i could only see from my position in the lineup i wasn't going to be -- very unlike am i was going to be on the first lunar landing. we were flying the first mission, you have to go back up. he had evens even then. but then you go back up. but just to be part of the group was a nice feeling. >> your original assignment was apollo 2, am i right? >> my original flight crew assignment was as apollo 2, yes. >> all right. and then what happened? how did you ge

treasury minister economic secretary john glenn has reportedly responded to a september call for crypto regulation from parliament's treasury committee mr glenn wrote to m.p.'s quote the government will consult early next year to explore whether crypto assets have comparable features to specified investments but that fall outside the current perimeter should be captured in regulation mr gowan did signal that legislation would be required to implement the likely result of that consultation to ensure all necessary legal authority for f.c.a. to properly regulate the crypto currency market as crypto currency best crypto investors and boom busters no regulators have wrestled with how exactly to define crypto zone long existing categories of currency securities commodities or whether to create a new category. what better way to kick off a crypto currency special than by analyzing the top crypto bitcoin and with a bit coin want to one for those of us who still aren't quite sure how it works and there are quite a few we're going to hand you over to our g. correspondent trinity child is. one of

. >> the keating five are john mccain and democrats alan cranston, john glenn, donald riegle and dennisal of $1.3 million in donations. former bank board chairman edwin gray says the senators tried to subvert the regulatory process. >> i was told to come alone. i did. >> did you find that unusual? >> absolutely. never happened before. the whole time i was in washington, i never saw that. >> no witnesses? >> no, no witnesses. deniability. perfectly built into the meeting. >> they said they wanted us to not take the enforcement action against lincoln savings. the only thing that got them to back off is when we finally said, we're making criminal referrals. you're going to bat for criminals. >> now awaiting trial on charges of criminal fraud, keating has refused to testify to the senate. >> was there something wrong with five senators meeting? yes, it's a bad appearance. but the real question is, did john mccain abuse his office? the evidence indicates clearly no. >> the keating five became a symbol of the '80s because it's a group of distinguished u.s. senators accused of taking bribe mon

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i've also had the honor of collaborating with heroes like john glenn and tom stafford and neil armstrong on the future of our space program. and i've been very proud to have played a little part in the establishment of our thriving commercial space industry with the drafting and passage of the commercial space launch act back when i was a young conman in 198 -- congressman in 1984 and 1988 and witnessed the rise of and contributions of present day space entrepreneurs like elon musk and jeff bezos and at the same time i appreciate the steady hand and transformative contribution of nasa leaders, like charlie bolden and bill girstenmier and bob cabanna. i can't help but remember the guiding hand that was so strong of george abby at the johnson space center, and i've celebrated the long overdue emergence of female superstars, like marilyn hussin and glen shotwell among the space industry leadership. in congress, it's been a pleasure of working with a number of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to advance the space ambitions of our country because, as i've said many times before, spac

but they were nice and polite about it, particularly warm reception from john glenn, who was kind of on the outs with the other guys by then. i'm sure the history has already been well documented. but he was very receptive and helpful to me. i told him i want to retain my marine corps reserve affiliation. he was helpful. he knew the people at marine corps headquarters. al shepherd was kind of a cold guy, you know, at the time. he and i became very good friends later. at the time, i could understand how they looked at him the way they did. gordo was a very friendly guy. all in all, it was a much more receptive atmosphere than you might have expected. i think they looked at us as kind of a necessary evil. there were going to be a lot of flights. they thought there were going to be a lot more flights than there were. turned out there were. so they have to share the wealth. i personally felt that i had a couple strikes against me showing up. they'd selected 14 astronauts, which had almost doubled the size of the group. i remember coming down to the selections, and i wasn't so much impres

dovereiei and so you'll see cern cases where they will go in d there and you also see sometimes john glennwent in because he was just kind of a man obviously a huge publication a famous person they wanted to make sure his body was done right so sometimes you'll see peopl you e like that going through but it really run the gamut but if therepe is a regular civilian ty will go to someone local. i love that he's basically asking about the business side like how are they getting paid him only the real mortician knows that so he has an entire experience as that job that's going to form a character of mine i promise that. >> host: kansas city, missouri. go ahead please. >> caller: thank you c-span. i appreciate what you all do. i'm really fascinated on hearing his story, brad's story. i'm not that familiar. my question is, and i know he said the children, but will he consider for pim books, a child advocate marian wright alderman. >> guest: she hosted my very first book party. i love to work with children. she hosted the tenth book party. when i first went in and said i wanted to work on the im

explosion went to those are-- don't so you will see civilians going there and you'll also see sometimes john glennwent in there because he was a man of obviously a huge politician, very famous person anyone did to make sure his body was done right so you will see people like that go there. it runs the gamut, but if there is a regular civilian and there they will go to someone local at dover. i love that morticia and called in and said how are they getting paid, so he has entire experience as that job that will inform a character of mine? host: we will go to melvin in kansas city, missouri. caller: thank you c-span. i appreciate what you all do and i'm fascinated on hearing his story-- brad's story i'm not that familiar. my question is, and i know you said that children are taking kind of the book. would he consider for that i am books, i'm an advocate. guest: miriam right edelman posted my very first book party. i love to work with children took she hosted the 10th justice book party. when i first went in and said i wanted to work on that im children book they said i have these books and how many

you will also see sometimes john glenn went in there because he was just kind of a man, obviously a hugepolitician, very famous person, they wanted to make sure his body was done right, so sometimes you will see people like that go through there, too. it really runs the gamut. but if there was just a regular civilian in there, they will go to someone local in dover. what i love is the mortician just called in, he basically asked about the business side, like how are they getting paid. only the real mortician knows that. he's got an entire experience at that job that's going to inform a character of mine, i promise you that. >> to melvin in kansas city, missouri. go ahead, please. >> caller: thank you, c-span. i appreciate what you all do. i'm really fascinated on hearing your story, brad's story. i'm not that familiar. now, my question is, i know you said the children are picking kind of the book but would he consider for the "i am" books, i am a child advocate, marion wright edelman. >> marion wright edelman hosted my very first book party. when i went in and said i wanted to work on th

john let's bring in glenn kahl he's a former cia officer joins us live via skype from boston glenn good to have you back on the program how surprised are you that cia director gina hospital will now appear before the senate when she was supposed to be prevented by the white house in doing so last week. well i'm not surprised that she will testify or brief the senate to the surprise was that trump in his what's now unsurprising acts to break the norms and the separation of powers that forbid her in the first place i don't anticipate that there will be any new substantive information ari but it does rebalance a bit the program on government the executive the legislature all right so just talk to us about the hearing itself is it likely to be behind closed doors and what sort of details if you like to give in terms of intelligence. i would expect that it would be behind closed doors if it's going to be at all meaningful why since the report has leaked some i think that she will speak clearly to that and i don't expect that she would go any further than anything that we know she'll never re

me quickly just add to guardian then fold this up with a story by john swing from their new york bureau and they used a source is glenn simpson function g.p.s. and they didn't even mention that he works for fusion they just had an expert on the matter glenn simpson so my question is is is a fusion g.p.s. using the guardian as as a dumping ground for all the leftovers now. this is just out of control it's to me it's amusing one of the guarantee when one of the things it's fascinating to me and watching the julian assange. story and russia gate is that there is absolutely almost absolutely no downside in being wrong you know it as is if you look at the pedestrian e-mails we learned a lot that's what makes them so angry that you learned a lot about hillary clinton in her campaign and we also learned for us on this program is that new york times journalists would send their copy to the d.n.c. to be proof read to be fact checked to be approved before it would be published now if that isn't the sad state of affairs for journalism i don't know what is ok you asked the powers that be that you genuflect to the powers that be t

federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, glenn kirschner and jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press and an msnbc political analyst. john the president tweeted this morning, and he wrote, many over ten are vying for the chief of staff position. why wouldn't someone want one of the truly meaningful jobs in washington. and of course came after reports that some of the top candidates aren't particularly interested. is that a sign that you think republicans are getting cold feet in tieing themselves to the president long-term? and does it have anything to do with all of this reporting around the mueller investigation? >> yeah, what we're seeing here is certainly not a full-fledged split. in the last few days, we are seeing some worry that these new legal vulnerabilities that ten and you just outlined from manafort, cohen, and flynn could be something that's really challenging for the president going forward. you combine that with an economy that seems like it might be showing signs of slowing down battered by the president's trade war. you are seeing this instability within the white house, and chief among it the chief posi

glenn kirchner, julia ioffe, thank you, both, for taking part in this conversation. absolutely vital to have you both on. >>> coming up, after months of speculation, john kelly leaving the white house. the problem is, so is the young man slated to replace him. a look at the short list of contenders to be the next chief of staff when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> using unusual language, cnn tonight is reporting the president is, and we quote, "super p---ed" that his candidate for chief of staff went sideways, at least for the minute. trump announced this weekend, john kelly is out. he will leave at the end of the month and the new guy was going to be nick ayers, the 36-year-old chief of staff to mike pence and, perhaps, the only person in the west wing to reminds people of a young mike pence and a young donald trump both at the same time. the press release announcing ayers was written. he was the rumored heavy favorite of jared and ivanka. then ayers turned it down. here's how "the new york times" put it. "one former senior administration official called it a humiliation for mr. trump and his adult children, an emotion the president tries to avoid at all costs." nan

glenn kirschner, julia ioffe, thank you both for taking part in this conversation. absolutely vital to have you both on. >>> coming up, after months of speculation, john kelly leaving house. the problem is, so is the young man slated to replace him. a look at the short list of contenders to be the next chief of staff when "the 11th hour" continues. so this christmas, take care of the hands that take care of you. that's me in back in 1987, when i gave isotoner gloves to all my teammates. now i have a different set of teammates. my family. and they all want isotoner gloves for christmas because they keep getting better. there's smartouch. for selfies whenever, wherever. then there's four way stretch for flexibility. they even have smartdri. see? stays dry. so get isotoner gloves for the whole family. take care of the hands that take care of you. >>> using unusual language, cnn tonight is reporting the president is, and we quote, "super pissed" that his candidate for chief of staff went sideways, at least for the minute. trump announced this weekend, john kelly is out. he will leave at the end of the month and the new guy was going to be nick ayers, the 36-year-old ch

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