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Altitude 40 to 50 miles more the time alan shepard went out which is also what bezos named his rocket after. so it was pretty significant. he chose this day, which was 62 years ago today, that apollo 11 also landed on the moon. it was really neat to see the history and basically to have an individual who was wealthy enough to build a company that then launches him on a sub or buy tall spaceflight that is something that only a government could do 60 years ago is is incredible. we applaud him. >> ...

The unvaccinated. >> that is not -- thats not their job. its not their job to protect anybody. >> okay. go ahead. what do you think? listen, its not just about you and your choices. you can infect others including unvaccinated children, and protecting the american public is -- thats the white houses job, right? >> yeah. i mean i think this is much simpler than that discussion would lead people to believe. if we were sitting here without a vaccine and we had this delta variant coming -- and thats...

Covid response and the author of "preventible: the inside story of how selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." the rise in covid cases and whats happening with this variant, andy slavitt, thank you so much, i appreciate you joining us. we were getting really close to a normal summer, but now these cases are up 145% from just two weeks ago. hospitalizations and deaths also up, but almost all of those people are unvaccinated, andy slavitt. is this the toll that this misinformation were ...

>> brian: face, the final frontier unless you are a billionaire like jeff bezos privately funded spaceflight this morning was a great for american capitalism. not everyone shares that belief just ask bernie sanders if you are on earth richest country on the planet half of our people live paycheck to paycheck. people are struggling to feed themselves and struggling to see the doctor. richest guys in the world are in outer space. its time to tax the billionaires. its amazing he could see something...

I want to do is to put this all in context, which we can talk about a little later, but the context of space exploration because it is something that has been happening for a long time. we think of space right now when we have people going up in vehicles. but space exploration has been a part of human history. i always like to connect it back to who we are. >> richard, what does todays flight mean for the future of private space exploration? i assume, richard, you are already plotting out your p...

Of georgia, look, we have a job here in washington, and that is to ensure your basic federal voting rights. and we have a way to do it with the for the people bill. in fact, that bill, as i pointed out in this place devoted to sufl rights and the history of civil rights, it is firmly grounded in our constitution, don, because our constitution says that congress can make and alter the federal -- the rules regarding federal elections. its clear as day. >> but its stuck in limbo. the for the people...

Disinformation pathway on why january 6th happened. i think theres a correct thing here where you have two members who i really like that got selected to this. but i do believe theres going to be a lot of hyperbole and disinformation. and i think that marjorie sort of plays into that. all these individuals do. but really twitter is a fund-raising tool for her, not exactly how you think, not going on twitter and saying give me money, but using twitter as a foil. its just something she does very w...

A vaccine and we had this delta variant coming, and thats case thats happening in australia right now, we would be so hopeful that there would be some solution. if someone told us there would be a solution that would be 96% effect against something seriously going wrong, and it would be very, very well tolerated by just about everybody, we would say thank god, we would say what is political about that. thats exactly the kind of thing one hopes for, a combination of science, democrats, republican...

Came to the table and we actually put together a pretty good package. its not quite done, which includes so many federal basic rights like same-day registration and many other things, commended by stacey abrams and many others. you know we have the issue of the filibuster there, but he has signaled a willingness to look at a standing filibuster. we could potentially do a carveout for this legislation. john lewis bill, those hearings start in the house this fall, and that is something that would ...