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Without ever wondering if youre getting the most out of your trip. because you are. youre looking at live pictures of launchpad 39b at the kennedy space center in florida. that is the artemis i mission, the sls rocket, that scheduled to take off. the launch window opens in about 14 minutes. however, there have been problems all morning long. some kind of a leak in engine 3 at the bottom of that orange cylinder youre seeing right there. theyre trying to figure out exactly how bad -- whether the...

Things that the biden administration has not only held onto, but, you know, fully embraced. so, this is the first time that we have seen a program that has survived a presidential transition to go into deep space with a crewed spacecraft since apollo. so, a very historic time here, but doesnt look too likely right now that this is going to be the historic day that we were all hoping for, john and brianna. >> the launch window opens in about 28 minutes. thats when it was supposed to open. we expe...

An acceptable result under any circumstances despite what the threats or the conflagration or the public outrage might be. those are all things that we need to be able to manage. justice must be done when justice is called for no matter who the target of that justice is, and thats just my personal opinion on it. but i hope that the senators comments dont take the day. >> well be watching to see what happens here. but the law should be applied the same to everybody, should it not? good to have yo...

Different courts to claim executive privilege as a way of blocking doj or congressional probes have fallen flat. its unlikely that particular angle is something that he would be able to get in the case of this special master. but, well have to wait and see what the judge says. >> betsy, lisa, ken, thank you very much. still ahead, launch scrub. todays historic liftoff of the artemis 1 mission delayed until at least friday. well be speaking to a retired astronaut about what nasa will be doing b...

Very soon. special coverage of the launch window even if delayed begins at 8:00 a.m. eastern time. some new reporting from cnn this morning, two senior u.s. officials telling cnn that ukrainian forces have begun shaping operations in southern ukraine to prepare for a significant counteroffensive against russia. joining us now is cnn anchor and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who broke this story. jim, tell us about this. what would this counteroffensive look like? >> okay. ...

Far this morning, but it is to be very expected because this is a test flight, we have two backup dates on the calendar, september 2nd and september 5th and, you know, this is what we expected to happen with the test flight and its not over yet. they have not called off this launch, but, like i said, anytime youre running into this many issues this close to the launch window, thats not a promising sign. >> all right. we will be keeping our eye on this. just to be clear, your dad is so young yet,...

To reconcile. yes, there are still about two more hours left in this launch window, but they simply just dont think theyre going to have enough time to fix it. so, right now they are still kind of keeping the rocket in its current configuration because they want to trouble shoot this problem and figure out what exactly is going on. we still dont know how severe the problem is. is this something they can fix on the launch pad? do they have to roll it back to the vertical assembly building? that w...

Trouble shooting right now. im not ready to give up hope. we got a lot of smart people down there at nasa trying to figure this out and we still got time. that is an issue that needs to be resolved for launch. >> and being able to see a line of frost on the rocket, what does that mean or what could that mean? >> well, they were worried initially that that was some kind of a crack in the structure, in the intertanks area, which would be a very bad thing. you dont want your rocket -- trust me, fro...

Minutes. then once they started this super cold fueling, the propellant fuel of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, they got a liquid hydrogen leak. they fixed that. and then there were two other problems, the one they couldnt fix was that engine, erica. were going to be giving a presser in a few hours to learn exactly how long its going to be before they can attempt again. >> the big question now, thats for sure. kristin, appreciate it. also with us, cnn aerospace analyst miles obrien. science...

As was said a number of times, theyre casting a wide net here. they want to know anybody who had a mindset or inclination into what the former president was doing or thinking around that time. as it comes to governor brian kemp, at the time former president trump was putting a lot of pressure on brian kemp to call a special session in order to overturn bidens election victory in the state of georgia. its very likely that that is going to be something that hes going to be questioned about when he...