we welcome mark gurman who covers apple. he joins us from san francisco.us about this secret team. what exactly are they doing? >> apple is investigating satellite related wireless technology to build devices for either aerospace purposes were on the ground equipment which would allow apple to beam data like internet and related content to devices directly. in a way, bypassing the carrier for some of the wi-fi terrestrial networks we use today. amanda: where would we place this? apple spends a lot on r&d. the budget has been going up. we know this is early stage based on reporting. do we have any idea of what kind of spending might be involved? >> it depends on what they end up doing. if they are just making on the ground equipment, that is much less expensive than building a full satellite constellation. that could be tens of billions of dollars. at this point, it is still early. they do not know how much they will end up spending. clearly, their r&d budget is increasing at a consistent rate. vonnie: how long what a task like this take? >> right now, they

mark gurman in los angeles and shawn donnan. thank you so much. thming up, future versus earnings. we talked to advisors. ♪ ♪ >> i am mark crumpton with first word news. bipartisaneached a deal to avoid a government shutdown. there is an agreement on all 12 spending bills needed to fully fund the government ahead at the december 20 deadline. the spending measures need approval of both chambers of congress and president trump. the house judiciary committee argued today ahead of voting to send impeachment charges against president trump to the full house. confidentsi sounded democrats will have the votes to impeach the president next week, but said it was up to individual lawmakers to weigh the evidence and decide for themselves. republican seem unwavering in their opposition to impeach the president, rejecting jim jordan's amendment that would have eliminated the first article of impeachment, which accuses the president of abuse of power. a day after the eu's new chief unveiled a master plan for climate neutrality, the question remains about the abi

mark gurman, thanks for joining us. now to another story out of this world.ut we might have a problem. star lineres of spacecraft lifted off perfectly from cape canaveral today, but the engine burn did not go properly and now nasa says the council will not be able to meet up with the international space station as planned. unmanned,flight was but the company hopes to begin flying manned flights on the star liner next year. justin bossman joins me now over the phone with more. justin, what do we know so far about the star liner failing to reach the international space station? justin: what we know, the early stage of this is that when it separated from a rocket in space, there was a timing system issue. essentially, the spacecraft was operating on a clock that was not set the right time. it was doing some things out of sequence. it burned an engine to move to a place at the wrong time. right now, what happened was that used a lot of fuel in that process and did not want to try to get to the space station. what is happening is nasa says they will land early sun

for more what to bring in mark gurman.hat do we know about how much this could be a boost to the margins and the bottom line? itk: i don't really look at as a boost. a look at it as the status quo. having that margin crushing hit, , there is estimates this would cost additional taxes on $150,s between $100 and pending on the model. they are missing out on that. revenues are going to be in line. they're going to come in between 86 been dollars and $90 billion. you are going to see a smooth q2 has well. they're going to be strong year-over-year comps. all things considered, it is a positive, and mostly status quo for apple because of that trade deal. taylor: we know there were not going to pass on an extra $150 to the consumer. i wonder if they were working on pressuring some of their suppliers to avoid the impact on their own financials? what did you get a sense about how apple was maneuvering around this? mark: historically, it does apply to the apple watch, the homepod, and the airport. have raised prices on some of those