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Of equality and mutual respect. >> reporter: tomorrows tariffs are just the first round of new tariffs by the trump administration. the second round will take effect december 15th and at that point nearly everything coming into the u.s. from china will be hit with a tariff l. laura. laura: incredible. i know theres a lot going on there. what is the white house saying about what appears to be a failed rocket launch by iran this week? any response? >> reporter: president trump says the u.s. had no...

It will first focus on partnerships with companies. you may fly one at an amusement park in the near future. >> rachel, hold on one second. how do you take off in that thing? >> reporter: it is a vertical takeoff and landing. >> obviously. >> reporter: it lifts off like a drone. it was absolutely amazing. and you can feel the vibrations when youre lifting off. like i said, incident was a lot less scary than i expected. granted, i wasnt that high off the ground. they are doing that as a safety pr...

On? >> i just made it clear theres a difference between the presidents view. yeah. >> thanks. there have been multiple reports of people landing saturday in the u.s. with valid visas who were denied entry and placed on flights back out of the country. thats in violation of at least five of these federal judges orders that came down. is the white house working to ensure those people illegally deported can return to the u.s.? and are these court orders causing any second thinking about certain asp...

Presidents view. >> there have been multiple reports of people landing saturday in the u.s. with valid visas who were denied entry and placed back out of the country. does that in violation of at least five of the federal judges orders that came down. is the white house working to ensure that those people illegally deported can return to the u.s.? are these court orders causing any second thinking about certain aspects of the order? >> we issued earlier today some clarification, an update from t...

Three, two, one and liftoff at dawn. >> a nearly flawless flight as the spacecraft blasted off from cape canaveral, florida on s friday. nasa hopes it will eventually be used to send astronauts to mars. it completed two orbits in 4 1/2 hours. the mission took orion further from earth than any spacecraft since apollo 17 back in 1972. and speaking of lifting off, the u.s. economy has been trending up in recent months. the dow jones closed friday just below 18,000 points and the u.s. also reporting...

>> and your reporter right there just about 40 miles outside of baghdad. i dont know what happens next. if you can roll in a bit of animation here, ill show you right now what the sunni fighters have been able to do. theyve taken the easy territory to be honest with you. theres a bit of relationship there anyway, these towns have fallen, the armys fallen and they run away. what does the government in baghdad do? do they fight back? and if they do, are they victorious? how well dug in are these i...

Have cleared what was one potential obstacle. then you get ready to move on to the next one. here is the other problem that comes with the moving on to the next one. jeff, what im going to ask you to do is lift is on. jeff, the pilot, hes going to announce like top cyber lifting off. then you are going to see something that is going to be a problem. >> it will happen now. we engage the thrusters, the bottom gets a tremendous blast of water from the vertical thrusters and stirs up the bottom. eve...

On corruption, transparency, budgets. >> this is what they need. i believe if ukraine would adopt these standards of accountability it would gravely help these nations. >> reporter: given the fact that any financial help for ukraine will have to come from the west and not its biggest neighbor today eato the east, russia. u.s.-russia tensions over crimea have not impacted two nations cooperation in out of space. >> five, four, three, two, one, ignition. and we have a liftoff. liftoff on a six-h...

South lawn. he would often what erv to his friends and family. one of my favorite things about president bush, he didnt change at all. the presidency didnt change him. >> give me the high points for you and low points. worst memories. >> my worst memories because being in the white house on september 11th. i mean, you know -- the book im writing right now is about a fictional day of a domestic terror attack. its taking me this long to even want to write about it in the fictional sense. but i rem...

Bible, and as long as its done in an objective and academic manner its very appropriate for a school to do that. as a matter of fact, there are almost 600 schools in the united states in 43 different states that are teaching this program. >> but they are not going to be doing it at your schools. >> no, unfortunately, not. >> sandy minard, thanks very much for joining us and telling us about the vote down there this delaware. >> thank you for having me. >> you bet. >> 27 minutes after the top of ...