while they're springing william lauren snow, he's a professor at the american university. he was a senior us diplomats in charge of libyan affairs at the state department and served in tripoli and joins has no from washington dc. it's good to have you with us. william lauren says we were hearing from our correspondent the still an awful lot to be iron dates. do you think the country is ready for these elections within the tiny table settings? well, it's not ready at all in the sense that it has the long list of issues that you're report or correctly identify. these are the big issues. there are some other ones as well and none of these has been resolved in many respects. they will be result by the time elections, but the reason we're having election is because the libyan population doesn't want the current government to stay in charge. once those parliamentary bodies, he mentioned even less to stay in charge. and one of the ironies here is that the other responsibilities they're claiming to come up with the constitutional basis for election of the 2015 agreement. neither h

and so don's relationship going forward and speak to william laurens, who's a former diplomatic co author of after the uprisings, political transition in tennessee, olivia and yemen. he's also the cur, currently a professor at american university. and he's joining us from washington via skype. thanks so much for speaking to us on al jazeera. so kimberly was just saying that there is a sense, the trail at the white house. i mean, what do you make of the timing a fall of this, considering that the u. s. envoy having just been in su, done this past weekend. is this extremely embarrassing for the u. s. and u. s. diplomacy? i don't know if we see it at a trail or exactly have the white house feeling certainly they do that quickly. but if i can use similar language, it is a slap in the face because this of senior us envoy and very senior former un official, jeffrey felt them and they're saying not to do exactly what they went ahead and did just after his departure that sending a message that not only is this military clinton, not in favor of democracy, they're not in favor of international part

exactly, also weather delays has hit william shatner's trip to space. laurenr delay because of the weather expected wednesday morning now the race to space has to keep getting the public's attention that is one of the reasons the actor in the oldest astronaut were getting on board william shatner will be on cavuto "coast to coast" and i want to know is he scared to go up to space because he recently said i am captain kirk and i'm terrified going to space. we will see, i would be terrified and excited at the same time. ashley: exactly that's very understandable, jen psaki goes on the defensive when asked about the president plummeting poll numbers, listen to who she's pinning the blame on, take a listen. >> what do you make of these terrible. >> because of the rise in the variant and even though it was a vaccine approved under a republican administration even though we have full fda approval and even though it's widely available across the country we have a court of a country, less than that, 20% of the country who had decided not to get vaccinated, no question

lauren: that is the scientific reason to have william shatner going up.p raising money for space travel, bringing in billions of dollars. it is a publicity stunt as well. stuart: great pr, isn't it? brilliant pr, when you think about. >> full circle for bezos because he liked to watch him on the tv. stuart: 25, 24 seconds. are we going to listen in, not the launch crew but the people putting this in the air? okay. 17 seconds left to go. let's listen in. [engine sounds] [engine sounds] [engine sounds] >> thank you again, everybody for joining us live for new shepherd's second human flight with audrey powers, william shatner. customers green de vries, chris boshuizen on board. on their way to space. nominal flight. clean burn on engine three. new shepherd giving them a beautiful flight to space. the rocket is towards the altitude. aiming over the carman line, internationally recognized line of 100 kilometers. that is about 328,000 feet. a gorgeous view down the rocket. and now we've had main engine cutoff. the be-3 engine has shut off. in just a moment we'r

lauren. want to take a list? >> i know andrew jackson was 7th president of the united states. i will go with him. stuart: i will guess with william 1889 and 1893 to 1897. he was only the president to serve two non-consecutive terms. lost to benjamin harrison. wentnew york city to practice law and ran again benjamin harrison and won in a landslide. you learn a lot on the show. leave time for microsoft, forgive me. i'm grinding my axe. microsoft at 322 all-time high. it actually hit a 324. tesla powering ahead some more, up 3%. musk is now worth about $300 million, more than all but 21 of the s&p 500 companies. how about that? neil. it's yours. neil: he is already sounding off on that, elon musk, the billionaires tax. he is not a fan of it. stuart: good. neil: rationale different from what you hear from others. stuart, thank you very much. footnote, stuart, on grover cleveland. he has the rap for being the heaviest, fattest president we ever had. william how hard taft gets rap. it is actually grover cleveland by second term, it was separate non-concurrent term was