thank you mr. bruno. mr. meyerson, you're recognized for five minutes. >> chairman rogers, ranking member cooper and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to speak before you today. assured access to space is a national priority and a challenge that we must meet domestically. blue origin is working to deliver the american engine to maintain u.s. leadership in space and deliver critical national security capabilities. our partnership with ula is fully funded and offers the fastest path to a domestic alternative to the russian rd-180 without requiring taxpayer dollars. for more than a decade can, we have steadily advanced our capabilities flying five different rocket vehicles and developing multiple liquid rocket engines. we're spending our own money rather than taxpayer funds, and we are taking a clean sheet approach to development. as a result, we're able to outcompete the russians, building modern american engines to serve multiple launch vehicles. our recent successes demonstrate that.

as at this point, mr. bruno, as you can see, the single tv camera and the single still camera in position to go ahead go ahead with that. i'd like to get your input on whether or not you consent to that activity taking place? >> for purposes of this court appearance, your honor. >> it's charged here with two offenses meaning misdemeanor criminal in the fourth degree and promoting contraband in the first degree. criminal facilitation being violation of section 115 subject 1 of the penal law and the contraband charge being in violation of 5.25, subdivision 1 of the penal law of the states of new york. do you waive a formal reading of those charges, mr. bruno? >> yes, your honor. we now will proceed to complaints of court clerks. >> all right. and with respect to the matter of timing here with regard to preliminary hear iing. >> all right. mr. welling, do you want her to be issued bail. >> yes, your honor. people would ask to post bail. a thousand dollars cash or a thousand dollar's bond on the charges. for further

i know mr. brunoants to help a vulcan launch assistant were interested in the atlas can or i am in my question. will your engine work on the atlas with modifications and how significant modifications would it take? >> so our engine runs in liquid oxygen and liquefied natural gas. so as a alice is designed it will not integrate with the atlas. we would have got a new launch assistant? >> that is right. >> mr. bruno, tell me let's talk about this vulcan system. and when it came from and when you see that happening and how disciplined what we are doing right now given in our previous testament in my comments publicly and our conversation privately. i feel very strongly i didn't want a replacement for the rd-180. >> bolton really refers to a series of evolution to the atlas. it takes several years to accomplish. the first step in that evolution is simply replacing the engine that is on the alice. to whether it's an ar1 or be-4 the alice with a new engine would be called vulcan and was to have the alice of

as of this point, mr. bruno, as you can see, the single tv camera and single steal camera are in position to go ahead with that. they are not recording now based on core direction. i would like to get your input on your consent to the activity taking place. >> for purposes of this court, we decent. >> all right. the defendant is charged here with two offenses, including misdemeanor criminal facilitation in the fourth degree and bellamy emoting the same contraband in the first degree and criminal facilitation charge being in violation of 115, subdivision 1 of the penal law and trafficking charge in violation of section 205.25, subdivision 1 of penal law in the state of new york. do you await a more formal reading of that? >> yes. at this time, we await the reading of the complaints and the charges. >> all right. and with respect to the matter of hiding here, the preliminary hearing. >> we would reserve our right to file the hearing and ask until monday morning at the regular court's time so i can meet with my cli

point in time she continued to speak out relative to her involvement with police officers, with mr. bruno, and i'm waiting to hear from mr. johnson to see if she wants to continue to speak with us. if she does, we'll talk with her. >> has there been any communication between her and her husband? has her husband visited her? >> it's my understanding that he has not visited her since she's been taken into custody, and they have not had any telephone communication. >> andrew wiley, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> that's the background that we know. i want to turn next to former u.s. marshall john cuff who headed up the service's northeast fugitive investigation division. the news, john, that these two may have had some sort of a plot to kill joyce mitchell's husband, does it make any sense to you? i mean, does it -- we don't know if she was involved with it, if it was the threat used against her, or if some ofs some sort of a red herring, this is just like a plan b? >> it doesn't make sense. on the face of it, going back to when these guys -- before they escaped, they'

and the record will reflect mr. brunot you're assigned to represent the defendant in position of form one regarding her eligibility for that assignment. >> i will agree your honor. >> anything further? >> your honor, people would like to thank the court for making accommodations to have this hearing. thank you. >> anything further, mr. bunruno? >> no, your honor. thank you. >> we're adjourned. >> so it looks like arraignment is going to be at 8:30 monday morning, 8:30 a.m she'll remain in the custody of the sheriff. 51-year-old joyce mitchell accused of helping convicted murderers escape from the up state correctional facility. standing by is molly line outside of city court. >> well you know, joyce mitchell has been the central figure in this investigation over seven days. investigators saying they felt she'd befriended the inmates and felt she played a role. then we came to found out she was intended to be get away driver but had a change of heart at the last minute the district attorney has said that she brought contra

>> we are going to be moving this case up to county court and i will be speaking to mr. bruno as to whether we are going to be going by indictment or spear year court information and we will know that o'er the next couple of days. >> the "on the record" legal panel joins us. former homicide detective and criminal defense attorney ted williams and katie phang. ted, this woman joyce, is in a heap of trouble. she has got one or two charges hanging over her now. that's just to hold her. she is really going to get a lot of charges dropped on her. >> you are absolutely right. in your earlier segment you talk about the fact that there may very well have been a conspiracy to murder her husband. and that is a huge charge, greta, because our viewers need to know when you are speaking of a conspiracy you are talking about an agreement between these individuals, matt sweat and joyce mitchell. and anything she would have done in further ransz of that agreement is the conspiracy. we do know that he she went out, she bought hack saws. that she bought screwdrivers. she did a lot of things to

mr. bruno has stated that the d4 and the ar-1 would work on the atlas-5 with modifications. one with more modifications than the other. can expand extent but have to modify the engine to work? >> i think that is a better question for mr. bruno. the engine, when you develop a new engineers start with requirements of the details really matter. they are so far along in a development in the details are much more well said the team can look at that and assign the right system to meet the national security needs. >> mr. bruno, i would love you to visit this topic. >> this is an excellent example of the difference between the engine provider of marshfield goal service provider. it will not cost tens of millions of dollars to incorporate any version of a ar-1. we started with an understanding of performance level coming out of either of these two engines will be using a pair of engines to do that. >> let me stop you. with the combined thrust of the two engines be comparable? >> yes it will. it will be