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orbit the moon with astronauts board and artemis iii for 2025 will land people at the moons south pole. joining me now is kristen fisher live at the kennedy space center in florida. i love the nod to the program, calling this artemis. whats the significance of this mission if weve been to the moon before? >> reporter: you know, a lot of people say that. the reason nasa wants to go back to the moon with the artemis program is two reasons one they want to leave behind more than flags and...

These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. but a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain. >> pain, that word. summer dull drums, right. no way. once minor economic reports are scrutinized for any clues how the federal reserve is battling red hot inflation. housing news early this week, an august jobs report friday, the fed has raised interest rates three time this is year and is not done. the suggestion from the fed chief that more large rate hikes are on the t...

Besides worried about square footage theres low inventory, sky high prices and bidding wars and now rising mortgage rates. >> theyre almost a point higher than they were when i made that offer in escrow, so thats a significant jump. >> reporter: this week a 30 year fixed rate low is 3.6% back up to pre pandemic levels. on a median home price of $350,000 americans can expect to spend $120 more on average excluding taxes and insurance than they did a year ago. >> i think that affects the kind of h...

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>> i dont think it is politically feasible to get rid of the pgc. we have to be a safety net or entitlement. getting rid of it gets rid of a safety net when what we want is keep the safety net, not make it entitlement. >> john, keep the safety net? go ahead. >> i dont see why we are on the hook for company errors. thats the problem, it made us into a safety net society, keep propping up failures of others. >> michael? >> if you allow them to charge the proper rate, you wont have to bail it out. ...

So -- before we get to the doubling of the rates, there was another report out this week that said that -- recently that said that these loans could cost de -- default could cost taxpayers big. >> big losses coming. whats interesting about it is democrats who want to keep rock bottom rates for kids, their main argument is the government will make a fortune on the loans and making billions off of kids and -- so we ought to keep the rate low. congressional budget office, congress official score ke...

He use a back pack bomb as plan "b." >> they look for luggage wrack, but something went wrong killing it in the process. the bomb contained 6-1/2 pounds of explosives. bret? >> bret: thank you. unemployment is up in more than half the states in the country. the government says new jersey and alabama had the biggest leaps. .4 of a percentage point. in all, 27 states had unemployment increases. 11 states and the district of columbia reported a drop. the dow lost 121. the s&p 500 gave back 14. nasd...

That reduced number. look, im for broadening the tax base and im for making it a little more fair, but the idea that we can do this in the context of not having a larger tax be reform that doesnt consider the fact that our tax code is incredibly uncompetitive and we are attracting -- we want to attract capital from around the world and off the sidelines from american companies and investors in the middle of an economic -- 41 month economic downturn is unrealistic. >> are you going to congratulat...

And wednesday at the harvard bookstore, and on thursday in monclair, new jersey. check out the twilight of the elites facebook page or our website, up.msnbc.com for details about upcoming appearances. what should you know for the week coming up? the interest rate for stafford student loans will double one week from today, an increase that will affect 7.4 million students this coming year alone, unless congress does something about it this week. senate leaders are saying they are nearing a deal. ...

Around college campuses saying he wants to keep the rate low. fine. at this point nobody is objecting. there is no issue. the rate is going to be kept down. 3.4%. but mr. obama uses any and all opportunity it tell americans that he is there for us. that his administration will provide. therefore it is a race between a self-reliance guy romney and a provider obama. talking points has said this before. mitt romney will model his campaign on the 1980 ronald reagan run. at that time jimmy carter was...